Anthony Hand Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, California, Us

“Lost Wig Productions LLC” celebrates uplifting and entertaining stories representing the diversity of the LGBTQ+ experience. I'm the creator, director and executive producer for our first project, an animated feature film entitled, “Maxxie LaWow: Drag Super-shero.”"Maxxie LaWow" Logline: "When drag queens start disappearing, a shy young barista must summon his inner super-shero to rescue them from an ambitious evil drag queen bent on harvesting their magical anti-aging tears."

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Supported the Clover "Sprout" Design System team. - Designed multiple new web UI controls in Figma which significantly simplified and systematized web app design and development, saving time and decreasing errors. - Collaborated with the team to iterate existing designs, refining web components in Figma, and exploring implementations of new UI patterns. - Refined and expanded the Android design system Figma file, creating typography tokens using Figma's new variables feature to support multiple device DPI/resolution configurations. Optimized or created nearly 2 dozen UI components in Figma for Android to speed multi-device wireframing.- Led multiple design system demo and workshop sessions for designers, engineers and QA staff.- Created a new design system web site to centralize resources from multiple sites, and wrote multiple new UX design and implementation guidance articles.

Freelance user experience design and usability consultant focusing on mobile apps, responsive HTML5 web sites and desktop apps.Notably in 2007, created an innovative code library called MobileESP for web site publishers to detect visitors using mobile devices. This was the first comprehensive mobile device detection library built to support the then-emerging iOS and Android devices. Originally written in PHP and JavaScript. After open sourcing the library, the code was ported by the developer community to Ruby, Python, Java, ASP.NET and VBScript.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Designed innovative enterprise web-based apps focused on tools to manage resources and improve developer productivity across internal cloud, data, and the SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle). Helped to build out a new “DesignOps2.0” process focused on instilling design thinking among internal developers and product managers through partnership, coaching, and education. These activities successfully helped uplift the UI development skills and, ultimately, the quality of web applications relied upon by thousands of internal developers every day. - Defined features and UX integration points for the new PayPal Console, which offers a secure platform for delivering developer self-service web applications, with integrated security and identity services and numerous accelerators to shorten development time. - Collaborated with dozens of engineering teams across a broad array of engagement activities: active UI design, UX coaching and requirements definition, and prototyping feedback and/or assistance. - Imported ~50 Microsoft Fluent React-based UI controls into UXPin to enable web app prototyping with the same UI controls used for Console web app development. Designed and programmed ~24 additional UI controls for data presentation that were integrated into the Console SDK.- Evangelized UXPin as the standard prototyping tool for internal web apps. Taught internal product teams to rapidly build their own rich interactive prototypes.- UX Education: Created 4+ hour’s worth of self-paced UXPin training videos. Wrote 12+ intranet articles on UI patterns and UX Guidance. Gave tech talks for internal product teams. - Graduate of PayPal's Q3 2022 Emerging Leaders Program. - Led the Bay Area Pride employee resource group (ERG) for internal employees and member of the Global Pride Steering Committee. Organized large and small events around themes of diversity, inclusion and equity for both LGBTQ+ employees and Allies. Managed the Global Pride intranet site (SharePoint).

San Jose, California, Us

Built and managed a small UX design team on an "internal agency" model. Team's responsibilities included concept development, production design, graphic design and user and usability research for consumer experiences (B2C) and professional tools (B2B). - Designed engaging personalized audio experiences for Android and iOS devices and desktop PCs for the DTS:X, DTS Headphone:X, and DTS Sound audio technology brands. Set new design and usability standards for consumer-facing products at DTS, typically exceeding competition in consumer testing. (DTS is Dolby's chief competitor for immersive audio for film, theaters, and VR.)- Crafted a vehicle infotainment system ("HMI") focused on radio and music experiences utilizing next-generation Internet-connected HD Radio services meeting U.S. and European driver distraction guidelines.- Patents: Multiple patent applications; none published.

Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, Kr

Developed concepts for next generation apps and services for Samsung smartphones, smart TVs, and other internet-connected devices and appliances.- Patents: Multiple patent applications; none published.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Designed compelling user experiences for MOTOBLUR, Motorola’s proprietary apps layer on Android. Work was featured on Motorola’s first Android device, the CLIQ/DEXT, and other groundbreaking devices of the era, including the RAZR MAXX and Atrix HD. Patents: One U.S. patent granted and multiple additional applications submitted.

Founded a small software company to create an innovative teleprompter app for Windows PCs used for public speaking, video and audio production, and podcasting. Designed, programmed (C# .NET), marketed and supported the Windows app.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Designed mobile apps optimized for Nokia's smartphone OS, Symbian S60, plus Windows Phone and Mobile Java (J2ME).

Pioneered the design of apps for mobile devices with this early Java-based mobile OS startup founded before the modern touchscreen mobile phone era. SavaJe's IP was later purchased by Google and incorporated into early editions of Android.

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Employed by the Hanaizumi Town Board of Education, Hanaizumi, Iwate, Japan. Team-taught English at two junior high schools in Northern Japan on the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program sponsored by several Japanese government agencies.• Assisted Japanese teachers with in-class teaching, lesson planning, and evaluation.• Created interactive activities and modified existing learning materials to meet the communicative needs of students.• Participated in discussion panels and gave speeches to civic groups.• Initiated and organized various international events with Board of Education staff, community groups, and the public library.

Master Of Science In Information (M.S.I.), Human-Computer Interaction

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), International Relations And Russian Language