About Me
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Josh Easter
UI/UX Designer, Front End Developer, Design System Manager
Experienced UX Director leading enterprise-level design and development initiatives across complex platforms and tools. Passionate about human-centered design, scalable UX/UI architecture, and cross-functional leadership. Proven success in improving usability, performance, and design consistency across digital products.
A Few Things About Me
- Father & Husband. Always learning. Can't grow a beard.
- Musician & Occasional Audio Engineer.
- Lover of Coffee & Wine
- Total tech geek. Never far away from an Apple product.
- I love most sports but I am a huge baseball fan. GO RED SOX!
Skills
SI am a hybrid design engineer with talent for creating elegant user interfaces, instinctive user experiences, and expertly crafted code. I focus on building scalable design systems and leading multi functional teams. I collaborate with designers, business leads, product owners, and engineers equally all while solving complex problems with an engineering mindset yet keeping the users needs and beautiful design at top of mind.
Design & Development Tools
Designing and building for the web has changed so much in recent years but I love learning and gaining new skills. The tools will always change and evolve over time, but our skills have to evolve and adapt as well. Here are some of the powerful tools and technologies I currently use with my teams daily.
UI Testing Tools
Codefactor for automated code quality reviews, Storybook for component isolation, Jest for unit testing, Playwright for E2E testing, and Percy provides visual regression testing.
Additional Tools/Technologies I use or have experience with.
Experience
EDemonstrated ability to deliver excellent results while leading a multidiscipline team with engineers, developers, designers, analysts, and marketing personnel. Ability to work independently, with good organizational skills and the adaptability to work on multiple projects with exceptional attention to detail.
ADP, Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
Senior Director of Engineering
April 2023 - Present
Led the UX Design System Engineering teams, managing a multidisciplinary team of designers, developers, and QA to deliver cohesive, high-impact user experiences across the firm’s digital ecosystem.
Work Highlights
- Architected UI/UX strategies that leveraged A.I. tooling to emphasize reliability, maintainability, scalability, and accessibility, resulting in improved application performance and user satisfaction.
- Revised delivery strategies to increase output over 60% while also fostering a new QA strategy to align with business goals and technical constraints, reducing defects by 17%.
- Drove continuous improvement initiatives, A.I. onboarding, identifying opportunities to streamline processes, enhance product performance, and reduce design and technical debt.
- Created process to maintain application usability, accessibility, and code quality standards, while ensuring seamless integration with existing technical architectures and enterprise systems.
- Managed the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) with an emphasis on agile methodologies and cross-functional coordination.
As Product Owner & Lead developer for the design system - I lead a team that is involved
in
all stages of User Experience and User Interface development.
We design, build, and deliver the system that drives 80+ products.
Engaging product owners, designers, and developers to understand their use cases and help them
build beautiful solutions as efficiently as possible.
Led the UX Design System Engineering teams, managing a multidisciplinary team of designers,
developers, and QA to deliver cohesive, high-impact user experiences across the firm’s digital ecosystem.
- Multidisciplinary Team Management
- Development
- Design
- Multidisciplinary Team Management
- Development
- Design
- Leadership
- Development
- Design
Work Highlights
- Lead centralized UX Engineering initiatives for 80+ enterprise applications; architected and maintained scalable design system
- Grew and mentored multidisciplinary teams across UX and front-end engineering, fostering inclusive culture and delivery excellence
- Decreased time to market by 38%, raised usability scores by 9+ points, and established a Center of Excellence for design and dev collaboration
- Championed accessibility and performance standards through component APIs, design tokens, and process NFR’s
Utilize industry best practices, design, develop, document, and implement software solutions.
Established project specifications, ensuring completion within the planned time constraint and meeting
the established objectives for quality, reliability and performance.
Work with business users, product owners and stakeholders to collect all the design information to
produce prototypes, mockups, wireframes and specs to ensure optimal user experience is established.
Also worked with the external facing marketing team to design and build Ipreo.com.
- Team Lead
- Budget Management
- Development
- Design
- Delivery Ops.
- Development
- Prototyping
- Design
- UI Development
- UX Design
- Prototyping
Work Highlights
- Create reusable libraries and setup best practices to standardize the UI look and feel and improve user experiences.
- Developed company wide style-guide/design system.
- Analyze the impact and feasibility of change requests on existing software and implements corrective actions.
- Provide technical documentation for developing software and design models.
- Provide technical input, feedback, and consultation to other internal organizations involved in system design or implementation activities.
- Provide instruction and recommendations in the application of sound practices in software development.
- Designed, developed and maintained the company website - Ipreo.com.
SharedVue (acquired by Zift Solutions)
Front End Web Design & Development
July 2014 - December 2014
Designing and developing client showcases for leading tech companies including IBM, Intel, Citrix, Red Hat, riverbed, VMware and SAP.
Work Highlights
- Building responsive showcases to work with our proprietary software as well as partner websites.
- Updating and maintaining client showcases for product release cycles and general updates while adhering to branding guidelines.
- Designing and developing email campaigns for partners to support showcases, products and major events.
M is Good
Front End Web Design and Development
September 2013 - July 2014
A boutique marketing agency that offers web design & development as well as digital design & marketing.
Work Highlights
- Web Design - designing, building and launching websites for small businesses. Managing/designing client social media and mailing of newsletters.
- Web development - programming, database administration, troubleshooting. Adding functionality to existing websites, maintaining and creating new sites; small fixes to web-based systems. Drupal, Wordpress, Squarespace, Kenitico, Html5, PHP, CSS,Sass, Less, javascript, jQuery, AJAX.
- Graphic Design - logos, signage, t-shirts, direct mail, social media
Portfolio
PHere are samples of a few great projects I have been lucky enough to work on.
Contact
CThanks for checking out my portfolio! You can reach me at any of the links below.