Autumn Day Wilbur

Resume

Purpose-driven UX Designer

Growing up, I wanted to be the first female major league baseball player.

I played on all-boys’ teams.

It was hard work with challenging dynamics but I loved the game.

As I did then, I live my life with the spirit of possibility, understand the importance of team, welcome constructive coaching, and expertly navigate challenging dynamics.

In groups and in 1-on-1s, I make people feel seen and heard, create a space of trust, build alignment, and enable meaningful work and growth to happen in a safe and welcoming environment!

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Built relationships and co-designed with colleagues around the world
Led the UX design on over a dozen regulated scientific instruments for a global biotech company for 8.5 years, from OEM to 0→1
Recognized as co-inventor on patented cell therapy device
Held up as an example of remote etiquette, best practices, and success; fully remote with travel, since 2010

CAREER EXPANSION

This past year has been one of accelerated growth, fueling my mind and spirit with coursework and connection. Building upon my foundation of UX design for biotech, I have immersed myself in strategic research, systems innovation, service design, accessibility, AI, healthcare literacy, and other areas of relevance and curiosity. A deliberate expansion from pixel to policy. It is important for my work to have a positive impact on this broad, highly complex, and highly regulated industry of healthcare and to make a real difference in peoples’ lives.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior UX Designer, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Tewksbury, MA (REMOTE)

June 2017 – September 2025

Successfully led complex, end-to-end UX design initiativesonglobally distributed, cross-functional teams bringing life-changing, thoughtfully designed scientific instruments to market. Designed products for multiple divisions resulting in a highly dynamic environment.

Built respectful relationships and created space for trust, candor, open and honest communication and collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders
Guided teams from ambiguity to clarity and prioritization through thoughtful conversation, experience strategy / roadmap definition, journey mapping, documenting up and downstream workflows, and workshop facilitation
Created consistency and efficiency by launching an accessible, globally implementeddesign system with my team; leading the private label strategy, guidelines, and governance expanding our sales channels and brand differentiation
Implemented cohesive digital and physical touchpoints in collaboration with industrial designers; applying service design thinking, considering user needs, workflows, environments, safety, regulatory and compliance, and manufacturability
Brought useful and usable products to market with research from discovery through beta; co-writing scripts, building prototypes, diligently observing and documenting, delivering human-centered, user-guided products, and next-gen ideas
Delivered award winning software with R&D teams from ideation through validation within Agile-like and other delivery methodologies, representing voice of customer, writing user stories, product requirements, and traceability matrices, and supporting dev
Proactively connected distributed teams by orchestrating remote, intensive planning sessions aligning global functions on tasks, owners, and dependencies
Mitigated risks and adhered to regulatory and compliance by working with SMEs to document product risks and mitigation strategies, compliance requirements, and ensuring these translated through the design and implementation
Improved understanding and reduced calls to support by co-authoring user manual content using plain language and marked up screens
Spoke up about insensitive terminology initiating change to legacy language catalyzing adoption in-house and company-wide at a third-party vendor partner