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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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