20+ years in UX 15+ years in leadership or management roles6+ years as a UX Director •GoogleX •Google •SapientNitro •Razorfish •Accenture•7 x Award-Winning Designer•7+ Awards and over 65 end-to-end UX projects under his the belt, David's breadth and depth of experience are rare for the Bay Area•Hands-On•David has always remained hands-on, and over the past 6+ years has been extremely hands-on; Wearing multiple hats to ensure the needle keeps moving forward in a world of priorities, compromises, and trade-offs•Management•David has worked for the Largest Big 4 Consultancies, Top Digital Agencies and Tier 1 Companies in the world, including providing UX expertise to most Fortune 50 and Fortune 100 companies and several startupsDavid's managed large teams, small teams, and led entire LOBs of 128 + designers, developers, creatives, and when the need requires, the team's sole design contributor•Leadership•David's leadership style is simple: -To Lead, you to need to inspire-To effectively Lead, you to need to listen-To efficiently Lead, you need to be able to do what you ask of others, at all levers, and across as many disciplines as possible -David 's Approach to the "Only Metric that Matters to Your Bottomline"•Make it Simple To Use•UsableLearnableMemorableEffectiveEfficientDesirableDelightful----"Steve Krug" Don't Make Me Think"•Skills•Design Thinking MethodologyLean UXHuman-Center DesignDesign Language SystemsJourney MapsStorytellingUser FlowsPersonasUsability AssessmentsWire-framingInformation Architecture (IA)Interaction Design (ID)PrototypingUsability TestingMachine Learning•Tools•Sketch, Marvel, InVision, Axure, OmniGraffle, Adobe Creative Cloud, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Keynote Neurobehavioral Dynamical Systems
Listed skills include User Experience, User Centered Design, Information Architecture, Usability Testing, and 64 others.
