Get it done with Bill.
I bring extensive experience consistently delivering creative, reliable, outcome-focused UX and service design work.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Services
UX & Service Design
End-to-end product and service design using mature, tested design methodologies
Start with your intended audience to conduct and synthesize necessary research
Create journey maps and process blueprints to reflect desired and actual states, call out impact areas
Design, test, and iterate experience flows and sophisticated UIs
Collaborate with development teams for smooth design requirement translation
Experience Design Strategy
Set up your teams for success with scalable solutions with design systems, hiring practices, and professional development & goal setting.
Inform and create your short- and long-term roadmap alongside your product leads
Define—alongside your team leads—and streamline design’s collaboration with other product teams, to create a functional yet flexible working model
Help define long-term goals and measurement techniques to ensure you’re incentivizing as intended
AI Transformation
Avoid throw-spaghetti-at-the-wall-and-hope-it-sticks with a targeted approach based on clear, measurable business goals
Collaborate with key stakeholders such as end users, information security, product, and risk management to chart a middle path achieving key requirements
Create a change management strategy and implementation plan for a successful and enthusiastic adoption by your teams
the big guns
Teams I’ve worked with
OUTCOME FOCUSED
Noteworthy
Reinvented the inheritor customer support process for Schwab using a service design framework, leading to team-wide cost savings of $24M, beating the required target 14%.
Led a team of distributed designers on a recurring $1.5M/year project with Comcast, comprising ~7% of total revenue. Designed back office application serving 70k customer support agents with WCAG Level AA accessibility conformance.
Executed a phased roll-out of a content-rich knowledge management system to 14,000 Slalom employees, with simultaneous taxonomy creation and full-featured information architecture, content strategy, and a robust governance process.
Distilled user interviews and hundreds of pages of complex business requirements into an intuitive financial product performance reporting application for Prudential, resulting in an estimated 25-30% annual time savings (roughly $1.2M).
Collaborated with four production teams to significantly improve production durations for Capital One’s credit card marketing campaigns. Project implementation efforts cut campaign time in half, saving $64M.
Created a mentor program for the service design discipline related to theory, user research, product prioritization, and project applicability at Slalom, matching consultant skills with practice capabilities.
Feedback on my work
Mom would be proud…
“…the glue that binds us”
It is exceedingly obvious that Bill puts all of his effort and energy into making this team and this project a success. Almost every week that has passed since Bill joined the Global KM Team, I have noticed small (and large) improvements in how we operate as a team, how we deliver, how we communicate and how we think about what we are collectively doing and building.
It is this thoughtfulness and painstaking attention to detail that is a key factor in making our team successful. Bill is the glue that binds us and the jackhammer that propels us forward. Additionally, Bill has been superb as our solution owner and helps put the walls up when there are asks from every direction that, if we let bleed into our current workstream, would most certainly derail our timeline. Thanks for keeping us on task and on target, Bill!
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Jonathan Ganan
“…takes ownership”
Bill supported an RFP response at the State of Colorado for their Accessibility Audit. Bill was incredibly instrumental in helping to craft the solution and supporting an Accessibility SME from another market. I was most impressed by Bill’s get it done mentality and he was continually jumping into the proposal to write sections based on team discussions.
I have found that the first draft of a proposal is often times that most difficult but this was not true with Bill. He was thoughtful and collaborative during recurring check-ins and he took on the initial drafting of nearly all of the core solution pieces. His writing was aligned with the tone and voice already included in the document and was exactly what I would expect from a seasoned RFP writer. Bill’s ability to take ownership and get the work done helped us to have a strong proposal that was aligned to the client’s needs and did not require lots of rework or time outside of normal business hours. I was incredibly grateful for Bill’s work on this proposal and would look forward to the next time I can work with Bill.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Matt Bennett
“…shares credit for work well done”
Bill is a challenger, a skilled motivator, ethical, decisive and exhibits comfort working in the gray. He was open-minded and trusted me as the subject matter expert in change management and was always available via chat / call / email to provide additional information, alignment, and clarity on expectations. He understands the strengths of his team members and leverages their knowledge as a skilled project manager. He shared credit for work well done and continuously encouraged team members to participate and contribute at their highest levels.
Bill’s way of working specifically celebrating small wins and sharing credit for work well done motivates the team to keep winning. This demonstrates recognition and respect for team members. I am so grateful that I got the privilege to work with such a talented and experienced leader. It’s been such a pleasure to work with him, I look forward to more opportunities in future!
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Jacquelyn Manyaga-Willow
What else?
Frequently Asked Questions
Coffee or tea?
Will happily drink both, but prefer freshly-ground, locally-roasted coffee beans for a daily pour-over. Ozo Coffee selects the perfect bag o’ beans for my taste. Life is too short for crappy coffee.
What do you do for fun?
Hiking and downhill skiing are my go-tos, sports that go well with Colorado living. I’m not quite as care-free on the slopes as I once was though, so now hang out on the blues & blacks, leaving the double-blacks to my daredevil nephews.
And of course, photography has been a lifelong passion.
Any daily habits?
Besides coffee, and cleaning the cats’ seemingly always-full litter box, I’ve had a daily-ish morning meditation practice since 2015. Continuously developing my self-awareness and mindfulness reaps daily benefits.
What’s one thing you’re working on about yourself?
I found I’m more successful when approaching work and new ideas with an open, spacious, curious mind instead of a constricted, closed one and am grateful for continual growth here.
Where can I find those case studies you mentioned?
Right here! (A password is required.)
What’s the best part about long-term camping in an Airstream?
Well, it’s not the spaciousness!
Stepping outside at night to gaze at the vast Milky Way galaxy amid the billions of stars out there is amazing and awe-inspiring.
Is it true you hugged a nuclear reactor control rod?
When naval nuclear reactors are shut down, the reactor compartment’s safe to enter for a short while. Hugging the center rod was a rite of passage for “nucs” serving in the U.S. Navy.
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