SUMMARY:

Efficient Product Owner with extensive experience as a UX Lead, architect and designer and skills in business analysis, product management, project management, leadership, marketing, and background in front - end development. I have worked in E-commerce, Finance, Real Estate, Insurance, Automotive, Entertainment, Medicine.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SKILLS: Digital products planning, functionality definition, roadmaps, stakeholder meetings, leadership, user study, business requirements, technical requirements, process flows, information architecture, storyboarding, wireframing, prototyping, high fidelity mockups, material design, HMI, usability analysis, user testing, iconography, digital design, application design, business analysis, project management. Managed teams of 20+.

TOOLS: /TECHNOLOGIES Adobe PhotoShop, Sketch, Axure, Indigo, Moqups, Omnigraffle, Dreamweaver, QuarkXPress, PageMaker, Illustrator, InDesign, Adobe Creative Suite 6, Visual Studio, Google Material Design, WordPress, Umbraco in Windows and Macintosh environments. Agile/Waterfall methodologies. HTML, CSS, familiar with JavaScript, PHP, C++.

EXPERIENCE:

Lead UX Designer, Business Analyst

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Responsibilities:

• Led business requirements gathering effort including recurrent sessions with stakeholders and clients.
• Realigned with stakeholders and clients on existing requirements with consideration of fulfillment system limitations. Initiated, structured, formalized and led internal and external stakeholder and clients UI/UX design and processes approvals.
• Documented compete user stories including flow charts, use cases (scenarios), data elements lists, business logic, technical requirements, exceptions, and system and error messages.
• Participated in backlog creation and refinement. Participated in backlog grooming sessions to understand priorities for the next sprint and to gain understating of the overall vision.
• Participated in Jira tickets creation and tracking. Created and documented information architecture.
• Defined application interface and Style Guide by creating a comprehensive design and technical requirements documentation for UI development.
• Created complex application user flows, story boards, and user journeys based on business requirements analysis, system APIs study and with consideration of fulfillment system limitations.
• Led user experience discussions with stakeholders.
• Participated in whiteboarding, created low and high-fidelity wireframes, prototypes, mockups, material design, iconography. Facilitated creation of business analytics dashboard application.
• Performed usability studies and analysis.

Tools: Sketch, Draw.io, Confluence, Jira. Agile/Waterfall environment.

Lead UX Designer, Business Analyst

Confidential, Aliso Viejo, CA

Responsibilities:

• Desktop and mobile applications and websites related to real estate acquisition and mortgage loans
• Consumer faced home search and mortgage pre-qualification resource
• Performed market and consumer studies and competitive analysis Led business requirements gathering effort including recurrent sessions with stakeholders and clients.
• Initiated, structured, formalized and led internal and external stakeholder and clients' UI/UX design and processes approvals.
• Developed and documented functionalities and user stories.
• Completed business requirements documentation
• Participated in backlog creation and refinement.
• Participated in backlog grooming sessions to understand priorities for the next sprint and to gain understating of the overall vision.
• Created Jira tickets with acceptance criteria.
• Led projects' development effort.
• Performed UAT and regression testing and triage.
• Created and documented information architecture.
• Defined user interfaces and Style Guides by creating a comprehensive design and technical requirements documentation for UI development.
• Created user flows, story boards, and user journeys based on business requirements analysis. Participated in whiteboarding, created low and high-fidelity wireframes, prototypes, mockups, material design, iconography. Performed usability studies and analysis.

Tools: Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Invision, Omigraffle, Visual Studio, Umbraco, Jira. Agile/Waterfall environment.

Sr. UI/UX Designer

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Participated in backlog creation and refinement.
• Participated in backlog grooming sessions to understand priorities for the next sprint and to gain understating of the overall vision.
• Participated in Jira tickets creation and tracking.
• Created complex application user flows, story boards, and user journeys.
• Participated in whiteboarding, created low and high-fidelity wireframes, prototypes, mockups, material design, iconography.
• Performed usability studies and analysis.

Tools: Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator.

Lead UX Designer, Product Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed market and consumer studies and competitive analysis
• Led business requirements gathering effort including recurrent sessions with stakeholders and clients
• Initiated, structured, formalized and led stakeholder and clients' UI/UX design and processes approvals.
• Developed and documented functionalities and user stories.
• Participated in backlog creation and refinement.
• Led projects' development effort.
• Created and documented information architecture.
• Defined user interfaces and Style Guides.
• Participated in whiteboarding, created low and high-fidelity wireframes, prototypes, mockups, material design, iconography.
• Performed usability studies and analysis.

Tools: Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Invision, Visual Studio, Jira. Waterfall environment.

Lead UX Designer

Confidential, Lake Forest, CA

Responsibilities:

• Performed market and consumer studies and competitive analysis
• Participated in backlog grooming sessions to understand priorities for the next sprint and to gain understating of the overall vision.
• Performed UAT and regression testing and triage.
• Created and documented information architecture.
• Defined user interfaces and Style Guides.
• Created user flows, story boards, and user journeys based on business requirements analysis.
• Participated in whiteboarding, created low and high-fidelity wireframes, prototypes, mockups, iconography.
• Performed usability studies and analysis.

Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Invision, Indigo, Moqups. Agile/Waterfall environment.

Lead UX Designer, Business Analyst

Confidential, Torrance, CA

Responsibilities:

• Led business requirements gathering effort including recurrent sessions with stakeholders and clients.
• Realigned with stakeholders and clients on existing requirements.
• Facilitated internal and external stakeholder UI/UX design and processes approval meetings.
• Led user experience discussions with stakeholders.
• Documented user stories including flow charts, use cases (scenarios), data elements lists, business logic, technical requirements, exceptions, and system and error messages.
• Facilitated creation of information architecture.
• Defined application interface and Style Guide by creating a comprehensive design and technical requirements documentation for UI development.
• Created complex application user flows, story boards, and user journeys based on business requirements analysis, system APIs study and with consideration of fulfillment system limitations.
• Participated in whiteboarding, created low and high-fidelity wireframes, prototypes, mockups, material design, iconography.
• Performed usability studies and analysis. Performed UI development (HTML, CSS)

Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indigo, Dreamweaver, and Visual Studio. Waterfall environment.