Senior resume
Creative Director and full-stack product design leader for enterprise data, AI interfaces, media systems, and digital ecosystems.
Senior creative leadership, Rock This product ecosystem proof, hands-on product strategy, deep interface craft, engineering fluency, and an issued patent record across AI, media, and interface systems.
Years Building
20+
Issued Patents
8 issued
Primary Lane
Creative Product Systems
Current Work Status
Citigroup + Founder
Ecosystem proof
Rock This is the strongest proof: a connected iOS, Android, Shopify, and AWS-backed product ecosystem spanning mobile UX, commerce, AI media, social surfaces, credits, admin tools, and launch architecture.
Leadership
Leads multidisciplinary creative teams, manages ambiguous intake, turns new business domains into product models, and still works hands-on when the craft needs a standard.
Invention
Public invention record spans AI UI customization, image-classification presentation interfaces, media scene intelligence, and video metadata.
Enterprise craft
Career proof connects Citi dashboards, Verizon FiOS media UX, Fannie Mae design systems, Rock This, Goodnight eNight, and agency work.
Target lane
Product ecosystem proof
This is the most important resume signal: Kirk can lead from product vision through mobile apps, commerce, cloud services, AI/media workflows, admin operations, and launch architecture.
Rock This
Mobile-first wardrobe, shopping, social, AI media, credit, messaging, profile, and admin workflows built around a connected consumer product model.
Commerce
Merchant/app integration work that connects product catalog context, shopping handoff, commerce providers, and future marketplace workflows.
Cloud
Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, Cognito, Secrets Manager, IAM, CloudWatch, signed media flows, and production-style environment separation.
AI + Social
Closet taxonomy, outfit creation, AI photos and videos, soundtrack clips, feed cards, follows, comments, messages, reporting, and moderation-aware reads.
AI storytelling
A relevant AI storytelling product lane with personalization, narration, parent review, export, and family-safe creative boundaries.
Citigroup
Irving, TX
2020 - Present
Officially serves as Vice President Digital Design Engineer, Sr. Mgr, with a Creative Director function across a multidisciplinary data visualization team producing dashboards, full-web applications, product models, and design-system guidance for business-critical operational interfaces.
Manages designers, writers, architects, cross-functional partners, workload planning, recruiting, and leadership communication.
Turns ambiguous intake, business domains, acronyms, KPIs, and stakeholder needs into reusable interface models and decision-ready visual systems.
Co-inventor on public Citi/Citibank AI UI customization, user-interface token, image-classification policy, and GUI image-selection patents.
Fannie Mae
Plano, TX
2018 - 2020
Worked across research, product UI, motion design, design-system communication, and executive storytelling for enterprise product teams.
Created Blueprint Design System UI elements and motion guidelines.
Conducted research and usability studies to identify cross-functional workflow problems and design-system opportunities.
Produced video, animation, presentation, and keynote media for executive communication and product-team alignment.
Verizon Corporation
Irving, TX
2010 - 2018
Designed and managed 10-foot video experiences across cable, on-demand, set-top boxes, Xbox, PlayStation, DVR players, connected media devices, and Redbox Instant by Verizon.
Wrote and influenced requirements, produced wireframes, prepared prototypes, defined usability-study objectives, reviewed designs, and audited implementations.
Managed designers and cross-functional relationships across on-site, remote, partner, product, and development teams.
Helped ship several Verizon FiOS TV releases and brought video products into millions of homes while inventing media interaction and metadata concepts.
Ad Agency and Digital Product Studio Work
United States
1999 - 2007
Worked in and helped build multiple advertising agencies during the late-90s and early-2000s shift into web, interactive, campaign, and digital product work.
Created brand, campaign, website, interactive, animation, and presentation work in client-service environments.
Built the foundation for pitching ideas, translating brand strategy into shipped digital experiences, and carrying work from concept through production.
Connected creative direction, production craft, client pressure, and technical delivery before moving into larger enterprise and product leadership roles.
Patent portfolio
Image Classification GUI
Graphical user interface to adjust image selection based on classification information
Issued 2025-06-24 / Co-inventor
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AI UI Customization
Systems and methods for customizing user interfaces using artificial intelligence
Issued 2025-04-15 / Co-inventor
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Image Classification Policy
Policy based representation based on classification information
Issued 2025-03-18 / Co-inventor
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AI UI Customization
Systems and methods for customizing user interfaces using artificial intelligence
Issued 2025-03-18 / Co-inventor
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AI UI Customization
Systems and methods for customizing user interfaces using artificial intelligence
Issued 2024-07-02 / Co-inventor
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AI UI Customization
Systems and methods for customizing user interfaces using artificial intelligence
Issued 2023-10-24 / Co-inventor
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Media Scene Intelligence
Favorite media program scenes systems and methods
Issued 2016-04-19 / Co-inventor
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Video Metadata
Tagging video content
Issued 2015-03-10 / Inventor
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Mobile commerce ecosystem
The clearest founder-product proof: connected iOS and Android apps, Shopify application work, AWS-backed services, closet taxonomy, AI media generation, shopping context, social/community flows, credits, admin tools, and launch architecture.
Review project
AI storytelling rebuild
Relevant founder-product lane for AI bedtime stories, child profiles, personalized prompts, AI Edit Mode, storybooks, narration, PDF export, parent review, and family-safe creative boundaries; intentionally secondary while the rebuild is in progress.
Review project
LUMA Design Thinking trained and certified.
Macromedia Site of the Day: Nationwide Insurance / 30 Ways - Life Comes at You Fast.
Citi enterprise dashboards, data visualization systems, and AI/interface patent families.
Verizon FiOS guide, connected media, Redbox Instant, and media metadata patents.
Fannie Mae Blueprint Design System, motion guidelines, research, and executive media.
Rock This iOS, Android, Shopify, AWS, AI media, social-commerce, admin, and wardrobe operating-system ecosystem.
Ad agency and digital product studio work from 1999 - 2007.