Profile
Steve Raetz
UX DESIGNER
Name:Steve Raetz
Location:Kansas City
Phone:816.200.8901
Email:steven.raetz@me.com
LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/steveraetz
"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely."
- E.O. Wilson
Education
2014 -
2015
University of Colorado
Graduate School
Masters in Creative Technology
2007 -
2011
Baker University
Undergraduate School
Bachelors in Business Administration
Employment
2017 -
present
Sprint
Human Factors Engineer
Experience:
- Design of a customer self service portal that resulted in annual customer care headcount and operational savings of $15M
- Redesign and ownership of the Virgin Mobile (VMU) native iOS experience, an App Store top 100 utilities app (currently 4.0 stars)
- Design ownership of the Boost Mobile iOS experience, an App Store top 50 utilities app and Android experience (currently 4.0 and 4.1 stars)
2015 -
2017
EffectiveUI
UX Designer
Brands:
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Promontory Financial Group
- Vail Resorts
- American Express
- Trizetto (A Cognizant Company)
- Securian Financial/Minnesota Life
- PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers
Experience:
- Responsive Web Design
- iOS Native UX and Interaction Design
- Android Native UX and Interaction Design
- Generative Research and Usability Testing
- Screener and Protocol Creation
- Animation
- Rapid Prototyping
2014 -
2015
Boulder Digital Works
UX Designer
Graduate school co-op.
UX Skills: Researching, synthesizing, prototyping, testing & iterating.
Front-End Skills: HTML5, CSS3
Brands Steve worked with:
- Uber
- Allstate
- UXStrat.com
- Jarden
- ESRI
- Copper Mountain/Sherpa App
- Spiffly.is
- Fireside TV
2012 -
2014