Ux Lead - Senior Ux Architect Resume
SUMMARY
- 15 plus years of hands - on experience in digital product/UX design and Omni-Channel marketing.
- Core competencies include UX management, product planning, design and prototyping for mobile, web, packaged software, digital signage, POS, IPTV/OTT, augmented and virtual experiences.
- I direct user experience and content strategy, define feature and functionality in digital products and services.
- I have become an expert in setting a UX vision in digital experiences and in architecting experiences for B2C and B2B engagements.
- I have a strong drive to keep abreast with new technologies, innovation, and creative design trends.
- I am in pursuit of innovative, yet usable, accessible, highly aesthetic and intuitive user experiences.
- Customer Experience, Digital Product Design & Management — I am experienced in managing and negotiating vendor contracts, in-house creative design teams and resources, research and development teams as well as contractors, offshore teams and third-party vendors.
- I collaborate, communicate and work together with IT, development, marketing leadership and teams, business stakeholders, and customers.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
USER EXPERIENCE: Experience strategy & vision, user research, competitive analysis, design thinking, customer journeys, process flows, digital ecosystem mapping, site mapping, wire-framing, creative design & direction, prototyping, heuristic evaluation, qualitative & quantitative usability testing. Context-first approach.
BUSINESS ANALYSIS: Business and functional requirements, functional specifications, feature and functional prioritization.
USER RESEARCH: Contextual Inquiry, Customer Intercepts, User interviews, Mapping business goals to user needs, prioritizing user needs, reporting and presenting findings and recommendations.
CONTENT STRATEGY: Experience audits, content evaluation, mapping and prioritization, implementing digital best practices, accessibility, brand tone and SEO and find-ability.
CREATIVE DESIGN: Visual design, art direction, mood boards, color schemes, font exploration, design exploration, user interface and design mockups, and respective design specification.
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE ANALYTICS: Success metric benchmarking, reporting and analysis, aligning KPIs with customer experience, presenting findings and recommendations to a cross-functional audience.
USABILITY TESTING: Test facilitator and testing protocol and questionnaire writing, Conducting test, analyzing results, and deriving insights from test findings, reporting and presenting results and recommendations.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
UX Lead - Senior UX Architect
Responsibilities:
- Elevated UX and improved usability,accessibility and aesthetics in B2B elevator design solution in less than three months.
- Defined and implemented strategies for UX process and implementation in support of field marketing and sales solutions.
- Established methodologies that lead product design and development through rapid prototyping and evaluation.
- Defined roadmap for product evaluation and enhancement, and manages respective measurement activities with internal and vendor based resources.
- Led implementation of A/B testing and capture of heat/click/scroll mapping to improve content performance and adoption
- Manages global design system, governing and expanding to support new and evolving products
- Successfully brought a global team of stakeholders to govern UX initiatives with common tools and language
- Spearheaded design initiatives in new products and solutions
Confidential
Architecture/Senior EA
Responsibilities:
- Elevated UX and improved usability, accessibility and site search experience in all digital unification engagements with measurable results.
- Optimized site experience and end user performance for INTEGRISOK.com ($4.1M digital unification project), and Winstar.com ($2M digital unification project).
- Built the first ever company usability lab generating billable work and a creating a new business service.
- Built a culture that gathered around the best interests of the end user, driven by measurable customer intent.
- Led digital solution pitch that brought new business worth $1.1M.
- Raised company’s digital IQ by helping institutionalize User Centered Design.
Senior Information Architect
Confidential, Dallas, TX
Responsibilities:
- Introduced a mobile and context first approach for all digital initiatives.
- Elevated UX and improved usability, accessibility and site search experience in all digital engagements with measurable results.
- Built and managed the company usability lab creating a new business service.
- Architected digital campaign solution for 7-Eleven, which received the Cannes Digital Festival Silver Lions award.
- Implemented a user centric design process that improved collaboration, and opened the path for a unified, consistent product design process adopted across the company.
- Helped transform the traditional agency mindset to that of a digital one.