Summary
Susan Culkin is a Senior Product Designer with 9+ years of focused experience crafting user-centered digital products for Fortune 500s, federal contractors, Big 4 consultancies and startups. She excels at bridging business and technical teams, turning complex workflows—particularly in financial and compliance systems—into streamlined, research-driven experiences that improve both user satisfaction and operational efficiency. A hands-on leader and facilitator, she builds design teams, scalable UX processes, and runs iterative discovery that balances analytics, usability testing, and prototyping. She also teaches UX/UI at Nashville Software School, co-founded local community initiatives, and mentors early-stage founders—evidence of a commitment to growing talent and paying design forward. Notably, her career includes launching one of the iPad’s early award-winning TV apps and modernizing enterprise tools used by financial professionals, demonstrating a rare mix of product vision and tactical execution.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech