• Lead UX/UI Design team in day-to-day operations and quality standard of work.• Represent UX/UI discipline within the organization and to our customers.• Lead DesignOps in process and tools to best accomplish product design.• Establish design standards that meet the needs of our customers and our industries.

• Design positive customer experience for products, services, and solutions.Work closely with industrial design, engineering, marketing, and program managers to define the visual design elements iteratively.• Develop design visions and beautiful visual languages, lead the execution across different platforms which based on Gentex and customer Branding language.• Create visual designs of graphics, icons, animations, user interface Elements, and visual design specifications.• Define project storytelling opportunities for projects, use video makers, storyboard, photographers, and illustrators to deliver unique Project narratives.• Work closely with Engineers to ensure the feasibility of visual concepts and the fidelity of the final output.

• Product and UX Designer of Global, tier 1 automotive supplier of advanced technology thatoptimize driver vision and enhance driving safety and convenience• Hired as Gentex's first experienced, dedicated UX Designer intending to build the systemsneeded to harden UX into the product design process• Develop tools and design process for creating embedded and mobile application design• Designed and launched the first 3 mobile applications for Gentex. First native iOS and Android,second and third with Flutter multi-platform. Reach: over 200k total users by end of 2023.• Utilized automotive OEM design system to skin and customize Gentex app interface• Ground up product development based on product/market research and user testing• Managed external UX design team’s personnel including tools, process, and daily work items• Mentor internal UX design team to foster team and culture of design studio• Managed digital product localization globally• Added UX quoting to Gentex’s formal quote process and preformed all quoting of UX projects

• Develop proof-of-concepts and prototypes of easy to navigate user interfaces (UI)• Maintain UX best practices with all products• Performing as a subject matter expert in the area of interaction design and visual design. • Evangelist for current trends in visual and interaction design for mobile, tablet, desktop and hardware-embedded software solutions• Research user's needs as well as potential system enhancements• Working with clients to design their patient interfaces for televisions, swing-arms, and tablets

• Lead design initiatives for specified products• Establish scaleable design process for future growth• Mentor and grow fellow design team members• Collaborate and learn from customer’s and create great user experiences.• UX and UI design lead for web based and mobile tool chains.• Industrial Design and manufacturing of handheld electronics.• Launch and manage manufacturing and fulfillment partners for Modustri electronics.• Manage 3D printing systems (Ultimaker & Strata Systems)• Design engaging web and mobile work tools for fortune 50 companies

• Designed heavy truck instrument cluster, automotive rear lighting solutions, and desk task light products.• Managed accounts, lead projects. Product and interface design.• Research, wire-framing, ideation, storyboarding, final production design, export production assets• Master scheduler for managing design team, IT lead.

• Design cutting edge instrumentation, touch displays, and input device products.• Work to develop vehicle systems that work well together to provide exceptional experience for the end users of our products.• Lead research, wire-framing, storyboarding, and programming front-end interaction.• Work directly with our customers and application engineers to capture needs and desires to achieve truly integrated systems.• (Continue functions of my previous position below)

• Design cutting edge gauge, color display, and input device products for truck, motorcycle, marine, and military to meet environmental and operator needs.• Specialize in ergonomics, aesthetics, interaction design, and material selection.• Lead design dialog with stakeholder both internal and external.• Developed design and documentation process currently in use by design department (ISO 9001-2000).• Present concepts directly to top management of Medallion’s largest customers• Train design contractors and graphic designers• Manage supplier’s engineering and production of dial faces (Northern Engraving Corp.)

• Plan and conduct user research using powerful ethnographic techniques• Distinguish what users say they want from what they really need• Translate your observations into personas, goals, and scenarios• Develop and prioritize requirements based on user and business goals• Quickly turn requirements into a concrete product concept

• Created corporate identity using graphic design, print media, and photography.• Restored exotic, vintage vehicles (circa 1911-1960).

• Developed concept for redesign of the LD304 maternity bed• Improved ergonomics and control mapping for medical personnel• Developed product through user interviews, ideation, and market research