# Miryana T. > Principal User Experience Designer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/miryana Accomplished design professional, with extensive user experience, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping skills. Experience leading creative projects and formulating strategies to improve user experiences and increase company exposure. Leading with deep empathy and genuine interest in designing for a better future. Passion for learning and sharing knowledge and experiences. ## Work Experience ### Principal Product Designer @ Splunk Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 Driving impactful, customer-based outcomes and advancing the long-term vision of the Splunk Observability Cloud product. I have led the successful execution of several significant features across every stage of the design lifecycle, from ideation to launch. These features aimed to improve the customers' troubleshooting and monitoring experience of their environment. My contributions have been recognized with multiple patents. I enjoy collaborating closely with fellow designers and cross-functional partners on large and complex features while also taking pride in mentoring others and contributing to the culture of the design team and Splunk as a whole. ### Lead User Experience Designer, Recommendations @ Ancestry Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 Responsible for the product design strategy for Ancestry Recommendations product, primary customer engagement vehicle. Driving initiatives that actualize the product vision over time by implementing user experience that is user-centered, cohesive, inclusive, accessible, performant. Active UX mentor within and outside of Ancestry. ### Senior User Experience Designer, Rapid Prototyping @ Ancestry Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 Co-founded Rapid Experience Design (RED) team that augmented feature teams and provided ideation, rapid prototyping, validation using a variety of UX research methods. Led story-telling strategy for the immersive content experience across topics with sustained cultural and historical value. Led the initiatives across DNA space and created concepts that spanned moonshots, long and near-term projects, all with the potential to transform consumer genomics. ### User Experience Designer @ Ancestry Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Led series of user research studies, prototyping, brainstorming activities with users and internal stakeholders, and defined the vision for the future Ancestry Search product. Provided continuous improvements and optimizations of the current user experience, while collaborating with the teams across different time zones. Developed a series of prototypes to test the natural language processing (NLP) concepts to streamline the user experience. ### User Experience Designer @ Intrax Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, California Integral to leading complex, high-impact redesigns from content strategy, wireframing, rapid prototyping, visual design to front-end development, my role was versatile and crucial to the success of multiple projects. Led all the design efforts behind the launch of a new digital product. Created and governed the design system library. ### UX Designer and Content Manager @ Stanford Law School Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto Responsible for overseeing all online and print output from the Stanford Law School Communications department — a variety of projects including websites and all publications, brochures. Supervised the work of interns, consultants, and agencies. ### Designer and Developer @ SaaS Markets Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Mateo, California, United States Evangelized the content strategy by creating interactive content. Led all design activities around the main site and internal SaaS product. ### Principal Artist @ Freelance, self-employed Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Pacifica, California, United States Independent consultancy in the area of web design, photography, branding, art direction, and front-end development. Learned visual, user experience design in an academic setting and by self-study. Shown series of fine art and photography work in solo and group exhibits in the community. Collaborated with the local art community and fund-raising events for non-profit organizations. ### Solutions Architect @ AT&T Jan 2004 – Jan 2010 | Remote, or at client location Network engineer and subject matter expert in network security and unified communications. Led business continuity and disaster recovery planning efforts, evaluated the business and technical needs, designed and presented solutions specific to user needs. Responsible for the support of complex environments, emerging technologies, high-value projects. Mentored the group of engineers. Received several awards for excellent customer service. ### Systems Engineer @ AT&T Jan 2000 – Jan 2004 | Dublin, California, United States Provided network engineering support across enterprise, healthcare, and education customers. Evaluated the business and technical needs, designed and presented solutions, pricing, and technical documentation specific to customer needs. Managed all technical aspects of the sales process and ensured seamless knowledge transfer to implementation teams. ## Education ### Interaction Design Specialization in Human Computer Interaction UC San Diego ### Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Management Information Systems Masters Institute ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mtesic --- Source: https://flows.cv/miryana JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/miryana/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13