
What you should know
about me
20
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YEARS DESIGNING UX
20
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DESIGN THINKING SESSIONS
20
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SPEAKING ENGAGMENTS
200
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FORT. 500 CO. USE MY WORK

Visionary Designer
Christian Baptiste
Director of Design and User Experience.
I am super passionate about leading companies through creative methods to build amazing User eXperiences.
D
DESIGN IS
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about using creative thinking to solve complex problems
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finding opportunities
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extracting and focusing on the why rather than the how
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all aspects of a users experience
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building relationships, both internal and external
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working collaboratively with product, dev, executives, sales and most importantly customers
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about alignment and clarity
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about empathy and understanding
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validating the right assumptions and learning from the wrong ones
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extracting the unknown and the yet-to-be-discovered [innovation]
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the foundation for creativity and ideating
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a medium to tell the story and to create the vision
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a utility to find ways for technology to assist the user
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creating delight and focusing on beneficial ways to make our lives easier
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a passion and a dedicated desire to want to make things better.
Christian Baptiste

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02 PORTFOLIO
03 Experience
2015 - 2017
APTTUS!
2012-2014
IBM
Senior UX Lead Designer
Principle design lead for IBM's Coremetrics, Tea Leaf, Deal Management. DemandTec applications
Senior Lead of UX Design
Principal design lead for Apttus platform and commerce applications. CPQ, eCommerce, Admin, ABO, Sales Incentives.
2009 - 2012
DEMANDTEC
Director of Design
Principal design lead for Allowance Billing, Shopper Insights, Price Optimization, Promotion, Markdown, Customer Trade, Assortment Planning, and many other applications. Created the design system.
2007 - 2009
SEARCHFORCE
UI/UX Design
Set design and technology direction with PM, Dev and Executives for the SearchForce paid search ad management platform.
2005-2007
ROXIO/SONIC SOLTUIONS
UI/UX Design/Front End Developer
Design lead for Roxio.com and Sonic.com, Roxio labs and all OEM sites.
2003 - 2005
SIEBEL/ORACLE
2002 - 2003
WEB-EZE
2001 - 2005
ONLINE INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS
My own startup
OIVS
1996 - 2001
ZIP|SEND
Web and Application Designer
Blind Gift, Zip|Send and Frog Magic
1,000
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CUSTOMER HOURS
70
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APPLICATIONS DESIGNED
7,000
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HAND DRAWN SKETCHES
ENDLESS
INSPIRATION