William Box

Product Designer

www.whoiswillbox.com

csswillbox@gmail.com

Experience

Technergetics, Lead UX Designer

Aug 2023 – Aug 2024 | Utica, NY

Sole contributor on the mobile logistics team; led end-to-end design processes for web, mobile, and PWA enterprise platforms that modernized daily operations for over 250,000+ airmen.
Partnered closely with UX engineer; curated component and pattern reusability that reduced technical debt for 70+ engineers and streamlined experience cohesion across all platforms.
Spearheaded back-end driven design framework; partnered with engineering leads to annotate UI iterations of data sourced query and mutation calls to enhance development workflows.
Partnered with ML engineers to refine feedback loops; leveraging large language models, multi-modal models, deep neural networks, and semantic networks for recommendation systems, knowledge graphs, and predictive analysis.
Partnered closely with military subject matter experts throughout agile product cycles; translated contract product requirement documentation, conducted user interviews, and architected interdependent military persona workflows.
Drove collaboration with cross-functional partners (product management, engineering, subject matter experts, product owners, stakeholders, and leadership) to enable milestone completion.
Responsible for Rawhide, Merlin, Upgrade, Manifast, JetDash, Hyperkit, JIJOE, DPC, and LogTrax.

Technergetics, UX Designer

Aug 2022 – Aug 2023 | Utica, NY

Designed solutions that automated and optimized hundreds of archaic military processes; reducing manual logs, paperwork, and excessive communication through process visualizations, data discovery, and real-time tracking to identify process breakdowns.
Conducted interactive prototype walkthroughs for product owners and stakeholders during bi-weekly sprint reviews to acquire feedback and demonstrate deliverable status.
Designed early stage concepts for contract proposals; 3+ SBIR Phase II contracts won based off of demonstrated feasibility, desirability, and applicability.

Lightcert, UX/UI Design Intern

Jan 2022 – Jun 2022 | Los Angeles, CA

Worked cross-functionally to revamp Lightcert's internal mobile design system; streamlined their onboarding processes and designed the save/share feature for MVP v.2 that resulted in reaching over 40k+ fandoms.

Education

University of California, San Diego

Sep 2018 – June 2022 | La Jolla, CA

Psychology, B.A

Cognitive Science (Design + Interaction), Minor

Santa Barbara City College

Aug 2017 – June 2018 | Santa Barbara, CA

Communication, A.A

Certifications

ELVTR

Nov 2023 – Jan 2024 | Irvine, CA

Intro to AI Product Design with Robert Redmond

Skills

Design

Persona Mapping
Information Architecture
Interaction Design
Wireframing
Responsive Design
Prototyping
Design Systems
Design Operations

Handoff

Data Labeling
Tokenization
Naming Conventions
Walkthroughs
Changelogs
Annotations
Q&A

Stack

Figma
Figjam
Webflow
Framer
Lucid Chart
VS Code
Storybook
YouTrack

Other

Agile Methodologies
Component Libraries