Brian Hackworth

About Brian Hackworth

I am a product design leader with a passion for applying user-centered design to making complex technologies simple and delightful for our customers to use.I collaborate with executives, product managers, and business owners to craft user experience strategies that reinforce and enhance product differentiation. Then I lead user experience teams to deliver on the strategy.Specialties: user experience design, user research, usability studies, user interface design, design leadership, Agile methodologies, lean UX.

Experience

1. Design Director

   NetApp

   Dec 2015 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

   Led a global team of designers and researchers to imagine, design, and implement delightful experiences across NetApp\'s portfolio of storage products.Conceived and led a 100-person, year-long redesign of the primary user interface for ONTAP. Focused on visualizations and workflow simplifications to expose powerful capabilities in a way that\'s useful for non-specialists.Implemented key parts of the UI in Angular, HTML, TypeScript, CSS, Sass.

Education

• Virginia Tech

  BS, Computer Science

  1985 — 1988

Skills

• Visual Thinking
• Distributed Systems
• Usability
• Software Design
• File Systems
• Nas
• User Experience Design
• Linux
• User Interface Design
• Software Development
• Design Leadership
• User Experience
• Netapp
• Data Visualization
• Virtualization
• Big Data
• Enterprise Software
• System Architecture
• Simplifying the Complex
• Software Engineering
• Perl
• Usability Testing
• Solution Architecture
• High Availability
• Agile Methodologies
• Storage Management
• Storage Virtualization
• Technical Communication
• Interaction Design
• Unix
• Cloud Computing
• Storage
• Strategic Planning
• User-Centered Design
• User Research