Bryan McClarey

About Bryan McClarey

At the intersection of user experience design, human performance improvement, and the learning sciences, Dr. Bryan McClarey\'s career has focused on designing digital experiences to help people achieve amazing things. Dr. McClarey is an accomplished interface and usability expert, an award-winning designer of e-learning experiences, and a seasoned development leader for web and mobile application teams. Highlights include:• Product management leader who has helped companies evaluate and transform their product portfolios to adapt to a changing business landscape. Instituted portfolio governance processes, balancing internal requirements and market demands in order to prioritize product roadmaps that are both ambitious and achievable.• Design manager for large-scale software development projects, delivering market-viable healthcare product offerings for insurers, providers, and hospital systems. Curate user stories and feature request backlog for prioritization and release planning. Own the accountability for maximizing value from investments in feature enhancements and defect fixes. Fluent with lean product management and agile development methodology.• Seasoned player-coach who can zoom into the details and zoom out to survey the big picture. Experience in start-ups and large corporate organizations yields flexibility in managing teams, giving top performers opportunity to excel, and supporting early-stage professionals with mentoring to help them reach their full potential. Background in teaching and learning shines through clear communication that helps people relate to and understand complex ideas.

Experience

1. Senior Director of Product Design

   Xsolis

   May 2021 — Present · Nashville, TN, US

   Serve as the product design leader for an enterprise re-platforming project, overseeing the product requirements, UX design, UI development, and user testing of an AI-driven SaaS product used by thousands of nurses, physicians, and payer reviewers. Hands-on player-coach responsible for creating wireframes, prototypes, requirements documentation, and feature roadmaps, while leading and mentoring a team of talented Product Owners and UI/UX Specialists. Areas of responsibilityDesign wireframes and functional prototypes using Axure RP, Plnkr, Balsamiq and Figma in order to facilitate shared comprehension with the engineering teams responsible for developing features;Instrument, analyze, and develop dashboards leveraging data from web analytics in order to develop user personas, discern patterns of daily usage by persona type, and identify bottlenecks, wasted effort, and opportunities to improve the user experience;Define, develop, and execute usability testing with internal SMEs and external user representatives, using prototypes in a variety of methodologies including A/B split and incumbent-challenger, in order to gather feedback and optimize designs before investing engineering resources;Continually monitor progress, refine backlogs, and prioritize work across five scrum teams, collaborating with program managers to identify risks, plan for dependencies, and remove blockers;Engage in regular scrum practices including planning, refinement, sprint demo, and retrospective;Recruit, hire, and mentor a team of Product Owners and UI/UX specialists through coaching and performance reviews;Foster a design community that encourages contribution from multiple perspectives, seeks a diversity of opinions, and advocates for constructive feedback and a growth mindset;Lead live and recorded demonstrations of new platform features in order to enable sales, product marketing, ops support and training teams to thoroughly understand new designs and feature enhancements

Education

• Vanderbilt University

  Ph. D., Teaching and Learning

  1997 — 2004

• Florida State University

  B. A., Psychology, English

  1993 — 1997

Skills

• Web Analytics
• Vendor Management
• Strategic Planning
• Sdlc
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Requirements Gathering
• Software Development
• Business Analysis
• Healthcare
• Business Process Improvement
• Visio
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Project Management
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Integration
• Process Improvement
• Business Intelligence
• Healthcare Information Technology
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• User Experience
• Project Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Program Management
• Product Management