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His strengths include clarifying the real question, identifying blockers, making issues visible to decision-makers, designing research programs, shaping product and service experiences, and facilitating working sessions. Sean has 15 years of product and UX research leadership across global enterprises, major brands, and agencies, following 15 years in film and television production. His work spans enterprise software, agriculture, manufacturing, marketing, cloud and SaaS products, mobile applications, websites, and interactive activations. He has led UX research teams and ResearchOps at Nutrien Ag Solutions, co-chaired HPE’s User Experience Design Summit, managed production crews of more than 30 people and budgets exceeding $200,000, and won a 2009 Telly Award. Sean works directly with organizational teams and alongside agencies, including a recent two-phase research engagement for a national quick-service restaurant client through an agency partner. ## Services - Facilitation - Change Management - Leadership Development - Strategic Planning - Organizational Development - Sports Marketing - Artificial Intelligence \(AI\) - Product Design - UX Research - Stakeholder Management - Data Analysis - Business Strategy - User Experience Design \(UED\) - User Experience - User Experience Design - UX Design - User Interface Design - Strategy - Interaction Design - Wireframes - Wireframing - Mobile Applications - Creative Direction - Cinematography - Video Production - Video - Advertising - Multimedia - Storytelling - Digital Strategy ## Highlights - Builds digital tools for people who want to do more at Wake Up and Produce. - Founded Misfit Island to help leadership teams restart stalled projects through discovery, research, facilitation, decisions, and assigned ownership. - Completed a recent two-phase research engagement for a national quick-service restaurant client as a subcontractor to an agency partner. - Scaled Nutrien Ag Solutions’ UX research practice through ResearchOps systems for data collection, synthesis, and reporting. - Managed a team of UX researchers at Nutrien Ag Solutions and trained internal teams in qualitative and quantitative research methods and best practices. - Developed customer segmentation, personas, journey maps, mental models, service-design blueprints, and affinity diagrams at Nutrien Ag Solutions. - Built voice-of-the-customer relationships with farmers at Nutrien Ag Solutions. - Created SaaS, cloud, and enterprise-software wireframes and prototypes at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. - Led customer interviews, contextual inquiry, usability planning, SUS surveys, evidence-based research, and design sprints at HPE. - Co-chaired HPE’s User Experience Design Summit. - Drove research insights at Esko | Brand Solutions that influenced the product roadmap and contributed to a 20% improvement in user experience. - Designed UX/UI for Cisco websites and applications at The1stMovement. - Led experience architecture for Teletech’s responsive website redesign, including stakeholder interviews, competitive analysis, content audit, taxonomy, journey maps, personas, responsive wireframes, and CRM recommendations. - Led experience architecture and feature-opportunity identification for Ribbon B2B’s mobile social-media application. - Designed My Lexus mobile-app interface solutions and animated prototypes for new features and information. - Conducted user research, created product roadmaps and strategies, designed prototypes and UI, and co-led client pitches at TwoVee. - Developed information-architecture solutions for the Comcast Business portal at Mondo Robot. - Created the analog and digital experiential transportation journey for IxDA ’11 conference attendees using contextual inquiry, surveys, ethnography, interviews, and journey mapping. - Helped identify the online unboxing phenomenon and developed winning creative for Saatchi & Saatchi LA’s 2012 Toyota Yaris campaign. - Launched Hip Chick Style, a fashion-sharing mobile app and website for young teen girls, as UX designer. - Worked with Obscura Digital on an interactive touchscreen for the 2013 Lexus GS launch at Pebble Beach. - Produced web and mobile banners, iPad advertorials, Lexus.com updates, and eBrochure updates at Team One also produced Blockbuster web banners for Impossible. - Used Google and YouTube analytics, audience programming, and SEO strategy at Name.com, and wrote, produced, directed, and edited videos for its YouTube channel. - Led production crews of 30+ and managed budgets of $200K+ at Erickson Living Retirement Communities. - Won a 2009 Telly Award. - Produced international video productions at Beautiful Century Media and international stories and regional program versions at CBN Worldreach. - Negotiated crew rates at CBN Worldreach, saving hundreds of dollars per production trip. - Mentors emerging UX/UI designers, researchers, and thought leaders through Springboard. - Has coached boys middle-school basketball, boys high-school basketball, and currently girls high-school basketball at Thompson School District. ## Experience - **Builder at Wake Up and Produce** (2026-01-01–present) — Builder of digital tools for those that want to do more. https://www.wakeupandproduce.com - **Head Girls Basketball Coach at Thompson School District** (2023-08-01–present) — Boys Middle School - 2023 Boys High School - 2023-2025 Girls High School - 2025-Present - **Founder, Misfit Island at Misfit Island** (2020-10-01–present) — I help leadership teams get stalled projects moving again. When a project has stalled, two groups are solving the same problem in opposite directions, or a decision keeps getting punted, I come in, run the working sessions, and the team leaves with decisions made and owners assigned. The work is discovery, research, and facilitation. It has run through enterprise software, agriculture, manufacturing, and marketing, with organizations from Fortune 500 to growth-stage. Most recently a two-phase research engagement delivered as a subcontractor to an agency partner, supporting a national quick-service restaurant client. The pattern holds across industries: smart people, real momentum, and a system that was right two years ago. The people closest to the problem are usually the last ones to see it clearly. misfitis.land - **📊 Strategic UX Leader | Future Product Manager | Driving Data-Informed Product Decisions at Esko | Brand Solutions** (2022-10-01–2025-10-01) — Influenced product roadmap by driving research insights that led to a 20% improvement in the user experience. • Partnered with engineers & PMs to validate new feature concepts before development • Led data-informed decisions by combining qualitative research & analytics - **UX Mentor @ Springboard at Springboard** (2020-11-01–2021-09-01) — I provide mentorship to the next generation of UX/UI designers, researchers, and thought leaders. - **UX Research and Insights Strategist, Principal at Nutrien Ag Solutions** (2019-08-01–2021-05-01) — ResearchOps: Scale the user experience research practice across the digital organization by implementing systems for data collection, synthesis, and reporting. Managed a team of UX researchers. Facilitate participatory design thinking workshops. Evangelize and train internal teams in quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and best practices. Initiate, design, administer, and analyze various formative and summative research studies, including surveys, usability tests, and interviews with identified personas. Strategize research goals, plans, and reporting with Business Owners, Product Managers, Designers, and Developers. - **Senior UX Research \(Contractor\) at Nutrien Ag Solutions** (2018-06-01–2019-08-01) — Nutrien Ag Solutions specializes in products and services for the agricultural community. Highlights: Coordinate with Nutrien Ag Solutions’ Marketing, Analytics, Adoption, and Customer Support teams to galvanize customer research engagements. Vet and engage with external agencies to deepen customer research. Develop and evolve customer segmentation, personas, journey maps, mental models, service design blueprints, and other affinity diagrams to help focus the digital organization’s understanding and empathy of our customers. Voice of the customer advocate by developing deep relationships with farmers. - **UX Research and Design Strategy at Hewlett Packard Enterprise** (2015-04-01–2018-05-01) — Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a Fortune 100 company that specializes in products and services for cloud computing, mobility, and big data. The UX team for Software-Defined & Cloud Group is dedicated to making data centers beautiful systems in operation. Highlights: - Construct low and high fidelity wireframes and prototypes for software developers on SaaS, cloud, and enterprise software. - Conduct customer facing and remote interviews to discover critical success factors. - Perform contextual inquiries and other observation techniques to document customer pain points. - Develop personas, profiles, and affinity maps to highlight target users and customer touchpoints. - Generate key insight reports from analysis of data. - Create screeners for formative and evaluative usability test plans for lab and remote testing, to gain insights that drive product roadmaps direction. - Source scientific journals and event logs for evidence-based research. - Administer cross-sectional surveys, e.g., - **Freelance UX Specialist at Universal Mind** (2015-03-01–2015-04-01) — Problem solving, beautiful experience makers. - **Product Designer at TwoVee, Inc.** (2014-05-01–2015-02-01) — TwoVee, Inc. • was a technology startup that developed mobile applications and Content Management Systems for the entertainment industry. • Conducted user research including interviews, contextual inquiry, heuristic review and card sorting. • Created user stories based on the synthesis of research data. • Designed user-test plans, developed product roadmap, and strategy. • Designed and built wireframes and interactive prototypes for user testing. • Designed UI elements for mobile and web applications. • Co-lead business development efforts, including designing and leading product pitches to potential clients. - **Freelance UX Designer at Mondo Robot** (2014-02-01–2014-03-01) — Developed information architect solutions for Comcast Business portal. - **Freelance User Experience Designer at The1stMovement** (2013-10-01–2014-02-01) — UX/UI designer for several Cisco websites and applications. • Participated in brainstorm sessions, user story development, wireframes and client presentations. • Experience architect on Teletech responsive website redesign. • Conducted stakeholder interviews, competitive analysis, and content audit. • Deliverables also included: site taxonomy, journey map, personas, responsive wireframes, and CRM recommendations. • Lead experience architect for a new mobile social media application for a Ribbon B2B. • Created user stories, user stories, and wireframes. • Helped identify additional product feature opportunities to create a more advantageous product. • Designed interface solutions to accommodate new features and information for the My Lexus mobile application. • Created animated prototypes to demonstrate solutions. - **Freelance Interactive Producer at Impossible** (2012-05-01–2012-08-01) — Served as producer for the creation of web banners for Blockbuster. - **Digital Producer at Name.com** (2012-03-01–2013-10-01) — Name.com is a Domain Registrar and Hosting company. • Google and YouTube analytics and reporting to measure audience engagement. • Develop video programming that caters to target audience. • Create SEO strategy to facilitate discovery of video programs. • Write, Produce, Direct, Edit many of the videos Name.com's Youtube Channel. - **Freelance Interactive Producer at Team One** (2011-07-01–2012-02-01) — Produced web and mobile banners, iPad advertorials, and represented agency stakeholders when working with creative partners and vendors including AdMob, Robb Report, Food & Wine, and Double Click. • Worked directly with Obscura Digital on the creation of an interactive touchscreen for the launch of the 2013 Lexus GS at Pebble Beach. • Produced assets and modifications to Lexus.com and eBrochures for car model year updates. • Established project timelines and milestones while monitoring day-to-day activities and controlling scope creep. • Actively participate in task force to help “evolve” the agency. - **Freelance Researcher and Creative Development at Saatchi & Saatchi** (2011-02-01–2011-04-01) — Worked with Saatchi & Saatchi LA to identify unique social sub-cultures to market the 2012 Toyota Yaris. • Upon identifying the “unboxing” internet phenomenon, my team developed and won creative for the Toyota Yaris 2012 campaign. - **User Experience Designer at Baxtervision, LLC** (2010-03-01–2015-12-01) — Customer research and strategist solving complex problems. - **Digital Design, Technology & Business at Boulder Digital Works** (2010-03-01–2011-05-01) — · Research • · Strategy • · Wireframes • · Rapid Prototyping • · Design/Dev • · Production • · Presentations • Worked with the Interactive Design Association \(IxDA\) to research, design and develop an analog and digital experiential transportation journey for IxDA’ 11 conference attendees. • User research included contextual enquiry, surveys, ethnography, interviews, and journey mapping. • We synthesized data, generated reports and created paper prototypes of recommended solutions. • Worked with Saatchi & Saatchi LA to identify unique social sub-cultures to market the 2012 Toyota Yaris. • Upon identifying the “unboxing” phenomenon of the Internet, my team developed and won creative for the Toyota Yaris 2012 campaign. • Worked with start-up Suuthe to develop a social media strategy and design an Electronic Press Kit. • Launched Hip Chick Style, a fashion-sharing mobile app and website for young teen girls. • I served as UX Designer. - **Digital Media Producer at Erickson Living Retirement Communities** (2007-09-01–2009-01-01) — · Led production crews of 30+. · Managed project budgets of $200K+. · 2009 Telly Award winner. · Cast talent, negotiated contracts with crews and locations. · Produced, directed and edited commercial spots. · Worked with interactive team on production and deployment strategies. - **Producer/Director/Cinematographer at Beautiful Century Media** (2006-01-01–2007-12-01) — · Produced copy and content for web, print, and video. · Developed and produced international video productions. · Built customer base by developing community relations. · Successfully negotiated new business contracts. - **Broadcast Producer at CBN Worldreach** (1998-11-01–2006-05-01) — · Managed a team of creatives producing a weekly news magazine program. · Researched, wrote, and produced international stories and weekly promos. · Directed on camera talent, voice over sessions and conducted on camera interviews. · Trafficked multiple versions of programs for different geographical regions. · Negotiated crew rates, saving the company hundreds of dollars per production trip. - **CINEMATOGRAPHER/ELECTRIC/GRIP at Freelance** (1996-08-01–1998-05-01) — · Camera, lighting, and grip duties on various film and video productions. ## Education - Certificate, Digital Design, Technology, Business — BDW (2010-01-01–2011-01-01) - BA, Theater — University of Virginia - Master's degree, Communication and Media Studies — Regent University ## FAQ ### What does Sean do now? Sean builds digital tools at Wake Up and Produce for people who want to do more. He also works through Misfit Island, where he helps leadership teams move stalled projects forward through discovery, research, and facilitation. ### What are Sean’s core strengths? Sean works across research, product direction, experience design, service design, facilitation, and strategy. He helps teams understand customers, identify project blockers, make decisions, assign owners, and bring products, services, events, and brand activations to life. ### What is Sean’s professional background? Sean has 15 years leading product and UX research across global enterprises, major brands, and agencies. Before that, he spent 15 years in film and television, producing, directing, and translating ideas into work that teams could build toward. ### What does Sean do at Misfit Island? At Misfit Island, Sean runs working sessions when projects have stalled, teams are moving in opposing directions, or decisions are repeatedly deferred. His work includes discovery, research, and facilitation across enterprise software, agriculture, manufacturing, and marketing, serving organizations from Fortune 500 companies to growth-stage organizations. A recent engagement was a two-phase research project for a national quick-service restaurant client, delivered as a subcontractor to an agency partner. ### What did Sean accomplish at Nutrien Ag Solutions? As Principal of UX Research and Insights Strategy at Nutrien Ag Solutions, Sean scaled the UX research practice across the digital organization through ResearchOps systems for data collection, synthesis, and reporting. He managed UX researchers, facilitated participatory design-thinking workshops, trained internal teams in qualitative and quantitative methods, conducted surveys, usability tests, and interviews, and aligned research goals and reporting with business owners, product managers, designers, and developers. ### What was Sean’s earlier role at Nutrien Ag Solutions? As a Senior UX Research contractor at Nutrien Ag Solutions, Sean coordinated research with Marketing, Analytics, Adoption, and Customer Support teams evaluated and engaged external research agencies and developed customer segmentation, personas, journey maps, mental models, service-design blueprints, and affinity diagrams. He also built relationships with farmers as a voice-of-the-customer advocate. ### What did Sean do at Hewlett Packard Enterprise? At Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Software-Defined & Cloud Group, Sean created low- and high-fidelity wireframes and prototypes for SaaS, cloud, and enterprise software. He conducted interviews and contextual inquiries developed personas, profiles, affinity maps, insight reports, and usability-test screeners used scientific journals and event logs as research evidence administered cross-sectional surveys such as SUS facilitated design sprints and co-chaired HPE’s User Experience Design Summit. ### What did Sean accomplish at Esko | Brand Solutions? At Esko | Brand Solutions, Sean drove research insights that influenced the product roadmap and contributed to a 20% improvement in the user experience. He partnered with engineers and product managers to validate feature concepts before development and combined qualitative research with analytics to support data-informed decisions. ### What did Sean do at The1stMovement? At The1stMovement, Sean designed UX and UI for Cisco websites and applications, contributing to brainstorming, user stories, wireframes, and client presentations. For Teletech’s responsive website redesign, he conducted stakeholder interviews, competitive analysis, and a content audit, then produced taxonomy, journey maps, personas, responsive wireframes, and CRM recommendations. He also led experience architecture for Ribbon B2B’s mobile social-media application and designed new-feature interface solutions and animated prototypes for the My Lexus mobile app. ### What did Sean do at TwoVee? At TwoVee, a technology startup serving the entertainment industry, Sean conducted interviews, contextual inquiry, heuristic reviews, and card sorting synthesized research into user stories designed test plans, roadmaps, strategy, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and mobile and web UI. He also co-led business development, including product pitches to prospective clients. ### What other UX consulting work has Sean done? Through Baxtervision, LLC, Sean worked as a customer-research and strategy-focused UX designer solving complex problems. At Universal Mind, he worked as a freelance UX specialist. At Mondo Robot, he developed information-architecture solutions for the Comcast Business portal. ### What did Sean do at Boulder Digital Works? At Boulder Digital Works, Sean worked across research, strategy, wireframes, rapid prototyping, design and development, production, and presentations. For IxDA ’11, he helped research, design, and develop an analog and digital experiential transportation journey using contextual inquiry, surveys, ethnography, interviews, and journey mapping, followed by synthesis, reports, and paper prototypes. He also helped identify the internet “unboxing” phenomenon for Saatchi & Saatchi LA’s 2012 Toyota Yaris campaign, developed social-media strategy and an electronic press kit for Suuthe, and launched Hip Chick Style, a fashion-sharing mobile app and website for young teen girls, as UX designer. ### What did Sean do for Saatchi & Saatchi? As a freelance researcher and creative-development contributor for Saatchi & Saatchi LA, Sean helped identify distinctive social subcultures for the 2012 Toyota Yaris. After identifying the online unboxing phenomenon, his team developed and won creative for the Toyota Yaris 2012 campaign. ### What did Sean do in interactive production for Team One and Impossible? At Team One, Sean produced web and mobile banners, iPad advertorials, Lexus.com and eBrochure updates, and agency-vendor work involving AdMob, Robb Report, Food & Wine, and DoubleClick. He worked with Obscura Digital on an interactive touchscreen for the 2013 Lexus GS launch at Pebble Beach, managed timelines and milestones, controlled scope creep, and participated in an agency-evolution task force. At Impossible, he produced Blockbuster web banners. ### What did Sean do at Name.com? At Name.com, Sean used Google and YouTube analytics and reporting to measure audience engagement, developed video programming for target audiences, created SEO strategy to improve discovery, and wrote, produced, directed, and edited many videos for Name.com’s YouTube channel. ### What did Sean accomplish at Erickson Living Retirement Communities? At Erickson Living Retirement Communities, Sean led production crews of more than 30 people, managed project budgets exceeding $200,000, cast talent, negotiated crew and location contracts, and produced, directed, and edited commercial spots. He worked with the interactive team on production and deployment strategy and was a 2009 Telly Award winner. ### What is Sean’s film, television, and video-production experience? At Beautiful Century Media, Sean produced copy and content for web, print, and video developed and produced international video productions built a customer base through community relations and negotiated new-business contracts. At CBN Worldreach, he managed creatives producing a weekly news-magazine program, researched, wrote, and produced international stories and weekly promotions, directed talent and voice-over sessions, conducted interviews, adapted programs for multiple regions, and negotiated crew rates that saved hundreds of dollars per production trip. He also performed camera, lighting, and grip work as a freelance cinematographer, electric, and grip. ### How does Sean contribute through mentoring and coaching? Sean is a UX mentor at Springboard, where he supports emerging UX/UI designers, researchers, and thought leaders. He is also Head Girls Basketball Coach at Thompson School District his coaching history there includes boys middle school in 2023, boys high school from 2023 to 2025, and girls high school from 2025 to the present. ### What is Sean’s education? Sean holds a Certificate in Digital Design, Technology, and Business from BDW, a BA in Theater from the University of Virginia, and a master’s degree in Communication and Media Studies from Regent University. ### What skills does Sean bring to engagements? Sean’s listed skills include facilitation, change management, leadership development, strategic planning, organizational development, sports marketing, AI, product design, UX research, stakeholder management, data analysis, business strategy, UX and UI design, interaction design, wireframing, mobile applications and interfaces, creative direction, cinematography, video production and editing, advertising, multimedia, storytelling, digital strategy, digital media, content strategy, interactive advertising, marketing, photography, camera work, creative strategy, film production, motion graphics, blogging, documentaries, commercials, voice-over, web development, creative writing, producing, directing, contextual inquiry, affinity diagramming, user surveys, persona creation, user journeys, site maps, emotional design, and Figma. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAAlUvYBAHTydqlSSeiF2X9TKQ-Z7YtmwAA