# Diane Boross > Retired Location: Belmont, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dianeboross Over 35 years of hardware and software design, process, communications and management experience in the telecommunications, enterprise business, and networking industries. Accomplished in delivering high quality, competitive and profitable products utilizing user centered design methodologies and industry standards. Earned multiple U.S. Patents, design and product awards, holding a B.S. in Industrial Design with Distinction and M.S. in Electronic Business Management. Specialties: Visual Design Solutions, Design Architectures, Guidelines, Specifications and Patterns, Agile and Lean Design Processes, Design Analysis, Business Analytics, Iterative Design Processes, Customer and User Role Stories, Use Cases and Design Flows, Wire-frames, Visuals, Prototypes, Graphic Designs and Artwork ## Work Experience ### Retired @ Retired Jan 2020 – Present ### UX Product Design Manager @ Boross Design Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Belmont, CA Helping companies set up and maintain profitable, efficient, and effective, design processes. ### Principal Interaction Designer @ Oracle Jan 2006 – Jan 2018 | Redwood City, CA Worked on next generation business applications for Security and CRM application product pillars and general design standards, guidelines and patterns for all enterprise business applications. ### Principal Product Designer @ Boross Design Jan 1999 – Jan 2006 | Belmont, CA Provided interactive product solutions and visual designs for Bay Area technology leaders: Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, Extreme Networks, Luminous Networks, Brocade Communications, Openwave Systems, Trapeze Networks, Topspin Communications, Fabric7 Systems, nSolutions, Zaffire Networks, Atmosphere Networks, Vital Signs, Living Smart Home Technologies ### Advisory User Interface Designer @ Brocade Communications, previously McData Storage Networks Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 | Santa Clara, CA Worked with Engineering, Testing and Marketing, to design, test, create and update design specification documents for SAN Network Management systems to improve product usability. ### Staff User Interface Engineer @ Brocade Communications Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 | San Jose, CA Engaging with customers, reviewed and evaluated current SAN Management Application suite user experience and designed and proposed new UI Standards based on product use cases, user personas and platform requirements to support and enforce application consistency, reuse and usability. ### Visual Interaction Design Manager @ SynOptics, Bay Networks, Nortel Networks (Sold to Avaya, then Extreme Networks) Jan 1990 – Jan 1999 | Santa Clara, CA Designed graphics, hardware and software product interfaces for Network Management equipment and Optivity software interfaces used to manage LANs, WANs, MANs and SANs. Managed and sustained all software visuals, usability processes, tools and components. ### Principal Industrial Designer @ Boross Industrial Design Jan 1987 – Jan 1990 | Fremont, CA Provided product interface and hardware design solutions for Tandem Computers, Harris Electronics, NeXT Computers, Acuson Ultrasound, FMC and Coherent Lasers. ### Senior Industrial Designer @ Hewlett-Packard, Agilent, now Keysight Technologies Jan 1979 – Jan 1987 | Santa Rosa, California Designed graphics and hardware for ease of use and assembly in the high frequency networks measurement and communications industry; Network Analyzers, Sweep Oscillators, Wave-guide Modules and high frequency hand-held test accessories. ## Education ### MSEBM in Electronic Business Management Notre Dame de Namur University ### BSID with Distinction in Industrial Design, Art and Business San José State University ### AA in Art, Design, General West Valley College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/diane-boross-47bb95 --- Source: https://flows.cv/dianeboross JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dianeboross/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13