Dennis Cortés

Dennis Cortés

Designer & Musician in Nashville, TN, He/him

Work Experience

2021 — Now
Remote

At Northstar, we're making it easy for everyone to access affordable, personalized financial advice. With innovative fintech tools and a team of in-house financial advisors, Northstar helps employees make the most of their total compensation and make financial decisions with confidence.

Clients include Zoom, Snap, NerdWallet, Superhuman, Virgin Orbit, and more.

2017 — Now

I produce music under the alias Cordio. I've been a musician for 15 years and have been releasing music for the past 5 years. To date, I have released 15 albums and countless singles.

My music is best described as ambient and electronic instrumental music, inspired from the music I grew up on with modern minimal, jazz, electronic, and beat music genre influences.

I design all my own cover artwork, work on sound design for apps, and make custom music for podcasts/videos/films. Currently open to music and sound projects.

2013 — Now

Outside of working in tech, I also create videos pertaining to other passions and interests I have. I create videos on design, music, tech, setups, and more. I have created 250+ videos to date and upload to YouTube and Patreon a few times a month.

2019 — 2021
Los Angeles, CA

We’re building the future of freight to deliver what the world needs faster. I lead the product design team and work on pushing our design system, customer app, carrier app, and brand to the best it can possibly be.

2018 — 2019
Los Angeles, CA

I was the first product designer at Dave, who went public in 2021 valued at $4B. Helped build features such as banking, web sign up, onboarding, side hustle, and Dave's design system Bear.

2017 — 2019
Remote

Working with our teams and clients on projects through initial research, wireframes, high fidelity, user testing, prototyping, to actual shipped products. MetaLab is one of the leading product design agencies that works with companies such as Slack, Facebook, Google, Uber, Apple, Rocket Mortgage, Keller Williams, Prudential, etc.

2015 — 2017
Design Engineer at Satchel Health
Nashville, TN

Oversaw the design team in everyday work as well as strategic direction for the company working closely with Engineering, Product, and Business teams to ship our mobile and web products. Satchel Health was a telemedicine startup working to bring better care to patients in underserved parts of the health
industry.

2014 — 2015
Nashville, TN

Worked as a product and visual designer for Vrasa working on both client products and brands as well as internal product ideas. Vrasa is a product and brand agency based in Nashville, TN with over a decade in the business.

2012 — 2014
Nashville, TN

Worked on internal projects creating a more enjoyable work environment for employees through design work such as murals, posters, illustrations, etc.

Contact

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Website
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Youtube
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GitHub

Side Projects

Ongoing

Over the past 10 years, I've been making videos on tech and design including strategy, interviewing, tips/tricks, and more. I have over 250 videos you can watch.

2021

A set of custom iOS icons I made all from scratch to make your iPhone more streamlined, sleek, uniform. Over 100+ icons to mix and match, free setup guide, and free wallpapers included as well.

2017

My personal blog about coffee methods, roasts, and shops that I've tried and rated. Designed and coded by yours truly.

2016

My project Taste Notes was featured as site of the day on Typewolf for my typography design choices on the website.

Volunteering

2021 — Now
Remote

I provide mentorship to designers earlier on in their careers and looking for advice or feedback free of charge each week.

Education

2012 — 2016
Bachelor of Fine Arts at Belmont University
Nashville