Alyssa Reese
Staff Designer at Twitter
Staff Designer, Twitter
14 years design experience,
11 years UI/UX design,
10 years design leadership & mentorship
Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/company/twitter
Staff Designer
Design Lead, Developer Innovation (2020-)
- Strategy, vision & design for innovative new ways that external developers can partner with Twitter to serve the public conversation.

Design Lead, Twitter Developer Platform (2018-2020)
- Founded a new function: Built out a design department for Twitter Developer Platform where one had never existed before
- Analyzed current state: Ran comprehensive review of developer experience strengths and weaknesses
- Product improvements: Lead process to rebuild Twitter Developer Portal, rethink user models and improve overall developer experience
- Cultural impact: Introduced design thinking and user centered practices to Twitter Developer Platform team
- Collaboration: Built and iterated processes to create cross functional design collaboration with product, research, engineering, developer relations and marketing teams
- Team growth: Helped advocate for, hire, onboard and mentor several additions to the team
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Cognizant
https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognizant
Senior Product Designer / Manager
Senior Designer
- Design Lead for Accelerator products: worked with a research, product, eng team to design a healthcare app for people with chronic heart problems

Manager
- Organizational design: helped to iterate the design and research process for the internal accelerator. Lead process to create design principles for the design team.
- Management and creative direction: managed designers & researchers working on accelerator projects.
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Independent Consulting
Independent Design Consultant
Innovated with companies worldwide on building products, designing teams, processes and thought patterns that will help them achieve excellent UX. Clients include LEGO, NASA, Century Link, Bell Labs, Richard Dawkins & many startups in San Francisco & worldwide.
Worldwide
Ujoin
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ujoin
Founding Partner, Design & Engineering Lead
- Lead assessment current state of app from a UX & technical perspective
- Lead process to rebuild product for both technical and UX improvements
- Executed on all designs for rebuild
- Managed a global team of engineers to execute on rebuild, brought in more experienced experts to advise on critical decisions, review code etc
- Rebuild led to consistent, YOY growth for platform where before growth had become stagnant. Growth continues to this day.
San Francisco Bay Area
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General Assemb.ly
https://www.linkedin.com/company/generalassembly
UX Instructor
Taught General Assembly UI/UX course & helped advise on course curriculum.
San Francisco Bay Area
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fleetCreature UI/UX
https://www.linkedin.com/company/fleetcreature-ui-ux
Founder & CEO
- Built Boulder, CO's first UX Agency
- Partnered with large companies and startups to design new products and update existing products
- Grew team to 4-5 designers & 1 COO
- No UX degrees at the time: created internship program to teach talented creatives how to become UX Designers
Boulder, CO
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Boulder Digital Arts
https://www.linkedin.com/company/boulder-digital-arts
UI/UX Instructor
- Built all curriculum and taught 1 week intensive introductory UI/UX course
- Course was BDA's highest rated course for the 2 years it ran
Boulder, CO
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Dojo4, LLC
https://www.linkedin.com/company/dojo4-llc
Lead UI/UX Designer for Mobile and Web apps
- Lead designer for all projects in agency
- Mentored second designer (a graphic designer) and taught them how to do UI/UX design
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Push IO Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/push-io-inc.
iPhone/iPad App Design
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CU Honors Journal
Editor in Chief and Creative Director
Provide management, leadership and creative direction for the 13 editors working on the board in order to create an excellent and compelling product.
University of Colorado at Boulder
https://www.linkedin.com/company/cuboulder
Biofuel Research & Exhibition Design
Combing my biology and creative backgrounds I designed award-winning research projects to learn about various feasibility aspects of the production of Algal Biofuels and designed a museum exhibition to display the research and educate visitors about the exploration of using algae for biofuels.
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Denver Art Museum
https://www.linkedin.com/company/denver-art-museum
Interactive Exhibit Design
Helped strategize public education and involvement with the museum through exhibitions and events.

While there I created a digital interactive program for the Untitled monthly event that was used by over 700 people and helped assist with other creative, planning and execution tasks for events and exhibitions.
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Optibike
https://www.linkedin.com/company/optibike
Graphic Design & Marketing
Optibike is a company in Boulder, CO that builds high-end electric bicycles.
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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Digital Art
BA, double major
University of Colorado Boulder
https://www.linkedin.com/school/cuboulder/
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonypaves
Tony Pavés
Staff Product Designer at Twitter
San Francisco, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexakaspar
Alexa Kaspar
Senior Product Designer at Twitter
Silverthorne, CO
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucyne-babayan
lucyné babayan
Product Designer @Twitter
San Francisco, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashlieford
Ashlie Ford
Product Designer and Design Systems at Twitter
San Francisco, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alphonsojordan
Alphonso Jordan
Product Designer at Twitter
Atlanta, GA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/diego-martinez-758527135
Diego Martinez
Sr. HR Coordinator/Specialist
San Francisco, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jkutik
Jibran Kutik
Product Design at Twitter
San Francisco Bay Area
https://sg.linkedin.com/in/junichi-okj-okamoto-3a844927
Junichi OKJ Okamoto
Head of Partnerships Ads API - JAPAC
Singapore
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonmadden
Jonathan Madden
Product Manager at Twitter
Olympia, WA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/astroexodus
Jimmy Smith
Product Designer at Twitter
Brooklyn, NY
https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuel-ryan-espinosa
Manuel Ryan Espinosa, MHCID
Sr HMI Product Designer - Master of Human Computer Interaction ( HCI + D )
San Francisco Bay Area
https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisbell
Kris Bell
Sr. Principal Designer at Amazon
Seattle, WA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivanvolodkin
Ivan Volod'kin
Product UX/UI Design Leader
Denver Metropolitan Area
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juanangustia
Juan Angustia
Product Designer at Google
Seattle, WA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alwyn
Alwyn Velásquez
Senior Product Designer at Kessel Run
Greater Boston
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliotpeng
Elliot Peng
Design @ Google
Seattle, WA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gkbgautam
Gautam Kamat Bambolkar
Interaction Designer at Google
New York, NY
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sures
Sures Kumar TS
Designer at Google
Seattle, WA
https://in.linkedin.com/in/kirtikumari
Kirti Kumari
Product Designer at Dehaat | MS in HCDE
Gurugram
https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraperkowski
Barbara (Basia) Perkowski, UXC
Product Design at Atlassian
New York City Metropolitan Area
Alyssa Reese
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyssa-reese-342b08152
Denver Metropolitan Area
Alyssa Reese
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyssadreese
Assistant to the Director of Advancement at The Menil Collection
Houston, TX
Alyssa Reese
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyssareese
Digital Marketing Leader and Director
Pittsburgh, PA
Alyssa Reese
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyssa-reese-196349136
Medical Student at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Buffalo, NY
Alyssa Reese
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyssajreese
Financial Analyst at myCIO Wealth Partners
Philadelphia, PA
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Apps for Good
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