Sage Young

VP of Engineering & Technology

Fueled

Feb 2024 - Current (2 years 8 months)

• Strategic Leadership & Execution: Drive technical vision, execution, and innovation by collaborating with Product, Design, and Business Development leaders to refine development, estimation, and delivery practices, ensuring alignment with business goals
• Team Growth & Development: Scale and mentor high-performing cross-disciplinary engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement while optimizing team structures and workflows
• Operational & Technical Excellence: Oversee engineering best practices, architecture decisions, and the adoption of emerging technologies to enhance efficiency, scalability, and the quality of web and mobile solutions for diverse clients

Executive Director, Engineering & Technology

Fueled

Feb 2022 - Feb 2024 (2 years 1 month)

• Engineering Leadership & Oversight: Led mobile and web engineering teams, defining technical strategy and ensuring alignment with business objectives and industry best practices to ensure optimal delivery to meet client expectations
• Team Growth & Development: Scaled a high-performing, cross-disciplinary engineering team from 40 to 54, expanding expertise across multiple domains to enhance overall agency delivery capabilities, particularly in solutions architecture, cloud platform engineering and SRE
• Technical Governance: Provided oversight and guidance to team management and practice leads across web applications, cloud platforms, and mobile engineering for iOS and Android, fostering excellence in execution and innovation

Director of Mobile Engineering

Fueled

Sep 2018 - Feb 2022 (3 years 6 months)

• Mobile Engineering Team Leadership: Directed technical strategy, management, and execution for worldwide Android and iOS engineering teams, ensuring high-quality mobile solutions
• Innovation & Technical Evolution: Led the advancement of mobile engineering practices, driving the adoption of cross-platform development tools like Flutter and React Native to enhance efficiency and scalability
• Architectural Oversight & Client Partnership: Provided technical leadership and strategic guidance on project execution, implementation strategies, design patterns, and solution architecture to optimize client outcomes

Director, iOS Development

Fueled

Sep 2014 - Sep 2018 (4 years 1 month)

• iOS Engineering Team Leadership: Led 5–6 agile development teams in building award-winning iOS applications for startups and enterprise clients, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration to deliver exceptional user experiences
• Team Growth & Technical Excellence: Managed and mentored a global team of 16–20 iOS developers, driving career development, establishing best practices, and ensuring technical consistency across projects
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Technical Strategy: Partnered with Strategy, Product, Design, and Backend Engineering teams to refine development processes, assess product-market fit, and implement scalable, high-quality technical architectures

Interaction Design Technologist

Human Condition

Jun 2013 - May 2014 (1 year)

Visual and Interaction Design lead responsible for overseeing overall user experience and product development, particularly at the intersection of brand and user interaction. Developed digital products and customer experiences by deriving product requirements, user interaction models and service design architectures considerate of a broad number of human factor scenarios. Led product development strategy and tactical execution of software prototypes and user interfaces primarily within the mobile and wearable technology space, frequently interfacing with hardware prototypes or integrating with cloud-based services.

Senior Art Director

Cloudberry Creative

Oct 2010 - Jun 2013 (2 years 9 months)

Lead Designer and Art Director responsible for interaction and visual design for user-centered interactive design firm serving Fortune 100 clients in financial services, insurance, and healthcare. Collaborate with Business Strategists and User Experience Architects to develop interactive web-based applications for desktop and mobile devices, also assisted in the validation of design solutions using various user research methods and practices. Managed and mentored 3–4 Designers and Art Directors, frequently collaborating with project managers and producers to assist in clarifying technical considerations and creative parameters.

Adjunct Professor

Onondaga Community College

Sep 2005 - May 2010 (4 years 9 months)

Design For Multimedia: This course is a survey of design within the digital medium, especially as it pertains to developing usable interfaces for rich multimedia applications. Students focus on developing the aesthetic and organizational skills required to develop an interactive multimedia project through the manipulation and integration of digital media assets such as photographic images, text, motion graphics and type animation, audio, and video.

Design Director / Principal and Co-Founder

ndNature an interactive studio

Jan 2002 - Oct 2010 (8 years 10 months)

Provided digital strategy and project definition for small businesses and Fortune 500 clientele. Defined, directed and developed the creation of digital user experiences through a synthesis of business requirements, creative objectives and technological parameters. Led, managed and directed an 8-10 person team consisting of information architects, visual designers, animators, sound designers, copywriters, and developers providing tactical oversight from initial conception to final execution. Provided creative and technical direction for all studio projects spanning identity and print, interactive media and motion graphic design for Web, CD, DVD, digital display, touchscreen kiosk and mobile device deployment scenarios.

Senior Interactive Designer

Eric Mower and Associates

Jan 1999 - Jan 2002 (3 years 1 month)

Lead Flash designer and developer responsible for designing and programming rich multimedia sites and CD-ROMs for advertising agency’s interactive design group. Worked alongside Interactive Creative Director to conceptualize creative approach, design solutions and provide interaction design direction, develop information architecture diagrams, storyboards, and visual design comps to communicate creative direction with clients. Took a leading role in the formation of agency’s interactive group by proposing team member roles, production procedures and protocols. Educated traditional advertising agency executives on emerging technologies and terminologies to arm them in having more productive and confident client engagements and more effective

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