Summary
Jeremy Ashley is a veteran user and customer experience executive and consultant with two decades of industry experience shaping enterprise UX across startups and global corporations. As former Group VP of Cloud UX and VP of Applications UX at Oracle, he built and led multidisciplinary teams worldwide, scaling design organizations and defining product-spanning UX strategy for complex application suites. Now CEO of Dovergence, he combines rapid assessment and reductive design methods to deliver pragmatic, developer-friendly solutions for startups. His background blends industrial and human factors design with hands-on interaction design experience dating back to Apple and Taligent, giving him a rare perspective on both system-level and product-level UX. A regular contributor to OracleVoice on Forbes and an active member of professional UX communities, he’s as comfortable articulating business impact as he is driving detailed usability research and ethnography. Collected across academia at the Royal College of Art and Glasgow School of Art, his work consistently focuses on making tools that help people do their jobs accurately and efficiently.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BA(Hons) Industrial Design Furniture Design, BA(Hons) Industrial Design Furniture Design at The Glasgow School of Art
MDes (RCA) Computer Related Design, MDes (RCA) Computer Related Design at Royal College of Art
Foundation Design, Foundation Design at Manchester Polytechnic