General info
UX Innovator - Creative Leader
Boulder, CO
Boulder, CO
A highly effective product designer, manager & creative leader.
Excellent ability to manage and produce for numerous projects simultaneously while providing creative solutions to complex problems.
Specialties:
Creative direction, product design, user experience innovation, 3D, and UX management.
Excellent ability to manage and produce for numerous projects simultaneously while providing creative solutions to complex problems.
Specialties:
Creative direction, product design, user experience innovation, 3D, and UX management.
Experience
UX Manager, G Suite Search & Assistant
Google
Leading a team designing the future of enterprise search & assistant.
UX Manager, UX Lead Google Drive
Google
Lead a team designing the future of Google Drive.
Chromecast UX Lead
Google
Lead the end to end UX for the Chromecast device.
Lead UX Designer
Skype
Responsible for user interaction and visual design across multiple projects and teams.
Principal UX Designer
Motorola
Responsible for user interaction and visual design across multiple projects and teams. Delivered solutions for mobile, television and web.
Creative Director, Principal
Atomic Pistol Interactive
Specializing in Interactive entertainment and marketing.
Designed and developed Disney Hannah Montana online video game. The game was the number one online casual experience for Disney and was featured in an international television campaign.
Developed the online interactive experience for HBO True Blood series.
Designed and developed Disney Hannah Montana online video game. The game was the number one online casual experience for Disney and was featured in an international television campaign.
Developed the online interactive experience for HBO True Blood series.
Creative Director - Product Development
T-Mobile USA
Leading visual and interaction design efforts for handsets, mobile devices and the web, including the myTouch and Sidekick franchise devices. Developed new products and technologies leading to over ten patents.
Creative Director, Principal
Mondo Robot
Designed concept driven multiple Microsoft community websites experiences and applications. Responsible for the ID and branding of multiple Microsoft programs.
Designed and developed the game title Tiki Magic Mini Golf, published by Freeverse for the Mac and PC platforms.
Designed and developed the MTV Real Time Video web application, allowing users to virtually direct their own videos and share them with friends.
Designed and developed the game title Tiki Magic Mini Golf, published by Freeverse for the Mac and PC platforms.
Designed and developed the MTV Real Time Video web application, allowing users to virtually direct their own videos and share them with friends.
Art Director
Anark Media Corporation
Lead the creative services group for this 3D interactive platform company.
Designed application and UI to allow customers around the world to configure an entire Boeing 787 aircraft and virtually walk through it.
Designed application and UI to allow customers around the world to configure an entire Boeing 787 aircraft and virtually walk through it.
Art Director
Design Farm
Developed, designed and led a team through the production of five statewide online interactive teaching programs for the Florida Department of Education. This successful flash based program set the benchmark for state funded interactive education and receives millions of hits a day.
Art Director
Food.com
Designed user experiences for interactive platforms and web including: AT&T Digital Interactive Television Set Top Box, Palm, Mobile Wireless and 3COM Audrey Internet enabled appliance.
Education
Associate of Arts
The Musicians Institute
Recommendations
“Charles was excellent to work with and was a great catch for the Creation Center at T-Mobile USA. He has a flair for both attention to detail while at the same time is very open to moving in new directions, pushing the creative boundaries of expectations. Charles has a great creative personality that goes with his solid work ethic as well, and his directs respect both his depth of knowledge and his ability to manage and mentor them.
Joseph Ungari
Vice President Product Innovation and Design
T-Mobile USA
Joseph Ungari
Vice President Product Innovation and Design
T-Mobile USA
“I have worked with Charles for over 3 years at T-Mobile. I enjoy working with Charles because he is one of a few creatives I have met who can work on a time-line and deliver truly innovative results. He is curious, tremendously creative, self motivated, and understands technology better than most engineers I know. I would take Charles as a partner in any of my endeavors, any time, any day.”
Alex Samano
Director, Family Products & Services, T-Mobile USA, Inc.
Alex Samano
Director, Family Products & Services, T-Mobile USA, Inc.
“I highly recommend Charles Goran for a creative leadership position within any organization looking to obtain a competitive advantage with in their industry. He has a great ability to properly understand a brands attributes and translate them into a visual language which is relevant to the consumer. As a leader he will consistently push for a holistic view on applying creative direction to all consumer touch points resulting in a well considered brand experience. I look forward to working with Charles in the future.”
Mike Kemery
Industrial Design Manager, T-Mobile
Mike Kemery
Industrial Design Manager, T-Mobile
“I've known Charles Goran since I hired him at Food.com back in '99. Charles is a tremendously gifted designer, immensely creative, solutions oriented a consummate professional and a real innovator. I can't recommend Charles or his work highly enough.”
Adam Dubov
Vice President Creative Executive Producer, HBO Online
Adam Dubov
Vice President Creative Executive Producer, HBO Online