John Biebel
User Experience and Product design
Product Design Manager with over ten years of dedication creating engaging, meaningful learning and functioning environments for software users and digital tool consumers.
Career
Imprivata (Waltham, MA): Product Design Manager: 01/04/2021 - current
Team manager for four designers who work with identity governance for health care access applications
Actively interact with engineering, product management, and visual design to negotiate feasibility of product designs
Currently creating a SAAS / cloud-based version of our primary user identity product
Work includes user research, user flow creation, prototyping, and consultation on wireframes and final designs
Mentoring new employees (my team and the larger Product Design team) to increase product knowledge, advocate for best UX/PD practices, and encourage great facilitation and communication with our group’s mission
Pearson Education: User Experience Manager, Learning Applications (Boston, MA): 11/06/13 - 12/31/2020 (this role Involved two promotions, from Senior UX Designer to Design Supervisor, promoted then to UX Manager in 2017)
Lead a team of four designers working on nine software applications
Each application in the portfolio is a learning tool that enhances and expands curriculum and courseware learning potential and offers unique knowledge acquisition via skill-improvement
Oversee the creation of our component library and design language for consistent experiences
Collaborate actively with partners in development, research, project management, and learning science
Create presentations on design theory for feature planning, facilitate workshops for user journeys, critique and assist with design output with team toward sprint goals
Work with other group managers to steer larger company initiatives, such as platform design, roadmap planning, and global education initiatives
Intralinks (Charlestown, MA): User Experience Designer: 10/15/12 - 09/30/13
Cloud data storage company
Aspen Tech (Burlington, MA): Senior Product Designer: 04/24/11 – 09/30/12
Energy plant simulation software design company
Red Hat, Inc (Westford, MA): User Experience Designer, Engineering: 07/20/10 – 04/06/11
Open source software / Enterprise
Monster.com (Cambridge MA): Interaction Designer / Information Architect: 06/10/08 – 07/15/10
Web-based employment tool for employers and job seekers
Education
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY, full scholarship
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (BFA) with distinction in Painting and Photography
Career Skills / Expertise
UX / PD Skills: Group facilitation for journey mapping, product development workshops, card sorting; creating low- and high-fidelity wireframes, prototypes; consulting for research on persona creation, user interviews, focus groups; testing final designs
Management: Recruitment for job roles, setting and monitoring employee goals, overseeing professional development, liaising between teams for greatest collaboration, encouraging growth within our projects and workplace, and personal career goal development
Community Engagement:
Founding member of Subforum, a Cambridge-based group of design thinkers engaged in active dialog on important design questions that confront makers and solution-seekers. We have facilitated meet-ups and hands-on activities that encourage people to imagine solutions. Our sessions have been sponsored by Google, Tamr, Cambridge Innovation Center, and the DeCordova Museum
Presenter at UXPA / Boston
Software (current and recently used): Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Sketch, Figma, Zeplin, InVision, Lucidchart, Miro, Optimal Workshop (for remote testing), Jira / Confluence
References Available upon request.