# Michael Spear

> Principal UX Designer at Globality, Inc.

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

I am a UX/Product designer with a background in mechanical engineering. I've worked with customers around the world to scope, design, and build custom industrial IoT software solutions for a variety of business applications including fleet management, scheduling optimization, and demand forecasting.

I am excited to keep building creative solutions for complex customer challenges through a process that puts empathy at the forefront to truly capture end user needs while satisfying requirements of all stakeholders.

## Work Experience
### Principal UX Designer @ Globality, Inc.
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff UX Designer @ Globality, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Product Design Manager @ Avast
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Emeryville, California, United States

### Senior Product Designer @ Avast
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Emeryville, CA

### Product Designer @ Avast
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Emeryville, CA

### Senior UX Interaction Designer @ GE Digital
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
The Emerging Verticals team is a multi-disciplinary team structured to engage with non-GE customers around the world, build custom software solutions on the Predix platform, and contribute generalized components back to the GE Digital product catalog.

As a senior designer on this team I get to...

• Facilitate customer facing workshops that leverage design thinking techniques to define and prioritize areas of opportunity, feature requirements, metrics of success, and project roadmaps.

• Drive customer alignment through visual communication (research reports, roadmaps, ecosystem diagrams, affinity maps, etc.).

• Conduct on-site end user research to support persona definition and journey map creation.

• Design and validate web app UI features and workflows with end-users.

• Build production level wireframes on a cross-functional agile team satisfying the defined roadmap.

### UX Interaction Designer @ GE Digital
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Greater Atlanta Area

### Design Engineer Intern @ Karten Design
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Marina Del Rey, California

### Manufacturing Engineer @ Chart Industries
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012

### Mechanical Engineer Co-op @ Norfolk Southern
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009


## Education
### Master of Industrial Design
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015

### BSME in Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2005 – Jan 2010


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-25