Sam Pesce

Design Lead across SMB Payables and Fraud Protection Services area product groups.

Design Lead across SMB Payables area product group.

Lead designer for Accept Card Payments; supporting an ecosystem that enables small businesses to accept and manage credit card payments across different touch points. • Led design for the Payment Link capability which allows end customers to safely and securely make payments to merchants in customer-not-present scenarios.

Lead designer for the TIAA native app on both Android and iOS platforms. • Led the effort to design the atomic design system which laid the foundation for all future mobile work • UX Lead on Home redesign which addressed user pain points and raised mobile design standards • Created foundational design patterns for money movement transactions on native including ART, Bill Pay, Transfers and Trades (including options) • Collaborated with our Everbank subsidiary, working cross functionally, to integrate the bank experience and create a bank only experience • Managed the push towards illustrations in native which was cascaded to web experience • Drove efforts to evolve brand usage and implementation in mobile

Lead designer for the TIAA native app on Android. • Played integral role in moving the app from the Hamburger menu to the Tab bar, which led to redesigning and restructuring the app for the future • Created new framework for long step-by-step flows by designing the Robo Advisor sign up flow on Android • Assisted creating foundational designs for the TIAA wearables apps for both Android and Apple watches • Helped to established the vision for the redesign of the Android app in order to adopt material design principles • Created and managed UX Style Guide website

IT business analyst / PM supporting Global Real Estate at TIAA • Assisted with the creation and testing of the Real Estate Authorizations project across several modules. Designed, managed, and tested pieces of disposition authorizations. • Improved the functionality of our provisions site by creating a workflow for automatic semiannual re-attestation of provisions. Also led a project to create the functionality to allow provision owners to manage recurring actions related to provisions and receive reminders for those tasks. • Managed the manual process for our External User Entitlement Review. I'm currently the lead BA on the project to automate this process. This entails creating an interface and workflow for reviewers to select which of their users require access and which don't, and then having those users removed from our system.

UX designer supporting Retirement & Individual Technologies. • Using Axure, Illustrator, Fireworks, and Photoshop to create wires, comps, and flows. Involved in usability testing and some front end development. • Responsible for building out the digital style guide, and creating the infrastructure for two sub-style guides. • Created wires for Advanced Money Movement initiative to enhance online banking and fund transfers.

UX design intern supporting design efforts on the ".org" site • Produced high and low fidelity wireframes as well as flow documents, to improve the user experience of features on the TIAA website. • Refined presentation skills. • Primarily worked with Adobe Fireworks and Photoshop.

SAP / ABAP development role • Created business applications within SAP, using the ABAP language. • Primarily back-end development utilizing SQL, with intermittent front-end work. • Applications, or "transactions", were used internally by Colgate.

Graduated Summa Cum Laude