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Van Sedita

Service Design Lead at Van Shea Creative

About

Van believes that holistic and inclusive experiences can help people change for the better. To that aim, Van has been listening, teaching, and creating end-to-end experiences to solve human and business problems for 25 years. Van started his design career in New York City helping an agency with in-branch graphics for a large bank merger, and then took the skills learned there into designing online experiences. Van eventually started teaching UX Design, as an adjunct instructor at NYU, where he also helped build the UX Design curriculum for continuing education. In 2014, Van departed NYC to live in Wilmington, Delaware, where he worked for Capital One as they grew their design team and acquired Adaptive Path. This career experience was key to Van refining his empathic, facilitation, and strategic skills. After those key experiences, Van continued his learning and educating journey working in blockchain with Consensys, then helping build and refine the CX function at Vanguard and most recently supporting multiple design teams at M&T Bank. Throughout all these valuable experiences, Van matured his skills, to the point of being able to offer his diverse experience and polished skills to a wide variety of, Contract design work through his company, Van Shea Creative

Where they work

New York Metro AreaPhiladelphia PA

Work preferences

Primary role

Service Design

Experience

Late Career (9+ years)

Desired compensation

$125.00 per hour

Open to

Contract

Preferred company size

  • Founding (1-10 employees) employees
  • Mid (101-250 employees) employees
  • Growth (201-500 employees) employees
  • Large (501-1000 employees) Mature (1001+ employees) employees

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Last updated April 25, 2026

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