# Wayne S.

> Product Designer at Oculus VR

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/waynes1

Hey, I'm a curious designer exploring my potential. I often get lost thinking about human interactions and have a knack for tinkering with the infinitesimal details, believing they are what make the difference between good and great.

Design: ideation, visual, interaction, prototyping
Front-end: Jade, (S)CSS, JS, React Native

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ Oculus VR
Jan 2019 – Present | Menlo Park, California

### Product Designer @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, CA
2018 - 2019
- Designed for the Gotham (government) platform
- Helped improve the ecosystem experience
- Helped shape product marketing

2017
- Joined the Communication Design Team
- Was a hands-on interim Art Director
- Paired closely with designers on projects for World Economic Forum in Davos, Grace Hopper, recruiting campaigns and internal conferences
- Paired closely with Design Project Managers to coordinate sourcing

2016
- Led design for a blue sky project
- Defined design system for mobile
- Led design and implementation for internal and external microsites
- Helped with design recruiting efforts from 2016 to 2019 (portfolio reviews + on-site interviews)

2015
- Designed for the Foundry (commercial) platform
- Worked on a mobile app for SMBs
- Was a Design Intern mentor
- Travelled on-site to design pilot dashboards throughout 2015, 2016 and 2018

### Design Consultant @ Format Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Toronto, ON

### Product Design Intern @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto, CA
Palantir Technologies, Inc. is an American computer software and services company, specializing in data analysis. Primary clients are the US government customers, and since 2010, financial customers.

### Designer @ 42 Technologies Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA
Y Combinator-backed online retailer platform, 42, works to turn raw point-of-sale data into actionable insights for brick-and-mortar businesses that can help them boost their sales.

### Product Design Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Menlo Park, CA
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.

### Product Design Intern @ Lovely (livelovely.com)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco, CA
Lovely, a real rental marketplace that helps renters find the homes they want and helps property owners and managers find the renters they want.

### Graphic Designer @ York University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Toronto, ON

### Web Designer & Developer @ Pivot Design Group
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Toronto, ON

### Graphic Design Intern @ Pivot Design Group
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Toronto, ON

### Graphic Design Intern @ Parasuco
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Montreal, QC


## Education
### BA in Honours, Design
York University

### N/A in Publication Design & Hypermedia Technology
CEGEP - John Abbott College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/spglco
- Portfolio: http://spgl.co

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Last updated: 2026-03-31