Coaching, mentoring, inspiring, being weird and solving problems with a group of awesome designers in the Buyer Payments department.

Manage a team of Experience Designers working across a myriad of verticals from QSR/Restaurant, Hospitality, and Entertainment, to FinTech, Automotive and Healthcare. Empower my team with anatomy and reinforced a collaborative learning culture. Mentor their career goals as well as project needs.Lead the facilitation of pitch meetings, discovery sessions, design reviews and working sessions with exacting stakeholders from some of the world’s largest brands. Working collaboratively and publicly inside cross functional teams, I help guide the product vision and craft the experience for dozens of digital products now in the hands of millions of people.Foster solid collaborative client relationships resulting in tens of millions each year in retention and net new product work streams. Creator and Co-Host of the organization’s podcast, Liftoff by Bottle Rocket, garnering listeners in over 150 countries.

Founder and host of the podcast 'Experience Design with Tony Daussat'. A podcast about how design impacts our lives.At the start of 2019 I began with an idea. What if I sat across the table and interviewed all of the creative minds I deeply respect and admire in the Dallas/Fort Worth area?Little did I know that idea would blossom into a podcast enjoyed in over 150 countries within a year, with guests from all over the world.I’ve had the privilege of interviewing the likes of Debbie Millman, Chris Do, Jared Spool, Stephen Gates, Michael Janda, Tom Ross, Lauren Hom, Will Paterson, Peter Smart, and many many others.After 78 episodes, I approached Bottle Rocket with the idea of bringing the podcast in house, re-branding, adding in a co-host, and expanding the topics of the show in hopes to broaden the reach. Tune into 'Liftoff by Bottle Rocket' wherever you listen to podcasts to enjoy the ride. 🚀

Teaching an amazing group of passionate people about Breaking Into Design, along side Jayneil Dalal.

Established the organization’s first design department with an international team of 10 designers from the ground up. Mentored designers, provided a cadence for 1-on-1 meetings, and design reviews.Introduced the organization to design-thinking, fostering team norms, and championed the overall shift to an agile workflow. Facilitated discovery and design work-sessions with designers, developers, business strategists, and c-suite in order to identify product opportunities, establish KPIs, OKRs, and drive forward innovation. Designed a suite of mobile and web products in the Fintech space. Created a design system stable enough to scale, yet flexible enough to adapt to millions of user’s evolving needs, and billions in transactions.

Part of the design trio inside the Traveler Experience team behind TripCase, an itinerary management app with millions of downloads. Worked across competencies to elegantly implement new business initiatives.Evolved brainstorming, testing, design updates and irritations on the product GetThere--the world’s leading corporate travel booking tool used by companies such as: Apple, 3M, Nike, Amazon, and many other Fortune 100 and 500 companies.

Design solutions included everything from credit card processing analytics and data visualization, to web-based applications for HIPAA compliance, to corporate branding and marketing materials. Each product goes through the ringer. User flows, wireframes, prototyping, and testing. No white board has gone untouched, and no pixel safe from scrutiny.The innovative applications my team and I designed serve millions of users and billions of transactions.

Designed the digital experiences, e-commerce, and marketing collateral for celebrity Chef Tim Love's entire culinary enterprise. Managed a small cross functional team of four in design, social, and development.

Brought to life two unique entertainment websites. Developed long term and short term content and business strategies, worked cross functionally with developers, designers, and content writers. Within 2 years, the company grew from two people in a basement, to a team of 100+ people. Learning fast, failing faster, and quickly dusting off in the lightning-paced, multi-hat-wearing startup environment.