Name: Lau Yamazaki
Lead UX Designer

Senior UX/UI Designer at Rivian, Lead UX/UI Designer at DevReady and Partner/Head of Design at Nomad Labs with 28+ years of experience implementing UX/UI and Product Design, Digital Media and Online Marketing.
Also Professor, Keynote Speaker and UX Design Mentor for hundreds of mentees in 20+ countries around the world, helping accelerate Designer’s careers.

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PERSONAL INFORMATION
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Phone number: (+55) 71999643632
Portfolio Website: www.lauyamazaki.work
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/lauyamazaki
Email: contact@lauyamazaki.work


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RECENT WORK EXPERIENCE
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- SENIOR UX/UI DESIGNER
Company: RIVIAN
From: SEP 2022
To: JUL 2023
Full-time Position

• Develop and improve the supply-chain platform, making more
  user friendly and effective for hundreds of suppliers,
  purchasing managers and production team around the world.
• The platform is the "engine" part of the business, managing
  B2B negotiations and saving millions every year for the
  company.

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- LEAD UX/UI DESIGNER
Company: DEVREADY
From: JAN 2023
To: PRESENT DATE
Part-time position

• DevReady is a developer’s community platform that connects
  the best software developer’s with high productive teams in
  hundreds of US companies.
• Actually designing the whole hiring platform for developers
  and company’s crew, increasing efficiency and speed to the whole
  hiring process.


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- PARTNER / HEAD OF DESIGN
Company: Nomad Labs
From: Jan 2004
To: Jul 2023
Owner

• Strategic Partner and Head of Design at Nomad Labs, a
  strategy and UX agency specialized in Digital Marketing and
  Interactive Communication for huge clients with more than 700
  digital projects in Brazil.
• Solved customers problems and influence overall product
  strategy, making the business profitable growing at least 10%
  per year.


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- LEAD UX DESIGNER
Company: Viasat
From: Sep 2021
To: Sep 2022
Full-time Position

• Viasat is a global communications and innovative technology
  company, ranking Top 50 best workspace to grow career in the
  US, providing software tools and services to transform data
  into results.
• Develop eye-catching and useful dashboards for 3 Oil & Gas
  International clients.


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- LEAD UX DESIGNER
Company: NTT DATA
From: Dec 2020
To: Sep 2021
Full-time Position

• NTT Data is a trusted global innovator of IT and business
  services present in more than 50 countries.
• Collaborated with huge clients, developing end-to-end
  projects,facilitate workshops and product inceptions, using the
  Design Thinking approach, bringing great outcomes.


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EDUCATION
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- UX/UI DESIGN BOOTCAMP
Type: Specialization
Institution: IRONHACK
Year of conclusion: 2019
City/Country: Barcelona, Spain

- PRODUCT DESIGN
Type: Post-graduation
Institution: Universidade Estadual da Bahia - UNEB
Year of conclusion: 2005
City/Country: Salvador/Brazil

- ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM
Type: Graduation
Institution: Universidade Federal da Bahia - UFBA
Year of conclusion: 1997
City/Country: Salvador/Brazil


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ACHIEVEMENTS
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- HACKSHOW > IRONHACK FINAL PROJECT
1st Place - Best Project - Aug. 2019

- IRONHACKATHON
1st Place - Best Project - Aug. 2019

- GRAND PRIX INTERNET
BAHIA RECALL PRIZE: 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2009 / 2010

- BRONZE MEDAL
DIGITAL MEDIA PRIZE: Colunistas - 2008

- GOLD MEDAL
DIGITAL MEDIA PRIZE: Colunistas - 2007


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LANGUAGES
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- PORTUGUESE: Native
- English: Advanced
- German: Beginner
- Spanish: Beginner


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SKILLS
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- SOFT SKILLS
• Creative
• Leader
• Efficient
• Innovative
• Focused

- HARD SKILLS
• Sketch
• Figma
• Photoshop
• Invision
• Keynote