Josh Johnson

Experience

Splunk Principal Designer, Splunk Observability Cloud

• Led the AI Pathways design team in delivering AI-first experiences across Splunk Observability Cloud, including automated root cause analysis, intelligent alert grouping into incidents, and entity-centric health monitoring based on AI and ML historical analysis
• Led the observability platform design team on data management and foundational capabilities including alerting and dashboards
• Drove unified experience and design system implementations across feature areas
• Led improvements to structure and workflow for users getting data into the system with OpenTelemetry

VMware Lead Product Designer for Operations (Staff Engineer II)

• Set design direction for all operations software including Wavefront, vRealize Operations, and vRealize Log Insight (cloud & on-prem)
• Evangelized a common framework for design process and delivery of design artifacts through stories, scenarios, and tasks
• Drove a cloud management platform vision story and how the product suite could align to fulfill the vision.
• Redesigned foundational UI framework for industry-leading observability tool.
• Designed a log analytics service which was VMware's first cloud-native operations service
• Constructed and implemented a framework for measuring UX quality across product suite
• Steered a hackathon project into release as an official VMware open-source project

Diamanti (formerly Datawise.io) UX Design Lead (Contractor)

• Designed core IA and navigation for alpha version of company's primary management application.
• Setup core coding standards for application HTML and SASS
• Collaborated on code for Angular-based UI

Zimbra Director of UX Design

• Managed a team of interaction designers and contractors for user research and visual design
• Designed new features and usability improvements for Zimbra Collaboration
• Designed and prototyped a new responsive consumer interface for Zimbra Collaboration
• Designed new web interface for Zimbra Sync and Share (cloud file storage)
• Designed and helped implement touch-enabled client for Zimbra Collaboration
• Implemented common UI look and feel across Zimbra products
• Defined and managed UX process in a newly adopted agile workflow
• Initiated first set of company-wide accessible UI guidelines and components

VMware Lead Product Designer (Staff Engineer I)

• Designed new features and usability improvements for Zimbra Collaboration Suite
• Revised architecture of skinning system within Zimbra Collaboration Suite
• Designed Android mobile client for VMware Horizon
• Managed UI development team during an interim vacancy
• Partnered with product management in defining a product roadmap

Hewlett-Packard Interaction Design Architect

• Managed a small team of interaction designers and a visual design contractor
• Designed UX architecture for HP BSA Essentials (enterprise reporting product)
• Designed and prototyped new action-based interface for HP Server Automation in Adobe Flex
• Designed new features and usability improvements for HP Server Automation

Opsware Interaction Design Architect

• Designed UX architecture for Opsware Server Automation System (SAS)
• Designed new features and usability improvements for Opsware SAS
• Designed new features and usability improvements for Opsware Visual Application Manager
• Designed UX architecture and integration paths for Opsware Application Storage Automation System

Sun Microsystems User Interaction Architect

• Designed UX architecture for Sun N1 System Manager
• Participated in the revision and adoption of Sun UI Guidelines and JSF framework
• Designed new features and usability improvements for Sun N1 Provisioning Server

Terraspring User Interaction Designer

• Designed new features and usability improvements for Terraspring Virtualization Control Center (VCC)
• Designed and prototyped new interface for Terraspring VCC in XUL