Designing for technical users
Planners, engineers, and auditors who know their domain. The work respects that. It surfaces the right data in the right shape and stays out of their way.
Chris Velazquez
Product Design + Business Strategy
Richmond, Virginia · MBA Candidate, Longwood University
Helping teams solve complex problems
- Experience
- 10+ yrs
- Products shipped
- 30+
- Industries
- 5+
- Credentials
- 6
Simple Thread
Tools for the people who plan, manage, and audit the grid.
At Simple Thread I translate the language of utility operations into software that planners, managers, and auditors can actually use. I work on planning, operations management, auditing, and financial tracking tools for the teams responsible for work on the electrical grid. The work is deeply domain-specific and largely under NDA, so this page focuses on the shape of the work rather than the screens.
- Role
- Sr. Product Designer
- Dates
- Sept 2024 — Present
- Sectors
- Energy · Infrastructure · Innovation
Four highlights
Where mistakes cost millions
A miscalculated change order or a missed audit doesn't just bruise a UX metric. It shows up on a balance sheet. Design calls get weighed against real financial and operational risk.
Cross-team collaboration
Grid planning touches engineering, operations, finance, and field crews. I design across those seams so everyone stays on the same page.
Internal tools, done well
Think Gusto or Rippling, but for utility operations. Workflow software that helps the team actually get the job done. Familiar patterns, applied to a very specialized world.