Waylon Baumgardner M.S.I.T.

Waylon Baumgardner is a seasoned design professional and educator with strong technical chops. He has dedicated his career to the pursuit of building digital products focused on solutions that make sense, and sharing what he's learned along the way through mentorship and teaching. See his work at waylonbaumgardner.com

• M.S., information technology, Southern New Hampshire University
• B.A., political science, University of California, Riverside

Baumgardner has 15 years of UX/UI design experience working in education, business-to-business, small-to-medium business, enterprise, and consumer growth-oriented software-as-a-service digital products. He has worked for UC Riverside, Cal Baptist University, Esri, Matterport, and Thrivent.

He has eight years of experience in management, team leadership, and mentorship managing designers and developers.

He has nine years of experience teaching at the university level in adjunct faculty roles where he has taught and developed curriculum for courses in information technology and UX/UI design disciplines.