Director of User Experience

As Director of User Experience at the University of Phoenix, I led a team of 11 UX and Content Designers across 10 product teams, where I managed the hiring process, conducted performance evaluations, and fostered professional growth through coaching and mentorship.

I established consistent UI designs across these teams, creating a cohesive user experience throughout the organization. By implementing coaching practices through Betterworks, I enhanced team performance and skill development, while also developing tailored learning paths for design leads to support their professional growth and alignment with organizational goals. I evaluated and integrated AI tools to streamline workflow and improve productivity, and mentored junior designers in Figma and discovery methods to build their design expertise. Additionally, I spearheaded the implementation of a Figma MUI (Material-UI) design system for front-end developers, which optimized collaboration in the design-to-development pipeline. My contributions to the Design System, Style Guide, and Pattern Library ensured consistency and scalability across all product offerings.

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University of Phoenix

Director of Careers, Academic Services and Professional Development

Jordan is a user experience visionary, a talented and thoughtful leader who is passionate about his work and cares deeply about his team.

Allstate Identity Protection

Director of Design and User Experience

Before I arrived at Allstate Identity Protection, creative projects were requested through slack, team members weren't communicating and business objectives weren't clear. Designers were going in different directions creatively and had no communication with marketing, developers or QA.

In my role, I set out with a multifaceted strategy to enhance our design processes and team effectiveness. My primary objectives included mitigating potential issues, instituting a robust design system, implementing a consistent schedule for usability testing, fostering UX best practices, integrating agile methodologies, boosting team morale, and refining task prioritization

To achieve these goals, I implemented several key initiatives. I established a dynamic Kanban board that seamlessly aligned with our product narratives, enlisted content specialists to collaborate within Figma alongside our design team, developed a comprehensive design system capable of leveraging Allstate's react library, and introduced daily standup meetings and collaborative design sessions.

The outcome of these efforts was the transformation of our design organization into a well-oiled machine, capable of delivering on time. By fostering a culture of collaboration and implementing streamlined processes, we not only met deadlines consistently but also elevated the quality of our product offerings.

UX Management, Team Processes

Introduced Jira, Confluence, UX Research to Product Design

Identity Risk Management

Design, Interactions, Voice and Tone

CSAA Insurance

Senior UX/UI Designer + Design System

CSAA is a well run design team with many best practices in place. We ran agile team with regular sprints, shared in user research studies and findings, collaborated on a design system and worked through most aspects of user research including heuristics, prototyping flows, designer feedback sessions and card sorting.

After a short time I was promoted to Creative Director of Design System to lead the creation of an online design system and pattern library. I defined the Information Architecture of the site and creative style of elements.

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CSAA My Policy

Visual Design, Prototyping, Usability Testing

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Genesis Figma Design System

Illustrations, Components, Pattern Library

Director of UX & Visual Design

Responsible for all digital branding, visual design, and user experience at WaFd Bank. This includes the Website, mobile applications, online banking, ATM, reward programs, treasury products and online account opening.

All of this was achieved by creating a design system and style guide that communicates clear brand guidelines for a consistent look and feel.

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Before

Before I joined Washington Federal, the site had a blurry logo, confusing login, hard to read text over images, extremely slow loading, unorganized content, every page had a location alert dialog

Lead experience design of complete ground-up redesign of online banking

Wireframes, user testing, sprint retrospectives = building a better online banking experience for customer confidence

Email Templates

ATM Experience

2008-2017 Principal UX/UI Designer

His usability knowledge and development skills are among the best I've encountered at marquee Bay Area tech firms.
... a truly talented UI/UX designer who creates the professional, reliable, well-engineered, accessible assets that are needed to make content sites shine and exceed customer expectations...

2001-2008 Senior Designer and Team Lead

Instructional Support Team, USCG Training Center, Petaluma, CA

As design and team lead I created many courses for the Coast Guard Training Center. I developed an E-learning course engine for delivering U.S. Coast Guard online and resident training programs to the LMS and the field. Our Information Systems Security course was the first ever coast Guard-wide E-Learning course.

Sole designer and developer of an Adobe Flash based e-Learning player that was SCORM 1.2 enabled, used XML for content, easy expandable with content managment, 508 accessible, delivering text, graphics, audio, movies and quizes.

Course Player Feature List

  • XML course data source for easy updates
  • Flash shared objects bookmark the users postion and score
  • Fully LMS compatible with score and completion data
  • Section 508 compliant
  • Narration transcription display
  • Integrated MP3 audio player
  • Custom quizs with score tracking and random order
  • Bandwith preference option for audio quality
  • Easily deployed via web, LMS or CD with no modificaions
  • External interface calls for javascript funtions
  • Plays FLV movies
  • Desktop exe program is available for easy content management
  • Customizable settings to enable or disable next button for controled user experience
  • and more...

This course player was successfully used for these U.S. Coast Guard e-Learning Products

  • WSC-3 UHF radio course
  • Information Systems Security Brief
  • Deepwater KITE Operation and Simulations
  • DVL Digital Voice Logger
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Online Courses

E-Learning design and development

3D Interactive Training (2002)

3DMAX models and Animations

Web Portals

Jordan is simply one of the most talented artists that I have had the pleasure of working with.