Matt Reamer - Product Designer Resume

CarMax Senior Product Designer Richmond, VA April 2017 - Present I work across and lead collaboration between multiple product teams in the online checkout (e-commerce) space. My team is driving innovate with alternate delivery options and bringing all purchase capabilities online for the customer. I am responsible for all forms of product discovery, aligning stakeholders on product strategy, executing production ready designs and specs and helping to craft the long term vision of CarMax. All while helping to evolve our design system and delivering quality and delightful experiences to our customers to meet their ever changing needs and expectations.

Dollar Shave Club Senior Experience Designer Los Angeles, CA December 2015 - April 2017 As a Sr. Experience Designer working at Dollar Shave Club I lead large roadmap projects, lead UX for the entire consumer facing e-commerce web platform, lead various business innovation initiatives and help challenge the norms of traditional e-commerce platforms. I help craft the holistic brand experiences throughout all touch points of our subscription customers. I ideate, design and polish new features for existing digital properties, and conceptualizing new products and digital experiences.

Dollar Shave Club Experience Designer Los Angeles, CA July 2015 - December 2015 As an experience designer at Dollar Shave Club, I help craft the holistic brand experiences throughout all touch points of our subscription customers. I ideate, design and polish new features for existing digital properties, and conceptualizing new products and digital experiences.

Team One USA Experience Designer Los Angeles, CA June 2014 - July 2015 Working on Lexus, Lexus Dealers Association, 2K Games and various internal projects my role is to ensure the end user has the best possible interaction with the brand across all digital and physical touch points.

VML UX Intern New York, NY June 2013 - August 2013 I was brought in as an Art Direction intern, but I worked half of the time in the creative department, and the other half with the UX team. In my short internship, I worked on multiple accounts including: Campbells Soup, BallPark Franks, Hillshire Farm, Ernst & Young, Xerox and did extensive work on 2 new business pitches.

EDUCATION 🎓
I'm a life-long learner

Graduate VCU Brandcenter 2014 Masters in Business / Experience Design & Branding

Undergraduate Virginia Commonwealth University 2012 Bachelors in Mass Communications - Creative Advertising & Art Direction

Other Stuff 📖
Publications and speaking

"After Effects In A UX Workflow" Smashing Magazine June 2015 We all aim to be as agile as possible in today’s fast-paced web design world, while also remaining thoughtful of the end user and those we work with. After Effects is a great tool that enables us to quickly visualize and test robust animation patterns throughout a web design, share those with the development team and clients, and even test variants with users to get quick validation on a design before it goes into production. Read the article

Keynote Speaker Global Accessibility Awareness Day LA May 2015 At this event, we revealed our new Indiegogo campaign for Dustin's Words and told our new company's accessibility story.

Session Speaker Accessibility Camp At Linkedin February 2015 I was invited to speak at LinkedIn for the 2nd annual Accessibility Camp Bay Area about Innovation, design and technology in physical product accessibility.

Session Speaker Accessibility Camp LA December 2014 This event was held at Belkin HQ in LA and I shared a session in where we spoke about innovating accessibility through products.

"A User-Centered Design Case Study" Smashing Magazine December 2014 Freelance writing for Smashing Magazine allows me to output articles that express my process, concepts in the realm of UX, case studies and share my experience with others on a highly trafficked web-magazine. Read the article

Featured Article Hackaday + Arduino Blog August 2014 A few of my physical computing projects were featured on these very influential tech IOT websites. Read the article