Who’s Roman?

Personal Mission Statement

Shaping the future of technology with my leadership, creative talents, technical skills, analytical thinking, and a huge passion for great user experiences, while leveraging design as a primary driver for business growth.

Qualifications Summary

• Dependable leader and mentor, effective communicator, intelligent planner and problem solver
• 20+ years of driving product vision, design strategy, design systems, product management & UX/UI
• 15+ years of leading digital product design and architecture in agile environments
• 10+ years of photography, video editing, camera operating, live streaming and switching
• B.S. in Computer Science & B.A. in Digital Arts from Stetson University

Professional Experience

(2019 – Present) Head of Product Design & UX

AbbaDox, Aventura, FL

• Scaled the Product Design team by 260% and spearheaded a departmental pivot to a high-output, remote, Agile DesignOps workflow leveraging Figma, Miro and other collaboration tools
• Mentor a remote team of POs and Designers helping them mature from novices into superstars
• Drive enterprise value by re-engineering complex clinical workflows to maximize efficiency with great UX
• Maintain the long-term product roadmap and UX vision in direct partnership with executive leadership
• Pioneer the Design Thinking approach to deliver high-quality, intuitive features while collaborating with Engineering, Design and Client Success teams
• Build and oversee maintenance of a robust enterprise design system in Figma
• Ensure WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility compliance to deliver inclusive healthcare experiences

(2024 – 2026) UX/UI Course Instructor for Caltech & Purdue Bootcamps

SimpliLearn (California Institute of Technology & Purdue curriculum), Online

• Cultivating the next generation of UX talent by teaching weekend Bootcamp courses for adults covering Product UX/UI Design, Design Thinking, UX Research, Wireframing, Prototyping and Usability Evaluation

(2019) Sr. Software UX Designer — 9-month contract

NextEra Energy, Juno Beach, FL

• Design a NAESB compliant gas pipeline software for transportation of natural gas
• Create wireframes, hi/low fidelity mockups and design diagrams using Figma
• Collaborate with Product Owner, Business Analyst, front-end & back-end Agile Scrum development team

(2007 – 2019) Product Manager — formerly Lead Software Developer

The PGA of America, Palm Beach Gardens, FL

• Lead development of a near real-time online golf scoring system used in 150+ tournaments with live leaderboards, admin tools, mobile scoring devices, bulk SMS texting, reporting tools, and data feeds
• Manage and train walking scorers and scoring control staff for major championships
• Reduce scoring costs by over $200,000 per major event such as the PGA Championship and Ryder Cup
• Support 28,000 Golf Professionals and 11,000 Golf Facilities by developing custom websites and reports

(2015 – 2016) UX/UI and Web Development Instructor

Palm Beach Code School, Palm Beach, FL

• Teach User Experience, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery in 3.5 hour evening classes to groups of adults

(2005 – 2007) Multimedia Developer

Web Power, Inc., Palm Beach Gardens, FL

• Develop a multi-user, ColdFusion and MS-SQL database driven enterprise level web-based software solution to organize and meta-tag thousands of video clips for search and distribution
• Integrate Sony Vegas with ASP.NET and MS-SQL to automatically edit and encode video files into multiple formats with bumpers, overlays and fades
• Develop Visio mockups / wireframes of user interfaces with functional specifications driving UX

Education

B.S. in Computer Science & B.A. in Digital Arts

Stetson University, DeLand, FL

• CS Research: Automated categorization of video, based on audio content
• DA Research: A toolkit for real-time audio and video processing

The Landmark Forum Graduate

Landmark Education

• A program designed to bring about positive and permanent shifts in the quality of your life

Areas of Expertise

Product Design, Product Management, Software Design, UX/UI

Tools: Figma, Miro, Jira, Confluence, Deque Systems Axe DevTools, Claude & Claude Design

Activities: Design system creation and maintenance, wireframes, interactive prototypes, accessibility, low/mid/high fidelity screen mock-ups, personas, flow charts, UX diagrams

Software Development, Software Engineering

Tools: Visual Studio Code, GitHub, GitKraken, SQL Server Management Studio, Storybook

Activities: Software architecture, database architecture, code writing, code review

Photography, Video, Digital Media

Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere Pro and Audition; Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Sony Vegas, Sony DVD Architect, Media 100

Activities: Professional, real-estate, car, corporate headshot and portrait photography; video shooting, switching, streaming and editing

General

Tools: Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, OneNote, SharePoint and Teams; Google Analytics, Google Search Appliance, Slack, Businessmap

Activities: Software strategy, software roadmap

Activities and Awards

• Lead a team to winning the 1st place prize at the 2016 UX-Dev Summit Hackathon / Design-a-thon
• Contest winning photographer
• University Symphony Orchestra Scholarship (violin), Chamber Orchestra Scholarship (violin)
• University Dean Scholarship, multiple academic awards
• Association of Computing Machinery Vice President, Video Club, Photography Club, Math Club

Citizenship and Languages

U.S. Citizen. Fluent in English & Russian.

References

Available upon request.