Melanie Helgeson
Sr. Product Designer, Manager at Melanie Hall Creative
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelanie Helgeson is a senior product designer and manager with 12 years of experience crafting human-centered digital products and leading cross-functional teams, currently scaling design at charity: water. She blends hands-on front-end engineering and UX research with product management chops from roles at Kindful and Ramsey Solutions, enabling rapid delivery of impactful tools for nonprofits and media. Melanie’s background ranges from building greenfield apps and RESTful APIs to optimizing conversion through CRO experiments, so she understands both design nuance and implementation realities. She co-runs a creative studio, Melanie Hall Creative, demonstrating entrepreneurial initiative and ongoing client-facing development work. Based in Nashville, she has a track record of translating storytelling and user research into measurable product outcomes for mission-driven organizations. An atypical strength is her continuity across roles—designer, developer, product manager—which lets her bridge gaps between vision and shipped software.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Visual Arts/New Media: Graphic Design, Visual Arts/New Media: Graphic Design at Taylor UniversityWeb Development, Web Development at Nashville Software School
Github Skills (2)
church2
crowd2
Github contributions (5)
Kindful/api-documentation
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:10 pushes in 1 day
SouthernMade/json_api_client
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
jsonapidefinedcompliantspecificationclient-libraries
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