Michael Pullen

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Senior Group Manager - Digital Experiences XD - Products and Platforms @ Concentrix Catalyst
Boston, MA, US
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Greater Boston, United States, United States
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About Michael Pullen

Design Leadership• Bringing eclectic groups of people together designing solutions that exceed expectations• Working with executives, product managers, designers, and developers to leverage the power of people with design thinking to optimize solutions• Shaping customer, market, and technology context into a clear vision of the UX and design roadmap• Engaging executives, leaders and inspiring team members• Building people and orgs by shifting control to the team, elevating competence, boosting collaboration, and supporting cultivationDesign Operations• Optimizing frictionless UX across products and services that empower and delight customers• Enhancing team excellence by improving skills, enabling T-shaped players, baking in best practices, deliver designs & work with executives to solution, and delegating decision-making• Scaling design operations by developing repeatable, scalable approaches to optimize work. Scaling focuses on feedback loops, transparency, customer context, tools, competence, creating communities of practice, and embedding design as a mindset• Optimizing processes by using value metrics, tweaking tools, creating a toolbox, embedding user context, and automating on-time customer information• Nudging organizational change by creating a movement, workshops, streamlining meetings, negotiating, and enhancing decision-making.• Growing and aligning people with training, performance management, and team-oriented outcome incentives• Accelerating technology enablement with appropriate design tools, design systems, toolboxes, and developer integration from product management through release engineeringHuman Experience Design• Driving strategic innovation and relentlessly raises the solution potential• Covering strategic to production design process across market, customer, & user research, analysis & communication, solutioning & design, development & testing, and release & customer acceptance• Experience working for boutique consultancies, product companies, and startups• Ensuring successful solutioning and delivery. Facilitating executives & leaders to design and deliver client specific strategies. Designing solutions to exceed customer expectations. Embedding a behavior of inspect and adapt with feedback loops.• Exceling in the fuzzy and chaotic areas that require the synthesis of information into a clear vision. Getting teams of people to create exceptional design solutions by understanding the context of the customer’s experience, business expectations, limits of technology, time, and resources.

Michael Pullen's Current Company Details
Concentrix Catalyst

Concentrix Catalyst

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Senior Group Manager - Digital Experiences XD - Products and Platforms
Boston, MA, US
Website:
concentrix.com
Employees:
174924
Michael Pullen Work Experience Details
  • Concentrix Catalyst
    Senior Group Manager - Digital Experiences Xd - Products And Platforms
    Concentrix Catalyst
    Boston, Ma, Us
  • Concentrix Catalyst
    Group Manager, Strategy & Design, Product Solutions
    Concentrix Catalyst Jan 2022 - Present
    Beaverton, Oregon, Us
    Product Acceleration leader* Leader focused on the definition and point of view for Product Acceleration consulting and service delivery* Group manager for large strategy and design projects* Platform Experience Design capabilities manager - defining best practices and skilling up strategy & design team* User experience principal and client lead* Banking, Financial services, and Insurance expert and customer experience evangelist* Digital business transformation and strategic design - consulting and client facilitationProjects* Product owner for base platform and product definition for crew scheduling and timekeeping in the transportation industry* Redesigned B2B public facing marketing site for national insurance company (Research, design, testing, coaching product owner, coaching agile approaches, led 8 person team)* Investigation and visualization of ecosystem for patients within a health banking company (omnichannel encounters by patient looking to sign up, manage, and pay for health services)* Design oversight and design operations for a university intranet redesign and migration* Solutioning for new B2B experience for a retail security company* Designed the store front for end-to-end demo of the Adobe suite* Facilitator in the meta verse for Concentrix employee experience innovations
  • Apex Systems
    Practice Director, Digital Business Transformations
    Apex Systems Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
    Glen Allen, Va, Us
    • Director and Lead consultant on client projects in 3 of 18 solution areas: Digital Business Transformations, Agile, and UXD• Build and create Apex CS solutions intellectual property to train and enable consultants to hit the ground running and provide the client with the latest and greatest best practices across all industries: examples are trainings, playbooks, videos, podcasts, consulting tools, and presentations• Assist and support sales to listen to client needs and describe Apex Consulting Services that meet their needs, supply presentation material and additions to statements of work
  • Apex Systems
    Digital Business Transformation Player/Coach/Consultant
    Apex Systems Feb 2020 - Dec 2020
    Glen Allen, Va, Us
    Equifax-- An Apex Systems formerly LeapFrog Systems Project --Digital Business Transformation Coach and Client Engagement Lead* Led client executives, leaders, and a team of consultants to design and execute an organizational alignment, operational improvements, agile mindset changes, leadership pivot, and delivery team level engagement* Coached executives, transformation leaders, and delivery team members in the infrastructure business unit* Created workshop and trained over 200 people in 6 weeks on the topics of Agile Mindset, Agile methodologies (Scrumban, Kanban, Scrum), Written Team Agreements (Working agreements, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done), essential practices (Daily Stand ups and Retrospectives), and the roles of product owners and scrum masters* Encouraged and led leadership pivot including Leadership Training to shift from control to collaboration and cultivation* Created and facilitated an executive transformation team and core transformation teams to execute on the transformation strategy and tactics respectively* Created and delivered multiple agile trainings to teach people to do the Equify way: foundations, methodologies, product owner tools and techniques, and scrum master approaches
  • Apex Systems
    Senior Vice President, Digital Business Transformations
    Apex Systems Sep 2016 - Sep 2020
    Glen Allen, Va, Us
    LeapFrog Systems delivers enterprise digital transformation projects with elite teams of trusted player/coaches.- We work with executives and their organizations to embed design and design thinking into their processes- We help highly technical, successful organizations to become more agile and more capable of meeting customer needs and exceeding their expectations- By assessing their current agility and ability to deliver we are able to baseline their enterprise and provide metrics to improve- For some organizations they have been working with design teams in their organization and others are more distributed, we help drive the organization to the next level of organizational obsession of their customer LeapFrog Systems is an elite technical consulting firm based in Boston with additional offices in Dallas, Denver and Raleigh. The firm has earned a reputation for making challenging projects successful by providing expert consulting teams that partner with clients to deliver results. Our innovative consulting services extend way beyond staffing. We compile the critical background information, brightest ideas and required expertise to take projects from strategy to execution. With almost 20 years of experience, we provide customized consulting services delivering advanced technology to market leaders. Areas of expertise include Project and Program Management, Agile Assessments and Transformation, Design Thinking, User Experience Design, Analysis, Quality Engineering and Development.
  • Apex Systems
    Player/Coach Agile And Enterprise Transformation
    Apex Systems Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
    Glen Allen, Va, Us
    Embrace Home Loans-- A LeapFrog Systems project --Digital Business Transformation Coach and Client Engagement Lead* Coached executives, transformation leaders and delivery team members to apply agile approaches and scaling models to their transformation* Coached product owner with adapting new techniques to facilitate product teams and executives to improve execution* Led design thinking workshop with multiple teams and 12 individuals around the new employee onboarding processes
  • Apex Systems
    Player/Coach Enterprise Digital Transformation
    Apex Systems Jul 2019 - Nov 2019
    Glen Allen, Va, Us
    Massachusetts Medical Society-- A LeapFrog Systems project --Digital Business Transformation Coach and Client Engagement Lead* Led client leaders to design and execute an organizational alignment, operational improvements, and delivery team level engagement* Coached transformation leaders and delivery team members in the publishing business unit* Created and delivered multiple agile trainings to teach people to do the MMS way: product owner and design thinking tools and techniques* Edited and Delivered MMS transformation approach and playbook
  • Apex Systems
    Player/Coach: User Experience, Product Designer And Manager
    Apex Systems Feb 2017 - Jul 2019
    Glen Allen, Va, Us
    Ericsson -- A LeapFrog Systems project --Leading the effort to modernize a 15 year old overly generalized enterprise class billing software. Architecting a solution to move from current web-based Microsoft stack to a web Java stack. Redesigning the existing Product Catalog and Customer Care applications to be touch-enabled and responsive across all devices from desktop, tablets and phones. Work includes: * Customer and Stakeholder Research and Analysis, Systems Analysis, Business Analysis* Persona and Workflow Definitions* Overall Design Vision and UI Architecture* UX Design Process Definition * Management of Design Team across multiple vendors distributed across CA, MA, Ukraine and India* Prototyping in HTML/CSS using Bootstrap and Visual Designs* HTML5/ CSS3 developing* Instantiating and coding branding changes across the product line* Stakeholder Management* Usability Studies* Product Management Coaching* Project Management* Quality Assurance* Help/ documentation
  • Apex Systems
    Player/ Coach Digital Transformation
    Apex Systems Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
    Glen Allen, Va, Us
    Putnam Investments-- a LeapFrog Systems project --* Digital Transformation at Putnam Investments by enabling sales systems, empowering data science and establishing UX standards and best practices:* Sales Enablement and Onboarding Design: Created tools that enable and empower key roles/personas through the sales process to execute on the company’s strategies and leverage the digital transformation technology set.
  • Frictionless Design Llc
    Design Manager And User Experience Designer
    Frictionless Design Llc Jul 2015 - Sep 2016
    Metratech is now part of Ericsson-- a FrictionlessDesign project --Managed external vendor design team.Architected user interface architecture for enterprise class product and billing application.Embedded user experience and product design into the development process.* Designed configurable and extendable end user online bill pay. Defined UI architecture to meet the needs to be responsive to multiple devices as well as scalable to any client needs (technology: HTML/CSS with angular). * Designed enterprise class SaaS billing system. Defined basic UI architecture and design widgets for a responsive, configurable web application.* Partnered with PMs and POs.* Working with Ericsson. Updated products to Ericsson visuals.* Managed consulting firm design team.* Interviewed customers. Documented personas and journey maps.* Designed demo for sales and marketing.* Introduced user experience research and design to the organization.
  • Frictionless Design Llc
    Principal/ Owner
    Frictionless Design Llc Apr 2013 - Sep 2016
    frictionless design is a user experience design firm that works with companies to create the right product the first time, on time.Information Analysis• Designed a new product for real-time unstructured data analytics, enabling users to monitor 1000's of customer conversations to make actionable insightsEducational Content• Researched and designed assessment UI for secondary educationIndustry Analyst company• Coach on business strategy; website strategy and content presentation; design and implement website to present cross product analysis; design minimal visual language to enhance and focus on contentFinancial software startup• Marketing communications, sales content, proposal writing• Product management, organizational alignment and execution
  • Frictionless Design Llc
    Lead Ux Designer
    Frictionless Design Llc Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
    Iron Mountain--a frictionless design project--Worked with product management to identify key information displays.Designed executive dashboard in Tibco Spotfire.Participated in usability studies and design updates.
  • Frictionless Design Llc
    Principal Consultant: User Experience And Product Design
    Frictionless Design Llc Aug 2014 - Oct 2014
    Luminoso Technologies, Inc.--a frictionless design project--Won new product design project.* Worked with product manager and executives to explore design opportunities, provide a design vision and coordinate with development team.* Designed a new product for real-time unstructured data analytics, enabling users to monitor 1000's of customer conversations to make actionable insights.* Created HTML and CSS design components based on bootstrap* QA tested the user interface
  • Frictionless Design Llc
    User And Domain Researcher
    Frictionless Design Llc Jan 2014 - Feb 2014
    Walch Education--a frictionless design project with OnVelocity--Educational Content• Researched and designed assessment UI for secondary education• The design emulated SBAC and PARCC interaction and visual standards to provide students with a practice environment similar to the tests• Created design using HTML/CSS based on Bootstrap
  • Frictionless Design Llc
    Consultant
    Frictionless Design Llc Sep 2013 - Nov 2013
    BuysideFX--a frictionless consulting project--Won multiple contracts.Coached and facilitated negotiations between founders.Provided out of the box visions for delivering a foreign exchange application.A Foreign Exchange trading software company- exploring an agreed upon Marketing communications approach to complex parts of the product- working with the founders to negotiate a best path forward
  • Frictionless Design Llc
    Principal Consultant/ Ux Designer/ Scrum Leader
    Frictionless Design Llc Apr 2013 - Aug 2013
    Sepaton--a frictionless design project--Won contract to design the next generation massive storage management console.Embedded design and led agile approach to new development.Massive Enterprise Storage company• Designed an enterprise storage system user interface to manage daily outages, additions and configurations.• Worked with product manager to design the next generation application: explored the design space and select appropriate designs for the new product• Designed a responsive system that would allow users to work across multiple monitors or on a small tablet using Bootstrap (HTML/CSS)• Lead new product design teams and work to embed the design process into the development organization using the agile process; Introduced, taught and ran the UI scrum team• Interview subject matter experts on the work to understand daily and less frequent tasks and business processes• Explore visual design approaches to define the new look and feel for products; Created a new visual language• Document and design persona workflows and incorporate them into the product designs (web and mobile devices)
  • Buysidefx
    Manager Of Product Management And Ux Design
    Buysidefx Mar 2014 - Jun 2014
    • Simplified product management and product design processes. Facilitated agile development teams for product delivery. Managed and coordinated founder and stakeholder communication with the team. Facilitated team to help drive to quicker better decisions.o Aligned processes as scrum master for product, QA and engineering using Rally scrum and the Rallydev tool.o Product management, Story writing, Rally instruction and process/project management.o Research and analysis of process tools, communication infrastructure and report/dashboard OEM tools• Explored vision and designs for the writing of marketing, proposals, and product ideas. Engaged client to validate ideas and demo product.• Worked with CEO and CMO to decide on the best approach to demonstrate the product and underlying power of the business rules to offload repetitive work; sketched and designed multiple solutions to compare and identify the best path.
  • Charles River Development
    Principal User Experience Designer
    Charles River Development Jun 2010 - Apr 2013
    Burlington, Ma, Us
    Responsible for transforming product teams to focus on user workflows instead of features. Embedded design and user center approaches into development teams.Successfully redesigned financial adviser web application to meet and exceed clients expectations. Delivered and implemented with no training and no increase to the help desk.* Led and built user experience team* Provided product owners and managers options to choose from to make better decisions* Illustrated main workflows for new products and redesigns* Simplified complicated workflows and feature sets* Validated and tested design options* Embedded the design process into the development organization* Led design for the Wealth Management, Unified Managed Accounts (UMA), EMS trading products and platform products
  • Itg (Investment Technology Group)
    Principal User Interface Designer
    Itg (Investment Technology Group) Aug 2007 - Jun 2010
    New York, Ny, Us
    * Led and built user experience team in the Boston office* Led design on the next generation trading application. * Designed the flexibility and speed necessary for institutional brokerages to work from one system for order management and execution management. * Allowed the system to be configured to meet any portfolio managers work flow and minimized the effort to get work done. * Designed a frictionless experience for traders and portfolio managers throughout the day. * Created displays of IOIs and advertised trades inline to help make trading decisions. * Automated trade tasks and provided algorithm UIs to trade programmatically while focusing on the difficult trades.
  • Application Security Inc
    User Experience Product Manager
    Application Security Inc Jul 2006 - Aug 2007
    New York, Ny, Us
    • Led the integration of the design process in the company.• Managed the suite release of database vulnerability products. Rebranded individual products into a suite release. Created marketing materials for brochures and sales presentations.• Defined the repackaging of the suite. Redesigned the website to meet the new suite requirements.• Designed product interactions for new releases.
  • Kronos
    Manager And Senior Interaction Designer
    Kronos Feb 2001 - Jun 2006
    Lowell, Ma, Us
    • Managed and integrated user experience team into the development teams. Led rebranding effort of the application suite.• Identified requirements and assisted in UI architectural decisions. Provided vision for future product design initiatives. Created and maintained consistency of user experience across suite. User Tested application. Integrated design into an "agile" development methodology.• Identified requirements and assisted in UI architectural decisions. Provided vision for future product design initiatives.• Created design systems, ui component libraries, and maintained consistency of user experience across suite.• Integrated/merged design of purchased code into the suite for HR and Payroll.• Led product and user interface design on 40+ projects. User Tested applications. Maintained and Updated Personas and Use Case development. • Integrated design into an "agile" development methodology.
  • Gomez
    Senior Interaction Designer
    Gomez Aug 1999 - Feb 2001
    Waltham, Ma, Us
    * Managed the production of the Customer Experience Analysis projects across internal and external, designers, analysts, and printing houses* Performed consulting services to review, critique and consult on Web architecture, interaction design and content development and delivery to leading online financial services and retail internet companies* Designed GomezPro.com as well as subsites to Gomez.com and other internal sales applications.
  • Symmetrix/ Nextera
    Ui Designer
    Symmetrix/ Nextera Jun 1996 - Aug 1999
    Led an 8-person analysis and design team to collaboratively create a new health benefit management system for a 6 million-member national health insurerLed a 6-person analysis and design team to create a customer service system for a national home health care company
  • Charles River Analytics
    Human Factors Engineer
    Charles River Analytics May 1995 - Jun 1996
    Cambridge, Ma, Us
    Performed knowledge elicitation tasks on military operations in the army. Designed an intelligent tutoring system for an unencumbered virtual reality system.

Michael Pullen Skills

User Experience User Interface Design Interaction Design Agile Methodologies Information Architecture Usability Testing Enterprise Software User Experience Design Web Applications User Interface Product Management Saas User Centered Design Usability Software Design Cross Functional Team Leadership User Research Strategy Human Factors Start Ups Heuristic Evaluation Requirements Gathering Product Design Human Computer Interaction Rapid Prototyping Wireframes Mobile Devices Design Strategy Agile Project Management Task Analysis Information Design Usability Design Usability Engineering Paper Prototyping Information Visualization Persona Wire Framing Creative Direction Design Patterns Agile Human Computer Interaction Requirements Analysis Communication Product Strategy Personas Card Sorting User Scenarios Prototyping Workflow Analysis Product Visioning

Michael Pullen Education Details

  • University Of Massachusetts Amherst
    University Of Massachusetts Amherst
    Industrial Engineering/ Operations Research & Human Factors
  • Swansea University
    Swansea University
    Industrial Engineering

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