Brett Holcomb Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, California, United States

San Jose, California, Us

• Ramped up quickly to master Vue and take over maintaining the team's component library + Storybook and tackled the most complex UI components• Built an internal tool from the ground up that let designers customize shaders• Used AWS + DynamoDB + React Three Fiber & deployed via CI/CD• Conducted exploratory research, design, development, user testing, and maintenance for a Figma plugin to fetch media content from internal APIs to insert directly into designs• Surpassed expectations by delivering a more complete experience than initially scoped for the MVP and made additional improvements by soliciting designer feedback

Mountain View, California, Us

• Managed a team of 6 design technologists and motion designersWhile I was leading the team, we:• Shipped new animations to introduce each major section of the tax forms and to celebrate customer progress along the way• Explored new motion designs for AI interactions• Shipped new internal tools, prototypes, and documentation sites• Brought on an additional motion designer full-time based on the quality of their work

Mountain View, California, Us

• Built and shipped creative web marketing experiences that design struggled to ship previously• Iterated faster and with a designer’s attention to detail. Considered responsiveness, accessibility, interactivity, animations, load times, asset compression, and more by default. Projects ranging from entire microsites to individual pages and components.• Drove the adoption of Lottie to ship motion designs across QuickBooks and TurboTax with technical explorations including playback control, dynamic content, and reducing load times.• Rapidly prototyped iterative experiments with real dynamic data for projects including the first version of QuickBooks for Mexico and many new bookkeeping experiences• Contributed components and documentation to the Intuit Design System.• Primary technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React• Additional specializations included: web performance & accessibility, user-centered design,responsive design, firebase, figma plugins, d3, lottie, gsap

Mountain View, California, Us

I collaborate closely with other designers to quickly build and iterate on mobile-first prototypes for user testing and to deliver production code. I primarily work in JS (ES6 / React), HTML, & CSS, with a few other libraries.

Mountain View, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Hamilton, Nj, Us

• Design custom interactions for desktop, tablet, and smartphone devices that empower users and solve complex problems • Engage clients and foster positive relationships by communicating proactively and providing thoughtful and polished deliverables • Work on multiple simultaneous projects on tight deadlines while managing priorities and collaborating with the internal team• Create sketches and wireframes to generate, refine, and communicate concepts• Build complex interactive HTML prototypes to demonstrate interactions and carry out usability studiesUX deliverables/processes: card sorting • concepting • critiques • heuristic evaluation & analysis • information architecture • page flows • personas • presentations • prototypes • sitemaps • sketches • stakeholder interviews • usability testing • user flows • user scenarios • wireframes Clients:Aon, AVG, Cisco, Flip Video (Cisco), Intuitive Surgical, Lynda, McAfee, Marvell, Namco Bandai, NetApp, Paramount Farms, Samsung, Seagate, Skype, Sony, VMware, Zynga, and moreTools: Axure, Fireworks, Illustrator, InDesign, Omnigraffle, Photoshop

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Cary, Nc, Us

• Quality assurance, support, testing, data collection and analysis, and automation functions for this award-winning video game developer• Performed trend analysis and presented data, documented new features and test processes, and completed test planning on schedule within tight deadlines; often worked overtime to complete projects as needed• Worked directly with artists and programmers providing internal and external support for the company’s proprietary video game engine, UnrealEd & Unreal Engine 3• Successfully upgraded significant pieces of editor documentation; initiated creating scripts to automate many work processes, resulting in a substantially improved workflow• Achieved an outstanding performance evaluation and a raise for my dedication, expertise, and willingness to work overtime hours in order to complete projects for the company.• Thoroughly trained my replacement and trained QA staff for Level Designer (artist) Support in UnrealEd

• Hired by Midway Games to work as the Quality Assurance Lead at Epic Games.• Led the QA team working on Unreal Tournament 3, Epic’s popular game for the PlayStation3, Xbox360 and PC. • Promoted to a full-time permanent employee position at the end of the one-month contract with Midway/Volt Staffing.

• Hired by Microsoft Game Studios / Volt Staffing, to work on site at Epic Games.• Worked on the team testing Gears of War, the bestselling Xbox360 game of 2006.• Collaborated with and provided technical leadership for a newly formed test team at Epic.• Went directly to Coders and Artists to describe bugs, multiplayer game exploits, and audio/visual problems.• Dedicated myself to the task of releasing a thoroughly polished product in a limited time frame and worked 80+ hours per week for months to meet team objectives.

• Created cutting-edge, full website pages and graphic designs, using Adobe Photoshop, HTML, and CSS.• Created, wrote, edited and maintained blogs, and successfully created a donation website.• Initiated developing electronic calendars for clients and designed a format for the organizations’ newsletter.• Successfully worked with a client's existing Windows 2003 IIS web server and installed PHP and MySQL as well as customized many JavaScript and PHP scripts.• Consistently earned praise for creativity, customer service, project and time management skills.• Left to concentrate on working full-time for Epic Games.

Cookeville, Tn, Us

• Worked while in school getting my degree in Computer Engineering• Supported users in Windows 2000/XP, VMS, Microsoft Office, and a variety of Engineering and Educational software packages• Supervised students who were working Helpdesk as a scholarship requirement

Mhci, Human Computer Interaction

Bs, Computer Engineering