Steve Branson Email & Phone Number

Owner of Tranquility Base Music, LLC and operator of Tranquility Base Audio Post-Production and Tranquility Base Music Publishing, with 25 years of experience in music production and sound design. Professional, personalized mastering and mixing services for bands of all genres anywhere in the world, specializing in electronic and indie music. Current platform delivery and loudness standards that can help bands achieve releases that match their favorite artists and playlists. Single, EP, and full album mixing and mastering available including alts, DDP encoding for CD, and special considerations for Vinyl. Additional services include Reel-to-Reel Tape Transfers, Finishing and Finalizing, Vocal Editing and Correction, Production Assistance, and Sample Replacement. Personalized service with a focus on helping artists achieve their musical goals.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Oversight and development of product delivery process for fintech platform including UI / UX, front-end development, and technical content. Created and led a 20-person team of managers, engineers, designers, testers, and content writers (with majority remote-based). Created roadmap for migrating away from legacy applications, partners, and platforms. Developed and delivered branding guidance, design system, UI patterns, and reusable React/Typescript-based architecture for rapid development of front-end and middleware with integrations to REST APIs and GCP Protobuffs. Systems supported retail and back-office financial account management, transfer, rebalancing, and trading operations, and required complete redesign of process and overall architecture.

User Experience, Information Architecture, and Product / Visual Design. User Interface (UI) best practices with UX strategy, consulting, and auditing.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Instructor for Adult Extension Course: Applied User Experience. Development of curriculum, teaching aids, in-person lectures, developing coursework and syllabus within Canvas platform. Guided students through creation of design brief and UX blueprint for delivery to mock client.

Hawthorne, California, Us

Created, managed, and mentored design team, led internal product design initiatives, defined design patterns and standards, oversaw user research, and performed project management for reusable components and new product initiatives. Supported Product Managers and Leadership by aligning and deploying resources to support critical path projects. Created AGILE UX process using JIRA to improve project management and resource planning to support massive demand for team services. Improved process for translating design into code through close alignment with front-end architecture team.

Hawthorne, California, Us

Introduced UX design and research activities to Enterprise Information Systems and oversaw the implementation and process changes needed to incorporate it into the existing product development lifecycle. Created and documented an original, company-branded Product Design System used for all (150+) internal SpaceX Enterprise / ERP application designs, which ensured consistency and accelerated product delivery times. I also rapidly produced and delivered an astonishing number of product designs for desktop, machine interfaces, and wearable/mobile devices in all areas of company operations (including HR, Security, Facilities, Inventory, and Manufacturing). Supplied extensive visual and print design services for intranet, inventory management, marketing, and facilities in addition to normal duties.

Based on research from customer insights team, I recommended and designed a comparison tool to facilitate vacation package selection, which improved conversion and lowered cart abandonment. Upgraded entire department’s low-fidelity wireframes to production quality, pixel-accurate versions which significantly accelerated the design, review, and approval process. Developed detailed navigation flows, site maps, wireframes, and interface design/ functional specifications that captured site processes. Oversight of junior UX designers in the production process for DisneyWorld.com and DisneyAulani.com

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Provided overall user experience and interface designs (UI / UX) for all new and existing theatrical distribution, financial and content management products, including web, mobile and desktop enterprise applications and company website. Oversaw the creation and application of design guidelines related to the implementation of standardized interactions, color, typography, graphic design, front-end CSS, and all other visual/interactive aspects of the user experience; worked closely with development team. Provided detailed system diagrams and graphic models of products for investors and customers. Gained a deep understanding of current software products, application workflow and industry practices by conducting stakeholder, executive, subject matter expert interviews and user-shadowing sessions.

Responsible for introducing new product concepts and designs for Internet start-up that focused on user interest mapping, relationship graphs and content aggregation from social media networks. Managed team discussions regarding design, product features, scope, and presentation; created product models to articulate concepts to management and development teams. Worked closely with in-house development team to align AGILE/SCRUM sprints with product design and UI roadmap

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Design team lead responsible for defining the vision and guiding the direction of user experiences across a range of interactive experiences, including telecommunications, automotive, video games, television, mobile devices, web, desktop, 3D, and touch/gesture. Produced personas, task flows, models, user interfaces, and conceptual designs to illustrate research findings and gain acceptance from customers and stakeholders. Worked closely with graphic and motion designers to develop visual languages and interaction models, using storyboards, simple animations and style guides. Clients included Sony, Samsung, Comcast, Bungie, Google, T-Mobile, Microsoft, BMW and others

London, United Kingdom , Gb

Principal consultant for key clients including Moodys and Goldman-Sachs. Oversight and design of financial dashboards and enterprise-level compensation systems.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Glendale, Ca, Us

Ba, Psychology

Cognitive Science, Experimental Psychology