Patrick M.

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Director UX Design & Chair Pride ERG | Dublin UX Founder @ Optum
11000 Optum Circle, Eden Prairie, MN
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Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, Ireland
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As a Director of UX with 23+ years of experience across telecoms, healthcare, and enterprise sectors, I specialize in leading global teams to create products that transform complex systems into seamless user experiences. My passion lies in combining user insights, business objectives, and technical realities to deliver innovative, scalable products that drive business success.I bring a unique perspective to product design, grounded in my technical background and creative mindset, making me adept at simplifying intricate systems. Half of my career was spent shaping enterprise content management solutions, and I now lead design initiatives that focus on user-centric product innovation. From telecoms to healthcare, my core mission has been making the complex simple.My product leadership extends to building and scaling UX teams, most notably at Optum, where I established a UX Design Studio in Dublin and now lead a global team in delivering digital products that drive business value. Prior to Optum, I positioned UX at the center of BT’s Osmosoft proposition, leading teams to deliver solutions that enhance customer and business outcomes.A regular speaker at industry events, I have also built strong design communities, including Dublin UX, now the largest design-focused meetup in Ireland with over 4,000 members. I am committed to mentoring teams and sharing best practices in user-centered product design.Recent speaking engagements:+ Oct '20: Panel Moderator - UXDX Conference+ Mar ‘19: UXDX Dublin - “Accelerating delivery using UI Frameworks”+ Mar ‘19: Dublin Tech Summit - “Designing your career in Design”.+ Mar ‘19: LYIT Dice - “The power of design to change the world”.+ Mar ‘18: Optum UXDS Webinar - “Accelerating development using UI Frameworks”+ Oct ‘17: Community Talk at 404 Dublin.+ Nov '16: Refresh Boyne - "Why UX fails". + Feb '16: UX Dublin - "Designing Remotely".+ Feb '16: UX Camp Dublin - "The State of UX in Dublin" - Panel discussion member.+ Jun '15: DevCon Belfast - "The Lean, Mean UX Machine".Specialities:+ Design leadership+ Design Strategy+ Rapid prototyping + Interaction design (Axure/Adobe/Sketch) + Front end dev (HTML5/JS)+ Mobile app design and dev (native & web)+ User centric design and usability testing+ Information architecture & taxonomy+ Project management & delivery+ CMS Strategy

Patrick M.'s Current Company Details
Optum

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Director UX Design & Chair Pride ERG | Dublin UX Founder
11000 Optum Circle, Eden Prairie, MN
Website:
optum.com
Patrick M. Work Experience Details
  • Optum
    Director Of User Experience | Optum Customer Experience And Digital Product
    Optum Feb 2021 - Present
    Eden Prairie , Mn, Us
    In 2021 I was promoted to lead the global UXDS design group, with an expanded team of 90+ designers (including UX Managers and Directors). We support Optum Insight, Optum UK and Optum Technology, as part of UnitedHealth Group (UHG) we are aligned on our mission of helping people live healthier lives and making the health system work better for everyone.
  • Optum
    Chair Pride At Uhg - Ireland & Uk Employee Resource Group
    Optum Jul 2024 - Present
    Eden Prairie , Mn, Us
    Founding Chair of the first LGBTQIA+ employee resource group across Ireland & UK for all of UnitedHealth Group including Optum and UHC.
  • Optum
    Director Of User Experience | Optum User Experience Design Studio
    Optum Feb 2018 - Jan 2021
    Eden Prairie , Mn, Us
    Based in Dublin, I grew the Dublin Studio to 33 team members, split between 4 core areas (design, research, accessibility, and a product team responsible for our design system). I reported into the VP of Design (US based) with design and product mangers reporting into me. As part of the UXDS leadership team, I collaborated with other directors on strategic initiatives. I continued to run our Dublin Studio, inspiring my teams to perform to their best and inspiring business partners around design thinking.
  • Optum
    Ux Design Manager | Optum User Experience Design Studio
    Optum Aug 2016 - Jan 2018
    Eden Prairie , Mn, Us
    I joined Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group, to found and lead the new Dublin office of the Optum User Experience Design Studio (UXDS). UXDS is a 160+ strong studio supporting UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiaries in their mission to help people live healthier lives and to help make the health system work better for everyone.- Sourcing, growing and nurturing a collaborative team of 20 in my first year, including visual designers, interaction designers, accessibility engineers and a sub team of developers dedicated to evolving the User Interface Toolkit, a set of components which make up the Optum Enterprise Design System.- Establishing a vision and strategy for the Dublin Studio. - Forming strategic alliances to ensure my team maintained the minimum billable utilisation. - UX consulting with internal clients as they established their own UX strategy.- Leading on client discovery meetings/pitches, including estimating the budget and final statement of work.- Forming teams to execute against UX strategy.- Overseeing the design work, monitoring quality and budgets. - Communicating UX achievements within the wider design function and throughout the enterprise. - Defining methods to optimise processes to ensure maximum efficiency within my teams. I am:+ Dedicated to my team, creating the best environment for them to thrive+ Motivated by change, it’s inevitable and creates many opportunities+ Driven by design, to distill design thinking into everything we do External Speaking engagements:+ November 2017: Hosted Dublin UX with my Optum UXDS Accessibility Team - Designing for Everyone+ October 2017: Hosted Dublin UX - The Business of Design+ October 2017: Community Talk at 404 Dublin. + February 2017: Hosted Dublin UX with Abbey Smalley from Optum UXDS talking Design Workshops+ January 2017: Hosted Dublin UX in conjunction with IBM Design Studios. + November 2016: Refresh Boyne - "Why User Experience Design Fails".
  • Bt
    Ux Design Lead At Osmosoft
    Bt May 2014 - Aug 2016
    London, Gb
    I held the Lead UX Design position within Osmosoft, a BT company. Key Responsibilities:+ Provide mentoring and design direction for team members.+ Establish the UX vision for the group.+ Promote and evangelise Agile and Lean UX within the wider BT organisation.+ Work with various parts of BT to define their own UX strategy through doing as opposed to preaching. + Advocate rapid prototyping as a means to shape rapid requirements analysis.+ Plan and facilitate focus groups and end-user workshops.+ Costing and project planning new UX engagements for the team.+ Hands on rapid prototyping, design and coding as required.Speaking engagements:+ February 2016: UX Dublin - "Designing Remotely".+ February 2016: UX Camp Dublin - "The State of UX in Dublin" - Panel discussion member.+ June 2015: DevCon Belfast - "The Lean, Mean UX Machine".
  • Bt
    Ux Designer At Osmosoft
    Bt Jun 2012 - May 2014
    London, Gb
    Osmosoft is a small team of developers at BT who primarily make web based collaboration tools. These tools are used by Osmosoft in products developed for BT, and in engagements with BT customers and independent organisations. I was responsible for enabling an agile User Experience engagement model. I successfully positioned UX at the heart of the Osmosoft proposition introducing new approaches using user-centered design techniques and rapid prototyping.I was focused on designing, coding and delivering experiences for mobile web applications based around open standards. I worked within our own team, external agencies such as Karmarama and UICentric and directly with customers and users.Main deliveries:+ The UX design, prototyping and HTML5 build for the mobile BT Global Services website.+ The redesign and development of the BT Virtual showcase mobile experience/website.+ The delivery of a new desktop experience (homepage and hub-pages) for BT Global Services.+ UX designs for BT Wholesale Ordering Journeys.+ UX designs for BT Global Services Reporting Dashboards.+ A redesign of TiddlySpace.com based on quantitative and qualitative signals and feedback.
  • Bt
    Cms Design Lead
    Bt Apr 2006 - Jun 2012
    London, Gb
    Working primarily with the HP/Autonomy Interwoven CMS I designed, built and deployed websites to support the BT.com platform. I worked into a global team across Asia, Europe and America.Primary duties included:- Design assure and sign-off all Web CMS solution designs for our customers.- Worked within an agile development cycle with multiple globally dispersed partners. - Acted as technical authority for HP/Autonomy Interwoven products, ensuring best practice is applied and designs meet BT standards.- Provided CMS consultation to our customers, working with multiple departments to ensure the best solutions are proposed and developed.- Worked alongside web agencies and suppliers as per customer need to ensure web standards are met around accessibility and performance. - Provided UX consultation on new website builds and drove information architecture strategy to align with content management best practice. - Established best practice guidelines for all CMS activities within BT.- Asked by Interwoven to deliver a Developer Track at GearUP San Francisco, which I gave on "Effectively managing metadata".Major Projects:- 2012: I helped design and deliver the new globalservices.bt.com platform supporting our customers in over 170 countries.- 2011: Relaunch and rebranding of BT Wholesale http://btwholesale.com on a strategic CMS platform, incorporating realtime deployments. Involved from the pitching and initial solution design, to driving the information architecture to the final build and release. - 2010: Migration of BT Business http://business.bt.com off Vignette into a business enabled strategic CMS. Automated the integration with Baynote, Google Sitemap and LivePerson. Responsible for the traffic management, caching solution and CMS design.
  • Bt
    Senior Cms (Interwoven) Solution Architect
    Bt Mar 2004 - Apr 2006
    London, Gb
    Responsibilities - Responsible for the strategy, design and development of all CMS projects, including OpenDeploy, DataDeploy, Templating & workflow.- Responsible for the development and maintenance of 200+ sites.- Worked closely with the network teams to spec out all new servers to meet current/future load.- Responsible for the planning and execution of all TeamSite upgrades and service packs.- Provide justification for all technology choices and direction.- As Technical Lead I held chaired monthly developer sessions, bringing together the pan-European development team to exchange ideas and promote team working.- As line manger to members of the Irish CMS support/development teams, I fulfilled all line manager duties including quarterly and annual performance reviews.Achievements - Designed and seamlessly implemented a migration and upgrade strategy, moving a 40GB TeamSite implementation to a new TeamSite 6.5 environment.- Lead the team in the redesign and redevelopment of the BTGS CMS.- Instrumental in ensuring the transformation of btglobalservices.com from a static site to a global, Multilanguage/Multiplatform one.- Conceived the design and lead on the implementation of two new publishing frameworks, Apache Cocoon and a custom ISAPI/.NET solution to deliver the all content.- Proposed interactive training material to cut costs and better inform the growing CMS user base.- Architected the largest CMS in BT, and largest content managed intranet in Europe.- CMS was nominated for Best CMS implementation in the Information Management Award in 2004 & 2005, winning it in 2004.- Wrote & presented a successful developers track-session at Interwoven GearUp Europe London in October 2005 entitled “Upgrading to TeamSite 6.5, Lessons Learned & Customisation Advice”.- I have received numerous recognitions and awards from the business to acknowledge my invaluable input into the success which is the BTGS CMS implementation.
  • Vhi
    Content Management Design Consultant & Trainer
    Vhi May 2004 - May 2004
    Kilkenny, Ie
    A contract position by Labyrinth BT, lasting a month, consisting of three phases, design consultation, assurance and technical training.Responsibilities - TeamSite implementation design guidance to support their TeamSite 5.5.2 implementation.- Verified and design assured prior to coding with their lead solution designer.- Developed and presented a comprehensive on-site TeamSite technical training course, including basic concepts, Templating and workflow.
  • Labyrinth
    Interwoven Developer/Applications Developer
    Labyrinth Apr 2003 - Mar 2004
    Labyrinth was awarded the contract to develop and manage the BT Ignite Intranet and Internet sites, all managed from a central TeamSite 5.5.2 environment. I moved into this team, ran from Dublin, which was dispersed across Holland and the UK.Responsibilities - This was a challenging role as I needed to up-skill and understand a live TeamSite 5.5.2 implementation in order to design additional solutions.- Required a high turn around of web development solutions within the CMS to meet aggressive global marketing deadlines.- Support of the current live and development CMS servers, including all legacy code/apps. - Highly involved with the business in requirement guarding and solution design.Achievements - Instrumental in leading the development of two intranet/internet re-brands, ensuring the business expectations where exceeded on both occasions.- Released new harmonised templates to cover all BT global products.- I co-wrote the re-architectural documentation for a new CMS, conceiving both a new branching model and proposing new front end technology to implement/support the solution.
  • Labyrinth
    Applications Developer
    Labyrinth Oct 2002 - Mar 2003
    I joined Labyrinth, the multi-award winning Irish web development company as a Java web developer; I worked initially on bespoke applications on government projects.Responsibilities - Responsible for end-to-end delivery of numerous projects.- Utilised/championed web development skills including ASP, JSP and Servlet.- Deployment servers included JRun and ISS, RDBMS include Oracle and MS SQL.
  • Postgem/Ireland Online
    Isp Technical Support Engineer
    Postgem/Ireland Online Sep 1999 - Sep 2002
    Ireland OnLine was Ireland’s first consumer ISP, acquired by BT from An Post in 2000. Part/Full Time.Responsibilities - Provided telephone and email technical support to residential and corporate customers. - Developed a JAVA based support site and problem tracking system. - Defined business models/processes in ensure ISO commitments.
  • Kadius Systems Ltd
    Junior Software Engineer
    Kadius Systems Ltd Mar 2001 - Oct 2001
    In 3rd year of University, I spent 6 months with Kadius, a software company who developed a JSEE CMS.Responsibilities- Founding member of the QA department, responsible for the testing of all new releases.- Responsibly for the new User Interface to K2, the second release of their CMS Server. Working with the core-technology department I created and supplied all code/graphics to support the UI.

Patrick M. Skills

User Experience Agile Methodologies Cms Web Development Information Architecture User Interface Mobile Devices Content Management Requirements Analysis Web Applications User Interface Design Web Design Css Html Solution Architecture Html5 Seo Xml Mobile Applications Enterprise Content Management Usability Social Media Web Content Management Xslt Usability Testing Content Management Systems Cascading Style Sheets Web Analytics Accessibility Autonomy Interwoven Teamsite Google Adwords Xhtml Perl Agile Html 5 Consulting Web Content Interwoven Google Website Optimizer Consultancy Wordpress Php Axure Wireframes Rapid Prototyping Paper Prototyping User Centered Design User Experience Design Sketch App Axure Rp

Patrick M. Education Details

  • Dublin City University
    Dublin City University
    Computer Applications

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