# Peter Wong > Product Designer | AI Researcher | UX Researcher | Data Scientist | Accessibility Designer | ARPA-E Innovation Award Winner | Haas Lean Launchpad Alum | 2x-Googler Location: Palo Alto, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/peterwong Product Designer, U.C Berkeley and ARPA-E AI Researcher, AI Product Designer, Award-Winning AI Innovator, UX Researcher, UI Designer, Accessibility Designer, and Technical Lead with 15+ years of experience developing enterprise products from the ground up. My main interests are new product development, human computer interaction, and product design. I'm extremely fascinated by how humans interact with technology and one another, and strive to craft highly intuitive user experiences backed by stringent customer validation. As Technical Director for Chao Foundation and Founding Technology Director for Beijing University’s Philanthropy Lab, I managed and grew our core team of 6 to over 18. I designed, led UX Research, and successfully launched 3 enterprise management platforms used by thousands of organizations worldwide for poverty alleviation. I am also on the board of health-care organizations in Silicon Valley, and have lived in the poorest regions of China, which has taught me to better understand cultural context, pain points, and user expectations. This experience reaffirmed my belief that great things can be achieved through observation, human interaction, and ultimately-- empathy. As Lead Visual Designer at Power Standards Lab (PSL) during a high growth period, I experienced every aspect of software and hardware development, including requirement specification, managing complex information systems, running user experience tests, performance benchmarks, and daily maintenance. On the UI/UX side, I'm adept at prototyping, wire-framing, and delivering unique front-end experiences. I was lead visual designer for PSL’s flagship power quality monitor, which is funded and deployed by the United States Department of Defense (ARPA-E) for ensuring cyber-grid stability. I've also worked at Google as a Software Engineer using Closure, d3.js, Python, HTML5, Javascript, Tableau, and Google Cloud Services AppEngine. I'd love to get in touch! If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on LinkedIn or email: ptwong@berkeley.edu ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer @ ManagerAI Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States We are happy to announce ManagerAI's Non Profit Initiative: The Institute of Artificial Intelligence, which focuses on education for businesses, individuals, and schools about AI ethics, tools, and venture development. This foundation is inspired by models like the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative — combining technology, philanthropy, and long-term vision to drive measurable social impact. We provide individuals, SMBs, and educational institutions with efficient and cross-platform management tools at a quarter of the price of software giants like Workday and Oracle (which charge hundreds of thousands a year for monolithic CRM and Financial Planning). FP&A Software and consultation pricing is needs-based, and profits are reinvested into development of tools and educational programs to help entrepreneurs and schools thrive in a world that is rapidly changing. We also employ a contextual ad based model which will never be shared with third parties— think Google before IPO. The ManagerAI Foundation (501(c)(3) pending) is a nonprofit dedicated to empowering aspiring entrepreneurs through free and low-cost AI tools, education, and mentorship. Our programs include: 🔹 AI Startup Access: free licenses for underserved founders 🔹 Entrepreneurship Bootcamps: hands-on training in digital and business skills 🔹 Microgrants & Mentorship: funding and guidance for early-stage ideas 🔹 Workshops for schools and underserved communities At ManagerAI, we believe technology should lift communities, not just companies. If you share this vision — join us as a donor, mentor, or partner. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gDx_e9Qa ### AdaptiveAI Financial Planning and Analysis @ ManagerAI Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Head of Information Technology @ DeltaQuantum USA Jan 2025 – Present ManagerAI - Our sophisticated team management platform with AI-powered task assignment, real-time performance tracking, and intelligent insights for data-driven team leadership. - Saves companies in the U.S. $13.8B worth of headcount and increases productivity, fairness, and inclusivity. TimeWise (Merged into ManagerAI) - A fast mobile-first time-entry system that improves on past experiences with bloated apps and constant app store updates. LawAI - Defense against online harassment, bullying, and connections to law enforcement - Copyright checks to create settlement demands for willful infringement - Built-In Paralegal service and Paralegal directory to help you draft your own documents - Check your own social media for harassment and automatically detect and create cases to send to law enforcement RideX - No more need to go through Uber or Lyft -- keep 100% and earn a living wage - Food Delivery, Task/Job Postings (July 16th, 2025 Update) Ventures - Quantum Computing Infrastructure - Manage everything on the planet with AI - Pickleball (promotional opportunity) ### Product Designer @ Purple Rock Scissors • A Strategic Creative Agency Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area On assignment at Google, working on AgentSpace (Gemini for Business Users) ### Senior Product Designer @ Workday Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Palo Alto, California, United States - Redesigned Adaptive Planning from the ground up and successfully transitioned from Angular to React (responsive & mobile) - Facilitated Design Partner Groups to test prototypes and get customer validation using quantitative/qualitative research methods - Mentored 4 designers, revamped design system to be scalable and extensible, created definition-of-done for handoff to engineers - Spearheaded organization-wide initiative to create and apply user personas and user journeys early on in the design process - Lead Designer for Dashboards, Sheets, Reports, Workday AI Assistant, Planning Design System, OfficeConnect, & OfficeApps ### Product Designer, UX @ SmartNews, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area - Created SmartNews' Design System and Reusable Component Library to improve hand-off and specification process between product and engineering teams. - Led End-to-End iOS, Android, and Web app design and multiple device specification for Local News, User Profiles, Custom Notifications, Contextual Labels, News From All Sides, and Coronavirus Tracker. - Ran 2000+ qualitative usability tests, quantitative A/B tests, and in-depth 1:1 interviews to surface underlying motivations in order to design and iterate on what is most important for users. - As First U.S. Product Designer, I led design during the greatest period of rapid growth in SmartNews' history. Local news initiatives grew our user base over 115%. - Introduced pixel-perfect UI Unit Testing and Firebase A/B testing practices from Google. - Led usability efforts at company to gain mass adoption and build empathy for those who are colorblind or living with disabilities. - Improved design culture and peer review processes through getting company wide buy-in for Figma and moving to more industry standard testing tools. - Spearheaded local efforts as a passion project using 20% time, which is now a major initiative. Indexed millions of articles from the top 3000 U.S. Cities in order to help data science team. Project Management - Spearheaded HR Diversity and Inclusion processes as Manager of U.S. Culture and Communications - Improved employee engagement and satisfaction by 55% while working from home with implementation of virtual meetups, bonus rewards, and community-building initiatives. - Technical lead and host for Global All Hands meetings for over 400 employees in US, Japan, India, and China - Produced segments for NBC's Press:Here and interview series SmartNews has 50+ million downloads worldwide, larger in reach than the NY Times and Flipboard. ### Design Engineer, Synergis at Google @ Google Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, California Software Engineer and Lead Designer of business intelligence dashboards, design systems, data visualizations, and reusable UI components: - Winner of Inaugural 2018 Google Growth and Analytics Hackathon: 1st prize against top Data Scientists, Engineers, and Data Analysts on Magic Eye, Whirlybird, and the newly-formed GGA division. - Google Dashboards & Google Analytics: Created reusable components, charts, and interactive graphs. Provided user flows, quality assurance, unit testing, and refactoring. - Google Search Visualizations: Reusable UI components and refactor work for search cards - Google Data Studio (Tableau Competitor): Prototypes, designs, and UI components incorporated into Data Studio and Plx Dashboards. ### Lead UI/UX Designer and Visual Communications Specialist @ Powerside Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | Alameda, CA User Interface and User Experience Design -Lead Visual/UI/UX Designer for PQube 3, which is released and deployed worldwide! Designed, prototyped, iterated, and crafted user flows and touchscreen interfaces using latest web standards (HTML5/CSS3, Javascript, and jQuery) and Adobe suite. Created live data visualizations and management dashboards using Google Charts, Flot Charts, Google Maps (with overlays), and Geolocation APIs. Project Management -Estimated and scheduled new feature implementation. Oversaw software-architecture and design processes with major stakeholders (academic researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, utility companies), and made timely decisions to predict and solve technical problems and issues of scale. Field engineer in London & Paris. Marketing, Advertising, Brand Image, Web Design and Server Management -Designed company brochure and advertising materials. Front-End Development, Graphic Design, 3D Compositing, Motion Graphics, Videography Backend Development -Developed REST APIs that interface with network-based power monitors, enabling real-time visualization of 100+ power quality meters. Developed repository services using Python that mirror contents of monitoring devices using IMAP and RSYNC, allowing researchers to access and archive, and synthesize huge data sets at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and universities around the world. Data Architecture -Developed and maintained asynchronous scraping and mirroring applications using multi-threaded Python instances. As Data Architect of the PQube Management System, I used Bottle Web Framework and SQLite for rapid implementation and prototyping of dashboard management interfaces. Also built custom APIs using turbo throttling Apache and ported utilities from Unix to Windows. Programming: Python, HTML5, PHP, AJAX, UNIX, some C and Visual Basic Design: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere, After Effects, SolidWorks, 3D Studio Max ### Director of Technology @ PING AND AMY CHAO FAMILY FOUNDATION Jan 2009 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto, CA Technical Director of Transparent Fish Labs on large-scale projects utilizing a wide variety of qualitative and quantitative methods across the poorest regions of China. Transparent Fish Labs in Palo Alto is a financially transparent incubator for non-profit organizations in rural Asia. UX Research - Conducted privately funded public health studies and stakeholder analysis investigating topics ranging from the effects of mobile phones on rural villages to the impact of crowd-funding and social media on philanthropy. - Designed and developed desktop/mobile platform for organizations that receive donations to document progress and compliance with financial transparency guidelines set forth by donors. Technical Leadership - Provided high level consulting and technical solutions, coordinated and executed research design, data collection, analysis, published reports and peer reviewed articles. - Expert in acquiring and synthesizing large diverse data sets. - Online platform now hosts over 400 organizations who report on every single project they have received funding for, broken down into major milestones and timelines with absolutely no downtime. Mobile Design - Pioneered remote data collection using hand-held devices in rural China, providing real-time results to over 400 NGOs across the country with increased data security and accuracy at lower costs than previous methodology. - System in use by on-the-field agents and NGOs to ensure project success. - Developed and delivered best-practices training for remote data collection to thousands of end-users, which are responsible for over 3000 successful congenital heart disease surgeries. - Managed team of 31 staff in America and Asia. Focus: Technical Direction, Hardware Infrastructure, Website Development, Management, Server Administration, Stakeholder Analysis, Media Production, Image, Branding, User Interface/Experience Design ### Technical Director, Lead UX Researcher, UI/UX Designer @ PING AND AMY CHAO FAMILY FOUNDATION Jan 2008 – Jan 2013 | Palo Alto, CA Chao Foundation's pilot project, Little Red Scarf, has helped deliver over 2000 heart surgeries with 100% financial transparency to donors. To meet the needs of our constituents, my sister and I traveled to the five poorest regions of China to research user behavior and develop culturally-sensitive auditing systems and web applications that are multi-platform, multi-lingual, and gracefully responsive. Creating successful platforms for foreign audiences has helped me design interaction flows that work in every context today. This required Web Application Development, Database Management, Direct Stakeholder Support, In-Person NGO Assessment, A/B Testing, Mobile Application Development for EDGE/3G/4G devices, and hours upon hours of consultation. Focus: Interaction Design, User Experience Research, User Interface Design, Hardware Infrastructure, Website Development, Management, Server Administration, Media Production, Image, Branding, User Interface/Experience Design ### Project Manager @ Inkvis Creative Agency Jan 2009 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto, CA • Inkvis has developed creatives for high-tech companies and non profits in Silicon Valley. Our team consists of Stanford and Berkeley alumni. • Inkvis provides business and design consultation services in Palo Alto and Mountain View, developing and implementing core strategies for marketing, branding, growth, and engagement. Direct to Consumer • Marketed physical products through local, global, and internet channels. • Negotiated licensing and purchased advertising blocks for network TV. • Trained and nurtured distributors, teaching them how to increase sales and brand loyalty. • Developed local customer communities for increased engagement. • Products have been featured on QVC, selling over 3,000 units in 3 minutes. Exerstrider Products, Inc. • Created, developed, and maintained marketing campaigns, websites, and customer support communities that grew engagement by over 65% on the year. • Marketing efforts increased brand awareness against corporate giants and augmented customer acquisition channels for Exerstrider's line of ACTIVATOR, OS/2, and TR3 products. • Successfully launched TR25, Tom Rutlin's 25th Anniversary Gold Edition walking poles. • When Tom was recovering from shingles, my Interim CEO duties included inventory management, global logistics, distributor relations, P/L analysis, sales forecasting, and stakeholder retention. Services: • Intuitive Consultation • Motion Graphics Production • Print Media and Ad Copy Website Development • Website Hosting Operations • Customer Relations • Technical Support Technology: • Database-Driven PHP Applications • Python Servers and Web Frameworks • Enterprise Data Management with MySQL • Database Modeling and Design • HTML5, CSS3, Javascript • Mobile Application Development • Cloud-based Services and Applications (EC2, Linux/Windows/Mac Servers) ### Interaction Designer @ Free Law Project Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Berkeley, CA • Conceptualized simple and intuitive navigation interactions for searching the entire law corpus and performed usability studies • Developed functional prototypes for integration into CourtListener's user interface • Developed custom scrapers for law cases and court opinions from various state websites • Enhanced search-and-awareness functionality within CourtListener with custom auto-complete implementation CourtListener is a legal research website containing millions of legal opinions from federal and state courts. With CourtListener, lawyers, journalists, academics, and the public can research an important case, stay up to date with new opinions as they are filed, or do deep analysis using our raw data. Sponsored by the Non-Profit Free Law Project ### User Interface Designer @ SiriusXM Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Palo Alto, California, United States I worked for Professor Raja Sengupta and Joan Walker to develop visualization dashboards for MileSense, which has now become the award-winning Automatic for iOS and Android. Hal Varian, the Chief Economist at Google, also advised us on use of emerging HTML5 affordances. MileSense develops software and applications for smartphone to identify safe drivers. The product is used to analyze driving behavior data which is used as predictor of accident risk. The company is based in San Francisco, California. MileSense was later renamed Automatic, and in 2017, was acquired by SiriusXM for 115M. ### Lean LaunchPad Designer and Developer @ NotSkool (Lean Launchpad at Haas Berkeley by Steve Blank) Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 • Admitted to Steve Blank's exclusive Lean LaunchPad at UC Berkeley, a graduate-level course Haas Business School for creating consumer-centric, lean, and agile startups. • Developed fully functional applications serving parent-curated educational content to kids, while disabling access to other applications and distractions on iPads and iPhones. • The project evolved into a community of engaged parents called BrightBox. "Taught by founder of the Lean Startup movement, Steve Blank, this course combines theory with a ton of hands-on practice. The goal, within the constraints of a classroom and a limited amount of time, is to give you a framework to test the business model of a startup while creating all of the pressures and demands of the real world in an early stage start up. The class is designed to give you the experience of how to work as a team and turn an idea into a company." ### Founder, Creative Director @ AC Press Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 | Silicon Valley, California • Humor blog featured on CNN, NewsWeek, AsianWeekly, Globe, Chronicle, etc. • Focuses on the global Southeast Asian community, which is comprised of billions worldwide. • At its peak, there were millions who contributed to and read our network of news, tech, automobile, and culture blogs. • I have given talks about philanthropy and giving back to high school and college groups at Stanford and Berkeley. ### Front-End Developer & Graphics Designer @ Creative Multimedia Solutions (CreativeMMS) Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 • Designed, developed and deployed custom social networking platforms for clients • Developed custom backend management systems and modules using PHP/MySQL. Skills: • User Interface Design • Database Management • Custom Application Development • Back-end Management and Development for enterprise solutions ### Technical Director, Founder @ EastVillagers Non-Profit News Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Palo Alto, CA • Designed, A/B tested, developed and launched enterprise management platform for non profits in the Bay Area. • $140,000 raised and 3,500+ passionate community members • Set up necessary infrastructure to support thousands of simultaneous users and organizations. • Currently serving on Board of Directors (Technology) for East Villagers About East Villagers: • East Villagers community is a portal for aspiring youth and seasoned tech veterans that work for NGOs (non government organizations receiving no funding form government) and NPOs (Non-profit organizations). • Every year, East Villagers hosts the ServiceAsia Scholarship program, which empowers youth around the world to make a difference in their communities! Skills: • Hardware Infrastructure • Web Development • A/B Testing • Server Administration • User Interface and Experience Design • Stakeholder Support • Product and Project Management ### UX Research and UI Design Intern @ Kaltura Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 Usability testing, research, bug fixes, and interface design for the online collaborative video editing service that has since raised over $25 million dollars in funding. ## Education ### Master's degree in Human Computer Interaction UC Berkeley School of Information ### Master's Degree in Information Management & Symbolic Systems University of California, Berkeley ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Media, Visual Communications University of California, Berkeley ### Chinese Language and Literature Stanford University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/petertn - Website: https://ptwong.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/peterwong JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/peterwong/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-08