👋🏼 I'M
Serena chechile
NICHOLS.
UX/UI DESIGNER
LEADER
MENTOR
PROFESSIONAL
MY KNOWLEDGE LEVEL IN UX TOOLS
FIGMA
85%
SKETCH
95%
MARVEL
95%
BALSAMIQ
95%
MIRO
80%
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I am a Senior Principal Product Manager at Red Hat, focusing on the OpenShift Developer Experience and improving developer productivity. With a strong background in User Experience and development, I work closely with Experience Architects, UX designers, and Engineering to promote a collaborative environment to drive a consistent and delightful end-to-end user experience for developers.
I joined Red Hat in 2014 as a UX Architect in the Red Hat UXD team. Over my tenure in that team, I led our group's efforts on the OpenShift Console, including both UI Development and UX Design; spearheaded efforts to provide more consistent experiences across all of the Red Hat portfolios with PatternFly, our open source design system; initiated our team effort regarding designing in the open, and much more. You'll frequently see me on openshift.tv, presenting at conferences, or blogging.
I am a co-owner of SVG Consulting Group LLC, providing UX services and more for various clients, including Instacart and REsynque.
PORTFOLIO
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Experience
2020 - present
Red Hat
Sr Principal Product Manager, Distinguished Engineer
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2018 - 2020
Red Hat
DevTools UX Strategist, Distinguished Engineer
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2014 - 2018
Red Hat
UX Strategist, Sr. Principal Engineer
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2021 - present
SVG Consulting Group LLC
Co-owner, Director of Design
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2021 - present
Designlab
Mentor
Provide written feedback and dialogue on projects
2012-2014
EMC Corporation
UX Designer, Consulting Engineer
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Focused on traditional UX efforts while improving general usability of Backup and Recovery Manager (BRM).
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Sole designer of the Backup Recovery Manager companion application.
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Developed personas and collaborated on detailed use cases for Service Provider and Tenant feature enhancements.
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Member of the EMC Common User Experience Advisory Board
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Participated in collaborative design efforts around EMC mobile applications.
2007 - 2012
EMC Corporation
UX Designer, Consulting Engineer
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Co-led EMC’s Common User Experience effort to collaboratively create UI
standards for the EMC desktop application portfolio. -
Usability work included task and object analysis, card sorts, persona definition,
usability testing and likeability testing. -
Coordinated the cross-division UX booth at EMC World (customer conference) for 5 years, including design of the booth, cross charging of expenses, a generic usability survey, scheduling of activities as well as booth staffing.
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Instituted a weekly UX Sharing meeting with UX advocates throughout EMC.
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Presented at the EMC Mobile Summit each year, and was a member of the main discussion panel.
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Provided UX guidance and consultation to many design groups.
2003 - 2007
EMC Corporation
UX Designer, Principal Engineer
Provided UX guidance and consultation to may design groups.
1997 - 2003
EMC Corporation
Front End Developer, Principal Engineer
Worked with a team of developers to design and develop a backup reporting UI web application.
CONTACT
I'm always open to making new connections and discussing opportunities to collaborate. Send me an email to connect!