Summary
Jeff Ward is a product and experience leader with over two decades of cross-disciplinary design and technical leadership, currently serving as Director of Product Experience at Full Sail University. He has a track record of taking zero-to-one digital products from R&D through scaled launch—most notably Full Sail One—while building and mentoring multidisciplinary teams across product, UX, and engineering. His background spans AAA game franchises at Electronic Arts, enterprise-brand consulting for Disney/ABC/Microsoft, and hands-on creative direction in broadcast and higher education, giving him a rare blend of storytelling, brand strategy, and hardcore engineering instincts. Jeff thrives in ambiguity and solving “wicked” problems with data-informed research, design standards, and pragmatic implementation. He is known for elevating user experiences across both digital and physical systems and for fostering collaborative cultures that sustain rapid change. Based in Greater Orlando, he pairs a BFA in Graphic Design with a lifelong curiosity—he literally dreams in code—bridging creative vision with executional rigor.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Graphic Design, BFA Graphic Design at University of Central Florida