Shari Benko
Senior User Experience Designer at General Dynamics Mission Systems
Rogers, Arkansas, United States
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Top SchoolShari Benko is a Senior User Experience Designer with a decade of experience blending mass media communication, visual design, and front-end coding to create user-centered products. She leads UX research, prototyping, and usability testing at General Dynamics Mission Systems and previously shaped AI and analytics tooling at Intel to simplify workflows for data scientists. Her background—MS in Interactive Media (4.0) plus self-taught HTML/CSS/JavaScript—gives her a practical empathy for engineering constraints and a knack for translating complex technical processes into intuitive interfaces. Early roles in broadcast production and print taught her to perform under pressure and manage end-to-end projects, skills she applies when coordinating cross-functional teams. She’s particularly experienced in quantifying UX for analytics products and has contributed design leadership to socially impactful AI projects like facial recognition matching for missing children.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Communications/Graphic Design, BA, Communications/Graphic Design at State University of New York College at CortlandMaster of Science (M.S.), Interactive Media, 4.0, Master of Science (M.S.), Interactive Media, 4.0 at Quinnipiac University
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Github contributions (5)
trustedanalytics/starter
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:10 PRs, 200 pushes in 3 months
jekylljekyll-themeprose
trustedanalytics/tap-docs
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:16 PRs, 49 pushes, 4 branches in 7 days
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