Anna Thielke Email & Phone Number

Empire, MI, US

Mantis & Co. is a disability-owned Inclusive Design and Accessibility agency, focused on helping companies deliver exceptional experiences in health tech. Let's shift the conversation from compliance to culture.

• Established and scaled team of over 50 accessibility and inclusive design professionals across CVS Health and Aetna. Oversee Inclusive UX Research, CVS Design System Accessibility, Gender and Linguistic Inclusion.
• Published open source Figma Accessiiblity Annotation Kits for Web and iOS, free to the community.
• Launched industry-leading UX Research program including disabled customers, which informed design systems, product strategy and design decisions.
• Led gender, linguisitic and multicultural inclusion programs, to improve health equity and overall experience on web and native apps.

• Served as volunteer for CVS Health's disability related colleague resource group, providing disability inclusion across all company verticles for over 300,000 colleagues.
• Worked with executive sponsors to drive roadmap for creating a more disability-friendly work environment.
• Served as business resource in matters of HR, Reasonable Accommodations, corporate communications and marketing for cultural competence.
• Hosted multiple company-wide events to celebrate Disability Pride month, during the annual celebration of the ADA in July.
• Served as mentor for disabled colleagues' professional growth and guidance.

• Built accessibility shift left operating model utlizing empathy-based learning to support 400+ designers across CVS and Aetna Health.
• Evangelized inclusive design and access to our digital products for and with the disability community. Grew a passionate team of people who truly love to geek out around all the ways we can include our customers and.

• Initiated and implemented a UX research program focused on integrating feedback from disabled users, enhancing the accessibility of essential healthcare tasks.
• Analyzed user experience research data to inform and guide design choices, ensuring alignment with user needs and accessibility standards.
• Collaborated with designers and engineers to craft elegant solutions that meet WCAG 2.1 A/AA standards for web and developed points of view for Android and iOS accessibility.
• Conducted detailed web, iOS and Android design reviews at all phases of design from concept through delivery to engineering.
• Worked closely with engineering partners to help articulate design intent and accessibility requirements.

Denver Area

• Led a highly motivated and growing movement aimed at spending more time outdoors. The community inspires people daily, not only in adventure, but in striving for success and sustainability. Gociety was the way to meet.
• Developed the web and iOS apps from concept to market while overseeing an in-house team of developers, marketing and business development professionals.
• Built a community of over 50k adventurers across the world.
• Partnered with brands like Arc'teryx, Merrell, and Patagonia to host brand activations within events that forged community for people who love the outdoors.

• Digital design, art direction & creative direction.
• Designed & coded interactive editorial & advertising content. Designed in-house ads, co-branded ads, sweepstakes, microsites, headers, UI elements & banner ads for skimag.com, skiingmag.com, warrenmiller.com and.
• Executed design and development of interactive editorial data visualizations for Skiing Interactive.

Instructed Advanced Creative, a 15 week class for BDW’s graduate certificate program through the University of Colorado. Developed the syllabus & learning objectives for 18 students of varying skill level.

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Internal & client branding, concepting & typography projects. Lead designer on internal mobile app (UI/UX design). Worked closely with creative directors on design for new business pitches. Produced work for clients including: Microsoft, Old Navy, Best Buy, Coke Zero & Gap accounts. Designed powerpoint slides for Alex Bogusky’s book lectures.

Design and production on departments and pages. Worked with the Art Director and Editor finalizing illustrations. Flowed copy. Worked with Drupal CSM to create web content. Optimized images for the web.

Boulder, Colorado

Print, digital, web & social media design. Used CBSM (community based social marketing) strategies to develop and evaluate advertising. Digital illustration, photography & fine art. Collaborated with a copywriter to establish targeted advertising campaign messaging & visuals.

Studio Arts

Certificate, Software Product Management

Six course certificate in Software Product Management using Agile and SCRUM methodologies

Drawing & Illustration