Tom Hoferek Email & Phone Number

Tom Hoferek is a Senior Principal User Experience Designer at Deltek at Deltek. He possess expertise in user experience, user interface design, experience design, user centered design, user experience design and 37 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "From the time Tom has joined Autodesk to work with me on several projects, it has been a pleasure to work with him. It was the first time I was working with someone remote and somehow, it never felt like he was remote. The communication was excellent and timely. The quality of the designs and the workflows produced was great. He is great listener and although he may not integrate our ideas, he will make sure we clearly understand why and where he is going with his designs and workflows. He very frequently setup remote meetings with the team to explain the designs, the direction and this created a buy-in from the team. The team was listened to and he incorporated our comments/suggestions whenever it made sense. He was great as a Product Owner for CharacterGenerator, the first M&E commercial web service and as a team it was great to have worked with him. He has always been very thorough and left no details untouched, and it showed as the team knew what it had to do while Tom was always a call away. We could achieve delivery of a quality service on time as expected and as spec'ed by Tom." and "I worked with Tom as part of a creative design team in the Cloud Services section of the Media and Entertainment Division of Autodesk Inc. As a subject matter expert, I worked with Tom to help design new tools for the Autodesk product lineup. Tom served in the role of Product Owner. As a Product Owner, Tom efficiently managed the story creation, persona definition, and user criteria for hundreds of tasks that defined a new cloud services product we were developing. Tom was essential to organizing the myriad of tasks that drove the DEV and QA teams and their work. I was continuously impressed with the level of professionalism and dedication Tom supplied to the software creation process particularly during the bi-weekly product iteration reviews. Here Tom shined and managed to not only accurately convey the status of every task in development, but also presented creative demonstration videos on new features as they came online within the product. Being a Product Owner requires intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the product being developed along with advocating the users' desires for potential features. Tom effectively balanced the needs of the users against the schedule of the DEV team to create logical progressions of software development. As a result, work flowed smoothly, the DEV and QA teams were always deployed and engaged in the process and upper management was capable of making the proper strategic decisions necessary to improve the company's capabilities. Finally, Tom is an excellent designer as well. In addition to his Product Owner duties, Tom worked hand-in-hand with myself and an additional UX designer to create some really fantastic software. If you're looking to hire a UX designer or anyone skilled in Agile processes, Tom is an incredible find. Don't even debate your decision. You won't find a better candidate. "

Listed skills include User Experience, User Interface Design, Experience Design, User Centered Design, and 38 others.