# Kevin G. > Design Leadership, OpenSearch project at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/keving3 I breathe design and sweat code. ## Work Experience ### UX Manager @ OpenSearch Project Jan 2022 – Present | East Palo Alto, California, United States ### UX Manager, OpenSearch Project @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2022 – Present | East Palo Alto, California, United States ### Lead UX Designer, OpenSearch @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | East Palo Alto, California, United States ### Senior UX Designer, Amazon Elasticsearch Service @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | East Palo Alto, California, United States • Lead UX for the OpenSearch 1.0 launch effort, including brand & product support • Lead Open Source design on OpenSearch Dashboards core, design system, visualizations & plugins • Launched Cold Storage on Amazon Elasticsearch Service, helping customers achieve 80%+ cost per GB savings on archival data vs Hot clusters • Launched OpenSearch Reporting, allowing customers to export PDF, PNG & CSV data on demand & on a schedule from saved searches, visualizations & dashboards. ### Design Manager @ Xcalar, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Jose, CA • Lead Heuristic evaluation, usability testing, new feature prioritization, taxonomy review and product design alignment in a fast-paced, engineering driven organization. • Delivered a Big Data Saas product in a short timeline by providing UX leadership and prioritization to cross-functional team. • Built design and product infrastructure by providing design direction and product vision, while balancing business needs with engineering resource availability. ### Senior UX Designer (IoT) @ Cisco Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 • Evolved the Control Center IoT platform as it scaled from 17 million to over 120 million devices under management, supporting 60+ service providers and over 20,000 enterprises worldwide. • Improved the Control Center’s UI, Analytics, Automation, Notification, Audit and Billing offerings by establishing close partnerships with cross-functional PM and Engineering counterparts • Improved design tools, libraries and resources, increasing the design team velocity and quality of engineering handoffs. ### Visual Designer @ Cisco Jasper Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 Provided overflow capacity, creating icons, sprites, wireframes, userflows, and full-fledged product features on an ad-hoc basis as the needs of the design team fluctuated during pre-acquisition growth. ### Front End Web Developer/UX Designer @ Stanford University Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Stanford, CA • Built, established governance and evangelized Stanford University's cross-platform design system, Decanter. • Built the front-end for the redesigned Stanford.edu and Identity Toolkit websites. • Created a Storytelling system for Stanford News Automated Publishing Platform, greatly increasing the ease of self-serve feature story creation and reducing time-to-publish by 2x. • Art-directed and built a variety of digital storytelling packages for Stanford News. • Core member of the UX Community of Practice, where we shared best practices, institutional knowledge and resources with our peer UX practitioners across the institution. ### Front-End Designer @ Monterey Bay Aquarium Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 Web design and front-end development for Monterey Bay Aquarium’s family of web properties, including montereybayaquarium.org and seafoodwatch.org ### Art Director (Brand) @ CSU Monterey Bay Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Seaside, CA Shaped and defined CSUMB’s brand identity, owning design and art direction for both internal and external campus communication, including supporting admissions, university relations, marketing, planned giving and university advancement. ### Graphic & Web Designer @ CSU Monterey Bay Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 ### Graphic Design Volunteer @ 7th US Army JMTC Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 ### Graphic Designer @ Daily Press Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 ### Graphic Designer @ Waters Advertising Agency, Inc Jan 2003 – Jan 2003 ### Computer Lab Supervisor @ Andrews University Jan 1997 – Jan 2003 | Berrien Springs, MI ## Education ### BA in Visual Art, Graphic Design Andrews University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kgcreative - Portfolio: http://www.kevingarcia.me --- Source: https://flows.cv/keving3 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/keving3/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13