With 18+ years of specific UX experience, as well as an MBA, I excel at holistic, strategic guidance regarding UX: guiding framework intent and improving user and stakeholder impact, while ultimately guiding users to the end goal. I have experience in building and leading hyper- growth product teams that strike the delicate balance between user-needs and strategic business impact and am equally at home with technical types as with business partners.

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With 18+ years of specific UX experience, as well as an MBA, I excel at holistic, strategic guidance regarding UX: guiding framework intent and improving user and stakeholder impact, while ultimately guiding users to the end goal. I have experience in building and leading hyper- growth product teams that strike the delicate balance between user-needs and strategic business impact and am equally at home with technical types as with business partners.

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With 18+ years of specific UX experience, as well as an MBA, I excel at holistic, strategic guidance regarding UX: guiding framework intent and improving user and stakeholder impact, while ultimately guiding users to the end goal. I have experience in building and leading hyper- growth product teams that strike the delicate balance between user-needs and strategic business impact and am equally at home with technical types as with business partners.

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Freelance Gig

Experience Level

Freelance Gig
Expert

Language

English
Fluent

Education

MBA at College of William & Mary
July 18, 2018
Executive MBA
Bachelor of Science at UNC Chapel Hill
December 1, 2000
Computer Science

Qualifications

Published within Journal of AI, Robotics & Workplace Automation
March 1, 2023
“Leveraging Decision- Making AI Within Marketing Operations Transformation”
Published within Journal of Applied Marketing Analytics
March 1, 2021
“Compiling User Experience metrics via quantitative and qualitative methods”

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Professional Services, Travel & Hospitality, Education
    uniE613 Patrick Leary - Resume
    Resume of my work experience, publications, speaking engagement, as well as education (MBA) and volunteer work. #ux #mba #experience #b2b #b2c Coverart shows artwork I designed for a Spitfire aircraft for fun.
    uniE621 Roboadvisor creation for web/mobile/tablet
    Created TIAA's Personal Portfolio product from a UX perspective, incorporating business stakeholder goals, user research, and UX best practices. Acted as UX Lead managing a team of copywriters, designers, and UXers. #graphicdesigner #branding #designer
    uniE621 Homepage copy/design/layout improvement for large US-based finance firm
    I lead the strategy, design, copy, and information architecture for improving rates of user engagement on a large multi-million viewed website - using stronger copy, adjusting layout, and incorporating user research as well as UX best practices, homepage conversion rates increased ~10% #graphicdesigner #branding #webdesigner #designer
    uniE621 In-house Financial firm SAAS product redesign
    A large US-based financial firm needed to design a frontend that was not just functional, but foundationaly altered to be more user friendly, engaging, implementing business stakeholder and user inputs to improve engagement and execution.
    uniE621 Real Estate holdings company website (desktop and mobile)
    #graphicdesigner #designer #branding #webdesigner Lead a full branding and website redesign for large US-based real estate holdings company. Created from scratch visually yet with understanding of client pain points and intents for continued engagement.
    uniE621 AllianceBernstein: Firm's first Pattern Library
    I built the firm's first UX team as well as created the first pattern library allowing consistency not just visually, but from a DEV perspective for reuse brining products to launch ~30% faster. https://www.twine.net/signin shows the launched product. #branding #graphicdesigner #webdesigner #designer