Shay Hall Email & Phone Number

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Elevated into a leadership role to lead and manage six direct reports with dotted line accountability over 12 team members. Responsible for overseeing project engagements and ensuring deliverables and timelines are achieved related to concepts, wireframes, interactive prototypes, specifications, and more. Translates business requirements to meet end user needs and goals while creating differentiated design solutions. Partners with key product stakeholders to support business objectives while advocating for the realization of user-centered design and industry best practices. • Evangelizes a clear vision to senior leadership for realizing best-in-class designs; regularly presents to executives. • Coaches and mentors a high-performing, cross-disciplinary Design team that encompasses researchers, UX/UI designers, and visual designers. • Led the Watson Orchestrate design as a Strategic Lead for the newly formed Jumpstart Innovation team; interacted with Research, Development, Design, and Project Management to achieve significant business results. • Managed the Integro team beginning in June 2021; set up design education sessions with multiple teams to convey subject matter expertise in an effort to start and complete design within a 2–3-week timeframe. • Managed multiple products across the Software Networking portfolio beginning in May 2022; integrated design team including onboarding designers to products and domain space and adapting existing teams' culture and practices to include design for two acquisitions while continuously facilitating design deliverables across portfolio while working with cross-functional leadership to create and execute a vision and strategy for the future of the products and portfolio.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Promoted to serve as a hands-on Design Leader to shape the future by defining strategies and leading the creation of end-to-end user experiences. Operated as a subject matter expert while engaging in project strategy and coordination, product design, storytelling, presentations, coaching and mentoring, and comprehensive project management. Developed innovative solutions to business problems while collaborating cross-functionally and leading user research. • Successfully filed two patents and had one article published on Improv and Design Thinking. • Recipient of two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards and the Big Business Innovation Award. • Taught the Design Thinking Masterclass at AppMod Tech Con 2019.• Participated in the development of two products—IBM Multichannel Management and CloudPak for Automation.• Collaborated in the design and development of Transformation Advisor, Mono2Micro, and Watson Orchestrate.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Onboarded to serve as part of a full-stack team in a highly collaborative environment. Responsible for a variety of duties, including building performant, scalable UI solutions using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS as well as component-driven user interfaces. Performed testing and converted design prototypes to code implementation. Created coded prototypes for user testing and added interaction design into static wireframes.• Hired as part of the Early Professional Hire Network; traveled to Austin, TX, for a 3-month Design Training Bootcamp. • Served as Founder and Co-Leader of FED@IBM RTP Branch in 2018; simultaneously received the Manager’s Choice Award for showing personal interest as well as the RockIT Distinguished Mentor Award. • Engaged in an RTP Design Thinking Discussion Series Presentation. • Created and facilitated a workshop on Design Thinking to varied groups, including Guilford County Students, The Iron Yard Raleigh UI Class, UNC Chapel Hill Students, NASCAR representatives, Marketing Interns, MetLife TA/IC Customers, and other key stakeholders, including professionals from the City of Durham. • Contributed to the design and development of Cloud Product Insights, IBM Cloud Private, and Transformation Advisor.

Malvern, Pa, Us

Tasked with building a complex, modular filtering system by utilizing custom filters for use and to align with multiple product groups. Created a product results page to showcase the filtering effects in a grid or list view as well as a dynamic product details page and related products carousel with angular slick. • Partnered with the PHP Developer in the integration of Angular JS templates into a Drupal site. • Architected a user interface to match wireframes for all desktop and mobile page view using SCSS.

Durham, North Carolina, Us

Garner, Nc, Us

Front-End Engineering, Computer Engineering

Master Of Divinity (Mdiv)

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Film Studies | Minor In Religion & Creative Writing