{"id":1086,"date":"2021-03-20T11:49:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T18:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/?page_id=1086"},"modified":"2024-01-08T09:59:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:59:38","slug":"about-cory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/about-cory\/","title":{"rendered":"About Cory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Cory! I went to UC San Diego and majored in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cognitive_science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cognitive Science<\/a>. I&#8217;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&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"2\">Video games\u00a0<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\">Hiking, Camping, Fishing, Golf<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/portfolio-category\/front-end\/\">Tinkering with code<\/a>: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Python, Java, and more<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\">Playing with my cats Mischief, Domino, and Dandelion!<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\">Cooking and baking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PXL_20210206_065433536.MP_-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1089 size-large lazyload\" title=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PXL_20210206_065433536.MP_-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PXL_20210206_065433536.MP_-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PXL_20210206_065433536.MP_-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PXL_20210206_065433536.MP_-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PXL_20210206_065433536.MP_-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PXL_20210206_065433536.MP_-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PXL_20210206_065433536.MP_-1240x698.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PXL_20210206_065433536.MP_-508x286.jpg 508w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; 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--smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/277;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>My Time With VMware<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Recently promoted to Design Lead of Developer Portal working with 9 teams and 5 designers.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Led design for Developer Tooling from POC to Alpha, Beta, and then GA.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Unified design across the Tanzu Application Tools program.\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"2\">Organized our 3-team program to review and collaborate.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\">Guided teams implementing the 8 Steps (VMware Design\u2019s version of Design Thinking Loop).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\">Led VMware community ambassador team to work on Remote Community Building activities.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\">Promoted Design Thinking through VMware Design Thinking special interest group, and held office hours to teach techniques.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\">Completed LUMA Certification course in Human Centered Design.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\">Learned how to deploy and manage a Kubernetes cluster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>My Time With IBM<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">I worked on nearly all of our Storage products.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">I created the way our team tracked and interacted with our customers.\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"2\">&#8230;and started a grass-roots effort to encourage design research and collaboration, which grew into a company-wide 1,000+ person resource.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\">Championed Design at IBM by&#8230;\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"3\">Led a training initiative that graduated 48+ to next Design Thinking practitioner level &amp; trained 9 \u201ccoaches\u201d to teach teams Design Thinking.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"3\">Instructed teams (not just my own!) through Design Thinking workshops &amp; knowledge badges.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"3\">Instructed 9 individuals through Design Thinking badge courses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\">Former Volunteer Outreach Council Board Member (grants &amp; donations).<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\">Bronze Volunteer Award (100+ hours in 1 year as a Wish Granter with Make-A-Wish!).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Cory! I went to UC San Diego and majored in Cognitive Science. I&#8217;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&#8230; Video games\u00a0 Hiking, Camping, Fishing, Golf Tinkering with code: HTML, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1086","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}