UI / UX / VX Design Architect Resume Phoenix, AZ - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Passionate UI / UX / VX Design professional with the proven know - how to combine creative and usability viewpoints resulting in world-class web and mobile applications.
A proven history of creating cutting edge interface designs for websites and mobile applications.
Expert in providing compelling user experiences to improve brand loyalty, customer retention and visit-to-order ratios.
Full understanding of Agile / UX project life cycle from definition to test and release.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

UI / UX / VX Design Architect

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

Lead on all facets of UX process from concept generation to quality assurance
Create site maps, user journeys and high-level application designs
Design compelling, engaging and effective user interfaces across web and mobile platforms
Define user personas to create a coherent user experience for web and mobile devices
Partner with Product Owners and users to prototype feature specifications
Aid in shaping the trajectory of the product iterations
Work collaboratively with other development team members to refine our various applications
Perform qualitative (interviews, surveys) and quantitative (A/B, heatmaps) user research to validate vision, flow and process
Generate and present ideas, designs and decisions to improve applications and user experiences
Champion user-centered design to the wider team
Advocate and evangelize best practices for user-centered design and user research with clients and staff
Work with executive stakeholders to ensure UI/IA needs are aligned with the business priorities

User Experience Architect

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

Established relationships within UX and Online Marketing departments across divisions
Help the agency grow business through adoption of UX approach for eRetail projects
Support the drive for eRetail marketing for high-profile eCommerce projects and clients
Work with Integer’s clients to educate how UX can help transform their business
Introduce the appropriate analytic research to support the identified eRetail content needs

User Experience Architect

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Responsibilities:

First Confidential enterprise-wide brand and product UX strategist / architect
Developed 5-year strategic business plan for cross-channel user experiences across brands
Provided heuristic evaluations of existing and proposed environments, applications, online products
Led UX interaction with web marketing, sales, and production teams
Spearheaded analytics deployment for SiteCore, Adobe Experience Manager AEM and Google search products
Designed for mobile, location and 3rd party services to make meaningful product experiences

User Experience Architect

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

Interaction Design: eCommerce Web and mobile solutions
IxD Deliverables: Site maps, annotated wireframes, user flows, visual design comps, style guides
Prototyping: Produced low fidelity paper and high fidelity, functional and semi-functional
UI / UX Design: Website, web apps, mobile apps and intranet solutions

UX / Marketing Manager

Confidential, Tucson, AZ

Responsibilities:

Directly responsible for growing Online and Sales revenue from $220M to over $30M
Site catapulted visit-to-lead and visit-to-order ratios, while shrinking shopping cart abandonment rate by 21%
Led UX design on ground-breaking mobile application that redefined the K-6 online education market landscape.
Delivered interactive student / teacher / parent app that helped capture the #1 market position

Director of Interactive Marketing

Confidential, Gilbert, AZ

Responsibilities:

Pioneered A/B split testing, facilitating response-rate gains of 25% on banner ads and landing pages
Injected UX design into major eRetailers web properties with customer acquisition increases of 12.8%
Researched and launched nonprofit sites UX improvements for $1.2M increased online donations
Designed high-impact sites with strong emotional appeal to maximize user engagement

Sr. UI Designer

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Responsibilities:

Designed, developed, and launched websites and mobile applications
Created estimates and project plans related for UX design efforts on time on budget delivery rate of 99%
Decreased page abandonment rates by 18%
Improved client revenues by an average of 10% for a variety of mobile applications