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OUR ALUMNI ARE SOME OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PROFESSIONALS IN BUSINESS

Our alumni work at some of the top companies in the United States. We have a 100% placement rate for graduates who are actively seeking a job upon graduation. Check out some of the places our alumni are working:

  • AKQA, Washington DC
  • Amazon, Seattle WA
  • Atomic Object, Grand Rapids MI
  • Auxiliary Design, Grand Rapids MI
  • Bissell, Grand Rapids MI
  • Box, San Francisco CA
  • Brightly, Grand Rapids MI
  • Carnevale, Grand Rapids MI
  • Concept A, Spring Lake MI
  • DesignVox, Grand Rapids MI
  • Duo Security, Ann Arbor MI
  • Elevator Up, Grand Rapids MI
  • Frederick Meijer Gardens Grand Rapids, MI
  • Gensler, San Francisco CA
  • Haworth, Holland MI
  • Herman Miller, Holland MI
  • HUGE, Atlanta GA
  • IBM, Austin TX
  • Massive Change Network, Evanston IL
  • Meijer, Grand Rapids MI
  • Microsoft, Redmond WA
  • Multiple, Chicago IL
  • Newell Brands, Kalamazoo MI
  • Oneupweb, Traverse City MI
  • Peopledesign, Grand Rapids MI
  • Plastiq, San Francisco CA
  • Square One Design, Grand Rapids MI
  • T.Rowe Price, Baltimore MD
  • OpenDigital, Grand Rapids MI
  • VML, Kalamazoo, MI
  • Whirlpool, Benton Harbor MI
  • Williams Group, Grand Rapids MI
Zach Kelly

Zach Kelly

After graduating from Ferris, Zach began working at Octopus Creative, a UI/UX focused design studio based in Santa Cruz, California.
Currently, a Senior Product Designer at Box, a cloud content management software company in Redwood City, California. He leads the design and develop solutions across our partner integrations and developer platform team. In doing so, his focus is on user research, concept testing, and working cross-functionally with several product managers and engineers on his teams.

"After graduating from Ferris in the spring of 2013, I began working at Octopus Creative, a UI/UX focused design studio based in Santa Cruz, California. While there, I felt like I was doing exactly what I had been doing at school—which felt great to hit the ground running. I continued to learn, practice, and hone in my design style and user experience knowledge.

After a few years of working at an agency, I had the desire to understand things like the “why’s” and “who’s” of what I was designing for—leading me to want to solve more complex problems.

Following that desire, I ended up on a short contract role at Google, on the Maps team, in Mountain View. It was another great learning experience, and working with that team fully solidified the direction of I wanted my career to head.

Currently, I’m a Senior Product Designer at Box, a cloud content management software company in Redwood City, California. I lead the design and develop solutions across our partner integrations and developer platform team. In doing so, I focus my time on user research, concept testing, and working cross-functionally with several product managers and engineers on my teams. "