Katie Johnson Email & Phone Number

Boulder, Co, Us

Boulder, Co, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

December 2022 - May 2023 // Lead UXR, Bard2022 // Google Assistant + LaMDA2020 - 2022 // Google Assistant, 0-1 Projects including tasks and AI

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

• Developed and deployed ConsenSys Relays program to inspire the launch of 50+ open source projects in 4 verticals (decentralized finance, media, healthcare, infrastructure), accomplishing all program goals for less than $100K.• Authored, recorded and promoted 20+ pieces of entrepreneur support content, including topics from growth hacking to creating strategic research initiatives.• Created bounty-writing process and playbook based on deep industry research to catalyze development around investment theses, engaging over 800 global builders of diverse backgrounds.• Advised 3 teams through successful raise of follow-on funding and launch on MainNet.

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

• Championed design for 20+ startups (enterprise travel, space, identity, wallets, loans, OSS) including product & service design, research, facilitation, & org design for cross-functional teams of 20+.• Crafted and executed generative research studies for 10+ startups, including interviews, development of personas, and cognitive walkthroughs, culminating in implementation workshops to maximize impact.• Used design thinking practices and tailored workshops to align and accelerate founding teams, leading to several successful follow-on fundraises.• Created and piloted design track of Consensys Labs Protospoke Accelerator program.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Championed user research to drive software development for clients across consumer & enterprise tech, genetics, ad tech, and insurance, including Fortune 50 companies. Conducted research in US, EMEA, and APAC virtually and in person.• Drafted, pitched, landed and led execution of large scale ($250K+) research proposals for new and existing clients, including 6-month international contextual inquiry study for Fortune 10 client.• Managed team of 4 designers and researchers (junior and senior), including annual reviews.• Consulted and led $420M client's internal UX Design Team to establish personas & journey maps over 6-week immersive process.• Designed and led 3-day Sprint with 12 C-suite members of Boulder startups to inspect and innovate around diversity in tech.

San Francisco, California, Us

St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Drove cross-functional organizational shift of $750M company from hardware development to differentiation in software services using iterative development and customer research, including interviews, nationwide contextual inquiry, and cognitive walkthroughs.• Managed $550K budget to lead innovation effort, resulting in 300+ unique & revenue-generating ideas across 5 growth areas, targeted at 10-15 year launch timeframe.• Developed and built 2 collaborative spaces for cross-functional brainstorming and ideation around customer needs.• Championed “intrapreneurship” research team investigating future of hands-free work with Wearable Intelligence.• Conducted extensive usability testing and synthesized findings into data visualization software using visual, interaction, and UX design methodologies, reducing customer service device troubleshooting from 45 to 5 minutes.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Built team of 8 full-time designers & 12K square foot in-house human-centered design firm facility from the ground up.• Drove product & software development across 10+ global business units (including consumer electronics, industrial tools, & industrial machinery), and presented deliverables & reports to C-suite executives and internal stakeholders.• Completed training to deliver Human Centered Design 2-day course, delivered content to business units at 10+ nationwide facilities and global facilities, including Europe, India, & China.

Atlanta, Georgia , Us

• Participated on FAA-funded team to develop Human Automation Relationship Taxonomy• Conducted pilot interviews as part of ongoing qualitative data collection, entry, and analysis• Developed neural network to determine relationships between aircraft automation and human behavior• Held weekly meetings with data mining specialist to promote effective use of neural network tool• Submitted conference paper and published journal paper on predictability of neural network

Reviewed and edited requirements with subsystem leads to ensure compliance to NASA IRD requirements. Wrote verification statements to ensure that all requirements had been met. Participated in transition of electronic database to new system and crosschecked for errors. Created and maintained graphical representation of system mass margin over time to simplify interpretation.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Assisted in management of nanosatellite systems integration, managed summer workforce. Participated in status meetings with Air Force Research Lab and presented hardware demonstrations. Soldered electronic boards and performed assemblies per procedural documentation. Managed team to design and develop a strain gauge apparatus to test thruster capacity on inspector satellite. Developed and discussed requirements with team members and "customers" to guide program development.

Developed an experiment to test aboard the NASA C-9 microgravity plane. Organized and developed two documents outlining all parts of our experiment, including hardware analysis. Performed structural analysis of test apparatus to find shear and normal stresses at 9G to ensure safety.

M.S, Aerospace Engineering; Cognitive Engineering

B.S, Mechanical Engineering