EXPERTISE:
UX Lead/Manager, Lead Teams on UX Design, Interact with developers, Project Managers and Product Owners, UX Design Research, Design Strategy, Presentations, UI Flows, Web and Mobile First Development, Wireframe & Mockup Development, Rapid Prototyping, Visual Design, Corporate Branding, Content Strategy, SEO strategy, SEM strategy, 3D animation, 2D animation, Google Chat, GoToMeeting, Skype
SKILLS:
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Dreamweaver, HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, Bootstrap, Axure, Invision, Balsamiq, Old fashioned sketch book, Wireframing, JavaScript, Microsoft Office, Wordpress, Drupal, SEO, SEM, Adobe Flash, 3DS MAX, Maya 3D, Cinema 4D
EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, New Braunfels, TX
User Experience Lead/Manager
Responsibilities:
- The User Experience Lead/Manager is to be an in - house expert with strong analysis and design skills for customer facing and business applications, making design decisions about software in accordance with the stakeholders goals.
- Execute interaction design and visual design as a part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Collaborate on user experience planning with a lead experience architect.
- Consult with clients and lead experience architect.
- Research interaction design and technology trends.
- Strong conceptualization ability, strong visual communication ability, drawing skills and sketchbook technique.
- Create wireframes as well as visual design comps.
- Oversee and work closing with various product teams and provide user experience wireframes for development.
- Starting the process of implementing a design language and design patterns.
- Expert in Adobe Creative suite, and strong knowledge of Axure, InVision, and Balsamiq.
- Able to communicate strongly both in written form and verbally.
- Conduct user experience research and testing with end users and stakeholders.
- Collaborate with product owner, stakeholders, and development teams.
- Champion User Experience throughout the company.
- Outreach to schools and interview interns.
- Sit in on interviews and interview potential lower level user experience candidates.
- Keep up to date with design trends and innovations.
- Use Agile sprints and in corporate methodology into design.
Confidential
SR. UX DESIGNER, AUSTIN, TX
Responsibilities:
- Sr. User Experience Web Designer a project consisting of redesigning a 125 websites including a national website and 124 local websites.
- Conducted UX research and wrote up a summary for the design team to begin the process of creating wireframes and high-resolution mockups.
- Created high-resolution mockups of website pages and functionality.
- Used Agile development methodology to keep project on track.
- Used Scrum 2 week sprints with daily stand up meetings to explain where we were at on our user stories and sub tasks for each day.
- Used JIRA project management software to track user stories and user sub tasks to ensure that the project stayed on it’s tight deadline.
- Created subtasks and logged hours for each subtask, until they were turned over to code review.
Confidential
User Experience Designer / Owner, SAN ANTONIO, TX
Responsibilities:
- Gathered project requirements and created tasks for team members
- Led team meetings and managed various web design and web redesign projects
- Conducted UX and UI research for design strategy and brainstorming
- Coded in HTML, CSS, and modified JavaScript
- Created branding strategy and branding packages
- Created low-resolution comps and high-resolution comps
- Created wireframes and prototypes
- Worked with Wordpress, Drupal, and client proprietary CMS
- Collaborated with different department heads and business owners.
- Worked within their proprietary CMS and only used hard code.
- Pitched ideas and was the main point of contact for multiple projects.
Confidential
DESIGNER AND MODELER, SAN ANTONIO, TX
Responsibilities:
- Created 3D visualizations in 3DS Max of trade show displays and booths.
- Created vector graphics and raster graphics for 3D Models.
