Red Rover

Founder

CYMATRAX	
Biotech SaaS transforming audio experiences through advanced technology, fostering enhanced memory, reduced stress, and heightened focus for optimal productivity. 

Product Designer
Enhanced user experience by addressing usability issues and executing strategic design processes, including stakeholder interviews and design system evolution.
- Prevented a potential $100,000 annual revenue loss and 175 customers, saving 240 developer hours, and avoiding a 2-month project delay by emphasizing user-friendly designs and workflow.
- Drove a UX redesign and design system implementation, ensuring brand consistency. Established a unified identity, potentially expanding market share in brand initiatives for the company.
- Mitigated dissatisfaction, resolving 22 usability issues, fostering ongoing feedback in stakeholder interviews, and enhancing clarity and information architecture for a intuitive product experience.

WAGS UNITE	
A social meetup app connecting dog owners through vibrant community and positive experiences. 
  	
Product Designer
Elevated UX, launched app at WebSummit 2023, attracting investors, driving expansion, and loyalty.
- Uplifted user experience, advancing accessibility with a 90% improvement. Revitalized screens, encouraged collaboration for streamlined interfaces and intuitive design enhancements.
- Debuted app at WebSummit '23, revealing growth potential with a favorable user experience. Enhanced information architecture and optimized designs, attracting investor attention.
- Optimized clarity, minimized errors and accelerated development, saving 320 work hours. Organized screens and fostered collaboration, improving workflows to enhance team's efficiency.

Product Designer

Mission Box Solutions

Catalyzed growth and visibility, revitalizing engagement by tripling brand recognition and amplifying web traffic through strategic marketing initiatives.

- Boosted platform engagement by initiating, designing, and launching three educational e-books, resulting in 500+ email sign-ups and 100+ leads within 24 hours, enhacing customer attraction..

- Amplified brand awareness 3X through strategic content placement on industry blogs, podcasts, and online magazines; yielding increased visibility and recognition among the target audience.

- Increased website traffic by  50% through analyzing organic content strategy, crafting targeted content for personas, and mapping buyer's journey—boosting online visibility and engagement.

Marketing Strategist & Senior IT Recruiter

Full Desk Technical Recruiter

Cadensi

Inspired client growth by developing compelling storytelling-focused content, fostering brand loyalty, and substantially increasing web traffic for enhanced online visibility and engagement.

- Transformed social media engagement, captivated the target audience, and achieved a 2,200% growth rate over two months by developing a storytelling-focused content strategy for clients.

- Pioneered and executed a B2B subscription-based social media platform, slashing planning time from 3 days to under 15 minutes monthly in four months, ensuring posting consistency for clients.

- Heightened brand recognition by 80% between 12 clients, strategizing and designing 1,700+ visuals over 12 months, enhancing online visibility and engagement.

Social Media Strategist

Air Essentials, LLC

- Streamlined the delivery of service presentations to a digital format, improving customer communication by 30%

- Increased sales ROI by over 40% through cross-functional team meetings, feedback, and collaboration

Executive Sales Manager

STARK Industries

• Project Build Out - Planned, organized, and executed the build-out of a new location including the coordination of contractors and vendors, monitoring to ensure costs and timelines stayed on track, and implementation of new systems and processes to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs.

• Contributed to strategy development by identifying 200+ product opportunities, and creating partnerships with 30+ third-party vendors, to accelerate time to market by 2 months. 

• Conducted a series of meetings with key stakeholders to solve complex project scheduling issues and establish 100% project track realignment.

• Counseled support teams to ensure issues and client feedback were addressed, resulting in a 25% increase in customer satisfaction.

• Streamlined the design revision process by 50%, reducing the time to complete design requests from 2 weeks to 1 week, by creating a design request form and a monthly design revision calendar.

• Spearheaded directing teams to address client issues, resulting in a 25% increase in client satisfaction.

Assistant Program Manager

🔥 Product Designer | 3 Years of Visual Design Excellence | Proficient in Figma & Protopie✨ | Open to Remote Opportunities

I'm a Product Designer with 5+ dynamic years crafting impactful designs in SaaS, social apps, tech recruitment, and startups. 

I've averted $100,000 in potential losses, launched an MVP app at WebSummit, and 3X brand recognition through strategic marketing. I also recently obtained certifications in HTML/CSS and am currently learning Javascript.

Most recently, I played a key role in improving the user experience of a bootstrapped Biotech SaaS startup by tackling usability issues and implementing strategic design processes, which included conducting stakeholder interviews and evolving the design system. Drove a UX redesign and the implementation of a design system to ensure consistent branding, thereby establishing a cohesive identity that could potentially enhance the company's market share in brand initiatives.

I specialize in designing intuitive and engaging digital products, with a primary focus on language learning apps, travel planning apps, and recruitment marketing software. 

As a Product Designer, I excel in both UX and UI design, particularly emphasizing information architecture, accessibility, and skeuomorphic elements. My sweet spot lies in creating consumer-facing experiences for adult users. I thrive in remote work environments and prioritize collaboration with developers, marketers, and leadership. 

My problem-solving expertise centers around AI integration, innovation, differentiation, and ensuring optimal usability and accessibility. Proficient in Figma, Protopie, and Marvel, I am committed to continuous learning, including expanding into web development with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

I'm open to fully remote, flex-schedule opportunities. Please send me a DM or email me at sanders.samc@gmail.com.

Samantha Sanders

Mission Technologies, a division of HII

- Team lead for Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS) Operations Portal Development; led a team of 5 software engineers using React 18, ArcGIS Enterprise, and PostgreSQL on an Amazon Web Services server stack (both Windows Server 2019 and RHEL 8).
- Created consolidated database of US EMS platforms and emitters from 6 disparate data sources. Normalized CSV, JSON, and XML data for easy ingest into a PostgreSQL database. Constructed database schema, complete with tables, views, functions, and procedures, to house consolidated data. Used Safe Feature Manipulation Engine (FME), an Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) application, to automate data ingest and manipulation.
- Cleared technical debt in existing React code base, using a CycloneDX Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) to update major components and dependencies to versions that have a Certificate to Field (CTF).
- Updated GitLab CI/CD pipeline to incorporate deployment stage, where none existed before; previous pipeline only had build and test stages. Package is now built on merge for move to SIPRNET enclave, enabling Continuous Delivery.

Software Engineer

L3Harris Technologies

- Completed fellowship in Integrated Research and Development group within L3Harris’ Agile Development and Engineering Directorate, utilizing Java (Oracle Helidon), React 16, Rocky Linux, Podman, and GitLab.
- Researched and closed security gaps (web scraping, role-based authentication, etc.) in prototype communications platform. Used Python and Selenium to verify system security after implementing Shadow DOM to hide sensitive details. Introduced user profile roles in KeyCloak authentication service to fulfill Least Privilege principles.

Software Engineer (Fellowship)

United States Air Force

- Formerly known as the Career Development Course (CDC) Writer; responsible for the curation and assembly of digital Learning Programs for skill level upgrade within the Computer Systems Programming career field.
- Curated and assembled online content for the creation of Learning Programs, used for skill level upgrade training for 450 software developers.
- Developed and published interactive training modules to be used as part of the Learning Programs on Platform One, utilizing React 14 and GitLab.
- Automated squadron/group business processes using scripts written in Python and PowerShell.
- Advised first major rewrite of Software Development Operations Initial Skills course since 2012; transitioning from waterfall-based .NET and SQL development to Agile (Extreme Programming), JavaScript frameworks, and Python.
- Completed four-month internship with AFWERX-Austin, learning Python, React Native, and Figma, as well as building a prototype app for the flying training mission at Altus AFB, OK.

Learning Program Manager, Software Development Operations

- Developed interactive courseware and technical training insertions for 14 career fields, using Adobe Animate CC and Adobe Captivate.
- Led a team of 5 other developers and 6 courseware designers.
- Lead developer for converting existing courseware from Flash to HTML5, JavaScript/jQuery, and Bootstrap 4.

Instructional Technology Developer

- Led a team of 10 military and 4 civilian developers in creating applications for the Intelligence Community.
- Ported legacy desktop applications to the Web, using ASP.NET (C#) and IIS.
- Upgraded aircraft simulator used by pilots to study adversarial tactics to a new graphics engine, requiring a rewrite of base C++ code and a new CTF, requiring mitigation of findings from HP Fortify scans.

Section Chief, Software Development

- Developed web applications and interactive training material for the Air Force's Comm/Cyber schoolhouses.
- Converted Adobe ColdFusion web applications to ASP.NET (Visual BASIC) to upgrade and modernize web applications.
- Used Microsoft SQL Server and ASP.NET experience to create base-wide applications used for the installation’s Emergency Operations Center and the Public Health flight.

Interactive Multimedia Instruction Developer

Served as a communications/IT specialist for the commander of USCENTCOM and executive staff. Responsible for setting up work stations and communications infrastructure to allow secure 24/7/365 connectivity, regardless of location.

Information Technology Support Specialist

Managed training resources and fielded requirements for the Global Command and Control Systems (GCCS) joint-service C2 system. Led curriculum update for 24 courses, covering topics from Solaris system administration to Oracle/Sybase databases. Interacted with course owners at Headquarters Air Force to receive guidance and secure funding for in-residence training at Keesler AFB and a detachment at Fort Meade, MD, as well as Mobile Training Teams to take training "on the road".

Training Manager

Maintained legacy IBM System/370 assembly code in support of the US Strategic Command mission. Upon promotion to E-5 (Staff Sergeant), led a team of 4 military and 2 civilian developers to add features and squash bugs in a system consisting of over 7 million lines of code, ensuring effective communication across five missile and strategic bomber wings. Assisted in developing a prototype to modernize the legacy system, utilizing Visual C++.

Assembly Programmer

Learned fundamentals about the Communications/Computer Systems Programming career field. Trained in Visual Basic and SQL database administration.

Technical Training Student

Joined the Air Force family at the Gateway to the Air Force. Introduced to the fundamentals of the Profession of Arms.

Basic Military Trainee

I’ve always had a passion for coding, going back to when I built my first program using the ROM-burned-in BASIC interpreter on my parents’ old 286 computer at the age of 13.  No Windows, no Internet, just a desire to learn! A lot has changed on the technology front since 1991, but the passion for problem-solving using code has not. Since those humble beginnings, I have earned my BS in Computer Science and have worked on US Air Force and Joint Service projects ranging from IBM CS/1 assembly to React 18. One thing I absolutely love about this career path is that the learning never stops!

While I currently have a job that I'm mostly happy with, I was looking for opportunities that will allow greater flexibility for my family's needs. If you think you may have something, feel free to reach out. But I'm no longer actively (or passively) looking.

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