Sean Fitzpatrick Email & Phone Number

Mclean, Virginia, United States

Human Centered Design (HCD) and User Experience (UX) Practice Area Lead, responsible for growing and leading RIVA's HCD & UX delivery teams as part of our overall Digital Transformation solution.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Human Centered Design (HCD) and User Experience (UX) strategy, research, and evaluation consulting.

Tyson's Corner, VA And Columbia, MD

Vice President of User Experience, responsible for delivering business value by building Collabralink’s User Experience (UX) and Human Centered Design (HCD) practice. CollabraLink is a digital service consulting firm for the Federal government and my key responsibilities included:* Defining and leading CollabraLink's Digital Service Design go-to-market.

Laurel, MD

• After the January 2017 acquisition of Aquilent by Booz Allen Hamilton, I joined Booz Allen's Strategic Innovation Group (SIG) Digital practice. I led a team of 70+ Human Centered Design (HCD) / User Experience (UX).
• Enhancing Booz Allen's Digital Experience solution
• Growing Booz Allen's Digital Human Centered Design (HCD) and User Experience (UX) business
• Building talented, agile, Digital Experience teams for project execution

Laurel, MD

• Principal/Director of Digital Services and champion of Human Centered Design (HCD) / User Experience (UX) for Aquilent, a 400 person digital service consulting company for the federal government. As the Digital.
• Leading Aquilent's Digital Services and Human Centered Design (HCD) solutions
• Growing Aquilent's business by selling Human Centered Design (HCD) and User Experience (UX) solutions throughout the Digital Services capture and sales lifecycle
• Building talented, agile, Digital Services teams for project executionAquilent was acquired by Booz Allen Hamilton in January, 2017; a top driver for the acquisition was our Human Centered Design (HCD)/User Experience.

• Director of User Experience (UX) for Aquilent. Responsible for managing all User Experience (UX) and Human Centered Design (HCD) activities company-wide. Major accomplishments:
• Designed, built, and sold Aquilent's User Experience (UX) Solution
• Captured Aquilent's largest single-award digital, User Experience (UX) solution federal BPA contract
• Built Aquilent's active UX Community of Practice (CoP)
• Grew Aquilent's UX practice from 13 to over 100 staff in the UX Career Path

• Director of User Experience for K12, a publicly-traded online education company that provides curriculum, delivered over the web, to K-12 students. Hired as one of the first 40 employees to design, evangelize, and.
• Deployed a company-wide User-Centered Design (UCD) process that ensures measurable product usability throughout K12’s product development lifecycle
• Created a culture where user needs are the focus of all design and development activities, while simultaneously balancing the business needs of the company
• Managed a team of usability specialists
• Designed and built company usability lab
• Utilized UCD tools such as task analysis, personas, user profiles, cognitive walkthroughs, usability testing, online surveys, and focus groups

• User Interface (UI) and Usability Manager of a creative group that was responsible for the usability and ‘look and feel’ of all products at an online, B-2-B, E-commerce, startup. Major accomplishments:
• Managed all UI activities for a company of 300 employees, directly managing a UI team consisting of Information Architects, Usability Engineers, Graphic Designers, and UI developers
• Ensured usability of all products using a User-Centered design (UCD) methodology
• Managed all UI-related work requests and assigning responsibilities to UI team, while also maintaining a full UI design workload

GE Information Services

• Senior User Interface (UI) Designer, responsible for user interface design and usability testing in an advanced User Interface group. Responsible for ensuring that user-centered design was successfully ingrained in the.
• Led user-centered, interface design, on cross-functional development teams, which included marketing, sales, and engineering team members. Platforms were primarily Windows (Visual Basic for mock-ups) and Web (front-end.
• Produced high-fidelity sales demos for sales/marketing teams
• Integrated iterative user interface design process into the software development life cycle, through requirements gathering and definition, prototyping, design, and implementation
• Designed and conducted formal, lab-based usability tests
• Performed customer visits, sales calls, and on-site usability testing to ensure customer satisfaction and involvement

Ma, Human Factors

Ba, Communications: Advertising & Public Relations

Ba, Psychology