Galen Strasen
Manager, User Experience Design at Exploratorium
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGalen Strasen is a user experience leader and hands-on web strategist with 11 years of experience blending front-end development, UX strategy, and digital marketing for creative and lifestyle brands. After nearly a decade in agencies, she founded She Speaks in Code to deliver custom WordPress and Shopify experiences that boost SEO, conversions, and brand storytelling. At the Exploratorium she progressed from Senior UX Designer to Manager of User Experience Design, applying museum- and audience-focused design to complex digital products. Galen combines technical execution—secure enterprise hosting, custom builds, and campaign automation—with a designer’s eye for narrative and visual presentation. Based in Oakland, she’s comfortable shifting between client-facing strategy and code-level problem solving, and often translates research-driven insights into measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Art History and the Visual Arts, Bachelors Art History and the Visual Arts at Occidental CollegeInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at United Nations International School
French, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (3)
wordpress7
waffle2
project-management2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
TMBR/climbwy
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:78 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
Designsake-Studio/quim
Mar 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:50 pushes, 5 branches in 10 months
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