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Art Institute Of Vancouver

Nait (Northern Alberta Institute Of Technology)

Ross Sheppard Senior High

The Art Institute

The Art Institute Of Vancouver

Founder at Lilly - Ex: FloatMe, Copper Banking, Figure, PayPal, Microsoft, Ex-founder of Founderfox

Greater Seattle Area

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Lilly

CEO  -  Founder

Relaxing and taking time to re-focus, and find out what my next move is.

Sabbatical

Relaxing

Figure

Lead Product Designer

Elite HRV

Director of Product Design

I work daily with the CEO, and Head of Product to define features, goals and business needs.

I lead and manage a distributed product design team in Europe, I provide high-level, and low level guidance for the direction of the design and features. I am also a "Pixel pusher" and prototyper, I am constantly showing the design team the bar we need to hit. I participate in hiring and coaching the design team and ensuring each team member is able to do his or her best work and is continuing to build their career goals. I report directly to the CEO for this role.

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I worked with a cohort of new startups that got into to Techstars and required help with product, design and brand. I worked as an advisor to the startup founders, out of the 4 companies I helped with design and product, those companies went on to raise a total amount of $10 million in funding. (Yay teamwork!)

- Help define the strategic product and design direction with the founders
- Be a creative leader to the team
- Offer best solutions for UX/UI design that is scalable, including feedback
- Research competitors products and features to help develop a product roadmap
- Define a branding strategy that aligns with their company goals
- Evangelize design, start helping the founders and core team understand how to build a design driven company culture.
- Teach the founders how to recruit and keep good designers

Techstars

Designer in Residence

Draftkings, Taunt, Hyperion, Rise Science, Copper Banking, Educative

Copper Banking - Product design,  I worked on re-designing the mobile products to align with business goals, customer needs, and growth.

Rise Science - Product Designer, worked alongside the founders and team to ideate the early stages of the product, and brand.

DraftKings - I worked with one of the cofounders in a concept lab creating mini betting games on mobile devices and testing them with users to quickly validate. One of the things we helped launch was Sportsbook. - Not a heavy visual product, focused more on navigation and following an existing brand and visual language.
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/draftkings-sportsbook/id1375031369?ls=1&mt=8">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/draftkings-sportsbook/id1375031369?ls=1&mt=8</a>

Hyperion - Currently used by the NSA, Airforce, and US army, I helped to rebrand and redesign the entire product, dubbed the pulse of global stability for today and tomorrow. (Maps, Dashboards, AI, ML) - Heavy government compliance, lots to think about in terms of design systems.

Taunt - Esports, I did all the brand design and mobile product design. After the product rebrand and redesign they raised $3 Million <a href="https://www.playtaunt.com">https://www.playtaunt.com</a>

Educative -  Cloud based code environments, I helped them with all the brand and web design, after the launch they raised $2.3 Million.
<a href="https://www.educative.io/">https://www.educative.io/</a>

Self-Employed

Lead Product designer

Shyft is solving a huge problem in labor force liquidity, particularly in Workforce Management (WFM). They are a 2016 Techstars startup, and a Madrona Venture Group backed company.

- Define the strategic direction with the founding members of the company
-  Responsible for the entire brand & product design process (ux,ui, visuals, story) across all platforms (Web, iOS, and Android) Yes I designed "Shiffy" the mascot.
-  Tasked with driving design from concept to final implementation for engineering.
-  Influence & build the design culture
-  Help recruit and build the team, mentor the team.
-  Prototyping interactive concepts or ideas.
-  Illustrate design direction through excellent communication and storytelling.
-  Manage product timeline by partnering with product and engineering.
-  Clearly and persuasively communicate, specify, and describe design concepts, solutions, and needs to the CEO and CTO.
-  Work with Sales and Marketing to identify and create amazing design assets that are consistently on brand.
-  Constantly testing designs with small customer bases for feedback, we also use data to help drive decisions through tools like Google Analytics, and FB Analytics to view certain KPI's that help us identify behaviors, and assumptions.  I also view support tickets daily, and talk with customers when I can, so I can better understand our users and learn how we can solve their problems better.

Shyft Technologies Inc.

VP of Product & Design

I was the Founder and Designer at Design First Apps, we raised a total of $800K and released 3 successful apps (iPhone, and TV apps 10" experience). DFA was an innovation lab that constantly ran lots of mobile experiments, we would spend time thinking of creative products, then figure out how to execute on the ideas (end-to-end).

My duties as the Founder/Design Leader:

- Strategic thinking, define product direction, and what to build
- Define short term and long term vision of products
- Roadmap all features: Create a product roadmap with product and engineering
- Always be raising, constantly meeting with investors, angels and other CEO's (Networking)
- Create monthly investor reports consisting of financial burn rates, and important KPI's
- Hire, evangelize the company, and mentor the team, helped grow the company from 2 to 10 people (3 designers, 5 engineers, 1 QA, 1 Product Manager)
- Payroll, I was responsible for making sure everyone got paid, benefits and reimbursements

During this 2 yr timeframe we hit some great product+company milestones with our Apps.
-  Over 1 million downloads
-  Hit #70 on the "Top Free Apps" on the App Store worldwide.
-  Featured by Apple 27 times worldwide
-  4 Acquisition offers/discussions (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Startups.co)
-  DAU as high as 137K, MAU as high as 350K
-  Seen in over 35 press outlets worldwide (Techcrunch, Forbes, TNW, Inc...etc)

We focus largely on solving problems and finding the solutions, then design an end-to-end experience with full visuals (no ugly wire frames), UX flows, and interactions, animations, build out Github repos. I love working closely with engineers to help implement designs, I can speak the language as a novice coder in Objective-C and SWIFT, I deeply understand API's, SDK's and I can have discussions around these topics on how we can implement these into products we're designing.

Design First Apps

Director of Design  -  Co-Founder

I led mobile design at PayPal, and worked with a small product design team to shape PayPal's new global design language and mobile product innovation strategies for the future. I had the privilege of working alongside the Product VP and Design VP's to help elevate our product design across all PayPal mobile products. I was tasked with leading and bridging the gap between business, design and development within UED at PayPal, and played a large role in pushing new design thinking, new tools (Sketch) prototyping, and helping my peers learn these new skills. I also help manage and art direct exterior resources as required.

PayPal

Lead Mobile Designer - Innovation Team

I worked inside a small and relentless startup with hard working amazing people that want to win. I was tasked with leading all aspects of product vision, design, brand, and design process for the web and iOS app. Quietly is a consumer facing product in the social publishing space.I helped to create effective, intuitive UI/UX and visual designs for mobile and responsive web products. Own the end-to-end design process: sketching, wireframes, high-fidelity mock ups, prototypes and the implementation with the engineers.

All visual elements, including banding. Not heavy on process@Quietly, but I have a high visibility with managing the product specs and deliverable timelines with the engineers and hold the team accountable (myself included). I demonstrate and communicate the end-to-end vision with high-level user flows to help the founders of Quietly make better decisions about the company direction, features, capitalization, and innovation.I offer high level strategic thinking with the CEO and co-founder, create specs for the product and features that give Quietly a unique value proposition to the end users. I arrange and manage user testing and research to make better design choices for our products next iteration.


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