Levi Csanyi
Design Strategy | Innovation | Leadership
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Name: Levente Csanyi
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Email: levi.design.ux@gmail.com
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Address: 19895 Alderwood Circle Bend, OR 97702
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Phone: 781 346 3541

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25+ years of experience in user-centered design from high-level processes to design delivery
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Proven track record driving highly complex projects across different business units and disciplines
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Solid expertise in implementing cutting-edge technology in both fast-moving and highly innovative agile or lean environments
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Strong leadership and organizational skills: coaching and mentoring designer teams in both UX and UI design
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Excellent business partnering skills providing first-class services across different countries
Experience
Modular Product Lab, Bend, OR
Co-founder
23. Oct 2020 -
Present
Modular Product Lab empowers leaders to deliver inspired products. We specialize in taking concepts to final product, through a deep understanding of users. Our methods are rooted in a modular framework that helps us deliver compelling products.
More details at Modularproductlab.com
AI 4 Design Strategies, Bend, OR
Principal
02. Dec 2019 -
23. Oct 2020
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Built my first company to disrupt a $3 billion industry
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Enabled delivering design strategy and components faster than the competition by leveraging AI and ML solutions
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This company became an active part of Modular Product Lab
Amplion, Bend, OR
Director of User Experience
18. Marc 2019 -
25. Nov 2019
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Built and led the design team for an agile startup company
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Designed and released a foundation for a new product platform for Diagnostic and Pharma companies to expand their business by understanding a complex-big data field of biomarker evidence leveraging Natural Language Processing
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Developed qualitative and quantitative research to support Product strategy with data-based insights
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Orchestrated standards, organized in Design Systems, Personas, and backend enabler Information Architecture
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Delivered hands-on functioning prototypes, organized by Jira tickets with product and dev team to enable agile work with a quick turnaround time
WuXi NextCODE, Cambridge, MA
Product Manager
01. Sept 2018 -
31. Dec 2018
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Released the first version of PhenoCODE, which enables pharmaceutical companies, bioinformaticians, population geneticists to discover biomarkers, drugs or define cohorts
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Defined and prioritized DiscoveryCODE user stories and features to delight customers
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Designed new architecture for Phenotype Catalog to enable researchers to explore UK Biobank and other phenotypic and multi-omic data
WuXi NextCODE, Cambridge, MA
Senior User Experience Architect
25. Oct 2017 -
01. Sept 2018
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Designed Modular Platform for pharmaceutical and clinical use
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Consolidated artifact delivery system across different disciplines
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Conducted user interviews and competitive research to redefine personas, product goals
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Analyzed best in class AI solutions to surface results for consumers
ORACLE, Cambridge, MA
Principal User Experience Designer
05. Nov 2015 -
09. Sept 2017
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Created high quality and intuitive design and user flows
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Delivered wireframes and interactive prototypes for Big Data Discovery, Data Intelligence, and Analytics Cloud
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Redesigned data wrangling framework (Transform) for Big Data Discovery, along with complex functions like aggregate, join datasets for data scientists
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Developed SaaS standards and made it accessible to for others through widget libraries
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Organized and executed usability tests
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Coordinated product usage analytics solutions, collaborated 3rd party solutions
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Invented machine learning and rule-based recommendations for Analytics Cloud
Graphisoft North America, Waltham, MA
Design Consultation & Technical Support
01. July 2013 -
04. Jan 2015
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Managed client relationship and ensured clients’ needs are met
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Cooperated with different business units at headquarters funneling field info from the field by building an information bridge using Salesforce, Navision, TestTrack and delivered visual reports to executives
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Demonstrated products & solutions online and live in front of a 300+ audience in Las Vegas and ABX Boston conferences
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Developed training on world-leading BIM Cloud Server, ArchiCAD, BIMx and chaired user group meetings as well as design council
Graphisoft R&D, Budapest, Hungary
Design Director (Product Design IV)
2009 - 2012
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Directed and maintained ArchiCAD UI and BIM Cloud consistency
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Led professional designers
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Coached and hired junior designers
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Designed BIMx - Integrated, context-sensitive 2D & 3D building project navigation, which help even non-professionals find their way in a full BIM project (nominated as best app for architects, released on iOS, Android, Mac and Windows).
Graphisoft R&D, Budapest, Hungary
Lead Designer
2004 - 2009
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Established UX Design for ArchiCAD. Main projects ArchiCAD Project Navigator, Toolbox, hierarchical element editing – complex problems, primary user interface elements, elegant and simple solutions.
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Updated 3D Navigation design based on User Research conducted with INTERFACE (heart rate variability measuring user monitoring system). Optimized the design for Oculus Rift VR glasses
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Coordinated iOS, Android projects – released the first version of BIMx
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Performed market research, competitor analysis, user consultations
Graphisoft R&D, Budapest, Hungary
Product Designer
2000 - 2004
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Developed UI/UX design, interaction plans, cognitive walkthroughs, heuristic evaluations, workflow analysis to make easy to use solutions
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End to end design with research of Graphisoft ArchiCAD and BIMx 3D Navigation interface on desktop – introduced game like navigation into the CAD industry
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Interviewed customers, usability tests using Morae
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Invented Project Navigator, which helps to organize plans and creates comprehensive documentation
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Redesigned Toolbox – primer UI built into a highly customizable work environment system, with detailed iconography
Graphisoft R&D, Budapest, Hungary
Human Interface Designer
1997 - 2000
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Planned complex functions, like DXF converter
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Designed graphical user interface elements – UI plans were developed in Photoshop for functions and other major components
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Designed, delivered, and draw iconography on paper and on digital art-board to express complex functions in a small environment
Education
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
1994 - 2000
MSC Industrial Design Engineering
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
1993 - 2002
MSC STEM Teacher
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
1991 - 1997
MSC Mechanical Engineering
Major of Production Systems
Courses and Teaching
ADPList, online
2021 - present
Mentoring
Product Design, Product Management, Leadership
University of California, San Francisco
2018 - 2020
Genomic and Precision Medicine
Credential ID NAPCF54Q5Q3S
Aquincum Institute of Technology, Hungary
2010 - 2012
Product Design and Ergonomics
Gave seminars about Usability to undergraduates
UX, UI Conferences & User Visits
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UX Summit Oracle, 2017 San Francisco
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BIM Conference 2015, Las Vegas
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NN/g Usability Week 2012, Edinburgh
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NN/g User Experience 2006, Seattle
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CHI 2004, Vienna, CHI 2000, The Hague, CHI 1999, Pittsburgh, CHI 1998, Los Angeles
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SIGGRAPH 2002, San Antonio
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2004 Project Management Training, Szinergia Ltd.
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1996 Engineering management seminar
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SUNY Buffalo University and Technical University of Budapest, Balatonvilágos - TQM, accountancy, finances
Skills
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Languages
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English - fluent
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Hungarian – native
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Professional
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Product Management
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User Experience and User Interface Design
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Research, Usability testing, Workflow analysis
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Team Building, Hiring, Mentoring and Coaching
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Wireframing, Redlining, Prototyping
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Standardization by creating Design Systems or incorporating native platforms' MacOS/Windows/iOS, Android
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Agile, Lean Product delivery methods
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Information Architecture
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Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
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Computing
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Axure, Sketch, Figma, inVision, Balsamiq, Omnigraffle
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Photoshop, Adobe CS all elements
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Jira, TestTrack, Asana, Trello
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Trifacta Wrangler, Oracle BI, DataViz, Alteryx, Tableau, R
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Salesforce, Navision, HubSpot
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ArchiCAD, Revit, SketchUp, 3D Studio
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