Alan Waldron

Over the past 25 years I’ve held many different roles including designer, developer, team lead, project manager and director for websites and software projects.

I specialize in User Experience / Product Design and Front-End Development in ReactJS and React Native. I am currently open to individual contributor and management roles in on-premise, remote or hybrid environments where my experience and expertise can make a meaningful impact to the business.

What I Do

UX & Product Design

I've been designing software, mobile apps, web apps and websites that delight users and make stakeholders happy for over 25 years.

Full Stack Development

Highly proficient front-end developer using HTML, CSS/SASS, ReactJS and React Native with a dash of Swift and Kotlin sprinked in.

Effective Leadership

I lead teams of designers and developers to deliver projects on time and on budget.

Client Management

Very comfortable talking to clients and project stakeholders. I have a knack for relaying complex technical messaging in terms non-nerds can understand.

Who I've Worked With
Experience
2023 - 2024

Govini

Director of Product Design
  • Directed a team of product designers of Govini's flagship software product, Ark.ai, a SAAS platform that helps Department of Defense agencies manage supply chain risk.
  • As a working manager of the team, 50% of my week was spent hands-on in Figma, delivering design leadership for high-profile projects.
  • Established a design system in Figma, ensuring that all design outputs are consistent, accessible, and aligned with the product’s overall brand identity.
  • Implemented Storybook into the engineering process, structuring and writing initial components.
  • Worked closely with the Product Management and Engineering teams to align design goals to product strategy, ensuring the highest levels of quality and consistency across the platform.
  • Developed and implemented a comprehensive design vision for Ark.ai, driving innovation and ensuring a seamless user experience that meets the needs of Dept of Defense clients.
  • Championed a user-centric design approach, leveraging UX research and usability testing to guide design decisions and validate product features.
  • Mentored and developed the design team, fostering a culture of continuous learning, creativity, and excellence in design.
2015 - 2024

Build in Motion

Partner
  • Responsible for business development, marketing, talent acquisition and project delivery.
UX / Product Designer
  • Principal designer of all client software projects using the full suite of UX research, modeling and design processes such as competitive analyses, personas, affinity/empathy diagrams, journey maps, user scenarios/stories.
  • Designs and prototypes created in Adobe UX and Figma.
  • Frequently conducted first impression tests, essential task testing and user surveys.
Full-Stack Developer
  • Developed all project user interfaces for web and mobile devices primarily using ReactJS and React Native.
  • Developed REST APIs using NodeJS or .NET.
  • Proficient data modeling for MongoDB and SQL databases.
2013 - 2015

Pipitone

Senior Interactive Strategist
  • Wore many hats in the agency, including Designer, Developer, Project Manager, and Digital Marketing Manager.
  • Worked with clients to define vision, goals, architecture, workflow and requirements for website projects.
  • Designed intuitive and engaging website designs and user interfaces.
  • Led development teams to ensure projects were delivered on time and budget.
2011 - 2013

Vance Wright Adams

Manager, Multimedia Projects
  • Working manager of the web design and development team.
  • Responsible for project requirements of client websites and interactive media projects, search engine optimization, digital marketing and PPC campaigns, as well as business development and client relationship management.
2004-2011

Vocollect Inc.

Sr. Applications Analyst, Collaboration
  • Administrator of company intranet. Responsible for internal employee project collaboration, document management, discussions, corporate blogging, instant messaging and social communication.
  • Led development of 25+ web applications to maintain product and customer data and improve internal workflows.
2002-2004

Kennametal Inc.

Web Development Analyst, E-Business
  • Responsible for quality of Kennametal.com.
  • Designed and developed UI of first company e-commerce portal consisting of over 300,000 products.
  • Designed and developed two iterations of the company website. Led internationalization efforts publishing the website in Spanish, French, Italian and German.
1997-2001

Top Rope Media

Partner, Lead Designer / Developer
  • Designer and programmer of a highly popular sports entertainment news website during the “dot-com bubble”.
  • Responsible for design and programming of the website, marketing and promotion, partnerships, advertising sales, and management of staff of 25 writers.

Portfolio

The following is just a sample of the design work I've done over the past 10 years.

Not-Me
Not-Me
UX Designer

Not-Me is a new mobile application designed to facilitate consent between new sexual partners.

Figma Password: "waldron"

Scoobi
Scoobi
UX Designer
Developer

Scoobi was a Pittsburgh-based ride share service that allowed people to rent street-legal riding mopeds and travel anywhere around the city.

Swarovski Infinite Aura
Swarovski Infinite Aura
UX Designer

Swarovski Crystals needed an IOT-enabled mobile app to control their new line of lighting products, Infinite Aura. The app featured Swarovski's premium aesthetic and was used to control two different rings of LEDs within the fixture which allowed users to create unique lighting effects.

Penn Hills Passport
Penn Hills Passport
UX Designer
Developer

Penn Hills Passport is a mobile app I designed and developed for my community. It's a news and events aggregator and community directory that helps to keep our 40,000 residents informed of everything going on in and around Penn Hills.

Woodbed
Woodbed Delivery App
UX Designer
Developer

Woodbed is a company that delivers bulk landscaping supply products. Their customers needed an app that live tracks deliveries, allows them to place orders for more product and pay off account balances.

Knowtifi
Knowtifi
UX Designer
Developer

Knowtifi is a mobile app that enhances the 911 safety experience. This Figma file lays out the user management piece of the app.

Figma Password: "waldron"

The Laundry Chute
The Laundry Chute
UX Designer
Developer

The Laundry Chute was an app-based laundry sevice used on college campuses. Using custom designed and developed locker system and a touchscreen interface, students would drop laundry off in the lockers and expect to pick up clean laundry within 24 hours.

Total Archery Challenge
Total Archery Challenge
UX Designer

Total Archery Challenge needed a ticketmaster-style queued registration experience for their events which attract thousands of participants per event.

Figma Password: "waldron"

Insulwise
Insulwise
UX Designer
Developer

Insulwise is a company that specializes in home insulation and comfort. They needed an app that allowed their salespeople to spec out a job and present their customers with a contract quickly, while in their home, with offline capability. This is a desktop app that was developed using the Electron framework.

PPG Teslin
PPG Teslin
UX Designer

PPG's Teslin is a synthetic printing substrate that is highly durable, versatile, and waterproof. The website features the many features and applications of the product.

Levin Furniture
Levin Furniture
UX Designer
Developer

Levin Furniture wanted to make major enhancements to their customer portal, allowing them to manage everything from orders to deliveries, returns, service requests and more.

Accomods
Accomods
UX Designer
Developer

Accomods is an application that allows teachers and parents to build IEPs and 504 plans for their students with special needs. The builder function walks a user through the student’s strengths and needs and then recommends a list of classroom accommodations and modifications (Accomods) for that student. From there the user can create a plan of any number of Accomods. A desktop version was prototyped but it was built responsively and works well on mobile.

Clockwise
Clockwise
UX Designer

Clockwise is a custom screen printing, digital printing and embroidery company. We were hired by them to re-imagine their online ordering process. They already had a development team so this was purely a UX project.

Vector Security
Vector Security
UX Designer

Vector Security was looking to build an application that allowed system admins to create, manage and track API integrations between systems. The app would allow them to schedule when data streams should run, monitor when endpoints go down, and schedule maintenance to endpoints to ensure they do not run during those windows.

Empire Music
Empire Music
UX Designer

Website design for a local guitar shop. A good example of some higher-end design I'm capable of when necessary.

SMS Group C-Track
SMS Group C-Track
UX Designer
Developer

SMS Group is a company that manufactures and leases equipment used in the steeel making industry. Tracking the usage, or how much tonnage of steel, flows through their machinery is a vital metric to track. This drag & drop application enables SMS to track the amount of steel flowing through every component of their continuous steel casting equipment, allowing them to swap out components, add new components, schedule repair, and gather metrics on component lifecycles.

UPMC Asthma Institute Participant Survey
UPMC Asthma Institute Survey
UX Designer

Title is self-explanatory. We were getting ready to start development on this project just as COVID hit and UPMC’s priorities changed a tad, so some screens have placeholders for forms.

The Baptist Standard
The Baptist Standard
UX Designer
Developer

Baptist Standard Publishing is an independent, nonprofit media organization for Baptists in Texas. Their mobile app is a wrapper of their Wordpress website which allows them to manage their app content seamlessly with their website.

Whittaker Country
Whittaker Country
UX Designer
Developer

Whittaker Country was a long-time client of Build in Motion, in this prototype, I propose a new layout of their e-commerce platform (that I also designed) for the purpos of an in-store touchscreen kiosk.

Dominion Post
Dominion Post
UX Designer
Developer

Long time client, WV MetroNews acquired a local Morgantown newspaper called the Dominion Post. I was tasked with designing a Wordpress template that would work for both newspapers but could be themed differently for each.

Build in Motion Catalyst
Build in Motion Catalyst
UX Designer
Developer

Build in Motion has created its own Platform-as-a-Service that allows us to quickly create the infrastructure for our client projects, and also gives our clients the power to manage their applications and data on their own.

Get-Go Touch
Get-Go Touch
UX Designer

Prior to the pandemic we were working with Giant Eagle / Get Go to design a touch-screen ordering system. The project was cancelled at the start of the pandemic and Get-Go implemented an off-the-shelf solution.

Giant Eagle Deli Dash
Giant Eagle Deli Dash
UX Designer

Again prior to the pandemic we were working with Giant Eagle to reimagine their deli ordering system. Allowing users to place their deli orders in different places in the store using touchscreen kiosks. Note this prototype is an early draft and also somehow lost its custom fonts.