My Resume
I am Tim Rice, a driven UX and systems designer. I dream big and then find ways to unify others to scale their expertise to solve complex challenges.
Experience
Jan 2006 to present

Preach Media
Product & Systems Consultant
- Architected a secured local AI environment to convert strategy and unstructured content into structured, retrievable knowledge, aligning strategy documents, images, and files across 14 collections while maintaining full data ownership.
- Developed and tested a proprietary delivery methodology enabling context-switching between broad architecture view and granular details across 5 concurrent products.
- Built a design system to enable one product with architecture to scale.
Sep 2015 to Dec 2025

J.B. Hunt
Expert UX Designer
Sep 2021 to Dec 2025
- Pitched and led migration from Adobe XD to Figma to better unify design and code, improve UI consistency, and enable stronger product team collaboration.
- Lead UX across two domains and eight products.
- Coach designers on blending UX techniques with agile practices and frameworks.
- Utilize personas, user journeys, and user story mapping to help align, prioritize, and scale opportunities and delivery across multiple products.
Senior UX Designer
Apr 2016 to Sep 2021
- Started a design system and helped lead it to support web, mobile, email, and data visualization across a suite of more than 25 products.
- Developed multi-brand theming engine for WCAG-compliant light and dark themes and embedded theming and animations into SVG images.
- Took on role of Scrum Master and led successful adoption of Scrum across multiple squads while improving accuracy and estimation of roadmap delivery.
- Developed six highlight videos in a week and a half for a sales summit to promote vision and goals.
UX Designer
Sep 2015 to Apr 2016
- Helped establish and grow a new UX team from generalists to specialists for product design, research, and content.
Jul 2014 to Jul 2015

SummitLIFE
Executive Director
- Led a site relocation while negotiating a contract to utilize stage and cafeteria, classrooms, kitchen, and onsite storage across a school campus.
- Architected and built a SharePoint intranet and migrated from paper to digital document management.
- Redesigned administration and finance processes and resources.
- Designed logo and produced promotional branding such as trailer videos, photography, and social media campaigns.
Jan 2009 to Jun 2014

ATC Transportation
Manager of Marketing & Communications
Mar 2013 to Jun 2014
- Designed and built a network of TVs located at 16 different locations across the United States and Canada that we used for training and communicating with drivers.
- Developed identity guidelines for several companies, which included logos, business cards, letterhead, and PowerPoint templates that I designed along with color schemes and fonts.
- Established a foundation for social networking using core platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
- Built and managed corporate websites and SharePoint intranet
- Produced numerous training videos, help guides, and documentation.
Web Developer
Jan 2009 to Mar 2013
- Updated branding and logos for five companies.
- Redesigned website for holdings company and four subsidiaries.
Nov 2007 to Jan 2009

TAMKO Building Products
Mail Courier
- Overhauled entire mail system to incorporate UPS, FedEx, DHL, and USPS. Conducted numerous interviews and tests to lead a smooth and frictionless transition. This saved the company from needing to hire an additional employee.
- Redesigned mail room for more efficient layout and partnered with maintenance to handle rewiring and structural changes.
- Developed training manual for future couriers to help future couriers onboard faster.
Oct 2006 to Feb 2008

Villa Heights Christian Church
Creative Arts Director
- Coordinated scheduling of musicians, led rehearsals, and helped plan weekly themes consisting of drama, music, and video.
- Led construction of a raised sound booth to alleviate tech issues due to cord management and improve line of site to enable communication through hand gestures for adaptive music transitions.
- Composed and arranged music and lyrics.
Jan 2002 to Jul 2005

Activehead
Creative/Design Director
- Helped found this company.
- Designed websites for multiple companies utilizing our custom-built CMS.
My Skills
- AI
- Branding
- Content Writing
- Design Systems
- Information Architecture
- Interaction Design
- Product Management
- Product Owner
- Prototyping
- Scrum & Agile
- UX Design
- UX Research
- Videography
Certifications

UX Basic Training
Nielsen Norman Group · 2017

User Interface Principles
Nielsen Norman Group · 2017

Generating Big Ideas with Design Thinking
Nielsen Norman Group · 2017

Usability Testing
Nielsen Norman Group · 2017

Lean UX and Agile
Nielsen Norman Group · 2017

Wireframing and Prototyping
Nielsen Norman Group · 2018

Navigation Design
Nielsen Norman Group · 2018

Analytics and User Experience
Nielsen Norman Group · 2018

The Human Mind and Usability
Nielsen Norman Group · 2018

Visual Design for Mobile and Tablet
Nielsen Norman Group · 2018

Product and UX
Nielsen Norman Group · 2022
Education

Full Sail University
A.S. Digital Media
July 2003

Ozark Christian College
Studied music & psychology
August 1996 to May 1998
Interested in solving some big challenges?
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