Brian Valachovic
“Fall in Love with the Problem, Not Your Solution”
- Role
- Principal User Experience Designer at United States Senate Sergeant at Arms
- Location
- Stockton, NJ, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Brian Valachovic
Product Leader Who Codes. Designer Who Ships. Straight-Talker Who Prevents Waste.Most product leaders pick one lane—design OR product OR engineering OR strategy. I\'ve spent 16 years refusing to.What that looks like:Prevented $1M+ WasteAt a pharmaceutical software company, asked \"do users actually want this?\" before engineering spent a year rebuilding a critical component. Discovery showed they didn\'t. Killed the project, redirected resources to actual needs.Built AI Product CoachCreated RAG-based system to scale product thinking across teams. Production deployment with auth, admin UI, GitLab pipeline. Not a prototype—soon ready to shipBecame Critical InfrastructureAt a market access intelligence company, pioneered rapid prototyping, replacing slides and making discovery 95% more effective & efficient.Designed at ScaleBuilt design systems generating 30% engineering velocity gains. Designed Veeva CRM integrations for pharma commercial teams. Prototyped next-gen analytics platform that secured major customer interest.SVPG-trained. Product Manager certified. 8 years healthcare/pharma domain.Technical: Vue, Angular, Blazor — I code (HTML since \'95)+ design.\"Innovation is the smallest thing you can do to drive the biggest impact.\"
Experience
Principal User Experience Designer
United States Senate Sergeant at Arms
Mar 2023 — Present · Washington, DC, US
Education
Mercer County Community College
Associate, Advertising
1998 — 2003
Product School
Product management
2024 — 2024
Skills
- Logo Design
- Advertising
- .net
- Jquery
- Copywriting
- Web Design
- Mobile
- Visual Studio
- Advanced Css
- Web Analytics
- Multimedia
- Social Media Marketing
- Javascript
- Usability
- Google Apps
- Online Video
- Ms Office Suite
- Cms
- Email Design
- Online Marketing
- Ajax
- Interaction Design
- Html
- Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
- User Interface
- User Interface Design
- Mobile Internet
- Web Development
- SEO
- E-Commerce
- Html5
- Web Content Management
- Xhtml
- Css
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Email Marketing
- Illustrator
- User Experience
- Content Strategy
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