# Lisa Beam 🎨 > Staff Product Designer | Senior UX Designer | Human Centered Design | Design Thinker | Product Design | Customer User Experience | Project Planning | Team Leadership | Cross Functional Collaboration Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/lisabeam I am a Senior UX Designer and researcher with 15+ years experience specializing in creating profoundly useable, desirable, and easy to use software. I excel at driving the UX efforts for multiple products to General Availability. My strengths include team leadership and cross-functional collaboration across all levels of the organization. I thrive at filling in the design gaps when there are ill-defined and unknown requirements. In my next role I am excited to leverage my expertise to integrate and improve the user experience for your product and business success. I look forward to finding opportunities to expand my leadership capabilities to grow with your organization. CORE COMPETENCIES Experience Design | User Research | Prototyping | Ideate Solutions | Interactive Design | Design Thinking | User-Centered Design | Wire Frames | User Testing | User Interface Design | Information Architecture | Mobile Design | Mentoring ## Work Experience ### Product Designer @ HP Jan 2024 – Present | Remote ### Product Design and Research @ Unknown Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 Provided UX design and research for small startup company ### Staff Product Designer @ Juniper Networks Jan 2014 – Jan 2023 | Sunnyvale Provide interaction design for various features of Juniper's SRX firewall security offering, including VPN, dashboard, reports, live threat map, and interactive blocking designs of IP's, Applications, and Users Provide interaction design support for Juniper's Advanced Threat Protection β€’ Designed multiple workflows for new security and malware products – Some features transitioned from a command-based interface to a web-based user interface, ensuring consistency across features and simplifying user tasks. β€’ Led cross-functional, multi-geographical team to create high fidelity mockups used in customer studies, which resulted in a highly recognized and Gartner-ranked security product, co-authored one interaction design patent for two features: Live threat map allows users to view a threat’s origin in real time and block the threat IP or entire source country; Troubleshooting allows users to quickly block or throttle traffic while viewing live data insights. β€’ Designed multiple workflows for new SD-WAN service product – Worked with other designers to create high fidelity mockups for network site creation, management, and monitoring features which were well received during usability testing. Co-authored one interaction design patent: Hybrid diagramming application to provide a flexible network diagramming environment while also ensuring that the rules of the network are not violated. β€’ Lead designer for an AI-enabled network automation cloud and on-prem solution. Created design workflows for both web and mobile features. New product included the consolidation of 6 separate products purchased by Juniper. Design specs, wireframes, and mockups created with Adobe Create Suite, Balsalmiq, Sketch, Invision, and Figma ### UX Researcher @ Independent Consultant Jan 2009 – Jan 2014 Various research projects, including training others in research methodologies and co-authoring training materials to teach organizations about implementing their own user design research. ### Sr. UX Designer @ Accellion Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto Interaction design and research activities for mobile and web-based enterprise collaboration and file sharing tools. ### User Experience Design Research Consultant @ McAfee Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Santa Clara Strategic research including contextual inquiries and usability studies for security solution for home and small businesses. ### User Experience Design Research Consultant @ Cisco Systems Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Design and conduct research for TelePresence solutions including touchpad/tablet devices ### User Experience Design Research Consultant @ Intuit Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Design and conduct research for Intuit Payroll products ### User Experience Research Consultant @ Yahoo! Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Design and conduct research for communications applications including Yahoo! Email and Instant Messenger ### Sr. Experience Design Researcher @ Intuit Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 While working for Intuit, I was the lead usability researcher responsible for planning and conducting all iterative usability work for the Intuit Business Suite of applications (Software as a Service apps for QuickBooks Enterprise users). The Suite included applications for Sales Force Automation, Business Intelligence, Field Services Dispatching, and Inventory Management. Other responsibilities included: β€’ Project manager for all research activities relating to the Business Suite applications β€’ Conducted multiple iterative usability studies, walkthroughs, heuristic evaluations, field studies, and benchmark studies of web-based and mobile phone based applications with professional business users; created an advisory council of potential customers to seek rapid feedback iterative on wireframe designs β€’ Ran focus groups and presented at Intuit conferences β€’ Facilitated all usability recommendations and results sessions with feature teams, technical report writing, bug reporting and tracking, formal results presentations β€’ Worked closely with interaction designers, visual designers, tech writers, customer support representatives, marketing managers, and product managers when creating research plans and iterating on designs for new features ### Principle User Research Scientist @ Ariba Jan 2001 – Jan 2006 While working for Ariba I was the lead usability researcher responsible for planning and conducting all iterative usability work for prototype and production internet-based procurement software for Ariba Buyer, Ariba Buyer Administrator, Ariba Analysis, and Ariba Supplier Network. The applications included web-based PO's, Contract Management, Catalog Management and search, and Invoicing. Some of my responsibilties included conducting multiple usability studies, walkthroughs, heuristic evaluations, field studies, and contextual inquiries with technical and professional business users; facilitating all usability recommendations and results sessions with feature teams, technical report writing, bug reporting and tracking, formal results presentations I worked closely with interaction designers, visual designers, tech writers, and product managers while iterating on designs for new features I provided some designs using Adobe products. β€’ Led iterative usability research for Ariba’s internet-based procurement software, improving user experience in web-based PO’s, Contract Management, Catalog Management, and invoicing. β€’ Conducted diverse usability studies, technical report writing, and formal result presentations, enhancing user-centric features and tracking bug resolutions. β€’ Refined and enhanced feature designs by collaborating with cross-functional teams, including interaction and visual designers, tech writers, engineers, and product managers. ### Sr. User Experience Researcher @ Yahoo Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 | eGroups was purchased by Yahoo! Lead user experience researcher responsible for running studies of prototype and production consumer-level internet software, including all features contained in the "Fun" module for Yahoo Conducted multiple usability studies, walkthroughs, heuristic evaluations, and comparative studies with consumer-level end users Created a usability lab for eGroups - created design spec, proposal, and purchased equipment Designed wire-frame mockup for an ad serving product for the eGroups core product using DreamWeaver Facilitated all usability issues and results sessions with feature teams, technical report writing, formal results presentations ### Usability Engineer @ Oracle Jan 1995 – Jan 1999 Lead usability engineer for iterative design and usability testing of prototype, Alpha, Beta, and production software for developer tools and databases including Developer 2000, Oracle 8, and WebDB Conducted contextual inquiries, cognitive walkthroughs, task analysis, heuristic evaluations, competitive testing, focus group creation/moderation, video highlights tape generation GUI design using Visual Basic Created a usability lab for Oracle UK Facilitated all usability issues and results sessions with feature teams, technical report writing, bug reporting and tracking, formal results presentations, specifications writing, statistical analysis Mentoring and training of interns in various usability methodologies and GUI design ### Research Intern @ Symantec Jan 1994 – Jan 1995 Conducted studies of prototype utility program for Windows 95, provided design recommendations and technical report writing ## Education ### MA in Human Factors California State University, Northridge ### BA in Psychology California State University, Fresno ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lisabeam --- Source: https://flows.cv/lisabeam JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/lisabeam/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13