# Serene D. > Product Designer at Microsoft Azure | ADPlist Mentor | SCAD Design Management 2022 Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/serened A product designer passionated in B2B, cloud, robotic, autonomous, saas ;). Currently working on the Engineering & Productivity tools in Microsoft Azure. For 2025, I would focus on more my career progress and personal live. No career consultant. Thanks for understanding. ## Work Experience ### Product Designer 2 @ Microsoft Jan 2024 – Present | San Jose, California, United States - Lead designer of Microsoft Engineer Intelligence Standard (EIS) Eco-system. - Own end to end user-experience of Metadata platform and KPI performance data platform. - Lead design efforts of Company top 1 priority, security work stream across engineering systems. - Define and create new design guidelines which help EIS products aligned with Microsoft Fluent design system. ### Product Designer @ Microsoft Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Jose, California, United States • Lead the end-to-end design process of three large product domains simultaneously. • Successfully shipped and launched the build overview feature on ADO, enabling real-time monitoring of thousands of daily lab build data, resulting in highly improved customer sentiments. • Collaborated closely with PMs and researchers to create a detailed research protocol, facilitating data-driven decision-making and enhancing the overall user experience. • Exploring and creating the large build cloud user journey to ensure a user-centric and intuitive Windows lab build experience by leveraging the efforts of PMs and researchers. • Initiated the 0-1 MVP Online Editor design scope and process of Engineering Hub product by closely collaborating with PM and Software Engineers, finally resulting a successfully feature launch in 2 months. ### Product Designer @ Brain Corp Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Diego • Designed the map visualization of autonomous robot routes management for one of our clients. • Created user flow, interaction design, low to high-fidelity prototypes, and motion designs for learning center robot onboarding tutorial, facing robot operators who have reading difficulties. ### Product UX Design Intern @ Brain Corp Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Diego, California, United States • Partnered with product managers, engineers, deployment depart ment, marketing, and sales teams, delivered three digital products and tools for our AI autonomous self-driving robot. • Individually hosted 11 usability testings for three digital products. • Tailored and iterated the UIUX of deployment engineering tool, increased on 83% user satisfaction. Designed & shipped the product successfully under a tight timeline. • Analyzed user research, created the robot user journey map, identified user needs, and shaped the product direction to create a learning center for robot operators. • Designed the learning center feature for operators on the mobile app which includes UI/UX, illustration, and motion design. ### Ideation Design Team Lead - SCADpro - Sponsored Course @ Deloitte Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Savannah, Georgia, United States • Owned the end-to-end design of the employee family leave request portal and helped the Deloitte HR department and employees simplify the leave request process. • Led the product ideation and design process, created a practical solution to ensure timely delivery, actively engaged stakeholders on key product decisions. • Created UI component library for the design team. • 100% positive feedbacks from Deloitte HR & Design team that the final design could solve 90% of employees’ leave request problems. ### UX Design Intern @ Walletifai Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada • End to end designed the Walletifai finance management mobile app MVP and V1.0 from scratch, led survey, user interviews, and usability testing, improved 59% user sentiment by 3 iterations, and successfully launched the app in Apple store in 4 months. ### User Interface Designer @ Eqxiu.com Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Beijing City, China ∙ Created 100+ easy-use UI design templates and one of them ranked the best seller (1/2000+) for the month of May 2016(Based on the data of usage). ### Designer & PM @ ZEUSÉ Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Beijing City, China • Worked on the visual design, web design, and App UI design. • Coordinated the product procedure with the design team, marketing team, and developers. • Successfully launched the first app ZUESE 1.0 in one month. ### Product Designer(Jewelry) @ GUOJIN Gold Co. Ltd. Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | beijing ∙ Conducted market survey and research on the preferences and emotional needs of the users for jewellery products ∙ Participated in competitive analysis, design scheme planning of new jewellery products ## Education ### Master of Arts - MA in Information Technology Project Management Savannah College of Art and Design Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 ### MFA in design in Interaction design California College of the Arts Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 ### Front-end coding skills UC Berkeley Extension Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 ### Summer study abroad in Art and Performance NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 ### Bachelor's degree in Crafts/Craft Design, Folk Art and Artisanry Tsinghua University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaopudeng - Website: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-5GLGgVXEUJ2AKDPb3geg --- Source: https://flows.cv/serened JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/serened/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07