Meet the DxD Advisory Council: Rose Newton

Rose Newton is a published, award-winning designer who, in her current role, serves as a Senior Design Manager at IBM. While at IBM, Rose has led and delivered design efforts tied to key offerings like Cloud Automation Manager, E-Discovery, Enterprise Content Management Solutions as well as other Analytics offerings. In her role in the IBM Watson Cloud Platform she leads design for the Discover and Buy (Integrated Buying Experience, Content Marketplace) and Getting to Production (DevX/Ops) squads. She was a professor for over 14 years and brings 20+ years of creative strategy to contribute expertise in design critique and professional development to her team.

In addition to her work at IBM, Rose is active in the Design community both at a local and national level. She serves on the AIGA Women Lead Steering committee as well as the Austin Design Week Advisory Board. She also serves as Scoutmaster for one of the first all girl troops in the Austin area, as well as Order of the Arrow Assistant Scoutmaster for her son's Troop. Additionally, she is a Boy Scout of America shooting sports instructor for Rifle and Archery.