Russ Wilson

Hi, I'm Russ Wilson, SVP Product Design and User Experience for CA Technologies

Visionary user experience and product executive with 20 years experience in designing and developing successful software applications Focus on results, balancing innovation and creativity with practical considerations Special expertise in product strategy, user experience design, user interface engineering, and creative thinking Proven track record for significantly improving a company’s products resulting in a measurable and dramatic increase in product revenue Achieved customer satisfaction levels “among the highest ever seen” (independent firm) Managed direct and matrixed teams worldwide consisting of engineers, designers, product management and other functions Strong entrepreneurial background; founded both a consulting company and a software product company Active involvement in the software design community; requested speaker at CHI, UPA and various other conferences Recognized as an innovator, creative thinker, and evangelist for software design and user interface engineering, with a strong appreciation for the growing role that experience design will have in the next generation of products for industry leading companies

Austin Ambassador at UXnet

2005 - 2010

Vice President, Product Design at NetQoS, Inc.

May 2005 - November 2009

Network performance management for the Fortune 1000

Business Initiative Leader at IxDA

2009 - 2009

Austin Local Leader at IxDA

2005 - 2009

Vice President, Engineering at HyPerformix, Inc.

2003 - April 2005

Predictive modeling and simulation applied to application performance.

Chief Technology Officer at ALVE Technology Corp.

1993 - 2002

Software Design Lead at IBM

1990 - 1992

Senior Vice President, User Experience & Product Design at CA Technologies

November 2009

Optimize the user experience for CA products; user interface (front-end) design and development, usability testing, information architecture

Mentor at The Information Architecture Institute

August 2009

UT Austin

MS

UT Austin

BS

Concentration: Computer Science

User experience design (UX), user interface design, product strategy, mobile design, social collaboration, natural user interfaces (NUI), innovation, layout grids, javascript, CSS, web, mobile design