# Stevie De La Cruz

> Staff UX Designer at Tesla

Location: Fremont, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/stevie

I’m a designer, engineer, storyteller. I’m the kind of person who believes that great stories make great experiences with the right amount of magic. Knowing my work helps people achieve their goals is a blessing and my passion.

## Work Experience
### Staff UX Designer @ Tesla
Jan 2023 – Present

### Senior UX Designer @ Tesla
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Fremont, California, United States

### UX Mentor @ Harness Projects
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Remote

### Sr. IT Analyst / UX Lead @ Solar Turbines
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
Design and development lead of solutions that support multiple business units (finance, business management, engineering). Working directly with customers in feature prioritization, roadmapping, backlog management and solution design to achieve business goals and implement metrics. Strategy lead for implementation of process improvement initiatives.

### User Experience Lead @ Solar Turbines
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater San Diego Area
Led a team of designers and software engineers primarily ensuring the success of the new Solar Intranet, implementation of DevOps and Agile/Scrum in the department and a Design System. Leveraged user research, data analysis and software architecture strategies. Managed design direction, strategy and metrics to support multiple business units and enterprise applications.

### User Experience Engineer @ Solar Turbines
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater San Diego Area
Supported major initiatives for Field Service and Corporate Communications for the department and other enterprise applications. Provided heuristic evaluations, prototyping, usability testing, navigation, form and dashboard design with a data driven approach. Few project examples:

- Development of design system for the whole department
- Design for worldwide field work order management system

### User Experience Designer @ DESIGNATION Labs
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Research, analysis, and user experience design improvements. Providing design direction and improvements to information architecture, site navigation and overall service design. Clients:

- Oranj - Financial advisor client platform and dashboards. 
- The Graide Network - Internal document grading process.

### Software Engineer - UX/UI Designer @ Solar Turbines
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Diego, California, United States
Software development and user experience consultant, developer and business process analyst for enterprise solutions and services. Tasks included: redesign and overhaul of a branch of administrative applications, user experience improvements for internal workflows, front-end guidelines, visual design, and mobile strategy.

### Software Engineer @ Turbo Tecnologia de Reparaciones S.A. de C.V.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Project management, design and development of web and desktop applications for Solar Turbines Inc. collaborating in documentation and business process improvements; providing solutions to departments such as customer services, human resources, finance, purchasing.

Technology: Javascript, AngularJS, JQuery, HTML5 and below (for legacy systems), CSS3 and below (for legacy systems), C#, VB.NET, SQL, AJAX.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Turbo Tecnologia de Reparaciones S.A. de C.V.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Tijuana y alrededores, México
Designer and developer of a web application as part of a Six Sigma project for the finance and purchasing departments, with the goal of improving the user experience and performance of their indirect purchasing system.

### Information Technologies Support @ Captain Cable Co.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Installation of cable infrastructure and development of a website to promote the company’s mission, vision and services.


## Education
### Computer Systems Engineering
Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/steviedelacruz

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Last updated: 2026-04-13