HANS C. ANDERSON
Product leadership, product design, design systems. Building the product design discipline within high-performing organizations. Deep experience at all levels of the product stack, writing the code, drafting the designs, communicating the vision, and leading.
Bridgewater Associates
2015 – Current
Bridgewater Associates Investment Research, responsible for design systems and operations. Leading the product design of our new, high-performance grid, charting, trading, equity analysis, and next-gen applications as well as the harmonization of all ux/ui across the ecosystem of about fifteen apps fundamental to understanding markets for the world’s largest, longest-lived, and most profitable hedge fund. Our product design facilitated the investment of more than $150 billion AUM via systematic macro-understanding. Prior to that, Principles® Director of Product Design. Built a new product design team up from zero to operate at a scale that supports the creation, evolution and delivery of a global SAS family of products, both mobile and web (B2C and B2B). Responsible for managing all design operations and output, orchestrating the nearly forty major design workstreams, including six products, both web and mobile (Android and iOS), as well as customer support. Persuaded the organization to invest in assembling an UXR team under Design and thereafter, recruited the industry leader, Jen Romano Bergstrom to lead the group. Built consensus in the org for an ambitious design system vision and implemented it— a design system that is far more expressive than off-the-shelf alternatives and voluntarily subscribed by six separate engineering teams.
ESPN
2010 – 2015
ESPN Advanced Technology Group. Senior staff software engineer with a specialty in realtime graphics innovation, particularly patent development, strategy, design leadership of augmented and virtual reality applications, such as the EA Virtual Tabletop. Promoted to the Advanced Technology Group in 2014 after creating the Midas (patent awarded) and Loom systems and leading their implementation, for which a patent was granted and the “Best of Disney” prize awarded (against a field of competitors including Marvel, Pixar, and Disney Animation). The Loom drove all rendering for the approximately one hundred-fifty displays in Studio X, the new home of Sports Center.
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1998-2013
From 2002, Principal of my own design firm, consulting for numerous clients in the film and television industry, information architecture, application interface and usability design, 2d and 3d print/web graphic design, and brand identity development. Consulting to design and build the augmented-reality and on-air realtime systems for the CNBC show, Payback Time, the E! Channel, the PBS show, It’s a Big, Big, World, and Nasdaq, Inc.
From 1998 to 2002, responsible for research into virtual cinema systems with Douglas Trumbull (Blade Runner, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek I, Tree of Life, Imax Ridefilm et al) and Mitchell Kriegman (Saturday Night Live, creator of The Rugrats, Clarissa Explains All, Disney’s Book of Pooh, Bear in the Big Blue House, and PBS Kids’ It’s a Big, Big World) at Shadow Projects in Manhattan, Hans helped to pioneer the integration of experimental real-time graphics with film and television production. The first use of the technology created there was the Emmy award-winning Disney television serial, The Book of Pooh. Shortly thereafter, he led the research effort to design and develop a new architecture for augmented reality production techniques on commodity rendering hardware and at film resolution, for the first time.
In 2010, ESPN recruited Hans to its R&D group as a specialist in realtime-rendering for augmented and virtual reality. After leading several successful, large-scale, innovation efforts for production, he developed new tech product in realtime rendering for very high volume data visualization, ubiquitous rendering, tracking/data acquisition using disruptive consumer tech, computer vision, and feedback. In 2015, David Ferrucci, creator of the Watson artificial intelligence, recruited Hans to Bridgewater Associates to create with Ray Dalio products and systems for principled, idea-meritocratic culture inside the hedge fund and recently, as commercially-viable products and services for the wider world