# Chester Cho

> Creating AI friends

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chestercho

An outside-the-box thinking product designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

## Work Experience
### Design @ Portola
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Product Design Lead @ Playground
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

### Member of Design Staff @ OpenAI
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Product Designer @ Triplebyte
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California
Joined as a first designer. Led design in the product team to disrupt the engineer recruitment industry. 
- Created Triplebyte design style guidelines for consistency in the platform.
- Crafted Ads - Animations/illustrations for Youtube (50K+ views), Reddit, Facebook, and Twitch.tv - to generate crowd interest.
- Made decisions of implementing new design patterns across the app & updating UI kit.

### Product Designer @ Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Menlo Park, CA
- Designed the initial concept of URBANETIC Cargo Van: molee (Mobile Locker Experience)
- Worked as the main decisive designer of Project CoROS (Cargo Recognition & Organization System), structured all initial designs of the platform as a service.
- Created both project brands and guidelines, UX/UI app/web, graphic animations, visuals, user flows, prototypes.

Skills:
• UX/UI design – App / Web Dashboard UI, Graphic design, Logo design, Rapid prototyping 
• Product/Industrial Design – Hand sketch, Renderings
• Concept development – Iterative design process, User-driven product development

### Future Transportation Systems Product Design Intern @ Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Menlo Park, CA

### Product Management Intern @ BYROBOT Co., Ltd.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Flying Robot Production - Drone Fighter
Drone Fighter is a micro combat flying robot. It is easy, smart and fun. The modular structure makes the maintenance easy and the unique flight control system makes the operation easy. Drone Fighter suggests battle gaming system equipped for IR shooting system that allows users to play against the others.

Contributions:
• Gathered user experience feedback, improved drone motors and propellers for usability through Solidworks
• Improved assembly line process by sensor test programs, achieving 150% of original output
• “Petrone Project”: worked with New Product Development Team of 5 engineers, provided a new concept through idea generation based on 20 user interviews

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
• Capstone Design Project: “Flexible & Wearable Nanocomposite-based Sensing System for Detecting Human Motion” in KAIST Mechanical Engineering Multifunctional & Integrated Nanosystems Technology (MINT) Group 
• KAIST Graduate School of Culture Technology Undergraduate Research Program: Augmented Reality Piano Score Book to improve the experience of piano players

### Research Intern @ KAIST Graduate School of Culture Technology, Ubiquitous Virtual Reality Lab
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
• Researched Bare-and-Both Handed GUI Widget Control and Application for Wearable Augmented Reality System
• Usability test of hand-pointer user interface for a remote control on Head-mounted Display
• Developed an AR piano system and AR piano score book to improve the experience of piano players


## Education
### Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mechanical Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hyun901126

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Last updated: 2026-04-13