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Designing Change, Leading People
“I’m passionate about building and empowering amazing design teams.”
Patrick’s mission is to build and mature global design teams, founded on and driven by a design thinking culture. His role is to enable, inspire and encourage curiosity and questioning; which leads to a deeper understanding to solve the right problems.
Background
Patrick is currently Director of User Experience with Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group (a fortune 5 company) where he leads the global design teams within Optum’s User Experience Design Studio.
Dublin UX
Patricks runs Dublin UX, which has been a stable of the Irish UX community since 2015. It has grown to over 3,600 members with over 50 live events since launch. Patrick is the organiser and host of what is Irelands largest design community event.