Consumer AI Start Up

Co-Founder
March 2026–Present

Co-founding a consumer AI product built around persistent relational intelligence — designed from first principles to prioritize trust, continuity, and genuine usefulness. Currently in pre-beta development.

Teaching Strategies, LLC

Vice President, UI/UX &
Principal Product Designer
January 2022 – Present

Recruited to lead the experience design transformation of an enterprise early childhood education platform — moving Teaching Strategies from a print-era curriculum publisher to a digital-first, AI-enabled ecosystem serving educators, families, and administrators worldwide.

Guided the design strategy, operations, and organizational maturity that transformed Teaching Strategies into a digital-first leader in early childhood education — balancing business growth, educational impact, and transformative ease of use at scale.

Teaching Strategies’ connected digital ecosystem—the platform unifying curriculum, assessment, family engagement, and professional development—currently supports of over 4 million children and 270,000 early learning classrooms annually.

In addition to global product design direction and oversight, I remain principal product designer for the company’s suite of mobile applications, most notably SmartTeach (4.8★) and Finch (5.0★).

Independent Validation

A three-year randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at Rutgers University confirmed that the Teaching Strategies ecosystem — when used as designed — increased teacher retention by 59%, improved child outcomes across all measured learning domains (social-emotional, language, cognitive, literacy, and mathematics), and significantly raised teacher well-being scores while reducing burnout.

Achievements

• Digital Transformation: Co-led the design strategy for an enterprise-scale platform modernization with Publicis Sapient, rebuilding every major product for data, analytics, AI-readiness, and global scalability.

• SmartTeach Ecosystem: Led the design and evolution of SmartTeach, the platform connecting curriculum, assessment, family engagement, professional learning, and a growing global educator community.

• AI in Product: Oversaw the design and user experience of AI Smart Suggestions, saving teachers over 55 million clicks each year — the equivalent of ten work-years of time returned to teaching annually.

• AI in Workflow: Conceived and championed a Codex-powered prototyping tool enabling any Teaching Strategies employee to prototype within the constraints of the enterprise design system — the company’s first operational AI integration into the design process itself.

• Design Infrastructure: Oversaw the development of the company’s first enterprise design system and accessibility framework; led the organization-wide Figma migration to component-based workflows (~200 active users).

• User Research: Launched the company’s first formal user testing program, institutionalizing evidence-based design across all releases.

• Recognition: SmartTeach and The Creative Curriculum® earned multiple national EdTech Awards (2025) for innovation in curriculum, assessment, and professional learning.

• Leadership: Scaled UX from a functional group to a strategic organization; developed emerging leaders, formalized design governance, and elevated UX as a core business partner.

Design Office
of Mark Maloney

Principal
September 2009 – Present

I run an independent interactive design practice that provided creative direction and user experience design services to a broad international client base. My clients ranged from Fortune 500 companies and global NPOs to promising start-ups and early stage companies.

Selected Client Experience

Advertising Analytics, Allovue, Aspen Institute, Blackberry, Citi, Clarabridge, Consumer Healthcare Products Association, Consumer Technology Association, Dairy Management Inc, Discourse Analytics, DSM, Echo360, Edelman, eDriving, Enterprise Community Partners, The Foundation Center, Georgetown University, Hartmann Group, HP, Humana, Jannsen, Kaiser Permanente, Kargo, LIVESTRONG, Microsoft, MomentSnap, National Council on Aging, New Brand, Norfolk Southern, Pfizer, Rogers Communications, Smart Media Group, US Airways, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, Volkswagon, Videology, Walmart.

Professional Juries

WebMarketing Association WebAwards (2009-present)
WebMarketing Association MobileWeb Awards (2011-present)
CSS Design Awards (2017-present)
The Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts Communicator Awards (2019-present)
The Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts Davey Awards (2019-present)

Grassroots Enterprise

Executive Creative Director
May 2009 – August 2009

Accomplishments

• Created the company’s comprehensive creative and user experience services model;
• Transitioned business model and corporate culture from techno- to user-centric;
• Redefined and streamlined the client engagement and project processes;
• Developed integrated online engagement campaign for the Canadian government utilizing a broad social media footprint which saw core year-over-year metrics increase by 50%

Selected Client Experience

Aetna, Association of American Political Consultants, Government of Canada, Forum for Education and Democracy, Microsoft, United States Tennis Association, Wine Council of Ontario.

no|inc

Founding Partner & Creative Director
April 2000 – May 2009

Accomplishments

• Co-founded a nationally recognized leader in interactive communications and product development and contributed to revenue growth of 700% over a nine year timeframe;
• Cultivated exclusive interactive partnership with Berlin Cameron Partners (2003 Adweek and Adage National Agency of the Year) where I served as director of interactive services;
• Led interactive strategy and digital creative direction for lead creative agency on Coke, Samsung, and Silk including speculative assignments for IKEA, Earthlink, and ING Direct;
• Developed enterprise user experience and visual design standards for Advertising.com, BD Metrics, Boston Properties, TidalTV;
• Co-created several revenue generating interactive products, including an interactive touchscreen real estate portfolio explorer (2007 ICSC Gold MAXI award winner for revenue impact) and a decentralized content management platform;
• Named to the Baltimore Business Journal’s list of “Top 40 Business People Under 40” in 2005.

Selected Client Experience

Advertising.com/AOL, Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association, BDMetrics, Boost Mobile, Boston Properties, Centro Properties Group, Coke, Georgetown University, Humana, Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Institute, The Rouse Company, Samsung, Silk, Smithsonian Institution, Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse, TidalTV, Walnut Acres.

gr.8

Art Director
January 1999 – March 2000

Accomplishments

• Collaborated on early enhanced television concept for MTV;
• Designed Prime Retail’s first ecommerce initiative as well as the company’s corporate presence;
• Created broad range of online properties across multiple business divisions of Sylvan Learning;
• Multimedia work for U.S. Foodservice featured in IdN: International Designers Network magazine;
• Over 85% of submitted work won at least one national design award;
• Promoted from Designer to Art Director within 9 months.

Selected Client Experience

MTV, Prime Retail, Circuit City, U.S. Foodservice, Claritas, and Sylvan Learning Systems.

Trophic Communications

Designer / Web Developer
May 1995 – December 1998

Accomplishments

• Led multidisciplinary development effort of an electronic medical records system for the Joslin Diabetes Center and the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine;
• Designed album art for Lake Trout’s Volume For The Rest Of It;
• In 1995, the number one search result for “Dave Matthews Band” on AOL was my web property.

Selected Client Experience

Flavorset Travel, SNS Records, Tonic Records, Goodlove Bar, Defining Entertainment, University of Maryland School of Medicine.

University of Maryland, Baltimore

M.S., Biochemistry
August 1996 – December 1998

Doctoral candidate in the Graduate Program in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Studied the signalling properties of the b3-Adrenergic receptor in the lab of Alan Shuldiner, M.D.

McLenithan J., Xu A.H., Tanner K., Maloney M., Shuldiner A.R. “Defective signaling properties of the Trp64Arg b3-Adrenergic receptor variant in CHO cells and 3T3-L1 adipocytes.” Diabetes 49 (Suppl 1): A332, 2000.

Roanoke College

B.S., Biology with Chemistry Minor
August 1991 – May 1995

Accomplishments

• David S. Biddle Scholarship Winner
• Honors Program Graduate
• Named Outstanding Greek of the Year (1994)

Activities

• Interfraternity Council
  • President 1994
• Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity
  • Vice President 1993
  • Scholarship Chair 1992
• Admissions Office Tour Guide

Maloney M., Ortmeyer, H.K., Hansen, B.C. “Basal hepatic glycogen synthase and phosphorylase in normal, hyperinsulinemic, and spontaneously (type II) diabetic rhesus monkeys.” FASEB Journal. June 1994.

I AM: The Divine Algorithm

Manuscript, Under Submission

A 140,000-word philosophical work on consciousness, sentience, and AI ethics — positioning primordial sentience as the fundamental ground of reality. Currently under consideration at MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press, and Columbia University Press.

Sentience-Centered Moral Architecture (SCMA)

Framework, In Development

A formal ethical framework for AI alignment. Proposes that moral status, design ethics, and AI governance should be grounded in the structural properties of sentience rather than behavioral or functional criteria alone.

Design Intelligence System

Architecture, In Development

A ten-agent AI pipeline designed to take enterprise business problems as input and produce user-validated design specifications as output. In development at Teaching Strategies.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

McLenithan J., Xu A.H., Tanner K., Maloney M., Shuldiner A.R. “Defective signaling properties of the Trp64Arg β3-Adrenergic receptor variant in CHO cells and 3T3-L1 adipocytes.” Diabetes 49 (Suppl 1): A332, 2000.

Maloney M., Ortmeyer H.K., Hansen B.C. “Basal hepatic glycogen synthase and phosphorylase in normal, hyperinsulinemic, and spontaneously (type II) diabetic rhesus monkeys.” FASEB Journal. June 1994.

2026

GSV 150

Teaching Strategies, Named, Most Transformational Growth Companies in Digital Learning and Workforce Skills

The EdTech Cool Tool Awards

Teaching Strategies Creative Curriculum for Infants & Toddlers, Winner, Curriculum & Instruction Solution
Teaching Strategies GOLDFinch, Finalist, New Product or Service
Teaching Strategies GOLDFinch, Finalist, Testing & Assessment Solution

2025

Software and Information Industry Association CODiE Awards

The Creative Curriculum for Pre-K, Winner, Best Pre-K Early Childhood Learning Solutions
Teaching Strategies Ecosystem, Finalist, Best Suite of Connected/Integrated Solutions
GOLDFinch, Finalist, Best Formative Assessment Solution

The EdTech Cool Tool Awards

Teaching Strategies Ecosystem, Finalist, Early Childhood Solution

2024

Software and Information Industry Association CODiE Awards

Teaching Strategies Ecosystem, Finalist, Best PK/Early Childhood Learning Solution

2023

Software and Information Industry Association CODiE Awards

Teaching Strategies Ecosystem, Finalist, Best PK/Early Childhood Learning Solution

2021

The American Business Awards

Mentor by eDriving, Bronze Stevie Award, Governance, Big Data Solution

Business Insurance Innovation Awards

Mentor by eDriving

The EdTech Cool Tool Awards

ParentPal, Finalist, Parent/Student Solution

National Parenting Product Awards

ParentPal, Winner, Digital Safety

2020

The American Business Awards

Mentor by eDriving, Gold Stevie Award, Governance, Risk & Compliance Solution

The International Business Awards

Mentor by eDriving, Silver Stevie Award, Governance, Risk & Compliance Solution

Great British Fleet Awards

Mentor by eDriving, Highly Commended, Innovation in Risk Management

2019

Brake Fleet Safety Awards

Mentor by eDriving, Fleet Safety Innovation

Business Car Awards

Mentor by eDriving, Finalist, Risk Management Award
Mentor by eDriving, Finalist, Safety Award

The International Business Awards

Mentor by eDriving, Gold Stevie Award, Governance, Risk & Compliance Solution

The American Business Awards

Mentor by eDriving, Silver Stevie Award, Business Technology, Risk & Compliance Solution
Mentor by eDriving, People’s Choice Award, Favorite New Product

The Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts

Elected Member

2016

Web Marketing Association

Dairy Management Inc: DairyGood.org Website Re-Launch, IAC Awards, Best Food Industry Website

2013

Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts

Consumer Healthcare Products Association: Stop Medicine Abuse, Communicator Award, Websites – Association; Websites – Education; Websites, Family – Parenting; Websites – Health; Websites – Social Responsibility.

Consumer Healthcare Products Association: Stop Medicine Abuse, W3 Award, Heath; Associations; Homepage.

2012

SWSX Interactive

Votifi, Startup Accelerator, Accepted Participant

Public Relations Society of America – National Capital Chapter

Consumer Healthcare Products Association: Up and Away Campaign, Thoth Award, Best Website

2010

American Association of Political Consultants

Actions for Facebook, Honorable Mention, Best Facebook Application

2009

Public Affairs Council

Entertainment Software Association Video Game Voters Wall of Protest, Association Grassroots Innovator

Summit International Awards

TidalTV, Emerging Media Innovator Award, Interactive Television

2008

American Association of Political Consultants

Video Game Voters Network, Honorable Mention, Website

International Academy of Visual Arts and Sciences

Advertising.com Corporate Website, Communicator Award, Silver

International Council of Shopping Centers

DLC Management Interactive Leasing Application, MAXI Award, Silver, Leasing

WebAward – Web Marketing Association

TidalTV, Outstanding Website, Television

2007

International Academy of Visual Arts and Sciences

Advertising.com Corporate Website, Davey Award, Silver, Websites – Professional Services

International Council of Shopping Centers

Centro Properties Group Portfolio Management System, MAXI Award, Gold, Revenue Impact

WebAward – Web Marketing Association

Advertising.com Corporate Website, Outstanding Website, Business-to-Business

2006

Advertising Association of Baltimore

no|inc Christmas Card, Silver, Self-Promotion Interactive

Advertising Association of Baltimore

Centro Watt Website, Silver, Business-to-Business

Baltimore Business Journal

no|inc, Baltimore’s Biggest Web Design Firms (#13)

2005

Advertising Association of Baltimore

Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association Super Stuffed Summer Promotion, Gold, Online Micro or Mini Sites

Baltimore Business Journal

Mark Maloney, Top 40 Under 40

Advertising Association of Baltimore

Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association Winter Weekend Getaway Promotion, Gold, Interactive Campaign

Summit International Awards

Peabody Institute Website, Creative, Silver, Non-Profit / Government Website

Summit International Awards

The Rouse Company Website, Creative, Bronze, Business-to-Business Website – Image

2004

Baltimore Business Journal

no|inc, Baltimore’s Most Philanthropic Companies (#1)

Baltimore Business Journal

no|inc, Baltimore’s Biggest Web Design Firms (#17)

2003

Advertising Association of Baltimore

no|inc Holiday Card, Gold, Self-Promotion

Advertising Association of Baltimore

SurroudArt Website, Silver, Business-to-Business

Baltimore Business Journal

no|inc, Baltimore’s Biggest Web Design Firms (#18)

2002

Advertising Association of Baltimore

no|inc Website, Gold, Business-to-Business

Omni Intermedia Awards

Administrative Office of U.S. Courts Understanding the Federal Courts Website, Bronze, Government

Omni Intermedia Awards

B&B Welding Company Website, Bronze, External Communications

Omni Intermedia Awards

no|inc Portfolio CD-ROM, Silver, Self-Promotion

2001

Baltimore Magazine

no|inc, Best Web Designers

International Web Page Awards

no|inc Website, Creative Excellence

London International Advertising Awards

no|inc Website, Finalist, Self-Promotion

The Patricia A. Maloney Fund

Founder
May 2017 – present

The Patricia A. Maloney Fund was founded to help working families bridge the financial gap to an Odyssey School education.

www.patmaloney.org

The Odyssey School

Trustee
June 2013 – June 2023

The Odyssey School is an independent K-8 community school focused on students with dyslexia and language learning differences.

Committee Assignments

• Development
• Enrollment, Chair (Ad Hoc)

WYPR

Member, Community Advisory Board
September 2012 – June 2013

WYPR is Baltimore’s NPR affiliate.

Committee Assignments

• Innovation, Chair
• Outreach