Stephen Anderson

Current

[Independent Consultant] at PoetPainter

Past

VP, Product Strategy & Design at Viewzi Inc.
Principal User Experience Architect at Sabre Travel Network
Director, Experience Design at Geniant LLC (formerly Bright Corner)

Director, Experience Design at Bright Corner
User Experience Consultant at Immedient Corporation
Creative Director at InVerge, Inc.

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Education

University of North Texas
University of North Texas

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Industry

Internet

Websites

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Stephen Anderson’s Summary

Bio for Stephen P. Anderson

Stephen P. Anderson is a product strategy and design consultant who helps large companies create valuable customer experiences.

Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Stephen spent more than a decade growing and leading teams of information architects, interaction designers and UI developers in the creation of all types of interactive experiences, bringing value to clients such as Nokia, Frito-Lay, Sabre Travel Network, and Chesapeake Energy as well as smaller technology startups.

Stephen is passionate about elegant design, remarkable customer experiences and managing maverick teams– topics he loves to write and speak about. In addition to consulting, he is in the process of doing research for a book that will teach businesses how to attract and manage rockstars, superheroes and other misfits.

As time permits, Stephen enjoys sharing his thoughts at poetpainter.com.

Stephen Anderson’s Specialties:

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!

Stephen Anderson’s Experience

[Independent Consultant]

PoetPainter

(Internet industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)

Helping companies with product strategy and design needs...
VP, Product Strategy & Design

Viewzi Inc.

(Internet industry)

December 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Viewzi is a seed-funded startup that is creating a more engaging, more visual, and more fun way to search the Internet. Viewzi leverages existing data sources to create a number of unique search results pages (or ‘Views’), each tailored around very specific search queries and contexts of use.
Principal User Experience Architect

Sabre Travel Network

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; TSG; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

September 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 4 months)

Sabre Holdings connects people with the world's greatest travel possibilities by retailing travel products and providing distribution and technology solutions for the travel industry through our three companies: Travelocity, Sabre Travel Network and Sabre Airline Solutions. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, Sabre Holdings has approximately 9,000 employees in 45 countries.
Director, Experience Design

Geniant LLC (formerly Bright Corner)

(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.
Director, Experience Design

Bright Corner

(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.
User Experience Consultant

Immedient Corporation

(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.
Creative Director

InVerge, Inc.

(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.

Stephen Anderson’s Education

University of North Texas

State Endorsement (15 Graduate hours) , Gifted and Talented Education , 1995 — 1996
University of North Texas

1990-1994 Bachelor of Arts , English Literature; minor in Secondary Education, minor in Advertising , 1990 — 1994