Product designer & strategist

Over 8 years experience building products from 0 to 1 across web and mobile. Versatile designer with visual and font-end development skills.

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Remote
Freelance

Monitoring and tracking assets across the globe

Oversaw the revamp of a web platform for global tank fluid monitoring. The outcome enhanced safety measures, streamlined fluid replenishment processes, and facilitated the verification of tank rentals and related fees. Managed the portal's redesign journey, from initial research to delivering actionable design solutions for the engineering team.

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Ware

Ware

San Francisco, CA
Jan 2022 - Mar 2023

Autonomous inventory tracking with drones

At Ware we aimed to transform warehouse operations through autonomous inventory control. Our vision was to boost safety, productivity, and inventory storage accuracy using cutting-edge self-flying drones. From conceptualization to realization, I led the charge in designing the entire web portal, setting the stage for scheduling drone flights and remotely inspecting inventory.

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Pngme

Pngme

San Francisco, CA
Oct 2019 - Jan 2022

Unlocking financial data for 2 billion people

Led product strategy and product team, which led to reaching a valuation of 75 million. Pngme is a B2B2C fintech product. I led the mobile app design to allow users in sub-Saharan Africa to unlock their mobile financial data as an alternative to credit history. This approach allowed financial institutions(FIs) to use alternative data for lending decisions. I also led the web platform design for FIs to access applicants financial insights. Worked closely with data scientists to create new insights also accessible via an API for credit automation.

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Ease

Ease

San Francisco, CA
Dec 2018 - Oct 2019

Full HR platform and health benefits app

Led and hired design team, led HR platform design from 0 to 1. Worked on mobile health insurance app to enable easy access to insurance data. Shipped products used by 70K businesses and 2 million+ employees. Worked on core product, broker benefits administration system and a new design system. Acquired in 2023 by Employee Navigator.

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Constellation Labs

Constellation Labs

San Francisco, CA
Apr 2018 - Nov 2018

Blockchain community portal and data visualization

Owned end-to-end product solutions for IoT trustless networks platform. Designed network visualization and web platform reward system with gamification. Hired and managed designers and engineers.

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DroneDeploy

DroneDeploy

San Francisco, CA
Apr 2015 - Apr 2018

Leading multi-vertical drone platform

Designed web and mobile drone platform for agriculture and construction to enable autonomous drone data capture, 2D/3D model analysis to make critical business decisions. Led end-to-end product design solutions.

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Folks I had the pleasure to work with

Ian Smith

CEO at Ware

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I have worked with Giovanni at 3 different technology companies. Giovanni is, hands down, the most talented product designer and artist I've ever worked with. He has an obsessive focus on the customer and is incredibly organized and methodical in his approach. An asset to any organization.

Ben Coleman

Principal software engineer - UL Research Institute

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I worked with Gio for over a year. He did a fantastic job of researching and distilling user requirements into actionable and functional designs. He had to balance a lot of competing interests with limited resources. Gio gracefully accepted and gave feedback while working with a very complicated application.

Alyza Devraj

Global product strategy - TransUnion

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What makes Giovanni special is not that he's an incredible designer (he is), but the type of culture and relationships he builds. He's an empathetic listener and proactively creates an environment that fosters creativity and a strong commitment to user-centricity. A lot of people talk about the importance of psychological safety, but he's of the few that I've worked with that actually actively creates that space.

Red Drummond

Marketing Manager - Amogy

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Gio is an excellent product designer. He gets to know the customer, understanding their challenges and needs to optimize UX/UI specifically for them. I collaborated with him on multiple feature launches, where his knowledge and insights were truly invaluable.