SKILLS:

Technologies: HTML, DHTML, CSS, Home Site, Dreamweaver, JavaScript, Web Trends

Design: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Axure RP, iRise, Omnigraffle, MS Visio, InDesign

EXPERIENCE:

Lead User Experience Designer

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Joined Global Wealth Management IT team as a Lead UX designer (VP role) to facilitate the transformation to new client management platform.
• Helped identifying business needs, establishing optimal informational architecture and interactive experience.
• Ran usability studies, stakeholder reviews, rapid prototyping sessions.
• Created wireframes, interactive prototypes, documentation, and user flows.

Lead User Experience Designer, AVP

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• As part of the Confidential Wealth Management/Internet Strategy and User Experience group, was responsible for the information architecture, user experience, interaction design and usability direction for web, desktop, and mobile enterprise applications.
• Created wireframes, prototypes, navigation models, interaction patterns, workflows and usability guidelines Managed UI Standards guides.
• Created and maintained Axure widget libraries to ensure prototype consistency.
• Conducted UX quality assurance and user acceptance testing
• Conducted UX presentations to executive leadership, stakeholders and end users
• Collaborated closely with business and technology partners throughout the organization (e.g., platform strategy leads, business leads, marketing, technology, end - users).

User Experience Architect/Consultant

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• As a Sr. UX Architect, interact extensively across system and organizations, business stakeholders and development teams, to support the primary strategies and objectives for UX/UI.
• Designed and prototyped interfaces for enterprise web based applications to facilitate usability testing, client reviews and demonstrations .

User Experience Architect/Consultant

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ U

Responsibilities:

• As a User Experience Architect was responsible for development of complex interactive experiences such as “Online Adviser” and “Asset Allocator” tools.
• Work closely with sponsors to help identify business needs in order to design and articulate effective solutions using complex data sets.
• Generate data taxonomies, process flows, wireframes and prototypes.

User Experience Architect/Consultant

Confidential, Radnor, PA

Responsibilities:

• As a User Experience Architect, responsible for creating market-leading user experience designs for Confidential websites and applications.
• Working closely with Market Research, Product Managers, Business Analysts and Technology, translate complex customer and business requirements into a simple, elegant, consistent online experience.
• Created wire-frames, mockups and functional prototypes.
• Contributed to the development of UI design standards working with outside agency.

Senior User Experience Designer/Consultant

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Lead the UI activities for the development of the Global Virtual Print Fee System.
• translation of Use Cases to UI requirements, creating wireframes and mockups, developing fully interactive prototypes using iRise tool.
• Conducted user group sessions and stakeholders reviews.
• Documented business logic, UI behaviors, specs and navigation.
• Managed and documented UI standards for the application.

User Experience Architect/Consultant

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Responsibilities:

• responsible for leading user-centered design activities such as defining and gathering user interface requirements, defining user profiles, creating mockups and html prototypes, documenting UI specifications, and validating design approaches with users, business stakeholders and development team.
• Produced and evaluated functional designs for very complex projects ensuring all user interface design requirements are captured.
• Planned and conducted iterative user interface design evaluations and usability tests.
• Defined and documented User Interface Standards for a corporate environment where no globally accepted standards existed.

Senior User Interface Designer

Confidential, Roseland, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Created storyboards, wire frames, mockups and high-fidelity interactive prototypes for usability testing.
• Participated in Usability studies, wrote test plans and provided recommendations to various business groups and products.
• Assisted Business, Development, and Production in resolving usability problems and explored opportunities for enhancements and improvements.
• Actively participated in design and development of new Confidential UI Standard, working in collaboration with outside design agencies.
• Developed Internationalization requirements for Confidential UI Standards.
• Developed Information Architecture for portals and applications with multiple roles and access levels.
• Certified in, and actively used iRise prototyping tool.

Interactive Services Manager

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw corporate web site and integrated web services.
• Developed Information Architecture.
• Analyzed user experience for web site and email campaigns using Web Trends reporting tools.
• Conducted usability testing.
• Managed and maintained CRM system (Sales Force).
• Designed templates for web and email distributions.

User Interface Designer/Consultant

Confidential, Franklin Lakes, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Acting as a leading eCommerce User Interface Designer, designed and developed user interface for the Confidential-, Extra- and Internet sites.
• Responsibilities included project management activities working closely with internal business analysts.
• Gathered requirements, defined scopes, developed wire frames and HTML prototypes.

Senior User Interface Designer/Consultant

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Led the global consolidation of the IT Central websites and migration of the information into Avaya Enterprise portal.
• Analyzed existing data and implemented Information Architecture understanding the constraints of new Avaya standards and.
• Created completely new layout and restructured navigation flows taking multiple layers of data and consolidating it into three levels.
• New portal met the "best in class" navigation requirements and web taxonomy.

Senior User Interface Designer

Confidential, Long Branch, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Managed all phases of web design and development projects for a wide range of clients.
• Asset client needs, develop specifications and implement projects from initial conceptual design through coding, final delivery and client approval.
• Designed user interface models, menu and navigational systems for Web sites and Web-based applications.
• Performed usability testing.
• Managed off-shore development team and freelancers.
• Designed online newsletter that won a Gold Award from the League of Confidential Professionals.