Shigeo
Katsura-Gordon

Product Designer
Design Leader
Systems Thinking

 
 

2023 – Present

Senior Interaction Designer, Google

Currently a Senior Interaction Designer using my creative problem solving and systems thinking to design the future Google Cloud.

 
 

2021 – Present

Lead Instructor – UX Design Bootcamp, Brainstation

Helping students and industry professionals launch their careers in UX through the delivery of lecture and lab content.

 
 

2020 – 2023

Senior Design Manager, Microsoft

Reporting to the VP of Engineering Systems I manage a team of designers and researchers responsible for design execution across 5 product verticals composed of 20+ internal facing products. Key deliverable included a 3 billion dollar revenue saving greenfield product.

 
 

2020

Senior Product Designer, VMware

Product designer on DevConnect, VMWare’s for self servicing applications to production, in a run-time agnostic way.

 
 

2018 – 2020

Senior Product Designer, Pivotal

Product designer on Pivotal’s Pivnet, a self service platformused by software engineers to access service based integrations.

 
 

2016 2017

Interaction Designer, TD Bank

Delivered UX specifications and conducted usability testsfor features on TD’s WebBroker stock trading platform.

 
 

2014 – 2015

Interaction Designer, Jamdeo

Delivered product design concepts and UX specifications on Hisense’s VIDAA U smart television interface.

 
 

2013 – 2014

UX Designer, Secret Location

Delivered UX specifications for a number of intellectual properties including Book of Negroes, Big Brother Canada and the Property Brothers.

 
 

2013 – 2014

UX / UI Intern, BitBlitz App (prev. Design Axiom)

User interface design of various mobile applications including Humber’s Spa Application.

 
 

2012 – 2013

Designer, Broadconnect Telecom

 
 

2010 – 2011

Designer, Orderline