Thomas Mai

Thomas Mai

Product Designer in Dallas

Work Experience

2023 — 2024
Senior Product Designer at General Motors - Mobile
  • Designed wireframes and orchestrated user experience for features for vehicle iOS mobile application

  • Led the redesign for vehicle software updates experience and was recognized by the Vice President of Design

  • Guided other designers in understanding technical details and functionalities

  • Oversaw and approved department wide mobile projects’ designs and experiences

2020 — 2023
Product Designer II at General Motors - Customer Service
  • Designed user-focused wireframes and prototypes to ship over 40 new features for customer service application; increasing productivity by 20% and case management efficiency by 15%

  • Redesign of legacy sales tool application generated $5 million in service plans

  • Launched an instant messaging feature for emergency service application focusing on non-verbal scenarios and speech-impaired users

  • Redesigned notification admin platform to send emergency notifications to vehicles, providing wireframes

  • Launched design system library for Axure

2017 — 2020
Full Stack Developer at General Motors - Manufacturing
  • Increased productivity and efficiency for manufacturing plants across the country by 10% through web applications

  • Developed and led quality assurance web applications' front-end development

  • Improved legacy applications’ back-end by converting codebase to new modern frameworks and databases

  • Collaborated cross functional, multi-disciplinary teams of designers, developers, project owners/managers, and business stakeholders

Volunteering

2022 — Now
UX Coach and Mentor at Self
  • Guided and advised junior UX designers starting off their careers. Reviewed designs biweekly

  • Mentored developers and QA testers transitioning into UX. Successfully launched three UX designers’ careers

  • Coached aspiring designers and developers wanting to transition into the tech field

Education

2020 — 2022
M.S. Human-Computer Interaction at DePaul University
2013 — 2017
B.A. Computer Science at Baylor Univiersity

Contact

Website
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