User Experience Designer

Philip Rugamba

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EXPERIENCE

Tahzoo LLC (Tech Consulting Agency serving Fortune 500 Companies) Washington, DC User Experience Designer (Remote) Aug 2024 — Present

• Led the development of a comprehensive UX 'Bible', documenting best practices. Presented this educational deck to 30+ internal and external stakeholders, significantly enhancing the organization's UX literacy.

• Performed 12+ UX audits on partner sites, ensuring compliance with WCAG 2.1 AA standards, resulting in a 30% improvement in accessibility scores and more inclusive design practices from partners.

• Conceptualized UI designs for a stealth-mode project exploring AI-powered UIs inspired by fractal geometry, aimed at reimagining complex data visualization.

Design AI (AI powered 3D modelling, 500 Global 2024 Cohort) San Francisco, CA UX Consultant (Remote) May 2024 — Present

• Established the UX/UI design practice in collaboration with an interior design firm, developing a web application that converts 2D images into 3D models and video walkthroughs from the ground up.

• Designed the initial version of a VR/AR application for Apple visionOS, enabling room scanning and object-to-3D conversion, based on client feedback.

Liquidity Services Inc (World’s largest B2B e-Commerce Marketplace Platform for Surplus Assets) South Bend, IN Graduate Researcher & Solutions Designer Jul 2023 — May 2024

• Led market research in the noncash funding options for the nonprofit sector, uncovering over $410M in untapped value within the donated cars industry.

• Designed a Donation-as-a-Service solution, validated through conducting 50+ qualitative user interviews and business model creation.

• Led data analysis, mining data on over 1M nonprofits from the IRS website using Python, to develop a comprehensive snapshot of the donated cars industry, validating our market entry. University of Notre Dame (ESTEEM Graduate Program) South Bend, IN Connected Apps Solutions Designer Jul 2023 — May 2024

• Implemented Airtable base and interface solutions to automate back office processes, including transforming manual student resume sharing to an updatable online interface.

• Developed interactive lead pipeline dashboards and automated marketing outreach using Apollo, Zapier, and OpenAI API, reaching 3,000+ contacts with 15% conversion. International Trade Center (United Nations & World Trade Organization Joint Mandate) Geneva, Switzerland Marketing Consultant (Remote) Aug 2022 — Jan 2023

• Designed digital marketing training and data dashboards for 200+ SMBs (Small and Medium Businesses) across 3 cities in the Middle East.

• Automated lead generation for 20 partner organizations, yielding 1000+ global export leads. PiCortex (Angel Backed Enterprise Back-Office SaaS) Cape Town, South Africa Lead User Experience Designer (Remote) Jun 2020 — Jun 2023

• Formulated design language and laid foundation of PiCortex design system, building a component library with 100+ components, reducing overall development time for new builds by 50%.

• Led user centered design in a team of 7 serving 200+ customers, introducing Design Thinking framework as core problem solving process enabling the launch of 5+ validated Minimal Viable Products in our first year. CTI Africa (Social Enterprise and Pioneer in Digital Healthcare Delivery Infrastructure in Africa) New York, NY Design and Communications Consultant May 2020 — Nov 2021

• Led design team for LifeHealth Wallet, a telehealth app developed in partnership with the Government of Uganda during COVID-19, serving 10k+ users and targeting 20M Ugandans.

• Developed a design system, high-fidelity prototypes, and educational animations, reducing design time by 30% and boosting engagement by 22%; app is now used by the Ministry of Health for contact tracing. Panya / Sellio (Seed-Stage Ad-tech SaaS solving customer acquisition for the next billion users) Kampala, Uganda Co-founder Feb 2016 — Jan 2020

Philip Rugamba

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• Conducted customer discovery research as part of a team of 4 interviewing 140+ small business owners in Kampala, aiding to uncover core challenges and identifying chatbots as one of the potential solutions.

• Developed and executed data driven go to market strategy and remarketing campaigns for the startup, helping to onboard 5000+ small business owners.

• Mentored at Meta through FBStart accelerator (1 of 14 companies selected worldwide); thereafter 2 interns in running A/B tested digital ad campaigns for 30+ partners, facilitating over $500k in generated revenue. Kola Studios (Mobile Gaming Studio Backed by Savannah Fund) Kampala, Uganda Creative Director Jan 2014 — Jan 2016

• Spearheaded design in a team that conceptualized and monetized 6 mobile game titles, including ‘Matatu’ and

‘Matatu Champion’, Ugandan skill-based card game with over 2M downloads and 20k+ daily active players. EDUCATION

University of Notre Dame South Bend, IN

Master of Science in Engineering, Science, & Technology Entrepreneurship (ESTEEM) May 2024

• Relevant courses: Data Science and Analytics, Design Thinking, Product Management, Accounting and Finance Uganda Martyrs University Kampala, Uganda

Bachelor of Environmental Design; Major in Architecture May 2015 CERTIFICATES

SolidWorks Associate Nov 2023

Mechanical Design Certified (ID: C-6ZBYKTJPGQ).

Udacity User Experience Nanodegree Nov 2021

Conducted user research, usability studies and prototypes with 10 SMEs for a social-first drop shipping app concept. Google UX Design Professional Certificate Apr 2021 Foundations of User Experience.

LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE

Startup Mentor, EcoGrains.co 2024

Stagehand, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center 2024

Marketing volunteer, ND Bike Legacy Ride for Ara Parseghian Medical Research Fund 2024 Media team leader, KIN Church 2020 — 2023

Volunteer Production Assistant and Cleanup Artist, Katoto Animation Studio 2015 — 2017 Design Uganda Mentor 2015

AWARDS

Stagehand of the Year, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center 2024 Winner of National IP Licensing University Prize - US Department of Energy ($25,000) 2024 Meta Growth to Start Accelerator (1 of 14 invitees globally) 2018 TechCrunch Startup Battlefield semi-finalist 2017

Seedstars 2nd runner-up 2016

SKILLS AND INTERESTS

Design: Sketching, Wireframes, Prototyping, User Interface Design, User Experience Design, Design Systems Research: User Interviews and Surveys, User Journey Mapping, User Personas, Experience Mapping, User Testing, A/B Testing, Data visualization.

Tools: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, HTML, CSS, ArcGIS, Looker Studio, Miro, Jira, Asana, Linear, Framer Familiar with: Python, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Digital Marketing, Power BI, Tableau, Tailwind CSS, Material UI, Human Interface (Apple), XML, Web Accessibility, MidJourney, OpenAI API Interests: Turning ideas into apps, Entrepreneurship, Live Music, Webcomics, Doodling, Ping Pong, and Basketball

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