User Experience Designer Resume
SUMMARY:
- User experience design lead and creative director with more than two decades of experience mastering design challenges across a wide array of industries, including entertainment, finance, courseware, government, DOD, healthcare, and more.
- An organized, engaging and self - driven individual with a thorough understanding of User Centered Design Principles and the integration of the design process within an Agile environment and Scrum framework.
- Extensive experience across a range of design disciplines to include Information Architecture (IA), User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), and Interaction Design (IxD) and many more.
- Creative mindset with a touch analytical allowing for the ability to re-evaluate priorities and shift focus between multiple projects quickly, while also being self-motivated with a peer-leadership mentality.
CORE SKILLS:
Visual Design/Wireframing Tools: Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, XD)
Prototyping Tools: InVision, Axure, Figma, UXPin, Justinmind, Adobe XD, HTML5/CSS3, Ruby, Jekyll
Programming: HTML5/CSS3, Jekyll, ruby, rails, GIT, YML, jQuery, Material Design, Bootstrap, Foundation
Platform Experience: Responsive Web, Native Mobile iOS, Android, Desktop Mac, and PC Process
Process Methodologies and Tools: Agile, Analytics, Card sorting, User Flows, Persona Development, Journey Mapping, Story Mapping, ADA Compliance, Style Guides/Pattern Libraries, Jira, Confluence, Slack
UAT/QA: Media Barn, User Testing, A/B Testing
EXPERIENCE:
User Experience Designer
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- UX/UI Designer with expert level skills creating engaging experiences that customers expect from the modern responsive web and mobile applications.
- Provide outstanding communication skills; listening, receiving and objectively considering feedback.
- Utilize a range of design disciplines from Information Architecture (IA), User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), and Interaction Design (IxD) as well as traditional marketing design, digital design, branding and brand management.
- Provide exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills, and user-centered design approach.
- Experienced with Sketch, Adobe XD, Adobe Creative Suite, UXPin, Justinmind, Axure, and many other design and prototyping tools.
User Experience Design Lead
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Reduced prototyping deliverable time utilizing United States Web Design System ( Confidential ) design systems and Jekyll
- Created rapid high-fidelity prototypes
- Facilitated design reviews with stakeholders across Certify. Confidential .com
- Collaborated closely with product managers, developers, researchers fine tuning Certify Confidential application processes online
Director of UI/UX
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Provided expert level digital design, peer-leadership leveraging and upholding internal and client design standards.
- Drove process and workflow improvements to ensure only the best design solutions reached the clients.
- Communicated ideas and design decisions to all levels of the organization and clients in a way that created buy-in, consensus, and excitement about the proposed solutions clearly and effectively.
- Created prototypes and user testing to improve the customer experience utilizing an iterative approach.
- Delivered High fidelity prototypes using Confidential Design Standards within the same 3-month period
- Confidential review, approval, and transition to development within 3 months after the redesign
- Worked with development teams on the architecture of the application for modularity and customization for other companies
UI/UX Design Lead - Creative Director
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Created an internal marketing design team from the ground up, reduced outside design firm costs by 50% first 6 months and saving 2 million within two years.
- Facilitated the design and development of a digital document and marketing sales application decreasing the delivery time to sales teams by 80%.
- Drastically reduced print costs
- Increased sales teams lead time in the field
- Increased the overall number of sales leads generated
- Integrated with Box technology and surface tablets transforming the way sales teams presented and interacted with clients and physicians
UI Design Lead
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Led user experience design and front-end development for the web design team.
- Led UI/UX redesign on Genworth Financial in 2010 as well as all enterprise level or large-audience consumer-facing experiences.
- Increasing user retention by 25% first six months, with a marked improvement each quarter
- Drastically reduced bounce rate, through the evaluation and use of analytics
- Established web standards and style guides
- Established enterprise-level digital advertising standards