Supie Shea
Deputy, Chief Design Officer
Supie Shea believes that through the combination of empathy, curiosity, creativity, and strategic thinking there are no problems that can’t be solved. She brings the knowledge and experience she gained in her 20-plus years leading teams and projects to her role as Deputy Chief Design Officer.
Supie most recently held the position of Senior Service Designer and Project Manager at Technical Assent, where she led teams of designers through user research, solutioning, and prototype design and testing. This included projects like a wholesale reimagining of the discharge process from VA medical centers to improve the Veteran Experience, and a continuous process improvement initiative for eight Navy Reserve key services. She’s worked in the field of Digital Accessibility, engaging with customers and teams of accessibility experts to ensure digital content met WCAG and 508 standards. Other prior experience includes her role as Federal Civilian Director of Customer Success Management at Decision Lens.
Supie holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration from Washington University in St. Louis. She has been a fitness instructor for over 20 years. When she is not teaching classes, she enjoys travel, reading, and all manner of performing arts. She currently resides in Silver Spring, MD with her amazing husband and abominably behaved cat Haimish.
What musician, album, or song best describes what working at Steampunk means to you?
(performed to the tune of Alexander Hamilton)
How does an actor, playwright, son of a Puerto Rican family
Create a show that smashes all the rules? And we
Can’t get enough of the Founding Fathers all the fights and duels,
Revolution, Constitution, and the Treasury.It won’t work, he was told but didn’t bother
He got a lot farther,
By working a lot harder,
By being a lot smarter,
By being a self-starter.
And his show?
It changed history as you know.And every day,
This same Government that he wrote about
Just plugs away, but it seems they can’t seem to figure out
Just how
They can fix all the rules, and the tools,
And the platforms and the jobs and problemsThen a company came and said we’re gonna beat
All the competition cause we live Design, Disrupt, Repeat.
Put people at the core and what’s more
Set the pace.
Empower our community, Goddamn I love this placeWell the word got around, they said man this is insane,
Cause the customers are thriving and we’re driving all this change.
Got the contracts and our culture, it will never be the same
And the world’s gonna know our name -That’s why I chose Hamilton,
Because Steampunk’s just like Hamilton.
There’s a million things were’ gonna change,
But just you wait,
Just you wait!
