David Santos - Founder / Chief Designer, Digital Aerial

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Work Background

Digital Aerial (Formerly Pitt & Broome)Founder / Chief Designer

Jan. 2012Metrowest, MassachusettsI started this business years ago while between jobs and was taking clients on the side from time to time on nights and weekends. Today, I have reopened for business managing/leading the design, development and other parts of the business. I'm excited to take this journey once again with the mindset of working with my partners to make this a full time role.

SignifyLead Designer / Product Owner (software - ColorKinetics)

Apr. 2020 - Jun. 2024Burlington, Massachusetts, United StatesLead designer for two iF Design Award-winning products: ColorPlay 4 and iPlayer 4 (CKOS). Created designs, ran design planning sessions and deliverables for 5 projects in the product family of software. Managed global team (4 - 10 person teams) with a different skill sets, from product management to developers Produced standards as a product owner by creating artifacts such as, RACI charts, roadmapping through JIRA, workshops to help guide direction for singular products or a product family and navigate an Agile/SAFe/NPDL process Animated ~30 pieces of video content from tutorials, to promotional videos and general education. Sometimes recording personal voice overs or more recently using artificial intelligence tools to produce voice over content leading to 50% production speed efficiency

SignifyHead of UX Center of Excellence

Apr. 2020 - Jun. 2024Burlington, Massachusetts, United StatesManaged multiple teams of designers (3 - 5 designers) in creating a multi-branded design system in Figma that streamlined collaboration between designers, developers and stakeholders; improved design efficiency by 20% and could result in an estimated < $1M in potential cost savings between design and development Created design language to be used when describing design choices, color theory and documentation leading to over 80% adoption of initial design system release. Ran monthly system demo calls and held office hours for designers and developers to get regular updates about the design system and ask questions of me directly about the design system Lead design thinking workshops with a focus on being fun while allowing out of the box thinking Produced tutorial video content for using design system components to allow for better initial understanding of usage and smooth adoption of new components Personally vetted plugins and evaluated AI platforms for our design team to consider when working on projects Wrote documentation that focused on Design System Adoption, ROI and Designer/Developer handoff issues and potential resolutions.

Mercer Management ConsultingSenior UX/UI Designer - Lead

May. 2014 - Dec. 2019Norwood, MassachusettsProduced a multi-level design system that allowed designers to flip a switch and change components based on the phase of the design process they’re in: Wireframing, Low Fidelity, High Fidelity. This lead to higher design efficiency and cleaner designer/devleoper handoffs. Spearheaded UX projects as the Lead UX Designer on projects with differing deliverable schedules Mentored internal UX/UI colleagues and cross functional teams through scrum deliverables and goals Formulated persona documents, wireframes, flow documentation and other process oriented documents Reviewed work other designers created to ensure consistent UX designs with visuals that met style guide requirements and pixel perfect development

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