John Pruitt

About John Pruitt

A proven design & user experience leader skilled at building cross-functional teams to deliver high quality experiences across consumer, gaming, and commercial domains. I take a human-centric approach to drive design and UX strategy, solve real user problems and produce data-driven results. 25+ years of experience working in software product development teams including UX/Design and Program/Product Management roles driving research & strategy, planning, business cases/value, requirements, UX/interaction & visual design to deliver world-class products to businesses and users. An experienced communicator, UX evangelist, collaborator and innovator with multiple patents, numerous conference presentations, invited expert panels, educational workshops/seminars and publications (journal articles, conference papers, books and book chapters) including a top-selling book in the user-experience field:\"The Persona Lifecycle: Keeping People in Mind throughout Product Design\". I love to facilitate creative workshops & brainstorming, foster innovation, create new experiences and iterate on existing ones. I’m at my best when I’m at a whiteboard with my teammates working through experience design/innovation challenges together.An exceptional people manager and mentor who can successfully lead, coach and manage people of varied backgrounds, skills and roles to ensure productivity and high-quality work outcomes. I am a people-oriented leader who gets things done through genuine partnering, frank discussion, and cogent negotiation while fostering win-win situations. I care greatly about enhancing personal growth, facilitating career development and job satisfaction.

Experience

1. Director of Design & Ux

   Dell Technologies

   Sep 2015 — Present

Education

• University of South Florida

  Master of Arts (M.A.), Research / Experimental Psychology

  1988 — 1992

• The University of Texas at Arlington

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Psychology, Biology, Computer Science

  1985 — 1988

• University of South Florida

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cognitive & Experimental Psychology

  1992 — 1995

Skills

• Product Development
• Usability Testing
• Research
• Usability Design
• Web Design
• Usability Engineering
• Card Sorting
• Program Management
• Personas
• User Research
• Competitive Analysis
• Customer Research
• Software Engineering
• Interaction Design
• Social Collaboration
• Strategy
• User Interface Design
• Web Development
• Software Project Management
• User-Centered Design
• Human Factors
• Mentoring
• Persona
• Saas
• Social Networking Software
• User Scenarios
• Wire Framing
• Information Architecture
• Agile Project Management
• Project Management
• Requirements Gathering
• User Experience Design
• Product Planning
• Mobile Applications
• Contextual Inquiry
• Enterprise Software
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Heuristic Evaluation
• People Management