# Corinne Kieras > UX Design Lead @ Forterra Location: Washington DC-Baltimore Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/corinnekieras https://www.corinnekieras.com/ Hello! I'm Corinne, currently working as a UX / UI Designer. I am dedicated to accessibility, usability, and data-driven insights. I have a background in empathy-driven designs, with a keen understanding of technical constraints to bring designs to life. I'm always open to connecting with like-minded professionals. Let's connect and explore potential collaborations! #DesignInTech #DesignEnthusiast #UserExperience #DesignThinking #UXResearch #UIUXSpecialist #ProductDesign #AccessibilityAdvocate ## Work Experience ### UX Design Lead @ Forterra Jan 2026 – Present ### Senior UX & UI Designer @ Forterra Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 ### UX Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States Orchestrated end-to-end user experience design, ensuring seamless interactions throughout the Xbox Gaming Experimentation Portal. Crafted high-fidelity mockups using ongoing user research insights for iterative design enhancements. Collaborated with diverse teams, including Store Team, Game Pass Team, PC Experiences Team, Web Team, Design Team, Mobile App Team, Cloud Team, and other software engineers skilled in ReactJS, JavaScript, and C#, resulting in its successful user-centric realization. Spearheaded user experiments across divisions, optimizing user experiences through collaborative insights. Cultivated key partnerships with Gaming Data Services and Gaming Platform Engineering Groups for integrating experimentation principles, fostering organizational enhancement. Led comprehensive requirements gathering, ensuring a deep understanding of user needs. Attained a remarkable 59% year-over-year increase in A/B experiments conducted organization-wide, including 3 new teams running experiments and achieving a 22% decrease in help tickets filed to the team. ### Software Engineer Intern on Xbox Gaming Experience @ Microsoft Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Worked with the Xbox Gaming Experience team to develop an internal web application tool to streamline the process of pushing Xbox features to consoles. ### UX/UI Designer @ Fomeno Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States Conducted a comprehensive usability audit of Fomeno's v1 app, assessing its design aspects and mobile accessibility. Generated and presented detailed design update recommendations, emphasizing usability enhancements and mobile accessibility improvements. Produced and delivered finalized designs and actionable recommendations to the development team for implementation. ### Chief Technology Officer and Software Engineer @ St. Olaf College Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Northfield, Minnesota Led a team of three engineers, orchestrating enhancements and updates to the Oleville student website, fostering a cohesive digital platform for student engagement. Demonstrated creativity, analytical skills, and deep knowledge of user-facing technologies to craft prototypes pinpointing optimal product experiences, improving user satisfaction. Directed a complete redesign of the college's student website UI, resulting in a 5% increase in traffic and an intuitive, visually appealing user experience Conceptualized, designed, and implemented innovative technologies, including a dynamic voting application, driving a 10% increase in student voter participation. Engaged with the student body of 2,988 individuals as the primary audience, aligning technology with their needs, while also serving as the liaison between students and administration by offering technical assistance to the student government association. Appointed by the previous CTO, endorsed by the VP and president of the student body. Criteria included a minimum passing GPA and technical prerequisites, such as specific technical courses and proficiency in WordPress. Held a 40-hour per week position, typically dedicating 30-35 hours weekly to the role. ### Linux Ladies Co-Leader @ St. Olaf College Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 Program the club website in HTML and CSS. Plan club events such as a lecture on the importance of women in computer science for the incoming freshman. Plan the curriculum of Linux Ladies Intro to Coding classes to get more women exposed to computer science. ### Researcher: Algorithmic Bias in Modified Naive Bayes Implementation @ St. Olaf College Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Northfield, Minnesota Worked with one other student in modifying the Naive Bayes Spam filtering algorithm to improve rates of classification of spam emails, and used this to investigate the impact of dataset bias, and the consequences this can have on the classification of emails. Received first place in the undergraduate division for this research at MinneWIC 2019 (Midwest Conference for Women in Computing). ### Supplemental Instruction Leader for CSCI 121 @ St. Olaf College Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 Work one-on-one with Professor Elangovan to make lesson plans and lead supplemental instruction for approximately 50 students in Computer Science 121. Provide a secondary source of information, instruction, and mentor for the students by attending every class to assist in explaining material, as well as conducting outside of class sessions three times a week to answer questions and review material. ### St. Olaf-Carleton Engineering Team @ Carleton College, St. Olaf College Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Northfield, MN Work with 30 students on a cross-campus engineering team. Program a drone in Python in four months to compete in the International Aerial Robotics Competition. ### Microsoft Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Worked with two other interns on the Dynamics 365 for Field Service Team to develop a feature for the Field Service Application. ### University of Washington CS Summer Programs @ University of Washington Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area Assisted and taught summer computer science programs to approximately 75 elementary and middle schoolers. Camps included teaching the accessible Quorum Programming Language, Web Design, Girls’ Leadership in CS and Robotics. ## Education ### Professional Certificate in UX & Visual Design University of Washington ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science and Psychology St. Olaf College ### Holy Names Academy ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/corinne-kieras-a75917145 - Portfolio: https://www.corinnekieras.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/corinnekieras JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/corinnekieras/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31