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Tim Rice

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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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