# Rodney M. > Senior Product Designer Location: Austin, Texas, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rodneym Rodney is a UX Designer & Developer at Rocket Dollar a WAO Fintech brand. He is a well rounded creative with technical skills and product development experience. He is the former Head of Account Management at BlueCheck, Inc. an Identity Verification platform for online transactions, and former Head of Community Development at Candidly (formerly Kandid.ly) a marketplace platform for photography bookings. Rodney is also a former Techstars Associate. He graduated from The University of Colorado at Denver, has an BFA in Film Production, and lives in Austin. In his free time you can find Rodney cooking gourmet meals, enjoying the great outdoors, practicing yoga, or developing passion projects. ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ WAO Fintech Jan 2024 – Present | Austin, Texas, United States ### Senior Product Designer @ Rocket Dollar, Inc. Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area ### UX Designer & Developer @ Rocket Dollar, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas Area • Implement our company design system including branding guidelines, color, typography, etc. • Design and maintain our material based component library for use across implementation. • Develop interfaces for our web based React application. Including wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and webpages. • Conduct usability research to identify UI/UX insights and improvements. • Collaborate with our product, marketing and sales teams to create delightful experiences for our users. • Produce animated and filmed videos for use across our marketing channels. • Serve as company photographer 📸 ### Software Engineer and Designer @ Rocket Dollar, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas Area • Designed, developed, and maintained company website and emails on Hubspot • Designed and co-develop story for Money2020 Startup Pitch (2nd Place) ### Freelance Video Producer @ Freelance, self-employed Jan 2013 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas Area As a freelancer I focuses on providing media production services such as real estate videos, graphic animations, promotions, event photography, graphic design and web development. I am currently based in Austin, TX, but also do work in Denver, CO. Some of my accomplishments as a freelance filmmaker include creating and managing a promotional video that garnered 16K views on YouTube and Winning 'Judges Choice Best Film' at the 2015 Lights, Camera, Help film competition. ### Head of Account Management @ BlueCheck Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Austin, Texas Area BlueCheck Inc. provides age and identity verification solutions for web based processes and eCommerce businesses. This includes financial services, age restricted eCommerce, online gaming, and any industries in need of KYC or Identity validation products. ### Community Development Manager @ Kandid.ly Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Austin, Texas Area Kandid.ly is a gig economy platform that specializes in matching people with photographers, to capture their special events and life's moments. ### Associate @ Techstars Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Served as the Creative Associate for the Austin 2016 class. During this time period I helped 10 early stage companies develop, produce and distribute creative media for their brands. ### Associate Producer @ Lifted Imagery LLC Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Denver, CO - Lead creative development of video and photo production, which included script writing, story boarding and production design. - Served as one of the lead ambassadors for client relations and managed client expectations, production results and resolved issues. - Acquired acting and modeling talent as well as crew for video and photography shoots. - Scheduled casting calls with talent including initial and final talent selection and audition process. - Served as a Location manager and was responsible for location scouting, location permits and call sheets for cast and crew. - Was Lead Editor for post-production of video content, which included color correction. - Served as a principal cinematographer and photographer for film shoots and event photography. - Drafted estimates for projects based upon the equipment, talent, time and scope of work. Lifted Imagery is a Film and Photography production company based out of Denver Colorado. Our production company was started by a group of young talented filmmakers from the University of Colorado at Denver. We specialize in High Resolution Video, Photography and Aerial Production and film on RED digital cinema cameras. We pride ourselves on the diversity of our work and some of our projects include luxury real estate media production, commercials, promotional videos, documentaries and live events. ### Production Intern @ 7&CO Productions Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Denver, CO - Lead producer / writer / director / editor on promotional video - Talent acquisition - Ambassador between production and post-production crews - Screenwriter / Story Developer (Won 'Best Screenplay' for work) - Cinematography - Events photographer 7&CO offers cinematic video production from a team of skilled and experienced filmmakers who approach every project with the care and craft that others just can’t. Our production service is all in house and it ensures our consistency to produce professional video. The benefit of us working in house gives us complete control over the creative process start to finish of all the productions. We stand out from other companies because we have the ability to be produce consistent professional video through our teams efficient process and workflow! ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in TV, Film and Video Production University of Colorado Denver ### Front-end Web Development General Assembly ### High School Diploma in General Studies Eaglecrest High School ### High School in General Studies Regis Jesuit High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rodneyamartinez - Portfolio: https://rodneymartinez.me/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/rodneym JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rodneym/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31