Peter Phinney



peter.phinney@gmail.com | 408 375 8658 | http://www.peterphinney.com

Professional Summary

Creative problem solver, motivated to bring compelling, easy to use products to market. Passionate about design with fifteen years of design experience, nine years art direction and visual design team management. Experience managing within a large multinational organization, working on Enterprise, SMB, Consumer and Mobile products. Interested in joining a talented UX group providing solutions that provide the desired outcome for the user.

Professional Experience

Cisco Systems
2014 to Present, Senior Visual Designer, UX Manager, Senior UX Manager.

• Created our internal Design System supporting over 20 SMB and Enterprise Security & Networking products.

• Manage a global team of User Experience Designers, Researchers and Visual Designers for our FireWall and Networking portfolio of Products.



Symantec
2005-2014, Senior Manager, Visual Design

• Managed a distributed team, set strategy and goals, managed budget to POR

• Set the design direction for the look and feel of Symantec Enterprise and Mobile products

• Developed Symantec User Interface Guidelines (Enterprise and Mobile)

• Created, managed and maintained graphical asset libraries for Symantec products

• Worked with a diverse set of development processes, facilitating engagement models to produce the best collaboration process that produces a great user experience

• Changed the role of the graphic designers from doing single icon design to a more complete visual designer role making them more fully engaged members of development teams.

Veritas Software

October 1999-2005, Senior Visual/ UI Designer

• Graphic Design/ UI Design for Storage and Server products

• Web site design illustrating the before and after look of UI designs

• Prototyping new UI components, behavior and layout for product teams to evaluate

• Usability lab testing on conceptual or beta products validating designs with users

• Focus Groups, Card sorts gathering user requirements

• Technical Illustration of product manuals

• Trade Show Graphics and booth design for customer events

• T-Shirt & Poster Designs for product releases or group events

Oracle

February 1999 – June 1999, Contract Graphic Designer
Worked with Server Technology and Application Teams. Designed Icons, Wizard Panels. Application look and feel, screen design and interaction design of application features. Worked with senior interaction designers, graphic artists, usability engineers and software development teams.

Education
San Jose State University, CA. BA Degree, General Design, Emphasis in Industrial Design, Minor in Graphic Design.
 Associates in Arts, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA.