PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Web Designer / UI Designer experienced packaging, print collateral, advertising, annual reports, User Centered Design, web and multimedia.
• Proficient with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/JQuery and Bootstrap.
• A strong skill set with special emphasis on communicating and conceptual design and goals with high attention to detail.
• Skilled in information architecture, project management and business development.
• Team player with outstanding listening and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Product Design: Interaction Design Rapid Prototyping Visual Design User Research Information Architect Usability Testing Web Design/ Responsive Wire framing Prototyping

Software: Adobe Creative Suite Balsamiq JustInMind InVision Axure Microsoft Office Suite

Languages: HTML5 / CSS3 JavaScript jQuery/ JQuery Mobile Bootstrap

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Web Content Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Generating creative editorial calendars and fresh content
• Keeping online communication and online technologies up to date
• Building and integrating new website tools and features
• Project management
• Writing and copy editing content for web based documents and web pages
• Time management and prioritizing skills
• Marketing & Public Relations education and background
• Creating PDF documents for print and web
• Create HTML pages for department or division specific sites
• Create templates, elements and scripting to be used by contributors
• Publish web content using an FTP process
• Training simulations which incorporates audio and video screen captures to demonstrate system interaction.

Environment: Adobe Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Adobe Photoshop, Eclipse IDE, MS Word, PowerPoint, Balsamiq, Adobe CQ 5, Axure, Just in Mind, Adobe Creative Cloud Adobe

Interactive Designer/ Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Build web user interface and functionality ensuring browser compatibility - 60%
• Build HTML emails that display properly in many email clients - 10%
• Translates Photoshop Comps into working HTML - 10%
• Understand and apply software and web application functionality, navigation, usability, and site architecture - 5%
• Interacts with the project team and project managers during software development lifecycle to maintain usability, site functionality, and implementation of best practices - 15%
• Collaborated with a lean team of UX designers, researchers and product owners to identify, design and evaluate the creation of a new platform for Human Centered Design.
• Created screeners, scripts and conducted conceptual and prototype testing.
• Analyzed and compiled research findings into presentations which informed the creations of features and functionalities.
• Created user archetypes, personas, flows and journeys.
• Developed low to high level wireframes and clickable prototypes for industry analysts.
• Produced visually appealing designs focused on usability, utility, UX, cross-browser compatibility and SEO /web standards.
• Excellent working knowledge and thorough exposure on compatibility issues with different versions of browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome.
• Experience working on E-commerce applications.
• Experienced working in both AGILE and Waterfall based development environment and participating in SCRUM sessions.

Environment: Adobe Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Adobe Photoshop, Eclipse IDE, MS Word, PowerPoint, Balsamiq, Adobe CQ 5, Axure, Just in Mind, Adobe Creative Cloud Adobe Illustrator

Multi-Media Web Designer/Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering
• Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks
• Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate Human Center Interaction and design ideas
• Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders
• Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards
• Communicated latest Web trends, techniques, and technologies to the team of designs and developers, and provider assurance that all site were 508 compliant
• Maintain websites for clients and business partners.
• Defined the UX vision
• Created UX strategies
• Ensure the web servers, hardware and software are operating accurately
• Designed websites. (RWD)
• Designed all element with branding guidelines
• Connected design strategy to business results
• Produced a UX developers roadmap

Environment: Adobe Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Adobe Photoshop, Eclipse IDE, MS Word, PowerPoint, Balsamiq, Adobe CQ 5, Axure, Just in Mind Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Illustrator

Front End Web Designer/Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed Responsive Web design, mobile application design thru User Center Design
• Identified and resolved website related issues
• Maintained existing control processes, maintained the integrity of the application development, and preserved project's artifacts
• Identified configuration items, restricted changes to those items, audited changes made to those items, and defined and managed configurations of those items throughout the software development lifecycle process
• Provided support to development team in resolving and clarifying design specifications and or tool related issues

Environment: Adobe Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Adobe Photoshop, Eclipse IDE, MS Word, PowerPoint, Balsamiq, Adobe CQ 5, Axure, Just in Mind, Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Illustrator

Web Application Designer

Confidential, St. Louis Area

• Performed Responsive Web design, mobile application design
• Identified and resolved website related issues
• Maintained existing control processes, maintained the integrity of the application development, and preserved project's artifacts
• Identified configuration items, restricted changes to those items, audited changes made to those items, and defined and managed configurations of those items throughout the software development lifecycle process
• Provided support to development team in resolving and clarifying design specifications and or tool related issues thru use of Human Center Design research and development
• Using tabs to assure site or application all we updated to be 508 compliant
• Liaison between the Program/Project Team and the client's communication and marketing SMEs, helping to track defects and website issues
• Ensured proper versioning of configuration items be selected for change or implementation
• Performed update and development of process documentation

Environment: Adobe Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Adobe Photoshop, Eclipse IDE, MS Word, PowerPoint, Balsamiq, Adobe CQ 5, Axure, Just in Mind, Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Illustrator

UI / UX Designer

Confidential, Greater St. Louis Area

Responsibilities:

• Worked directly with Stakeholders, Strategist and Development Teams
• Utilized Use Cases, Page Flow, Wireframes, Mock-ups and Functional Prototypes
• Standardized UI Framework (Twitter-bootstap-Less / Foundation)
• Performed responsive design along with Designed Interface/Product and Translate Mockups into Deliverables
• Developed UI Scaffolding and Functional Prototypes
• Coordinated focus groups to improve UI design
• Coordinated focus groups to improve UX design flow
• UX Strategy - Storyboarding/wireframes/scoping business requirements
• User Experience Analysis (focus groups /A/B testing, analytic based design modifications to enhance performance/retention)
• UI design (SEO, UX optimization and standardization)
• UI Responsive Scaffolding / Functional Prototyping
• Trained and use Agile methodology (Deliverable Product Timelines/Planning/Measure Progress/Team communication/motivation

Environment: Adobe Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Adobe Photoshop, Eclipse IDE, MS Word, PowerPoint, Balsamiq, Adobe CQ 5, Axure, Just in Mind Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Illustrator

User Experience Strategist

Confidential, Maryland Heights, MO

Responsibilities:

• Defined the UX vision
• Created UX strategies
• Advanced the UX practice with the Magellan Health Care Brand guidelines
• Analyzed quantitative and qualitative user research
• Synthesized customer’s data from many sources to identify opportunities and recommend design directions
• Identified user requirements to shape and prioritize feature UI design interfaces
• Connected design strategy to business results
• Produced a UX roadmap
• Assisted with a wide range of user centered research projects including usability testing, contextual working within branding guidelines and stakeholder interviews
• Led group activities geared toward organizing and structuring research, such as affinity diagramming and card sorting, with clients and study respondents
• Developed personas, scenarios and concept models in order to effectively communicate user needs and behaviors
• Created presentation such as wireframes, workflows and interactive prototypes
• Gathered Human Centered Design research information thru A/B Testing
• Assisted with maintaining the User Insight brand and supporting client services with marketing activities and sales presentations.

Web Designer

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Designed current website utilizing HTML5, DHTML, CSS3, jQuery and JavaScript
• Served as creative consultant responsible for user interface design and client-side development
• Built and integrated sites using HTML5, DHTML, CSS3, jQuery and JavaScript
• Developed and initiated brand-specific web marketing campaigns
• Created, contextualized and managed effective web marketing content
• Demonstrated ability to learn and use new technologies

Environment: Adobe Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Adobe Photoshop,,, Axure, MS Word, PowerPoint

Web Designer / Front - End Developer

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Redesigned current websites by consolidating five sites into one distinct site to better serve business and individual clients
• Designed new websites using Photoshop, HTML5, and jQuery, CSS3, Flash and ActionScript
• Designed a back end WordPress Site, for company use only
• Gathered requirements and specifications from business users and clients to determine purpose and outlook of new site
• Provided UX / UI Design for several web-based applications for company use
• Set up a back-end Content Management System for this site
• Used MS Visio, developed wireframes and user flows

Environment: XSLT, XML, HTML, CSS, Ajax, JavaScript, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, MS Word, PowerPoint, MS Excel, SharePoint, Balsamiq

Graphic Designer / Art Director

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Managed, designed and produced ads and promotional collateral. Performed lead role in the design and production of print, identity, packaging, multimedia, and web design and web applications
• Designed concept and layout for proposed projects and sample books
• Aided in the production and marketing materials
• Started Responsive design emails
• Prepared photographs and illustrations for print
• Researched images from photographers, archives, and stock suppliers
• Acquired text, artistic works, and photographs to appear in publication
• Worked with printers to prepare pre-press files for print
• Designed print marketing materials

Environment: HTML5/XHTML/HTML4, CSS3/CSS2, JavaScript, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe In design, MS Word, PowerPoint, MS Excel, Adobe Acrobat, WS FTP, Windows, Mac

Web Designer

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Designed graphics for template base website in Image Café using Photoshop and Illustrator
• Used CSS, Flash and HTML to web based templates
• Designed UX interfaces for web based applications
• Set-up and design page content
• Used Flash to create animation for websites
• Worked under pressure to deliver projects on time
• Handled multiple accounts/projects at once due under tight deadlines
• Worked with account managers in development of website
• Designed sites that deal with a wide range of business and subjects
• Used Visio Wireframes to present mockup of site to clients
• Conducted one on one phone consultations with clients
• Created websites from the ground up using CSS, HTML, Photoshop, and Illustrator
• Consulted with clients for graphics and text revisions
• Created Flash elements to be used in client’s websites
• Worked under pressure to deliver projects on time
• Used SEO skills for review of site content or structure

Art Director

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Provided marketing and communications counsel, publication consulting, copywriting, photography and graphic design services to organizations, small businesses and a university. Projects included magazine articles, catalogs, handbooks, alumni newsletters, brochures and direct mail pieces.
• Communicated directly with clients about projects
• Used CSS, Flash and HTML to create websites from start to finish
• Designed graphics, logos, photos, and animation for websites using Adobe Suite
• Cleaned up and modified photos
• Performed user testing of website across different platforms
• Developed time estimates for design projects
• Worked under pressure to consistently deliver projects on time

Environment: HTML, CSS, JSP, JavaScript, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, Power Point, Adobe Illustrator

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Art Director

Responsibilities:

• Selected by college to supervise, aid, and maintain the student computer lab and Media center.
• Primary point of contact for Web product, responded to frequent web-related questions and concerns
• Tested web and desktop interfaces, communicated defects to engineers, and confirmed resolutions of defects
• Created, designed and updated test suites based on features specifications
• Critiqued requirements documentation and had input into the development of new features
• Wrote and edited online help files, Read Me and Release Note documentation
• Provided knowledge about entire software development lifecycle, from design to implementation to testing to certification of new features
• Worked with technical support staff to reproduce and resolve customer issues

Environment: HTML, CSS,, JavaScript, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, Power Point, Adobe Illustrator, Final Cut Pro,