Brian A. Wood
UX Architect / Lead Product DesignSummary
Experience Highlights
Tarsal
Lead Product Designer • Feb 2024 - April 2025 • Remote
Design leader responsible for user experience across a growing security data pipeline platform. Led major initiatives including a new onboarding flow, normalization mapping interface, transformation workflow, and a redesigned portal experience. Drove the evolution of Tarsal’s design language, improving consistency and reducing front-end delivery time. Actively collaborated with Engineering, Product, and Go-To-Market teams to define product direction and deliver value quickly.
- Led complete redesign of the customer portal to support new product verticals.
- Created Tarsal’s first design system and refined documentation framework.
- Guided feature roadmap prioritization using feedback, UX best practices, and competitive research.
- Led efforts to simplify complex processes for exceptional user experience
Neustar Security Services / Vercara
UX Lead • Dec 2021 – Feb 2024 • Remote
Oversaw the planning and growth of the UX/UI function, advocating for UX as a business priority. Delivered new design systems and patterns, ran customer research initiatives, and improved product usability across a range of security tools.
- Contributed to YoY revenue growth and customer satisfaction improvement
- Led UX education efforts across Product and Engineering
- Spearheaded rebranding of design system and products to match company rebrand
- Ideation and development of new products and features and guided integration of existing products into package and "suite"
Neustar (Security Services)
Principal Designer • 2015 - 2021 • Remote
Senior designer supporting cross-product platform experiences and enterprise tools. Created global pattern libraries, led product planning sessions, and conducted hands-on research and validation.
Previous Experience
UX leadership, research, analysis, and design roles with Celerity (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), Sonalysts (US DoD systems), Unified Industries (US Navy), and The Orkand Corporation (US Dept of State). Led UX research, training, and testing programs, produced design documentation and prototypes, and worked on mission-critical software systems across financial, government, and defense sectors.
Selected Publications & Presentations
“Rapid User Interface Prototyping Tools and Methods for DoD Usability Professionals.” – Proceedings of the Human Systems Integration Symposium 2011 (paper and presentation)
“User Centered Design Challenges in WBT Development for TFSMS.” – Proceedings of the Human Systems Integration Symposium 2011 (paper and presentation)
Education
DePaul University • Graduate Coursework in Human-Computer Interaction
Susquehanna University • Bachelor of Arts

703.629.4374
Fredericksburg, VA
brian@mintconditionstudios.com

Primary Skills
UX Leadership
User Experience Strategy • Product Strategy • Cross-Functional Collaboration
Design and Research
UX Design • UX Research • Interaction Design • Design Systems • Prototyping and Wireframing • Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Tools
Figma • Zeplin • Sketch • Adobe CC (Adobe XD • Adobe Photoshop • Adobe Illustrator • Adobe Premiere Pro) • HTML/CSS/JS • Wordpress • VS Code • Cline • Cursor
AI
ChatGPT • Claude • Custom GPTs • AI API Integration • Image Generation
