# Ben R.

> Senior Product Designer @ MongoDB, Designing for Developers

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

Hello there! 👋 I'm a former scientist turned self-taught developer/designer hybrid with a focus on problem framing, validation, and portability of solutions. 10+ years spanning a creative studio, SaaS startup, and several complex Fortune 100 companies has sharpened my craft to focus on thinking and delivering value in terms of scalable systems and services.

Design systems and service design are passions of mine, but I leverage the entire breadth of design where I can to align people on the big "why" that drives people's needs. Where brand and product meet, I love to be the strategic glue in steering a solid experience.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer @ MongoDB
Jan 2022 – Present | New York, New York, United States
• Designing simple ways for developers to work with their data through MongoDB's Compass desktop app, MongoDB shell, the MongoDB VS Code extension, and Atlas CLI.

### Senior Product Design Manager @ AmerisourceBergen
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote
• Technical product owner and team manager of the fully remote enterprise design systems team.
• Managing and mentoring both designers and developers.
• Helped to shape the design organization, tooling infrastructure, and bridge brand design with product design.

### Product Design Lead @ AmerisourceBergen
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Remote
• Designed AmerisourceBergen's internal enterprise design system and championed cross-framework components built with Stencil.
• Scaled the design systems team by several talented designers and developers.

### Design Systems Lead @ American Airlines
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area
• Designed, documented, and championed platform-oriented design systems across web, mobile, and kiosk touchpoints.
• Shepherded new infrastructure through the adoption of Figma and the deprecation of several dated operational processes.

### Principal Product Designer, Financial Services @ Capital One
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area
• Supported the Financial Services branch of Capital One designing portable systems across consumer loan divisions with a major focus on auto financing.
• Designed and tested the initial concept that launched Capital One's first auto financing mobile app.

### Senior Product Designer, Home Loans @ Capital One
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area
• Supported the Financial Services branch of Capital One designing for the entire lifecycle of mortgages and home equity loans.
• Assisted the company in launching its first centralized, product-unifying platform--EASE (Enterprise Account Servicing Experience), providing detailed flows and designs covering all services homeowners rely on for account management.

### User Experience Designer @ AT&T
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area
• Designed the business network & inventory management features of AT&T's first enterprise B2B platform, Business Center.
• Assisted with designing and curating the platform's first in-house front-end pattern library.

### Frontend Dev / Designer @ OrgSync
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area

### Frontend Dev / Designer @ OrgSync
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area

### Graphic & Web Designer @ Midnight Society Creative Studio
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Chicago, IL

### Research Assistant II @ Bioinformatics/Genomics at Baylor Institute for Immunology Research
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area
• Supported bioinformaticians with developmental software specifications, data generation and management, and the fine-tuning of proprietary software that reduced workload on in-house researchers
• Assisted with developing microarray and next-generation sequencing workflows in response to newer industry standards and labs’ needs
• Aided with department budgeting and requisitions of grants and new projects
• Worked with clinical and scientific researchers to engineer and implement quality assurance
measures for submitted projects, and optimizing as needed to ensure projections were met or exceeded

### Student Research Assistant @ Pace Proteomics Lab at Texas A&M Health Science Center
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | College Station, TX
• Maintained a number of relational databases pertaining to proteomics as our lab analyzed denatured proteins using CD spectroscopy for the possible existence of secondary structures within their unfolded, non-native states.

### Systems Support Technician @ Biomedical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | College Station, TX
• Responsible for maintaining numerous biomedical machines and computer interfaces.
• Assisted departmental staff with relational database maintenance of enrolled student records.
• Oversaw provisioning of departmental computer equipment and reclamations.

### Student Worker I @ Samuel Lab at Texas A&M Health Science Center
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | College Station, TX
• Assisted graduate students in the exploration of developing a recombinant vaccination to elicit an immune response to the bacteria Coxiella burnetti.
April 2008 – May 2009
• Acquired a laboratory skill set encompassing basic molecular biology techniques such as bacterial inoculation, electroporation, cell culture, isolation, and nucleic acid/protein assays.


## Education
### B.Sc. in Molecular and cellular biology
Texas A&M University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bsradcliffe

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Last updated: 2026-03-30