Tech-savvy and resourceful IBM Design Director, I have extensive experience in leading, recruiting, training, and building high-performing design teams at IBM. With my technical background, I have a keen aptitude for coordinating and communicating with multi-disciplinary teams of designers, developers, and product managers to deliver incredible design-led outcomes in the most technically difficult domains. Additionally, I have gained valuable experience in executing product strategy and roadmap, leading both small and large dynamic and inspired organizations, integrating design with development and product management, scaling design across large organizations in continuous delivery environments, advising senior executives, and collaborating with customers and partners. My keen aptitude and demonstrated skills in mentoring and educating high-performing teams drive innovation, set clear objectives, and provide effective key results. As a result-focused and high-integrity professional, I always created a product strategy based on design principles, user research, and iterative prototyping to visualize future results while hiring or reallocating hundreds of employees to achieve product vision goals through appropriate methods. Throughout my career, I have been known for cultivating strong working relationships with stakeholders, management, engineers, developers, and external customers. Having proven leadership capabilities in Design (UX, Visual Design, User Research, Content Design), I provided subject matter expertise in designing and analyzing technology evolution to transform the entire IBM middleware portfolio. My background experience lies all around in contributing to and accelerating the success of IBM through my growth-minded thinking, transparency and trust abilities, teamwork and team leadership, entrepreneurial and resilient mindset, and goal-focused and customer-centered professionalism. In addition, I am well-prepared and passionate about propelling a high-profile organization’s goals of integrating the company’s more established design processes into product and user experience that ensure the design is thoroughly embedded and promote rapid growth. Some of my key skills are as follows:Software Design & Implementation, Business Process Improvement, Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience Design (UED), Product Design & Research, User Experience (UX) If you want to learn more about my work or my achievements in the delivered projects, please get in touch with me or have a look at my Portfolio Email: robertuthe@gmail.com