Christian Rohrer is living proof that a PhD in Cognitive Science from Stanford isn't the dead-end degree your family insists it will be. With a rich career at top internet companies, Christian now serves as Vice President of Experience Design and Chief Design Officer at Intel Security (formerly McAfee, Inc.).

In his role at Intel Security, Christian is responsible for user-centered design efforts across consumer products from ideation through delivery and beyond. He and his team determine processes for best gathering user requirements, own the definition of user needs, establish UX success metrics, and make strategy recommendations for providing effective user experiences throughout the experience lifecycle. Thanks to them, there's little risk of your next smartphone featuring a tongue-print scanner.

Christian participated directly in developing some of the world’s most popular Web destinations including Yahoo!, eBay, and Realtor.com (Move, Inc.). At Move, he led a talented team of designers and researchers in developing the #1 consumer real estate website and the highest-rated real estate iPhone app, under the Realtor.com brand. At eBay and Yahoo!, he led the User Experience Research teams and was a co-founder of the Research Council, an executive-sponsored body that advised the company on best research practices and synthesized insights from market research, web analytics, and UX research.

Christian is an active member of various industry organizations, publishes, maintains a blog and site at www.xdstrategy.com and can be found on Twitter as @christianrohrer.

Stay tuned for further announcements about details of Christian's session at Fluxible.