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ABOUT ME

I am a Senior UX/Product Designer based out of Fort Wayne, IN. I’ve been known to work as a web designer, graphic designer, interactive designer, UX designer, product designer, design consultant and mobile app designer over the last 20 years. Design has been my passion for as long as I can remember and I’ve been very fortunate to work for many companies of varying sizes across the country. I just moved back to the Midwest in order to settle down with my wife and dogs.

I am an tech enthusiast. I enjoy getting my hands on the newest devices for development purposes and due to a healthy respect for product design.

RECENT EXPERIENCE

CURRENT ENGAGEMENT

Senior UX Designer
(Turnberry Solutions Consultant)

Edward Jones – Remote
July 2025 – Present

Responsibilities

  • Currently redesigning the primary design system for Edward Jones by working closely with product design teams to accommodate their needs.
    • Conducting extensive user research on component structure and usage to streamline manual and agentic workflows of the designers.
    • Building design foundations based on competitive analysis, accessibility, and usability studies.
    • Reworking component structure to accommodate flexibility and new technologies to avoid designers having to detach and stray.
  • Reworking the main documentation for the design system by researching, rewriting, and managing the structure in a way that is more usable for the designers in the organization.
    • Syncing all of the different design and development sources together in order to have a single source of truth for applications across the organization.
    • Tailoring the documentation to be easily converted into markdown for further work with AI agents and processes.
    • Meeting with designers to evaluate how easy the resources are to use and if changes need to be made.
    • Creating flexible AI guidance for designers with limited resources and an ever changing landscape.
  • Encouraging the design system team to embrace research as part of the design process.
    • Scheduling quarterly satisfaction surveys using UMUX/CSAT to measure progress on the redesign process.
    • Interviewing designers to test prototypes and observe their design methods while taking note of their behaviors.
    • Leading and directing research synthesis activities to educate the team and summarize the data from surveys and interviews.

PREVIOUS RECENT POSITIONS

Associate Principal Consultant
(User Experience)

Turnberry Solutions – Remote
September 2022 – February 2025

Responsibilities

Senior Consultant
(User Experience)

Cognizant Softvision – Remote
January 2021 – September 2022

Responsibilities

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Design Concepts

  • Visual/Graphic Design
  • User-centric Design (UX Design)
  • Rapid and Interactive Prototyping
  • Design Systems
  • Typography
  • HTML/CSS (Front-End Design)
  • Agentic Design Processes

Research

  • 1:1 User Testing
  • Remote User Testing
  • Focus Groups
  • Research Synthesis
  • Process Mapping
  • Persona Creation
  • User Surveys (CSAT and UMUX)
  • Heat Mapping
  • Data Analytics

Software / Web Services

  • Figma (Design, Make, FigJam, MCP, etc.)
  • ZeroHeight & Knapsack Documentation Platforms
  • Miro/Mural/Whiteboard
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Microsoft Office Applications
  • Jira/Azure/Trello
  • GitHub/Storybook

Team Management

  • Art Direction
  • Creative Consultation
  • Scrum Ceremonies
  • UX Team Management
  • Design Mentorship
  • Design System Management
  • Documentation Management
  • AI Guidance

REFERENCES

“

His understanding of cutting-edge technologies and decades of experience means that Eric’s left more designs on the cutting room floor than most modern designers have ever produced.”

McClain Shewman
UX/UI Engineering Manager at Intellectual Technologies, Inc.

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Kristine Yu
Associate Design Consultant at IBM

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Eric is an asset to any team!”

Mike Glintz
Human Factors & User Experience at Johnson & Johnson