Nathan Dana
UX Architect and Design Systems Lead - Centene Corporation
- Role
- Ux Architect at Centene Corporation
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nathan Dana
As an accomplished User Experience Architect with 20 years of experience in design, development, and project management, I specialize in leading design system teams to create beautiful, accessible, and efficient user experiences. I empower teams to deliver scalable, user-centered solutions by leveraging my strong communication, creative, analytical, and technical skills. Thriving in highly collaborative environments, I am passionate about driving consistency, innovation, and usability across digital ecosystems.
Experience
Ux Architect
Nov 2021 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US
Developed a comprehensive design system from the ground up to support a population health application spanning dozens of individual apps. This included ensuring accessibility standards were met at every stage. My role involved bridging the gap between design and development by owning components and patterns throughout their lifecycle—from creation and testing to maintenance and support. The result was a system that is consistent, fully tested, highly usable, accessible, easily upgradable, and thoroughly documented.Key Responsibilities & Achievements: • Led both design and development teams, overseeing daily activities while shaping long-term vision and managing the backlog. • Directed the development of a single source of truth, enabling engineering teams to seamlessly integrate the design system through shared code and established best practices. • Guided the creation of styling frameworks, custom components, and accessibility solutions, as well as rigorous testing and ongoing refactoring. • Mentored and supported the entire UX design team, fostering growth, skill development, and adherence to best practices. • Regularly reported progress and updates to leadership, ensuring alignment on goals and milestones. • Authored comprehensive documentation of features, maintained a robust release communication strategy, and served as the main stakeholder for the design system. • Established an internal accessibility knowledge base and spearheaded organization-wide initiatives to improve remediation, testing, and accessibility education. • Facilitated and ran design reviews, providing mentoring and ensuring compliance with accessibility standards and overall best practices.
Education
Norwich University
Communication and Media Studies
1999 — 2000
University of Otago
Bachelor of Arts, Design Studies
2004 — 2005
Rochester Institute of Technology
AAS, New Media
1998 — 1999
Rochester Institute of Technology
Associates, New Media
Vermont Technical College
Vermont Academy of Science and Technology
1997 — 1998
Skills
- Css
- Front-End
- Fireworks
- Art Direction
- Graphic Design
- User Interface Design
- Digital Photography
- Cms
- New Media
- Flash
- Information Architecture
- Web Development
- Html 5
- Front-End Development
- Web Design
- Indesign
- Mac
- Creative Direction
- Advertising
- Wordpress
- Website Development
- User Interface
- Dreamweaver
- Illustrator
- Google Analytics
- Photoshop
- User Experience
- Logo Design
- Flash Animation
- Corporate Identity
- Html
- Quarkxpress
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Php
- Adobe Acrobat
- Interaction Design
- Photography
- Online Marketing
- Jquery
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