# Cardinal O'Neill

> Senior AI Product Designer at Cisco

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/cardinal

Senior AI product designer and strategic UX leader guiding cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, multi-platform AI experiences that maximize human-AI collaboration and drive product impact.


Skills: 
AI product design • UI/UX design • Visual design • Interaction design • Desktop & mobile application design • Web design • Motion design • Design systems • UX strategy • Creative direction • Building, leading & mentoring teams • Listening • Asking questions • Thinking big • Solving problems • Making the complex simple

Portfolio:
www.cardinaloneill.com

## Work Experience
### Senior AI Product Designer - Security Business Group (SBG) @ Cisco
Jan 2023 – Present | San Jose, CA
Network, Threat & AI UX team, AI UX Playbook, and host of the AI UX Guild

### Senior Product Designer - Devices Technology Group (DTG) @ Cisco
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Jose, CA
Wearables and peripherals desktop applications, and Webex app integrations

### Senior Product Designer - Unified Communication Technology Group (UCTG) @ Cisco
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, CA
Cloud calling and collaboration applications for desktop and mobile

### Senior UX Designer @ BroadSoft
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Jose, CA
Senior UX design lead for a suite of enterprise collaboration applications for desktop, mobile, and web. Collaborated with a global team of designers, engineers, executives, and product managers across all stages of product development.

### Creative Director @ PureMatter
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Jose, CA
Creative lead on all accounts with a focus on responsive websites and social media content development. Awarded “Viral Marketing Campaign of the Year” for IBM’s #NewWayToWork social media campaign.

### Principal Product Designer @ CheerMeApps
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Jose, CA
Product design lead for a suite of social shopping apps for mobile. Responsible for all stages of the design process: discovery, concepts, information architecture, user flows, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, testing, and final design spec.

### Co-founder/Creative Director @ Interactive Habitat
Jan 2007 – Jan 2012 | San Jose, CA
Co-founded and managed a 12-person interactive agency. Recruited, built, and led a cross-functional team of copywriters, designers, developers, and project managers.

### Strategic Partner/Creative Director @ SolutionSet
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 | Palo Alto, CA
Partnered with agency to expand support on Plantronics account. Increased billings from $10,000 to over $300,0000 in 6 months.

### Creative Director @ Becker Creative Group
Jan 1999 – Jan 2006 | San Jose, CA
Provided hands-on creative direction to a team of art directors, copywriters, and production designers. Defined and reinforced the eBay brand across multiple divisions and categories, including the creation of their first global brand guideline.

### Creative Director @ Wang Idea Works
Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 | Chicago, IL

### Associate Creative Director @ Elliott | Dickens Advertising
Jan 1995 – Jan 1998 | San Jose, CA


## Education
### Graphic Design
San José State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cardinaloneill
- Portfolio: https://www.cardinaloneill.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13