{"id":9,"date":"2018-08-08T14:53:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sarahbloomer.com\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2022-03-22T21:06:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T21:06:11","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sarahbloomer.com\/?page_id=9","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_46\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sarahbloomer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/15654367846_54b4c29af3_k-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Sarah\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sarahbloomer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/15654367846_54b4c29af3_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sarahbloomer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/15654367846_54b4c29af3_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sarahbloomer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/15654367846_54b4c29af3_k-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sarahbloomer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/15654367846_54b4c29af3_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sarah at UX India<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hello! My name is Sarah Bloomer.<\/p>\n<p>I started in user experience when we called ourselves &#8220;usability engineers&#8221;.\u00a0 I have extensive experience with interactive software design, design research and UX team development. I&#8217;m best when working collaboratively to help teams find the right strategy, discover knowledge about their customers and apply that knowledge to experience and product design. Collaborative design allows me to mentor internal teams through product design expediently.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m based in Boston, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m passionate about helping companies set up new UX teams or optimize their existing teams. My interest in teams and UX leadership led to invitations to speak on the topic of teams and UX maturity. I\u00a0 established the UX Managers Get Togethers to enable UX leaders to help each other.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m not coaching, I&#8217;m leading or collaborating in design research and product strategy, coaching teams through design thinking to create human centered products and services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More about me<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaker and conference presenter in USA, Asia and Australia.<\/li>\n<li>Adjunct professor: Olin College, Lesley University.<\/li>\n<li>Product strategist: Discovery research, design facilitation, product strategy.<\/li>\n<li>Training: Professional workshops and courses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What I&#8217;ve done when I&#8217;m not consulting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GfK &#8211; SVP UX Consulting (2017-2018)<br \/>\nForrester &#8211; Director, Customer Experience (2015-2017)<br \/>\nConstant Contact &#8211; Director of User Experience (2009 &#8211; 2011)<br \/>\nMathworks &#8211; Senior UX Practitioner (2002-2006)<br \/>\nThe Hiser Group &#8211; Co-founder and Principal (1991 &#8211; 2002)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sample project list<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Act! LLC (May 2020 &#8211; March 2022) <em>Product and user research, product strategy, UX director, Interaction design<\/em><br \/>\nDNC Tech Team (May 2019 &#8211; June 2020) <em>UX Research<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/publicradiobizlab.org\/\"><br \/>\nWBUR BizLab<\/a> (Sept 2018 &#8211; February 2020) <em>Innovation research; lean startup coaching; design thinking workshop facilitation<\/em><br \/>\nConvene (Sept &#8217;18 &#8211; May &#8217;19) <em>UX research, process development and product strategy<br \/>\n<\/em>Julius (Aug &#8217;18 &#8211; May &#8217;19) <em>UX research and strategy<\/em><br \/>\nWBUR BizLab (June &#8217;18) <em>Product innovation workshop<\/em><br \/>\nForrester Research (Oct &#8217;12-Sept &#8217;15) <em>Customer research, service design, website digital strategy, mobile design and user testing, UX design for web and intranet. UX and writing for the web workshops.\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nPipedrive (Jun &#8217;15-Sept &#8217;15) <em>Product and CX research<\/em><br \/>\nAetna (Jul &#8217;15) <em>UX Training<\/em><br \/>\nBrainshark (Feb &#8217;15-June &#8217;15) <em>UX team coaching<\/em><br \/>\nBuildium (May-Aug &#8217;14) <em>UX team development and coaching<\/em><br \/>\nTrustLayers (Apr &#8217;14) <em>Product strategy<\/em><br \/>\nCopyright Clearance Center (Mar-May &#8217;14) <em>User walkthroughs and web redesign<\/em><br \/>\nBalihoo (Jul-Oct &#8217;13) <em>UX research, product strategy and UX coaching<\/em><br \/>\nCarbonite (Jul &#8217;12-Nov &#8217;13) <em>UX coaching,\u00a0team development; team strategy workshop<\/em><br \/>\nVerizon Terremark (Nov &#8217;12-Jun &#8217;13) <em>UX research and UI design for VerizonCloud application<\/em><br \/>\nKronos (May-Oct &#8217;12) <em>UX training, UX team strategy workshop<\/em><br \/>\nAthenahealth (Jan &#8217;12) <em>Sketching workshop<\/em>; d<em>esign facilitation workshop<\/em><br \/>\nSyncsort (Feb-Oct &#8217;12) <em>Interaction design, user research, persona development; UI design training<\/em>.<br \/>\nSophos (Jun &#8217;11-Jan &#8217;12) U<em>X research; intranet design; info architecture and wireframes; service design for Sales; UX standards<\/em><br \/>\nConstant Contact (Jul &#8217;11-Sep &#8217;11) <em>Persona development; usability testing<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! My name is Sarah Bloomer. I started in user experience when we called ourselves &#8220;usability engineers&#8221;.\u00a0 I have extensive experience with interactive software design, design research and UX team development. 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