Christopher Simon Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Management role coordinating primary research in the the areas of user experience, marketing channel, product development and brand initiatives. This role covers a wide range of stakeholder needs and firm wide research projects. My leadership function bridges between creative, marketing, product and technology and make use of a range of methods: mixed-methods, usability testing, Qual/Quant combination, lab/remote studies, focus-listening, long-range cyclical, evaluative and generative.

Austin, Texas Area

Design systems management lead blended with UX-Brand oversight. Lead the initiative to stand up new digital design system and represent both UX and Brand in terms of decision making and coordination. Management functions covered the following: team mentoring coordination (direct and indirect reports) and hiring, steering events, feasibility oversight, leadership reporting, training, scheduling, research, QA, brainstorming events, office hours, design-ops, and budgeting.

Austin, Texas

At Schwab the User Experience Architect (UXA) is the primary advocate for human-centered design, mediating between clients, users and the agency's creative and technical teams. The role performs a wide range of multidisciplinary and interdepartmental functions such as planning, user research / human factors, prototyping, storyboarding, wireframing, task analysis, synthesis, system design, workflow, usability testing, content mapping, and information architecture.

Sr. UX Architect positions where I worked on various digital initiatives for some of VML's largest clients: Gatorade, Western Union, Raymond James, Owens Illinois.

This was a leadership role at HNTB that functioned as a bridge between the general AEC industry professional services business functions and central office technology functions. The range of services performed include: -product development, project management-technology scoping and related research and analysis-innovation research-technology and design support-user studies - interviews, tests, evaluation, training-design research, design prototyping-team development and coordination-product promotion-product support, technical writing-firm wide communication-product discovery-competitive analysis-design management, interaction design

Managing HNTB media communications department... that included corporate media communications, media application development, media oriented public involvement campaigns, product development, industrial design, branding and pursuit assignments. During this time I worked as a supervisor, task assignee, project manager, and various mixes of these based on organizational needs.

Media design position providing the following functions: UX/UI planning, interactive media development, media design, animation, web development, application scripting, branding, web delopment and content management support.

Mindlab was a leading media design and development firm in Kansas City in 2000 and my role functioned as owner and designer and I shared duties with my partner Michael Claeys. The work ranged from account management, to various media design assignments (UX, web, animation, print and radio advertising, signage, and related collateral).

Ma, Design Management

Bfa, Design

Design And Mixed Dept. Studies

Activities and Societies: NCAA Soccer Div 1 (3 years) Art Club