Hi, I’m Cory! I went to UC San Diego and majored in Cognitive Science. I’ve worked for VMware (now Broadcom) for 2.5 years as a Product Designer, and prior to that IBM for 8 years as a UX Designer. In my free time I like…
- Video games
- Hiking, Camping, Fishing, Golf
- Tinkering with code: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Python, Java, and more
- Playing with my cats Mischief, Domino, and Dandelion!
- Cooking and baking
My Time With VMware
- Recently promoted to Design Lead of Developer Portal working with 9 teams and 5 designers.
- Led design for Developer Tooling from POC to Alpha, Beta, and then GA.
- Unified design across the Tanzu Application Tools program.
- Organized our 3-team program to review and collaborate.
- Guided teams implementing the 8 Steps (VMware Design’s version of Design Thinking Loop).
- Led VMware community ambassador team to work on Remote Community Building activities.
- Promoted Design Thinking through VMware Design Thinking special interest group, and held office hours to teach techniques.
- Completed LUMA Certification course in Human Centered Design.
- Learned how to deploy and manage a Kubernetes cluster.
My Time With IBM
- I worked on nearly all of our Storage products.
- I created the way our team tracked and interacted with our customers.
- …and started a grass-roots effort to encourage design research and collaboration, which grew into a company-wide 1,000+ person resource.
- Championed Design at IBM by…
- Led a training initiative that graduated 48+ to next Design Thinking practitioner level & trained 9 “coaches” to teach teams Design Thinking.
- Instructed teams (not just my own!) through Design Thinking workshops & knowledge badges.
- Instructed 9 individuals through Design Thinking badge courses.
- Former Volunteer Outreach Council Board Member (grants & donations).
- Bronze Volunteer Award (100+ hours in 1 year as a Wish Granter with Make-A-Wish!).