Stephen A Blevins

Experience

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  Contract Employment

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2004

  Art Director

  Imagination : Advertising Agency—Clients: Samsung, BBC (Sports Personality of The Year Show)Projects: Concept of visual walk-throughs for two proposed Samsung buildings in Seoul Korea. Design of the stage of the BBC Sports Personality of The Year Awards 04. In-house portfolio book produced every 5 years.—Clients: Pepsi Max, American Express (Red) campaignProjects - Pitches for different promotional campaigns targeted at men 18-25 (Pepsi Max). The campaign started by Bono from U2 to fund a charity to help prevent AIDS in Africa (American Express (Red). Show less

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  Arcadia Group Ltd

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2004

  Art Director

  Arcadia Group: Fashion House—Clients: Burton, Top Shop, Dorothy Perkins (high-street fashion labels)Projects: Concepts for nation-wide high-street campaign, Direct-Mail and Point of Sale for all in-store items for Christmas

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  The Walt Disney Company

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2004

  Art Director

  –Walt Disney Store: Above-the-line Apparel and Accessories campaigns working directly with buyers and account managers.Projects: Mood boards to be applied to all Lion King merchandise, Spring 2003 and Apparel Design for handbags and wallets showing selected Disney characters, Spring 2003

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  TBWA\London

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2004

  Art Director

  Above and Below the line Tube ads and Direct Mail Campaigns, Music Events, Campaign launchStory boards and concepts for a new high speed internet company. Clients: Home Choice "I'd Rather Be Home" campaign for Hi-speed internet/TV broadbandClient: Sony Ericsson and Orange mobile Partnership, Jamiroquai EventProjects: Magazine ads based on new campaigns (Sony Ericsson/Orange). Event launch including invitations and support (Jamiroquai Event).

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  Sky

  May 2004 - Aug 2005

  Creative Director

  Brand consulting on new roll-out for Sky DigitalLed designers to expand on and push brand-concepts for various internal and external publicity.—Clients: Sky News, Sky Sports, Sky Arts

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  WHAM. London. Hong Kong.

  Aug 2005 - Aug 2006

  Creative Director

  Branding concepts for 3 Mobile and SuperdrugProjects: 3 Brand book, Branding for Internal newspaper (More3), Event Brand for 3 "Pump up the vol.", High-Street Shop Design (Ireland), Re-format of magazine, Re-design of Superdrug Brand, Website design and direction of programming agency based in China for Chi-Med www.chi-med.comClients: 3 (International telecommunications network), Superdrug (high-street store), Chi-Med (Chinese pharmaceutical company)

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  Sabbatical Break

  Aug 2006 - Aug 2007

  1yr Sabbatical at University in the South of France

  Work on serveral personal design projects while living in France as well as acquiring a professional speaking level of French. Classes were taken every day for a year at Paul Vallerie University in the South of France.

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  Techsia SA

  Jan 2008 - May 2010

  Head of Design

  – Creative lead for a 50+ employee software start-upObjective: Rebrand and reposition parent brand and the two primary software brands (Techlog and Malcom).Visual identity and repositioning of 2 hero software products Techlog and Malcom.Software Visual Design: New User Interface and User Experience including new look & feel and new icons for two hero software products.External communications including all marketing material including brochures, e-letters, corporate trade-show exhibition design including interior design of structure and look & feel, corporate website, corporate identity, digital communication.Internal communications Word and Power Point templates used for all client communication.Description: Re-designed 'look and feel' of logos, graphics, fonts, colour-ways and strap-lines for all products and parent mark. Project-manage events world-wide while simultaneously responsible for the delivery of all creative outputs.Clients: Shell, Chevron, Bp, Total, Bg Group, Statoil, Repsol, Bhp Billiton, Conoco Phillips, Saudi Aramco, Gaz de France... Show less

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  Schlumberger

  Apr 2010 - Jul 2017

  Established and managed a diverse team of 20+ people consisting of interaction designers, visual designers, design researchers and frontend developers at the Innovation Center of Schlumberger located in Silicon Valley.The initial focus was on digital transformational and incremental restructuring of the current desktop platform applications (500+) to cloud-based SaaS (Software As A Service) workflow-centric and contextual solutions.Created and maintained a UX living playbook of processes to roll-out for the software community of 10,000 employees during its transformational phase including a Vision Roadmap or "North Star", a UX training program for new UX hires as well as for non-UX roles in the software community.Partnered with Frog design firm in developing and maintaining a unique Design Language System (DLS) and reusable 'living' component cloud-based library for the developing community for more than 7000 developers globally in the company. Oversaw close partnerships with major tech companies such as Google and Microsoft as well as other tech companies in the Valley in an effort to leverage their expertise and technology to drive key software digital transformation projectsProject Managed dozens of $1m-$4m projects with major UX design firms Frog and Accenture as well as others in the SF and Austin area Developed an internal communication campaign targeted at the software community to encourage early adopters of the integrated UX software development process and methodologies during the transformationDeveloped global integrated training program. Our team worked inside partner firm (Frog) for 3 months acquiring research, Austin, Texas Show less Lead and manage a complete rebrand of the five software desktop application including product identities, repositioning of 5 hero software products and hundresds of secondary software products to have a unified brand system.Developed an internal marketing campaign to promote acceptance and early adoption of the brand initiative.Art Direction for live 3D Holographic show for VIP event in Monaco - 2012 SIS Global ForumCreative lead and project management working with top holographic agency world-wide 'MUSION' Show less

  • Design Global Manager, HQ

    Oct 2016 - Jul 2017

  • Design & Innovation Manager - Innovation Center

    Mar 2015 - Oct 2016

  • Product Design Manager

    Nov 2011 - Feb 2015

  • Brand Experience Manager

    Apr 2010 - Nov 2011
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  Sabbatical Break

  Oct 2017 - Oct 2018

  1 yr. Sabbatical at University in Chile

  A year sabbatical in Chile to learn spanish and work on several UX projects in South America.

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  Stealth Startup

  Nov 2018 - Jan 2020

  Director of Design for Blockchain Start-up

  Working remotely in UX and branding for a crypto currency and Blockchain start-up.

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  Xecta

  Apr 2020 - Sept 2022

  Director of Design

  Creation of Design Language System and Component library.Creative Lead for all Design/UX Research and UI Design for the two flagship AI products.Starting and leading remote design team based in Poland, North America and India (Strategy, Hiring, Leadership) Art direction and implementation of brand rollout for parent and product brands.Integrating Human Centered Design in our products and services' interaction and user experience. Design Thinking roll-out campaign for internal non-designers to help with fast adoption within the company. Show less

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  Stealth AI Startup

  Jan 2023 - now

  Director of Product Design

  *Under NDA. Managing several design projects with developing products in the renewable energy and AI space and working with NGOs using blockchain technology.