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Benjamin Bennett |
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Summary |
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Product Design Leader with over 25 years creating innovative, large-scale, digital solutions. Effective people manager and accomplished individual contributor with deep financial services experience. Quick, high-level thinker with acute attention to detail. |
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Core Competencies |
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- Design Leadership
- Product Management
- User-Centric Design
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- User Research
- Algo & AI-based UIs
- Mobile Interface Design
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- Client Relationships
- Interaction Design
- Information Architecture
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Recent Accomplishments |
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Bloomberg L.P., New York, NY |
2011 – Present |
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Contributed to Bloomberg’s continued revenue growth from ~$8 billion to ~$12 billion by redesigning Buy-Side and Sell-Side solutions across Fixed Income, Equities, and FX. |
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Global UX Lead, Community Products |
2020 – Present |
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- Providing design oversight and strategic direction to 200 developers and 12 product managers, responsible for all front-end design activities.
- Led multi-year redesign of EMSX resulting in Buy-Side’s most used execution management system and 2019 Waters Ranking: Best Execution Management System.
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Global UX Team Lead, Trading Solutions / Enterprise Products |
2011 – 2019 |
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- Grew and managed a team of 10 direct reports providing strategic direction, performance assessments, career development, and design oversight.
- Tripled revenue through enhancements to the sell-side, fixed income electronic trade order management system (ETOMS), continuing Bloomberg’s streak earning the Waters Rankings award for Best Sell-Side OMS Provider.
- Established a new revenue stream helping clients meet their MiFID II regulatory requirements earning the Waters Ranking award for Best Buy-Side Compliance Product, Regulatory Reporting.
- Earned the Waters Ranking award for Best Execution Management System by leading a ground-up redesign of EMSX resulting in the world’s #1 most used EMS.
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Pfizer, New York, NY
User Experience Design Lead |
2007 – 2011 |
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- Redesigned 34 intranet portals, the world’s 3rd largest SharePoint implementation, increasing traffic 60%+, saving $8 million in annual costs, and improving knowledge sharing across 120,000 colleagues.
- Managed a portfolio of user experience (UX) design projects, overseeing contract resources and vendor teams, ensuring quality user experiences.
- Championed user research including site analytics, surveys, polls, card sorting, interviews, focus groups, and usability testing to inform decisions and strategies.
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Prior Expereince |
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Accenture, Agency.com, Marsh, & Keane/netNumina, in New York, NY, and abroad, Senior User Experience Designer, Information Architect, UI Designer / Developer, 1997-2007 |
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY,
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Multidisciplinary Design Minor, Magna Cum Laude, 1997 |
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