# Cole Teza

> UI/UX Designer at Lam Research

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

Since I was young I've been hyper-observant of the software around me. I particularly noticed the user interfaces I found frustrating and friendly. I use my perspective of the technology I surround myself with as my north star to build software that does not need a training manual. As a designer with an engineering background, I feel fluent in discussing a project between both technical and non-technical team members. My engineering background helps me to design software that is not only friendly for the user but also for the developers. I design apparel as a hobby and take my skills learned there to improve and challenge my designs and notions.

## Work Experience
### UI/UX Designer @ Lam Research
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### UX/UI Designer @ Future Motion
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Santa Cruz, California, United States
- Founded UI/UX team and design standards for the company
- Lead team of 3 software developers in building out designs
- Designed logistics systems that lead to a large productivity improvement 
- Designing large scale internal software projects 
- Researching user needs and technical/data limitations
- Designing customer-facing and internal software web apps
- Designing original work icons for use in projects
- Adobe XD, Adobe Photoshop

### Software Developer @ Future Motion
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Santa Cruz, CA
-Designed and built web apps on a small team
-Deployed internal systems that greatly increased productivity
-React, Python, and Flask

### Board Specialist @ Future Motion
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Santa Cruz, CA
Technical/Customer Support Representative:
- Troubleshooting and Debugging of software and hardware products
- Communicated directly with 1000's of customers involving technical explanations
- Learned high-volume multitasking 

Analyst:
- Developed inner/outer company policy concurrently with all teams
- Created company flow charts
- Analyzed company and customer support flow in order to optimize systems and workflow
- Developed/implemented improved inner office tools/systems in response
- Created monthly reports

### Machine Learning Researcher @ University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Santa Cruz
- Worked on a Cisco funded machine learning research team
- Implemented logistic regression in Python with 98% accuracy
- Utilized SciPy, Pandas, numPy on Jupyter Notebook

### Project Manager @ Gesher Group
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Santa Cruz, California
Gesher Group is a small consulting group run through UC Santa Cruz offering free consulting to small, medium, and large-sized companies (ex: GoPro, Disney, Target, Logitech, MindTouch)

-Led a team with weekly meetings and assigned tasks. 
-Met with company execs to update progress and make revisions (Blue Nimble)
-Created objectives/deliverables and executed them 
-Researched, constructed and contacted a list of 50 potential customers
-Created a repeatable authentic individualized e-mail and social media campaign 
-Created a call script and sales pitch for capturing new customers

### Consultant @ Gesher Group
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Santa Cruz, California
Gesher Group is a small consulting group run through UC Santa Cruz offering free consulting to small, medium, and large-sized companies (ex: GoPro, Disney, Target, Logitech, MindTouch)

- Consulted for a variety of bay area companies. (Goodwill, Bix Bikes, Indigital Studios, and BlueNimble) 
- Tasks include (website design/redesign, social media marketing, surveying, research, event planning, audience expansion, customer profiling, customer outreach, data analysis (SQL), etc.  

(All projects were worked on in small teams over a 9-12 week period)

### Intern @ The Vitamin Shoppe
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
- Learned data collection/analysis methods for communities in order to determine lease renewals and new location openings
- Learned lease negotiating through meetings with developers and property managers
- Attended the commercial real estate convention RECON

### Dining Hall Worker @ UC Santa Cruz
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Cowell College
- Learned to keep an open mind and a good attitude in high-stress environments
- Learned to work proactively and independently, yet ask for help when necessary

### Valet @ LAZ Parking
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Greater San Diego Area

### Sales Internship @ PhotoBin.com
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Greater San Diego Area
- Sold photo scanning services and completed some of the largest company sales
- Learned how to set-up and complete a sale  
- Weekly sales meeting with the CEO and the team 
- Learned about startup culture and the importance of rapid development


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management
University of California, Santa Cruz


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31