Summary
Kevin Mcbride is a Principal Product Designer based in Mountain View with 20+ years of design leadership and a 9-year track record combining hands-on UI development and strategic product vision. He has repeatedly led cross-functional teams to integrate complex products—driving cloud, cybersecurity, and AIOps experiences at VMware, Splunk, and LogicMonitor—while founding and scaling design studios and studios-in-practice. Kevin blends design thinking, user research, and rapid prototyping (including shipped React/Dialogflow conversational UIs and Material 3 Figma systems) to prove business impact, such as a 3X sales lead increase in a two-week GenAI sprint and measurable call-center savings from conversational agents. He teaches and mentors broadly—previously lecturing at UC Berkeley and upskilling thousands of engineers at IBM—bringing an unusual mix of product strategy, hands-on coding, and storytelling that turns technical complexity into clear buyer and user journeys.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Technical and Scientific Communication Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Technical and Scientific Communication Computer Science at University of Minnesota