Liberty University

Staff Product Designer at Okta ✏️⌨️✨

I work primarily with product and engineering cross-functional partners design and build software for Okta's Admin Console. I focus on mapping out API data models for discussion, and making prototypes to flesh out, discuss, and test out our direction.

2024 - Present : Product Designer for group focused on Secure Authentication (phishing resistance), focused primarily on authenticator management experiences.

2023 - 2024 : Design Lead for Credentials Management Group focused on the Authenticator configuration experience and high security posture adoption.

2022 - 2023 : Staff Product Designer on the Developer Platform Team. Improved and extended the Branding and Customizations experience in Okta's Admin Console, which means teams using Okta can now more seamlessly integrate it into their existing platform experience via custom emails, authentication screens, error screens, etc.

Okta

Staff Product Designer

Apollo is building the next generation of GraphQL tooling for developers working with APIs. Apollo creates tools to help organizations implement and collaborate on their data graph layer, including supporting workflows for graph managers responsible for producing the graph in their organization, and graph consumers responsible for implementing the graph in their applications.

I led product design for the Graph Development Group, focused on building Apollo Studio, a developer collaboration platform for GraphQL API maintainers and consumers. I was embedded with an engineering team as a PDE triad lead responsible for shaping and evolving product experience.

Apollo GraphQL

Senior Staff Product Designer

Led the Design Department at Netlify. Partnered with executive leadership and department heads on product strategy, IC product and marketing design for key projects, and hiring.

Netlify

Head of Design

Worked with several long-running teams throughout the organization as the embedded product lead to help bring new features to life for the millions of developers who use GitHub every day. Responsible for product strategy, user research, product design process, shipping production code to GitHub.com (HTML/CSS/Ruby/Rails), and launch planning.

Worked on core product features such as Code Review Requests, Code Owners, Protected Branches, Integrations Directory, Package Registry, and the Status Checks API.

I also worked with the Training Team to explore an experimental solution, the Creative Department to support marketing efforts, the pricing team to support a major overhaul of the GitHub pricing model, the new user experience team to create drip email campaigns, a user growth team to ship multivariate experiments for user growth, and I even made a few Octocats.

GitHub

Product Design Lead

RemoteJobs.io was a job board and resume hosting site for remote job seekers and employers seeking remote employees. I built the application on Wordpress.  *Acquired by LiftUX in 2016.*

RemoteJobs.io

Founder

Front-end developer focused on implementing responsive designs for client projects such as the responsive redesign of TIME.com, and others.  Served as Tech Lead on several projects. Clients included Bloomberg, Microsoft, TIME Magazine,  Zumba, Pearson Education, etc.

appendTo, LLC

Visual Design Engineer/Tech Lead

Dev Tees is a line of t-shirts for web developers. It was launched after two successful Kickstarter projects. I designed the products, built a shop to sell them, and managed the entire business from marketing to product fulfillment.

Dev Tees

As Principal Designer, I was responsible for all aspects of design across all mediums. I designed for print, web, software UX, brand, etc. Also hired and managed contract designers and helped build the internal team. I wrote the front-end markup and styles for CURE.org, and worked on the backend (Wordpress/PHP).

CURE International

Principal Designer

As CURE's first in house designer I helped establish our design discipline, primarily focused on transitioning all external print and web efforts to an in-house team.

Web and Graphic Designer

Taught non-credit technology courses to continuing education students, including: Intro to Web Development, Photoshop, Illustrator, Computer Basics, Internet Basics, and Intro to Digital Cameras to continuing education students.

Harrisburg Area Community College

Adjunct Professor

Provided contract design and development services for NGOs, startups (StackOverflow, Papertrail), and agencies (andCulture), and local small businesses.

JAG Design Ideas

Responsible for recruiting students to the online programs of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh; Worked in a call center setting; Interviewed students for admissions, assisted them in applying to school, oversaw their registration process and helped them get started with their first term;

EDMC

Assistant Director of Admissions

Doing business as JAG Design Ideas, I provided contract design services for a range of organizations such as NGOs, startups (StackOverflow, Papertrail), and agencies (andCulture). Services included product design, front-end and back-end development, branding, web design, and graphic design.

Joel Bear