Jenna Fizel
Managing Director, Global Head Of Emerging Technology at IDEO
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJenna Fizel is a Managing Director and Global Head of Emerging Technology at IDEO with 11 years of experience designing and shipping mixed physical/digital products and software systems. She blends deep technical skills—XR, computational geometry, generative and parametric design, desktop and web development—with product leadership across retail, fashion/tech, and cultural institutions. A hands-on engineer who began as a computational geometry designer and co-founded a 3D-printed textile startup, she has repeatedly translated design intent into buildable, production-ready systems. At IDEO she built and scaled an 80+ person XR learning community and leads cross-disciplinary client work that spans rapid prototyping to omnichannel product strategy. Known for connecting algorithmic design with tangible fabrication, she brings rare fluency across code, craft, and physical experience.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSAD, Architecture, BSAD, Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology-, Architecture, -, Architecture at Delft University of Technology
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Github Skills (24)
javascript9
react9
frontend9
resource-sharing8
user-interface8
declarative8
headers8
cors7
typescript7
django-framework6
django-rest-framework5
django5
python4
google-docs3
google-workspace2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jftesser/HAP-NodeJS
Jan 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:11 pushes in 4 years 9 months
homekitnode-jsaccessorynodejshomekit-accessory
jftesser/hue-plan
Apr 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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