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of international corporations. His passion is found in leveraging the

synergies around design, media and technology. Dave delights in exceeding

the user and business objectives, within the context of creating a compelling

customer experience with the product, service or content. He serves as a zealous

customer advocate with expertise in creating information architecture, visual interface

design, and usability testing to move the heart of the target audience to take action and engage.

Dave and his teams innovated new paradigms for collaborating and communicating across multiple

devices in a NUI environment for Office Labs. They transformed the user experience for the multi

billion dollar revenue generating product “SharePoint”. He has been a key part of evangelizing Metro

design principles across Microsoft properties. Prior to his role as a lead UX Designer in the Office Expe-

rience Group, Dave served as the UX Sr. Director, covering visual interface, information architecture

and media strategist for the NFL’s New Orleans Saints official site. He has provided innovative and

award winning user experiences for global clients such as Rockwell International, Panasonic,

Siemens, Mitsui, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Boeing and Westin Hotels to mention a few.

He was hired to innovate, provide strategy, visual design, and information architecture and

user experience for the Scene IT DVD board game. He designed the user experience for

photo tools on DoCoMo cell phones, Nortel’s PDA’s, Kodak’s photo gallery, Sony &

HP iTV set tops and the Sega Dreamcast system. His experience mix covers a

blend of entertainment, consumer and business products, mobile,

games, and online experiences that delight customers

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Global UX Director Product & LabsSAP/Concur - The world’s 3rd largest sofware companyGlobal Focus [Jan 2015 - Present]

National Creative/UX Director Sinclair Broadcast Group - Largest Broadcast Media Co. US Focus [May 2014 - December 2014]

Creative/UX DirectorPicture IQ - Adobe spin offInternational focus: US & Asia [Aug. 2000 – Apr. 2001]

Sr. Creative/UX Manager & LABS Getty Images - iStock, ThinkStock, & Connect APIInternational focus: US & Europe [May 2013 - December 2013]

Lead UX Designer & ResearcherAnd Sr. Product Marketing ManagerMicrosoft Office OXG, Labs, MSDN & TechnetGlobal Focus [June 2007 - May 2013]

Creative UX Dir. & Product Strategy d | m | t synergi, inc. US, Asia & Europe Focus [April 2001 - June 2007]

UX Design & Internet Business Dir.WRQ - 23 Online Strategies ManagedInternational focus: US, Japan & Europe

UX Design & Marketing Director Cendant Software/Sierra OnlineInternational focus: US Asia & EuropeD

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DESIGN

Adobe CC

HTML & CSS (basics)

Office Suite

InvisionApp

Others available upon request...

CONTENT MANAGEMENT

React & Node JS

SharePoint

Site Core

Broad Vision

Vignette Story Server

Microsoft TechNet[20 Million users & over 3k pages of content]Oversaw and implemented the design makeover of the 2.0. Significantly improved page performance and launched new editorial designs that resulted in a 6 point NSAT up-lift. Provided rich customer insights through UX research.

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New Orleans Saints [Official NFL Fan Web site]Lead the UX design, information architecture on the full redesign. Designed the interface and strategy for rich media and interactive games for the site. The result: Record breaking traffic, visitors increased 43%, page views grew 233%.

SceneIT! [DVD Interactive Board Game]At its inception, I was brought onto design the original UX and IA for this interactive innovation. The result: this game transformed the standard, achieving international award winning best seller status year over year. I developed the patented technology for this solution.

Concur[35 Million customers Spend and Travel Management ]Lead the roll out of a new responsive product experience. Transformed the companies UX processes, integrated new product offerings and leveraged new technologies. I owned the translation strategy, budget and deployment as well as the global HIG (Human Interface Guidelines).

Sinclair Digital[177 TV Stations across the US]I was hired as the first employee of this new initiative to design and develop a fully functioning UX Engineering practice in Seattle. I lead the design strategy for reimaginig both all the companies news, weather sports sites and mobile applications as well as OTT experiences. I drove the vision and design for their unique CMS soltuion.

Warner Brothers [Creator of blockbuster films]Provided design direction & hands on UX design and IA for several major motion pictures. I did the screen motion for Charlie's Angels, Swordfish, The 6th Day, Assassins and Tales from the Crypt, etc..

engineering excellence

UXLT People Team [Volunteer Design Manager] [Microsoft’s User Experience Leadership Team]

Windows Design Evangelist [Microsoft’s Engineering Excellence]Delveloped and delivered training across all of Microsoft

TCN UX Experts Advisory Council [Microsoft’s Technical Community Network]

NW University [BA] + Special Studies @ UW & SPU

Windows Modern App “Devigner” Training

Scrum Master Certified - Product Owner

Microsoft Brand Training [96, 97, 07, 08, 10, 12, 13, 14]

Agile and Lean UX [And trained others]

Teamwork & Collaboration [Certified]

Getty Images [Largest online media brand in the world]Owned and improved the design & customer UX for 12 of the top stock brands. Transformed the way UX was done by initiating the first fully equipped UX Research lab integrating customer’s feedback into site experience.

Microsoft Office: SharePoint & Labs[$2 Billion revenue product - Enterprise & Search experiences]Design lead for the Office Labs innovation team. Design lead for the design makeover of version 2013 for Office. Drove the experience design direction for the Office 16 Advanced Planning for the SharePoint Enterprise team. Lead designer and UX researcher for Server Tools Online sites (MSDN & TechNet).

Scenario Focused Engineering

UX Design & Research at Microsoft

Making Research Actionable

Customer Insights

Creating Effective Specs

Others available upon request...

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