# Al Brandon

> Senior UX Designer at Anomali

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/albrandon

I like to think that UX Design is all about creative problem solving and finding value for users.

## Work Experience
### Senior UX Designer @ Anomali
Jan 2024 – Present | Redwood City, California, United States
- Co-leads a two-person design leadership team, shaping UX strategy across Anomali’s cybersecurity SaaS suite, used by Fortune 500 companies and global threat intelligence teams.
- Designed and launched intuitive UIs for complex SOC analyst workflows (SIEM, SOAR, TIP), increasing conversion rates and boosting product sales.
- Working on cutting-edge AI initiatives, from agentic customer workflows to MCP integration and next-generation platform features.
- Partnered with PMs and Engineers in agile sprints to launch key 0–1 features that have become integral to daily customer operations.
- Lead the analysis of usage data and adoption metrics to measure impact and optimize customer workflows.
- Expert in Figma for UX/UI design, while also leveraging IDEs like Windsurf and Cursor to produce high-fidelity prototypes with production-ready front-end code.
- Implemented scalable, standardized design ops that improved design-to-development handoff and reduced production friction.

### UX Designer @ Independent Consultant
Jan 2017 – Present | SF Bay Area
- Works with various small businesses and startups to enhance their online presence and user engagement through implementing UX best practices. 
Identified research questions, defined problem statements, and conducted mixed-method research studies for small businesses. 
- Generated project scope, identified design and development opportunities for business growth.
- Prepared and presented concise, actionable, and practical research recommendations to stakeholders.
- Conducted research focusing on qualitative methods, primarily, in-depth interviews, usability studies, competitive analysis, ethnographic field studies, and contextual inquiry with experience in quantitative methods such as A/B studies, diary studies, card sorting, tree tests, and surveys.
- Leverage third party research resources (userinterviews, userzoom, maze) to ensure relevant participant selection for research studies.

### Senior UX Designer @ Clearwater Analytics
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
- Led process driven change within the design team to formalize best
practices and evidence-based decision making.
- Expert Figma and Adobe suite user, led weekly workshops with other
designers to educate and raise the team’s skills and efficiency.
- Increased handoff speed to engineers by 60%.
- Produced and implemented Design System documentation including, style
guides, figma kits, and governance.
- Working with Product teams to incorporate Generative Ai solutions into our
existing products and create new forward thinking patterns related to Ai.
- Saved (on average) 8 hours a week of Engineering rework by standardizing
new global patterns and ensuring that our UX is technically feasible.
- Maintains an NPS of 60+ by emphasizing the need for a coherent UX across
all of CW’s product offerings.
- Implemented lean UX Design across 5+ Scrum teams.
- Reduced the GTM for a 0 to 1 product to 2 months by facilitating UX
workshops to drive actionable UX decisions and maintain alignment.
- Provided maps, wireframes, clickable prototypes, and mockups to
stakeholders to maintain their velocity and reach their quarterly business
OKRs/KPIs.
- Pioneered Clearwater’s lean UX research efforts and evidence-based
decision making model through numerous Figma, Confluence, and
- Powerpoint templates that have been shared and reused by both Product
and Design teams.
- Provided cross-functional teams with actionable research findings and
reports based on user interviews, surveys, usability-testing, and AB testing.
Introduced and led the license acquisition of Clearwater’s first UX research
tool, Userlytics.
- Led the effort to produce formal documentation to be shared across the
organization including the Design Quarterly Newsletter, management of the
Design Team’s Confluence space, management of the Jira backlog, and
Design Process documentation.
- Onboarded and trained new hires.
- Maintains excellent rapport and knowledge sharing across all teams and
stakeholders.

### Social Work Researcher @ Contra Costa County
Jan 2014 – Jan 2021 | Pleasant Hill, CA
- Redesigned UX and UI of an internal database tool to streamline note taking and promote a new SOP that is still in use today.
- Managed caseloads of 20+ individual families throughout 12-18 month longitudinal studies.
- Conducted behavioral research using a wide variety of qualitative methods including in-depth interviews, ethnographic field studies, and contextual inquiries.
- Led expert reviews with treatment providers and legal professionals to gain a wider consensus on parent and child interactions.
- Analyzed research findings and synthesized results into legal reports to be presented in court during CPS hearings at 3 -6 months intervals and up to 18 months.
- Translated reports into actionable insights with the intent of iterating on program structure and boosting successful resolution of active CPS cases.

### Lead Behavioral Specialist @ Thunder Road Adolescent Treatment; Sutter Health
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | 390 40th St, Oakland, CA 94609
- Shaped program structure while collaborating with licensed professional therapists.
- Implemented and led cognitive behavioral therapy workshops into program structure. 
- Collaborated with Alameda, San Francisco, and Contra Costa counties to ensure programatic rigor.
- Worked directly with teenage clients with mental illness and substance abuse issues in a residential milieu setting.
- Responsible for implementing daily therapeutic program structure for a unit of 15+ teenage clients at a time as well as supervising a team of employees.
- Provided supervision twice a week to a team of two residential counselors identifying areas of improvement as well as providing positive reinforcement.
- Provided one on one crisis management counseling to clients. 
- Developed actionable goals with clients aimed at improving stress management and coping skills.
- Collaborated with therapists and program managers in weekly treatment planning.

### Research Assistant @ University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | California, United States
- Worked as part of a Graduate research team developing a thesis regarding Education and the effects of educator-student behavior.
- Conducted ethnographic field research provided coding and analysis on qualitative research findings.
- Developed interview script.
- Developed personas for both children and teacher participant groups to focus thesis on important datasets.
- Provided editing and analysis.

### Intern Behavioral Specialist @ Community Connection
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | 300 Harvey West Blvd, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
-Worked with adults dealing with mental health issues as well as substance abuse issues at Community Connections, an outpatient rehabilitation center. 
-Created and facilitated diverse and engaging group therapy sessions with a focus on CBT techniques.
- Provided group and individual counseling to adult dual-diagnosis clients.
- Provided case management services including housing and job searches as well as assisting with medication regimens. 
- Provided in-crisis and post-crisis intervention.


## Education
### BA Psychology in Intensive Psychology
University of California, Santa Cruz

### Certification in Human Computer Interaction- Interaction Design
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/albrandon
- Portfolio: http://www.uxfol.io/albrandonux

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Last updated: 2026-04-13