Saturday, September 16, 2017

Inside Job: He helps people secure their passwords with Keeper

Steven Bertrand, 32, User Experience/User Interface

Interactive Designer, with a focus on Motion Design, for Keeper
Keeper is the world's leading password manager and secure digital vault. We have more than 11 million customers worldwide, and we protect about 4,000 businesses.
On the consumer side, the user would download Keeper, and if they have an Amazon account or a Macy's account, they would enter those credentials in Keeper and use that as a safeguard to ensure hackers don't steal their information.
You don't have to memorize all these passwords; it's only one master password to get into your vault. There are also files, photos, sensitive information stored in people's vaults.
We've been around since 2011. Chicago is our headquarters, and we also have a location in El Dorado Hills in California. We have nearly 100 employees. We have about 10 in the Philippines doing support because we have 24-hour support.
I code, I design as well as animate. Besides creating traditional design, static screens for all platforms - the interface of the application - I do the motion design for support videos. Support videos are pretty much a way of teaching businesses and consumers how to use our product. They're tutorials.
We created animated emojis for the application. We used our lock icon and put faces on it. The clown is my favorite because he does something with his eyes, and his hair wiggles.
I was born in Evanston, and I grew up in Skokie. My parents are from Haiti; I understand Creole more than I speak it. I went to Niles North High School. I ended up moving midway to Palatine High School. In Palatine, I enrolled in an advanced multimedia class. I was so in tune with creating and animating and entertaining people looking at it. I fell deeper in love with it.
I was an artist growing up. I've always had a fascination with drawing roses, nature and stuff, and I ended up marrying a girl named Rosie. She loves my drawings.
My first application I started designing with was PowerPoint. I was probably 11, 12. I created a multimedia presentation, and my older brother was my client. He wanted something "Simpsons"-related, so I created a multimedia "Simpsons" show for him. It was animation and interactivity at the same time. I was obsessed with it. There were at least 100 slides in that thing!


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-09-job-people-passwords-keeper.html#jCp