Wesley Smith

Wesley is a Sr. Associate User Experience Designer at Sparks Grove. In other words, he works with large clients creating novel experiences for their users on both client facing and employee facing applications. Prior to his experience at Sparks Gove he worked for Siftit, a local start-up, and Marathon Petroleum holding roles relating to marketing, business analytics, and technology implementation.

He originally completed his Bachelor degree in Marketing from Indiana University, but just recently graduated from Georgia Tech with a Master’s in Human Computer Interaction. With knowledge in both business and user experience design, Wesley see his projects through a lens not based solely on margins or blue ocean thinking, but the combines the two resulting in wins for both the user and the business.

In his free time, he runs everyday (currently has a streak of over 1000 days running at least 2 miles), plays guitar, dabbles in any new technology he can get his hands on, and hangs out with his friends and family.

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