Elliott Payne
Council President at City of Minneapolis
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElliott Payne is a civic-minded design and strategy leader with nine years of experience applying human-centered design, service design, and business strategy to public sector and private initiatives. As Council President for the City of Minneapolis and former founder of Sense Datum, he blends policy leadership with hands-on practice in rapid prototyping, user research, and business model design to drive service and operational improvements. His background spans mechanical engineering and MBA-level strategic management, enabling him to translate complex supply chain, process re-engineering, and human factors challenges into pragmatic implementations. Elliott has led performance and innovation efforts inside city government and guided cross-disciplinary teams at agencies like space150, giving him a rare mix of municipal governance and product-focused consulting. He is known for pairing lean manufacturing and systems thinking with UX-centered methods to redesign services end-to-end. A less obvious strength is his track record of moving between deep technical process optimization and community-driven policy work, bridging engineering rigor with inclusive stakeholder engagement.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Strategic Management, Marketing, MBA, Strategic Management, Marketing at University of Minnesota - Carlson School of ManagementUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Spanish
Github Skills (3)
gate6
cookbook4
accelerator1
Github contributions (3)
CaseyAPayne/permissionless-prosperity-playbook
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:16 commits in 5 months
cookbookgatepermissionlessindependentcommunities
elliottpayne/permissionless-prosperity-playbook
Nov 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 1 issue in 2 years 8 months
cookbookgatepermissionlessindependentcommunities
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