About
Our Team
We hire the best and brightest product strategists, user experience designers, and researchers. Our team members hold undergraduate and graduate degrees from top universities in a diverse set of fields including Business Administration, Computer Science, Psychology, Economics, Physics, Visual Design, and Interaction Design. Montparnas consultants’ training and experience makes them perfectly suited to execute our unique and demanding approach.
Sergio M. Paluch
Co-Founder
Sergio started optimizing user experiences at Google, where he gained a strong appreciation for empirically-based, systemic design. He went on to work for two interactive companies as a user experience designer and project manager. During that time he served as the head user experience designer and was responsible for shaping internal methodology and training junior staff.
Sergio co-founded Montparnas to put into practice a unique approach to user experience strongly rooted in empirically-informed user-centered design.
Sergio has worked on projects for clients such as Google, Bank of America, AllBusiness.com, and Flurry. He has also served as interim Director of User Experience for Scribd.com. Sergio holds degrees in economics and physics from Dartmouth College.
Kimmy Paluch
Co-Founder
Kimmy had her start in the user experience field while completing her honors thesis in computer science at Dartmouth College. She also worked with IBM, Jamaica on its internal task flow optimization.
Prior to co-founding Montparnas, she worked as both a project manager and senior user experience designer at two San Francisco based web development firms.
She specializes in usability, credibility, and technological areas of user experience design. Kimmy is currently an MBA candidate at MIT's Sloan School of Business where she is working on better integrating the product development process with marketing and user-centered paradigms.