Richard Hudson

Available to hire

Language

English
Fluent
French
Fluent
Spanish; Castilian
Advanced

Work Experience

Senior UX Designer at Amazon
July 1, 2024 - June 1, 2025
Continuation of UX work on CloudScape for financial reporting; produced design guides; contributed to multiple products and CloudScape adoption across teams.
Senior UX Designer at Amazon Stores Finance
July 1, 2023 - December 1, 2023
Senior UX Designer focusing on user journeys, usability maps, live documents; collaborated via Slack & Chime; conducted team scrums; created UX flows, prototypes, and design system solutions via CloudScape for financial reporting at Amazon Stores Finance.
Senior UX Design Lead at Store No.8 (WalMart)
March 1, 2021 - June 1, 2023
Led virtual worlds UX workflows and visual concepts; drove 3D animation and mixed reality initiatives; delivered cloud compute and storage solutions enabling mission-critical workloads at scale; contributed to ETL, IDE, UI process flows, deployment maps and failover maps for Azure Data Factory; launched end-to-end IDE for data science with Azure Data Lake Analytics; contributed to company-wide cloud accessibility libraries.
Senior UX/UI Designer at Microsoft
August 1, 2018 - February 1, 2021
Led ML-driven monitoring and visualizations to identify issues 30% faster; drove team process including concept models, prototypes, libraries, and production systems; collaborated across disciplines (Research, PM, Engineering) for accessibility; delivered motion design for Microsoft partners and products; led Data Lake UX team for cloud-based data science.
Senior UX/Visual Designer at Microsoft
January 1, 2014 - July 1, 2018
Designed UX/UI for Microsoft platforms; evangelized design systems; contributed to accessibility; built assets across platforms; worked on data lake UX and cloud for data science; delivered motion design for Teams, launches and leadership; led Data Lake UX team for cloud-based data science.

Education

M.D. Program at University of British Columbia
January 11, 2030 - May 23, 2026

Qualifications

BFA in 3D
January 11, 2030 - May 23, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Retail, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services