United States

David Oberholtzer

Product Design Lead

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Design career path

• Built out the UX Studio at Applied Underwriters from the ground up and implemented best practices around UX process 
• Design lead in corporate website redesign that was a recipient of numerous design awards.
• Championed initiative to design and build a component based design system within the REACT framework to drive consistency across all web properties.
• Was responsible for user experience of entire suite of B2B and B2C products and overall strategy of R&D initiatives. 
• Core team member of the brand experience to support Heartwood Preserve - one of the largest development projects in the U.S.

Senior UX team member of Cloud 4 Customer Product working on the award winning design platform SAP Fiori.

• Responsible for the User Experience of all internal enterprise style application products.
• Manage UX Design team and User Research team in San Francisco office.
• Mentor Jr. Level UX team members in Bangalore office.
• Developed product strategy of platform's on-boarding system.
• Championed and led the strategy to bring a consistent design language across platform's suite of applications.
• Hands on UX design leader driving product development during design ideation, wireframe, and visual design phases for Intranet Search, Staffing Application, Collection Management Application, Voting Platform product, and various iOS mobile applications.

• Defined and designed the visual look and feel of platform’s e-commerce application.
• Visual Design lead of platform's Expense Management application for SMB and Enterprise
• Visual Design lead of platform's homepage
• Developed platform's white label style guide
• Mentored Mid-Level Visual UX Designers
• Visual Design lead on white label solution for Citibank's Thank You Rewards platform

• Design consultant at CBS Interactive helping them successfully launch a redesign of Chow.com.
• Design lead in developing two new visual identities for CHOW’s video properties.
• Collaborative member in development of CHOW's iPhone App - Chow Thanksgiving Dinner Coach.

• Led the design and development of platform's style guide
• Worked with commercial and documentary photographers on articulating their portfolio websites.

Founder and Creative Director of design collaborative with clients including Avoda Arts, Binghamton University, Center for Literacy, Cheyney University, Lighthouse Medical Publications, Tender Greens, and Bed Bath and Beyond to name a few.

Senior design consultant for in-house marketing department with close collaboration with editorial staff and creative director to develop print marketing campaigns for Annuities, Investment, and Insurance product lines.

• Design lead in all of SpikerDesign's major accounts such as Aramark Corporation, Johnson and Johnson, and American Express. 
• Managed projects from strategic/conceptual stage to final deliverable. 
• Art directed and managed Junior and Mid-level designers.

Grew from Jr. Designer to a Senior Designer working on some of Pettistudio's major clients such as National Health Promotion, JP Morgan Chase, AKF Engineers, UNICEF, and Restaurant Associates. Projects included brand identity systems, logo creation, print marketing initiatives, publication design.

Design Intern that worked on design and development of Giddings and Lewis Account.

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