Stephen Bolen

Stephen is a Senior User Interface, Interaction, and User Experience Designer with over 16 years of experience in research, design, and management of complex applications, from desktop to mobile, for Fortune 500 clients and the United States Department of Defense.

Currently, Stephen is the User Experience Leader at Emerson Commercial & Residential Solutions, where he is responsible for the experience design of Sensi, a top-rated Wi-Fi thermostat on Amazon and winner of the 2016 J.D. Power Smart Thermostat Satisfaction Award.

Previously, Stephen was a Design Lead at Monsanto, where he built and managed a team of User Interface Designers and Front-end Developers for web and mobile applications. Before joining the team at Monsanto, Stephen was a Senior User Experience Designer with Asynchrony, where he worked to bring simple, clear design solutions to clients like Sotheby’s International Realty, The United States Army, and Kaiser Permanente.

Stephen has also worked as a User-centered Website Designer & Developer at Sigma-Aldrich, a biotechnology & life sciences company, and as a Designer at Hunter Engineering, an under-car automotive service equipment company.