Tanya Sharp

Founder & President

Spark Creativity

Jun 2024 - Current (2 years 3 months)

Leadership & Vision • Develop and articulate the organization’s mission, vision, and strategic goals. • Serve as the primary spokesperson and ambassador for Spark! Creativity within the community and with partners. • Lead long-term planning to ensure sustainable growth and impact. Program Development & Oversight • Design, launch, and refine innovative arts education programs aligned with organizational goals. • Oversee program implementation, ensuring high-quality delivery and alignment with educational standards. • Evaluate program outcomes, gather data, and use findings to improve offerings. Fundraising & Financial Stewardship • Identify and pursue funding opportunities, including grants, individual donors, and corporate sponsorships. •

Principal UX Designer

Delinea

May 2022 - Current (4 years 4 months)

Lead product design across Delinea's cloud-native Identity Security platform, partnering across Product Management, Engineering, Security, Customer Success, and executive leadership to simplify enterprise cybersecurity experiences. Selected Impact --Simplified enterprise security administration by leading UX strategy and end-to-end design for Delinea's API --Key management experience, improving credential governance and lifecycle management for enterprise administrators. --Modernized identity federation workflows by designing Microsoft Entra ID integration experiences supporting directory synchronization, user management, and authentication. --Transformed security investigations by redesigning IRIS auditing into searchable investigati

Principal User Experience Designer: Microsoft

Allovus

Apr 2021 - Apr 2022 (1 year 1 month)

Led UX strategy for Microsoft's game-based learning platform, partnering with executives, educators, researchers, and engineering teams to create engaging educational experiences. --Led product design from discovery through implementation. --Facilitated executive workshops aligning customer insights with product strategy. --Translated research into scalable digital learning experiences. --Delivered production-ready interaction models supporting rapid product evolution.

Special Events and Development Associate

Cascadia Art Museum

Mar 2020 - Aug 2020 (6 months)

As the Special Events and Development Associate, I am working as a key team member in support of Cascadia Art Museum’s signature benefit event, which is the 2020 Summer Stars Gala and Auction and five year anniversary. This position serves as a vital project management role, contributing to the success of the gala by keeping records of committee meetings and discussions, tracking and following up on volunteer tasks, and ensuring clarity and follow-through on all procurement and planning activities. This position also supports donor cultivation leading up to the gala, assisting with the planning and execution of engagement events to ensure the thoughtful stewardship of prospective gala attendees. Last of all I am providing assistance with Ca

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Event Coordinator

Seattle Office of Arts Culture Creative Advantage

Jan 2020 - Mar 2020 (3 months)

Projects: Planning and development of the Creative Advantage Arts Festivals for the South Seattle Schools. In addition, developing and implementing communications campaigns through photography and short blog posts on the Office of Arts and Culture social media sites including messages of advocacy of the arts and why arts are important; informational interviews and the results contributed to the learning about the planning process for the report that feeds into getting the grant (Paul G. Allen Family Foundation); and archival documentation process of the arts festivals. As an events coordinator, I contributed to the pilot of regional arts festivals for the Creative Advantage program. This program’s goal is to provide the opportunity to cel

Lead User Experience Designer: Starbucks

Collabera Technologies

Oct 2019 - Apr 2021 (1 year 7 months)

Projects: Store Development Resource Center Global Online Catalog and Starbucks Store Design Online Resource Lead UX design supporting the modernization of the Store Development Resource Center, which is a global catalog tool supporting store personnel to locate, design and price out merchandise and construction for stores globally. Starbucks Store Design was developed to communicate best practices around how to design Starbucks stores.

Principal User Experience Designer

Skytap

Oct 2017 - Oct 2019 (2 years 1 month)

Projects: Skytap Power Options, Auto-Suspend, VM Settings, and Power Pro Lead UX design supporting the modernization of traditional applications with cloud-native development and services by shaping and shifting to new patterns, code, branding, and work flows. Identified many opportunities of modernization on the Skytap Cloud application and successfully, partnered with product management and engineering while attracting new customers and decreasing time setting up new environments and updating settings.

Lead User Experience Designer

INRIX

Jun 2015 - Oct 2017 (2 years 5 months)

Projects: Creation of Roadway, Trips, Speed, and Autonomous Vehicle Historical Analytics, OpenCar and Mobile apps and Real-Time Analytics. Lead UX design for INRIX Analytics, a suite of transportation SAAS applications, by shaping and owning the direction of the product, evangelizing UX with infectious results, coaching and managing assignments for UX designers, and partnering with product management and engineering to identify product opportunities. I contributed to the increased revenue from $3 -$25 million for 2016-2017.

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Lead UX Designer

OpenMarket

Jun 2011 - Jun 2015 (4 years 1 month)

Projects: Creation of MMS, SMS, Push Notification, and Reporting Tools Developed overall UX strategy shaped by KPIs and customer success metrics, and evangelized the strategy to leadership and product teams. Discovered, analyzed, and interpreted results about customer goals and needs and communicated insights to product and program managers. Successfully created MMS, SMS, and Push Notifications and SMS reporting tools as well as an updated marketing website which doubled the user base. www.openmarket.com

UX Consultant for Garrigan Lyman Group

Creative Circle

Feb 2011 - Jun 2011 (5 months)

Projects: Redesign of T-Mobile, Thompsons WaterSeal, The List (competitor to LinkedIn), and Health Advocacy Created the vision for the development, communication and implementation for the user experience for T-Mobile, Thompsons WaterSeal, The List (competitor to LinkedIn), and Health Advocacy by working cross functionally to evaluate, design, build and test the product. Achieved results that exceeded client expectations.

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UX Senior Designer Consultant

UpTop formerly Produxs

Dec 2010 - Feb 2011 (3 months)

Projects: Redesign of MSDN and TechNet Provided design consultation and acted as an internal consultant by providing a redesign for MSDN and TechNet by working with web development, users, stakeholders, and product managers by creating a world class user interface that supported and reinforced product vision, brand and business objectives.

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Senior UX Designer

MSCOM and Download Center Excell Data

Sep 2010 - Dec 2010 (4 months)

Projects: Microsoft Homepage Redesign, Microsoft Homepage Holiday Carousal, and Download Center Redesign Effectively collaborated and project managed the redesign of the Microsoft Home page, Holiday display, and Download Center in an agile, multi-disciplinary team. Successfully developed, user tested and released an experience that retained existing users and increased the user base.

UX Consultant (Aim Consulting)

Casey Family Programs

Jul 2010 - Sep 2010 (3 months)

Projects: Redesigned the Casey Foundation search and primary navigation Redesigned the search and primary navigation for the investor internal tools using SharePoint as a platform. Worked effectively with product management and engineering beginning with the development cycle from early usability studies to IA design, creating an experience highly adopted by their user base.

Lead User Experience Designer

SumTotal Systems

May 2008 - Apr 2010 (2 years)

Projects: Talent Development Software including Compensation, Succession, Attrition, Goal Setting, Performance Review, 360 Review, and Learning Software. Set the vision and design for a performance and talent development software while working with teams of product owners and development that were entrenched in the old way of building products. Collaborated, facilitated meetings, and lead teams located several time zones away. Successfully created the Compensation, Succession, and Performance Review Tools which doubled the user base.

UX Design Consultant

InfoSpace

Mar 2008 - May 2008 (3 months)

Projects: Infospace Portal Websites Designed user experiences for InfoSpace and portal websites. Experience included wire diagrams, new site maps, creative design, creation of presentations, working with project management to release website features.

Sr. Product Designer

Microsoft MSN Video

Apr 2007 - Apr 2009 (2 years 1 month)

Projects: MSN Video Website Redesign Developed, managed and redesigned the user experiences for MSN Video and internal tools. Coached and mentored interns and worked cross-functionally with project management and development to create and maintain a roadmap for product features. The redesign maintained and increased usage of the video tool.

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Senior UX Designer

Ramp formerly StudioUx

Aug 2006 - Apr 2007 (9 months)

Projects: Redesign of the ColdWater Creek website, Redesign of the Washington State Education Website (OSPI) Led the redesign effort for e-commerce Web sites (ColdWater Creek), and education website OSPI (Washington State Education site), while with stakeholders to help define the information architecture. Increased the ColdWater Creek user base and provided a complete redesign of the OSPI website improving navigation, design, accessibility, and ease of content download.

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Senior User Experience Designer

INNER agency

Aug 2005 - Aug 2006 (1 year 1 month)

Projects: Expedia Travel, Microsoft brand standards, Vista application designs, and MSN Event design Led the integration of Expedia into MSN Travel which helped reach record sales of $16 million, the highest reported weekly sales figure for the online travel industry. Also, maintained brand standards for Microsoft & MSN, creation of Microsoft HIG Guidelines and Vista applications, and daily client management.

Web Designer

Nordstrom

Aug 2003 - Aug 2005 (2 years 1 month)

Projects: Vendor boutiques, Email campaigns, Redesign of the Nordstrom website IA and brand, Beauty and Fashion pages. Designed marketing and website content, created vendor boutiques for industry-leading fashion brands, inspirational and promotional content, banner ads for leading portal sites such as MSN, AOL, Yahoo, and Amazon, direct marketing emails and navigational design. Supported a 44% increase in demand and 14.5% revenue growth over the previous year.

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Senior Print/Web Designer and Manager

drugstorecombeautycom

Jan 2000 - Jan 2003 (3 years 1 month)

Projects: Drugstore.com and Beauty.com website design and website print design collateral Led online web content for merchandising and marketing programs increasing retention and gaining customers by 50%. Developed the visual presentation style of merchandising promotions, department landing pages, and boutique shops including BEAUTY.COM by providing photo art direction, designing page layout and web templates. Improved the new user base and retention.

Freelance Web Designer

Eddie Bauer

Jan 1999 - Jan 2000 (1 year 1 month)

Projects: Product, marketing, web and print design projects

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Print/Web Manager

Janet Church Associates

Jan 1999

Projects: Tech event websites, event collateral and environmental design Led world-class creation of collateral and websites for high tech events. Directed designers and worked closely with development and event planners to set the vision and direction for the event. Also, handled tight timeline and budget constraints. Planned and successfully designed the 10th Anniversary event for Microsoft.

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Senior Print/Web Designer

Briazz

Jan 1998 - Jan 1999 (1 year 1 month)

Projects: Briazz website design and POP in store designs Art directed and designed the in-store promotions creation of POP for all stores rollouts which occurred every 6-8 weeks. Maintained the Briazz web site and other sites that carried Briazz products, increasing customers by 50%.

Print designer

Nintendo

Jan 1997 - Jan 1998 (1 year 1 month)

Projects: Nintendo Magazine Design Print design, graphic production, and magazine design

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Print designer

Chateau St Michelle Winery

Jan 1996 - Jan 1997 (1 year 1 month)

Projects: Wine bottle and event design

Print/Illustrator

Seattle Times

Jan 1996 - Jan 1997 (1 year 1 month)

Projects: Designed and managed the Food and Kids sections of the Seattle Times Designed and illustrated the front pages of the major sections of the newspaper

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Intern Print designer

Clark Gable design

Jan 1995 - Jan 1996 (1 year 1 month)

Projects: Act theater poster and guide design

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