Sean Tevis

Sean Tevis

UX Product Designer in Kansas City

About

Hi! I'm Sean. I am a Senior UX Product Designer with 16+ years of experience in enterprise applications. And I'm quite good at learning difficult-to-master subject matter (quickly!).

Work Experience

2023 — 2024
Overland Park, KS

Cloudsaver is a cloud management startup in the area of Financial Operations, or "FinOps." I was the sole UX person and supported a 12-person development team.

2022 — 2023
Kansas City, Kansas
  • [Contract Role] I was tasked to see if UX can reduce employee turnover and improve warehouse task speed/accuracy.

  • I shadowed warehouse operations, used realtime data, and conducted employee interviews at warehouse locations.

  • I identified and made 22 recommendations with supporting screen and "real world" mockups to achieve their goals.

2020 — 2022
Digital Director at Glenda Bond and Associates
Kansas, Arizona, and Florida

My "pandemic job" was consulting, strategizing and implementing user experience improvements to help small medical offices adapt to remote patient care.

2017 — 2020
Kansas City, Kansas

Lead Product Designer and UX person for Epiq Discovery, one of the leading software suites in the legal industry, which is used by lawyers to capture, sort, filter and present documents in legal cases - which lawyers call "discovery."

2012 — 2017
Kansas City, MO
  • Met with physicians, shadowed them in hospitals, and determined how to make their computer interaction as fast and accurate as possible. I led the usability and design of the Orders process, ICD-10, and others

  • Mentored and trained about a dozen new UX designers as they onboarded over five years. Our team grew from five to over 50 in my time there, including building our own UX research lab.

2005 — 2011
Overland Park, Kansas

Created the internal and external websites for this $1.4 billion company. I managing both the web servers and databases and code as well as created most of the content. Our web presence grew to five languages and customized for business on four continents.

2002 — 2005
Coconut Creek, Florida
  • Coconut Creek is an affluent suburban city near Fort Lauderdale with about 55,000 residents.

  • I created and managed the City's internal and external websites and created the city's logo and branding.

1999 — 2002
Creative Director/User Experience at LocalBusiness.com
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Known early on as dbusiness.com we were a daily business journal startup with reporters in 27 cities nationwide. I was employee No. 7 and we ended up with over 150. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer once said at a conference, unsolicited, that we were the first site he read every day. Too bad he didn't buy us.

1997 — 1999
Manager, North American Store Signage at Office Depot Corporation
Boca Raton, FL

I was responsible for the design and placement of all interior store signage for all 800 stores in North America. I became a leading expert in the nascent field of wayfinding - how customers find their way around stores.

Speaking

2013
Overland Park, KS

A UX presentation at Cerner DevCon in Overland Park, Kansas on June 5, 2013 by Sean Tevis. If we can adjust the Input or Processing on a computer to create a desired Output (hacking) then we should be able to do the same for a human.

Side Projects

2021

I served on the Board of Directors for this highly-regarded small theatre for 5 years. I was responsible for all of our artwork and promotional materials. Someone from a larger regional theatre once told me that they paid an ad agency $25,000 for their season art because they had to "look as good as OCTA's art."

Contact

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