John Dawson Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado, Us

Accomplished Director of Product Design as a player-coach with a proven track record of collaborating with cross-functional teams to transform conceptual ideas into intuitive and delightful products. Adept at championing UX vision and strategy, I excel in developing design systems, creating high-fidelity prototypes, and building and leading high-performing teams to deliver end-to-end product design solutions that balance user needs and business requirements.

San Mateo, California, Us

I cultivated and managed a 15+ person UX design team responsible for the product design of PlayStation’s vast suite of 50+ enterprise applications, including game developer and publisher experiences, and internal tooling platforms.I also founded PlayStation's first design technology team. We supported design and engineering groups with innovative pipeline tools and rapid high-fidelity prototyping driving web, mobile, and the PlayStation console. My team was responsible for building the complete interactive prototype of the PS5 console experience prior to launch in 2021.

Tokyo, Jp

Built and managed a 10 person, rapid development product engineering team supporting operations, marketing, design, and other business teams through the design and development of dozens of custom enterprise applications for the purpose of driving convergent media platforms including PSP, PS Vita, PS3, and the launch of the PS4.

Managed a small internal product development “enterprise agency” consisting of designers, prototypers and web developers supporting the launch and global expansion of the Sony PlayStation Video Store.

Tokyo, Jp

Managed the search and email marketing efforts driving the Ebook Store from Sony, among other SCA entities.

Pastoral care, teaching and leadership development for a 650-member multi-ethnic church in the greater Los Angeles area.

Tokyo, Jp

Software engineering and front-end development for Sony’s Connect Music service.

Responsible for front-end development and content management as part of a small LA-based agency.

Church planting, pastoral leadership, teaching and administration of a 100-member church in Charlottesville, VA.

Web developer for application service provider’s corporate web site and intranet.

Responsible for the creative design and production of a large-scale publicly-traded e-commerce company of over 650 employees. Fun fact: we were the legendary, “Marketplace for a New Millennium”, the veritable Amazon of yesterday, pioneering e-commerce as we know it today, with thousands of leading brands, a futuristic inventory-less model, a multi-billion dollar valuation, Paul Allen and Fred Smith on our board, and a too-big-to-fail ego which eventually sunk at the turn of the millennium to become known as the historic poster child of the fall of the dot-com era, as documented in J. David Kuo’s classic, dot.bomb.

Farmingdale, Ny, Us

Full-scale graphic/print design, digital image editing, and desktop publishing for a commercial printer.

Responsible for establishing and leading an outdoor wilderness adventure camp for adolescent youth.

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Responsible for directing hospitality operations, managing camp programs and maintenance of a large-scale resort camp property.

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Directed wilderness camp programs, outdoor pioneer-based construction projects, high-ropes initiatives and solo expeditions for adolescent youth.

Master Of Divinity - Mdiv, Theological And Ministerial Studies

Bachelor Of Science - Bs