Amy McGovern
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Lynn Arts
Amy is a thoughtful, creative, and responsive designer. Her work is of the highest quality.
Leslie Yake
Amy has an ability to think both deeply and broadly across the entire user experience, considering so many things and thinking about them in ways that will impress you. She's both knowledgeable AND passionate about UX, which allows her to bring a high degree of skill, care and quality to her work. And aside from all of that, she's simply a great person and teammate -- an excellent addition to any team!
Lynn Arts
Amy is a thoughtful, creative, and responsive designer. Her work is of the highest quality.
Leslie Yake
Amy has an ability to think both deeply and broadly across the entire user experience, considering so many things and thinking about them in ways that will impress you. She's both knowledgeable AND passionate about UX, which allows her to bring a high degree of skill, care and quality to her work. And aside from all of that, she's simply a great person and teammate -- an excellent addition to any team!
Lynn Arts
Amy is a thoughtful, creative, and responsive designer. Her work is of the highest quality.
Leslie Yake
Amy has an ability to think both deeply and broadly across the entire user experience, considering so many things and thinking about them in ways that will impress you. She's both knowledgeable AND passionate about UX, which allows her to bring a high degree of skill, care and quality to her work. And aside from all of that, she's simply a great person and teammate -- an excellent addition to any team!
Lynn Arts
Amy is a thoughtful, creative, and responsive designer. Her work is of the highest quality.
Leslie Yake
Amy has an ability to think both deeply and broadly across the entire user experience, considering so many things and thinking about them in ways that will impress you. She's both knowledgeable AND passionate about UX, which allows her to bring a high degree of skill, care and quality to her work. And aside from all of that, she's simply a great person and teammate -- an excellent addition to any team!
Credentials
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Agile: Project owner training & certification
PMIJan, 2013- Nov, 2024 -
Agile: Scrum training & certification
PMIOct, 2012- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Guidea
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United States
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Design Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director of Strategy & Design
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Feb 2023 - Present
Develop the benchmarks, processes, frameworks and workflows that help the design practice and design team deliver consistent, best-in-class experiences for our clientsMentor and manage the design team and oversee the design implementation on client engagements
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Associate Director of Strategy & Design
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2020 - Mar 2023
Help clients solve complex problems through ideation, validation and launch of innovative UX experiencesProvide UX and DesignOps leadership, processes and best practices to client teams, to help organizations learn and successfully adopt broader UX practices
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Ent Credit Union
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United States
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Digital Product Manager
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2014 - 2019
Managed the design consolidation of a complex, regulated banking ecosystem into a cohesive experience that solved user pain points and addressed unmet market needs Transformed ideas, business opportunities, and vision into positive outcomes for online users by advocating for and enabling user-centered design in cross-functional teams Implemented new project management and UX tools & processes to give transparency and accountability throughout the product design process, including journeys, design sprints, roadmaps and long-range forecasts Collaboratively drove the maturity of agile development and design in the engineering teams by implementing and advocating for Agile and DevOps best practices, moving from bi-yearly to predictable bi-weekly releases Show less
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ZOLL Medical Corporation
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United States
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Medical Equipment Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Director, User Experience
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2011 - 2014
Built and led a team of 7 seasoned professionals responsible for a cloud-based health software platform, including designers and engineers Introduced and implemented agile and UX best practices, and mentored the broader engineering team as it built the maturity of their integration and release processes Built and led a team of 7 seasoned professionals responsible for a cloud-based health software platform, including designers and engineers Introduced and implemented agile and UX best practices, and mentored the broader engineering team as it built the maturity of their integration and release processes
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Standing Cloud
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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User Interface Architect
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2010 - 2011
UX design and CSS for flexible, fully-automated technology platform to deploy open-source applications in the cloud Managed the prioritization, design and delivery for the customer-facing marketing site built on Drupal, including external development resources UX design and CSS for flexible, fully-automated technology platform to deploy open-source applications in the cloud Managed the prioritization, design and delivery for the customer-facing marketing site built on Drupal, including external development resources
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Education
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1994 - 1998
Western Washington University
BFA, Graphic Design & New Media
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