# Steve Pepple > Co-Founder, Designer, Civic Technologist. Hiring a for Customer Success & Mobile App Dev Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/stevepepple Steve Pepple is a designer and technologist working at the intersection of people, data, technology, and civic life. He helps governments, startups, and nonprofits connect people with better mobility and city experiences. His team provides services in design vision & strategy, user research & UX design, prototyping, maps & data visualization, and web development. ## Work Experience ### Co-Founder, Head of Product @ Vibemap Jan 2018 – Present | Oakland, CA Co-founder of VibeMap, a city discovery app that reveals places and events in the city that match your vibe. Our platform works with city partners to reveal what's really happening in the city and helps local businesses and communities show up. ### Design Consultant @ Pepple Consulting Jan 2018 – Present I help governments, startups, and nonprofits to connect people with better mobility and city experiences. I provide services in design vision and strategy, user research, user experience design, concept prototyping, geospatial and data visualization, and frontend web development. ### Vice President of the Board @ San Francisco Transit Riders Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Working to improve how people get around the Bay Area by improving public transportation for all residents. ### Design Lead @ OpenGov Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Redwood City OpenGov enables elected officials, citizens, analysts, journalists, and others to explore their government’s financial data through visualization, compare it to other government data, and ultimately make smarter decisions about how to spend public funds. ### Principal Product Designer @ MobileIron Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA Principal UX and product designer for Mobile Applications, Content, and Device management products at MobileIron. ### 2015 Creative Code Fellow @ Gray Area Foundation For The Arts Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 10 week fellowship focused on peer mentorship in a creative development environment. Each fellow’s time was split between their partnering design studio and Gray Area, providing the expertise and support of a professional design studio while with the educational and collaborative resources of Gray Area. Four fellows were selected and each were partnered to a separate design studio. ### Product Designer @ OpenGov Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ### Product Designer @ OpenGov Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ### Product Designer @ OpenGov Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ### Software Engineer and User Experience Lead @ Symantec Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Mountain View, CA Technical lead of a user experience team that includes interaction and visual designers, content and documentation writers, and front-end developers. ### Creative Director @ TrustBearer Labs Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 - Responsible for software visual design and presentation-layer functionality. - Worked to improve user experience in security and identity software - Led efforts for the company's web- and print-based marketing TrustBearer developed web-based identity and security software for client including, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Mt. Sinai, Apple Computer, U.S. Army, Oceaneering, and Wave Systems ### User Experience Engineer @ VeriSign Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Designed user interfaces for client and web applications. (VeriSign acquired TrustBearer in April 2010. Later this same year the VeriSign authentication business was purchased by Symantec.) ### Instructor, Division of Continuing Studies @ IPFW Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 I taught a continuing education course in Adobe software for web and document publishing. ### Intern & Contractor @ Briljent Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 ## Education ### Master of Science - Information Science in Information Systems Drexel University ### Certificate of Completion in Interaction Design Cooper U - Interaction Design ### B.A. in English, Journalism Purdue University Fort Wayne ### Certificate of Completion in Computer Science Udacity/Stanford Online Courses ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stevepepple - Portfolio: http://stevepepple.info - Behance: http://www.behance.net/stevepepple --- Source: https://flows.cv/stevepepple JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/stevepepple/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13