SUMMARY:

• Highly creative and multi - talented Visual/UX Designer with 18 years of practical visual design experience, and over 9 years of UX/UI experience in digital production development.
• Synthesizing color, space, texture, illustration and design processes to surpass the needs and goals of end-users and stakeholders and create unified product designs that strategize the product while conveying a specific marketing approach.
• Possess exceptional collaborative and interpersonal skills, a dynamic team player with well-developed written and verbal communication skills.
• Competitive analysis, analytic reviews, stakeholder discussions
• Contextual interviews, surveys, user-testing
• Production of user research site strategies for the development user centered outcomes
• Focus on User Centered Design, information architecture and facilitating collaboration between project team and stakeholders
• Personas, user groups, and user scenario development
• Style guide creation, pattern library development
• Prototyping to facilitate communication and functional consensus
• Design & illustration of brand and usage guidelines
• Creation of sitemaps, wireframes, task flows, and design assets
• Low and high fidelity mockups using Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Omnigraffle, Muse, HTML

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY:

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe XD
• Adobe Flash
• Adobe Muse
• Adobe Fireworks
• Sketch
• Omnigraffle inVision
• HTML5, XHTML, CSS
• 3D Studio Max
• Quark Xpress
• Microsoft Office
• Macintosh Keynote

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Pleasanton, California

Senior Lead UX/UI Designer

Implementation Tools: Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, inVision

Responsibilities:

• Expertly communicate concepts visually using techniques of journey mapping, storyboards, sketching, and prototyping to share visual/interactive design concepts
• Generate design decisions based on judgment, experience, and research
• Develop and produce design patterns, branded visual elements, and assets that translate into multiple channels and across Confidential portfolio of brands
• Expertly develop repeatable designs that expand the atomic design system
• Conceptualize and steward prototype new features for existing products and actively develop new products utilizing design thinking and creative problem solving
• Experiment, play, learn, and sell new concepts

Confidential, Portland, Oregon

Senior Lead UX/UI Designer

Implementation Tools: Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, inVision, Craft, Responsive Design

Responsibilities:

• Develop information architecture and wireframes of workflows for the applications of mobile and web platforms
• Ensure the UI development results meet the market (consumer) demand, technical specification and requirements
• Communicate and cooperate with other related parties (product design team, research, engineers, & marketing), other business functions and especially outside counter partner (Telecommunication operators and outside consultants)
• Create new application prototypes and/or improve the existing applications with adaptive responsive design alternatives
• Conduct small group usability studies and prepare the analysis reports
• Prepare analysis reports in terms of user experience for existing mobile handsets and mobile trends
• Strong time management skills with the ability to meet tight deadlines

Confidential, Sunnyvale, California

Lead UX/UI Designer

Implementation Tools: Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, inDesign, Acrobat, Responsive Design

Responsibilities:

• Lead and facilitated user research interviews utilizing best practices, to provide recommendations for actionable items to the team
• Translated concepts into wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows, customer journey maps and site maps that lead to intuitive user experiences
• Created multiple, inventive ideas that are fresh and simple while solving complex customer and business needs through the delivery of low and high fidelity prototypes that showcase design concepts and interaction patterns for the ShipPalm ERP solution
• Experience researching the latest technologies, best practices, and online trends to provide recommendations for product development

Confidential, San Jose, California

Senior UX Designer

Implementation Tools: Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, inDesign, Omnigraffle, inVision, Keynote, PowerPoint, Zeplin, Responsive Design

Responsibilities:

• Drive design discussions and collaborative sessions with teams and stakeholders, helping generate concepts and inspire peers and teams
• Deliver high fidelity schematics, workflows, interaction storyboards, and design deliverables (task - flows, wireframes, hi-fi prototypes) that guide creative, content, and development efforts
• Formally and informally lead small teams around discreet threads, helping peers and junior contributors to raise the bar of their delivery
• Contribute to Confidential s UX discipline and community, adopting core approaches and tools, helping identify challenges and solutions, and enabling a fertile creative environment

Confidential, Santa Clara, California

Senior Visual Architect

Implementation Tools: Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, inDesign, Acrobat, Omnigraffle, inVision, Keynote, PowerPoint, Responsive Design

Responsibilities:

• Lead creative sessions for project kick - offs
• Manage multiple projects from concept generation through completion with internal and/or external designers
• Develop creative programs and design concepts that meet the business objectives of the organization and advance brand strategy
• Establish creative direction for the entire brand presentation within retail, online, and print
• Manage, lead and inspire team members in creative (authority) as well as product and marketing (influence)
• Provide quality control over concepts and projects
• Understand strategic goals and brand identity; analyze the creative team, environment, processes, technologies, etc., to determine areas of improvement; and build and direct a creative function aligned with and supportive of those goals
• Set expectations and standards (build a culture) for creative team attitude, behavior, teamwork and professional development
• Assure that timely and informative communication takes place between the creative function and other relevant business partners

Confidential, Sa n Leandro, California

Senior UX Graphic Designer

Implementation Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, inDesign, Acrobat, Omnigraffle, PowerPoint, Responsive Design

Responsibilities:

• Designe d high - impact, user-centere d storyboard s wit h stron g emotiona l appeal, sophisticated productio n value s an d intuitiv e navigatio n t o maximiz e use r engagemen t an d driv e bran d identity
• Establishe d U X desig n a s th e firs t stag e o f al l Confidential m Healt h mobil e medica l device s throug h a user-centere d desig n (UCD ) approach
• Pioneere d specifi c desig n concepts, pag e templates, layout s o f specia l package s an d interactive modules, promotiona l graphics, an d othe r desig n element s fo r Confidential m Healt h properties
• Successfull y define d strategie s fo r produc t developmen t wit h produc t managers
• Execute d othe r dutie s o r specia l project s a s assigne d including, bu t no t limite d t o boar d meetings, participatin g i n concep t development, proto-typing, desig n o r graphi c productions

Confidential, Santa Rosa, California

Senior UX Graphic Designer

Implementation Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, inDesign, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Omnigraffle, Keynote, PowerPoint, Responsive Design

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines in a fast paced dead - line driven environment
• Responsible for design, site structure, and daily maintenance of global website and many localized sites.
• Extensive web development experience involving UI/UX development, domain Wireframes, and various Information Architectures
• Play a key role in the design and layout of numerous sites, corporate brandings, illustration, and other projects