PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Dynamic UX Designer with over 15 years experience in user - centered design. -winning work in digital and print media. Self-starter with strong time and project management skills around design innovation and process improvements. Adept at applying new technology to projects to maximize business goals and ROI. Proven on-time and within-budget success managing projects with resources, assets and travel. Persistent learner with trends and techniques in design and technology.

SKILL:

• UX, UI, user centered design and HCI
• Design pattern libraries
• Wireframes, redlines and prototypes
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Agile workflow with Scrum and Kanban
• Sketch, Figma, Adobe Xperience Design
• Usability testing
• Adobe Creative Cloud tools
• Data visualization
• Visual design
• Typography
• Leadership

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

Senior User Experience Designer

Responsibilities:

• Design improved and innovative UI solutions to help users work more effectively in managing and closing multi-million-dollar commercial real estate transactions.
• Collaborate with a team of UX/UI designers and researchers, as well as with front- and back-end developers.
• Design user flows, storyboards, wireframes, prototypes and high-fidelity mockups.
• Provide direction and support for front-end developers.
• Determine and manage micro-interaction specifications. Improved the user experience of both the web app and mobile app to increase daily active users by 300%.
• Tools include MacBook Pro, Wacom tablet, Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, Jira, Google Drive, Zeplin.

Confidential, Redmond, Washington

Technology Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed UX for a role-based sales assistant chatbot.
• Designed UX for a unified service desk application in enterprise software support.
• Collaborated with PM, developers and engineers to solve complex user interface solutions.
• Tools include graph paper and pencil, Visual Studio Teams, Adobe XD, Adobe Illustrator, XAML.
• Created usability and accessibility testing from product feature scenarios.

Confidential, Redmond, Washington

UX Design Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed a web app tool for MS Surface testing engineers.
• Created user stories, workflows, wireframes and HTML prototypes in a rapid production cycle.
• Simplified a complex engineering problem by replacing email and shared spreadsheets with a user-centered web interface.

Confidential, Bellevue, Washington

UX/UI Designer

Responsibilities:

• Designed user experience and user interface assets for multiple enterprise software products.
• Created wireframes, prototypes, sitemaps, storyboards, design system and pattern library.

• Accelerated UI production with improved documentation, communication and techniques.
• Streamlined development by providing assets in native code.
• Integrated design pattern libraries and supporting documentation for across teams, achieving multi-product design consistency
• Led several UX/UI design conferences in California, Massachusetts and Japan, inspiring efforts for common design pattern libraries and best practices.
• Explored a UX cost center to consolidate and streamline UX functionality between a portfolio of enterprise software products, and presented to senior executives.
• Organized a team of UX/UI designers to launch a new product, improving standards.
• Initiated usability testing efforts and research to improve user experience in products .
• Improved cross-portfolio UX by visiting satellite product teams in Massachusetts, England and Japan, and providing focused UX consulting.
• Mentored junior UI designers, inspiring them to focus on growth and innovation.

Confidential, Lacey, Washington

UX/UI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed flowcharts, wireframes and prototypes for a software product designed to improve processing worker compensation claims.
• Interviewed test users, enabling the development of UX stories and personas.
• Created user flowcharts and stories to envision optimal experiences.
• Wireframed and prototyped in HTML/CSS/JavaScript to better support developers.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

UX/UI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed UI assets as an interim UX/UI designer, assigned through Rooster Park Consulting, for news aggregation website Confidential .
• Created prototypes from simple feature specifications, used for Facebook integration.
• Assessed feature requirements to prototype UI components in collaboration with developers.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

UX/UI Design Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided precise prototypes using color, typography, design principles, and Adobe Creative Suite skills to improve agile development process.
• Improved developer-designer collaboration by using XAML to provide assets in native format.
• Resolved a need for more diverse user color options in a product by collaborating with developers to create an algorithm for machine-generated palettes.
• Prototyped data visualization interfaces to resolve complex feature requirements.

Confidential, Olympia, WA

Principal and Creative Director

Responsibilities:

• Enabled clients to achieve business goals by designing editorial for print periodicals.
• Sustained complete production cycles by managing print workflows with vendors.
• Ensured product success by managing budgets and contractors.
• Delivered editorial excellence with streamlined direction of photo shoots, and creation of visual design to deliver enticing editorial messages with photography and art.
• Surpassed expectations by managing photo shoots and production domestically and globally.
• Expanded revenue streams and market exposure by spearheading digital editorial media, including websites and podcasts for several clients.