
VP, Design
Dallas/Fort Worth Area

VP, Design
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
A consultant, entrepreneur, and speaker, Stephen is passionate about elegant design and the technological innovations that make desirable experiences possible. He is currently the VP of Design at Viewzi, where he hopes to change how people view search results.
Prior to Viewzi, Stephen grew and led the user experience teams at both Sabre Travel Network and Bright Corner, a small creative and technology services company he co-founded in 2001. There he worked with a variety of businesses to create valuable online and offline customer experiences, with a special focus on custom business applications. Stephen has worked on Web 2.0-style applications with small startups as well as larger usability and information architecture projects for enterprise clients such as Nokia, Frito-Lay and Chesapeake Energy. A former high school English teacher, Stephen brings a love for language and cognitive learning theories to the design profession.
As time permits, Stephen enjoys sharing his thoughts at poetpainter.com.
Design Strategy (and Research), Customer Experience Management, Business Consulting, Managing High-Performance Creative Teams, Information Architecture, Web and Application Interface Design, Visual Design, Information Design, Visual Communications (InfoGraphics), Brand Strategy (and Creation), User Experience ...and I love to speak/present on the topics above!
(Internet industry)
2007 — Present (1 year)
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; TSG; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
September 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 4 months)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
January 2006 — September 2006 (9 months)
Geniant is a leading information technology consulting company that helps some of the world’s largest organizations create agile, real-time businesses. The company’s service offerings focus on putting in place an enterprise-class IT environment that makes global businesses more competitive.
(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
August 2001 — January 2006 (4 years 6 months)
Bright Corner is a business consultancy that creates online experiences with measurable business results. From custom-designed business applications to strategic web design services, Bright Corner helps companies use technology to effectively interact with clients and customers. A team of passionate, problem-solvers, this group enjoys technology and creative design challenges.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2000 — July 2001 (8 months)
Immedient Corporation is a privately held, technology consulting firm with over 600 employees. Immedient has completed more than 2,000 engagements for more than 600 different clients in range of services from eBusiness and technology consulting to creative marketing, interactive design and implementation capabilities for large and emerging businesses.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
February 1998 — November 2000 (2 years 10 months)
InVerge aggregates, connects, and delivers outsourced commerce services (i.e. payment, shipping, taxes, and fulfillment messaging) to enterprise businesses through a single API, single bill, single contract, and single point of contact. These services and the associated business rules are managed through a centralized set of browser based tools. The InVerge solution: vastly reduces the pain of integrating and managing multiple services, provides companies a new level of control over their commerce services, and provides companies a new level of business intelligence.
State Endorsement (15 Graduate hours), Gifted and Talented Education, 1995 — 1996
1990-1994 Bachelor of Arts, English Literature; minor in Secondary Education, minor in Advertising, 1990 — 1994
refresh dallas, UPA (spoke on a panel together), General UX /IA/Design Community