SUMMARY:

• I enjoy figuring out how to make things beautiful & work better.
• My roles have varied slightly in title; from Product Designer, to User Interface Designer, to Visual Designer Specialist, to User Experience Designer — all of these roles have focused on creating design solutions from a user centered perspective in the form of digital products & services.
• I am a Senior UI/UX professional with proven experience developing creative concepts.
• I am a strategic thinker & creative problem - solver with a unique blend of leadership skills & content review expertise.
• Strong knowledge of design thinking principles & guidelines related to interaction design, information architecture, visual/graphic design & usability.
• A demonstrated background managing multiple projects, prioritizing tasks, overseeing the creative process, & producing innovative products ranging from web applications, web sites, tablet design & mobile app designs.
• Worked in agile environments, managing communication cross functionally with teams to develop workflow, sketches & visual mockups.

SKILLS:

• User Research
• Sketching
• Adobe Creative Suite
• XHTML - working knowledge
• Polarion
• Wireframing
• Illustration
• Adobe XD
• CSS - working knowledge
• Jira, Confluence
• Prototyping
• Drawing
• Confidential Visio
• IOS & Material Design
• Confidential Office 360
• User Testing
• Animation
• Axure RP Pro
• Javascript, jQuery
• Confidential PowerPoint
• Sketch
• Angular, agGrid, Bootstrap, Proto.io
• Kendo UI, SaaS & API

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bolingbrook, Illinois

Senior UI/UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Lead UI/UX designer for a subscription financial application used by internal business & external Confidential clients from customer flow diagrams, wireframes, prototypes & high-fidelity mocks.
• Conducted stakeholder interviews & understood target users deeply: developed & worked from user profiles, participated in creation of user stories & produced new process flow.
• Some new features required creation of sketches, wireframes, & clickable prototypes to quickly test & iterate designs with user testing group.
• Worked in Extreme Programming Agile & collaborated with multi-disciplinary teams to evaluate the feasibility of proposed features.
• Defined & documented user experience design patterns. Delivered design specs, checked for design bugs & worked with developers to fix. Project requirements included Angular 6, CSS, Sketch, responsive, & material design standards.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Senior UI/UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Lead UI/UX designer for three customer-subscription web-based applications sold by JCR. Designed effective UI concepts with Accessibility in mind in coordination with both the client & developer's expectations for Angular 4, Bootstrap, Kendo UI, CSS & responsive.
• Reworked process flows to meet stakeholder’s requirements & user needs, designed detailed & comprehensive wireframes & prototypes that effectively communicate information design & interaction design.
• Translated requirements into a user interface including screens & interactive elements. Provided designs & concepts for webpages in Adobe Creative Suite. Organized mobile concept content in an interactive prototype using Proto.io.
• Collaborated with others in creating standards documents & cross-application consistency.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Visual Design Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Created web 2.0 solutions for new & existing websites for various clients, utilizing the latest design trends.
• Created Gap Analysis document to provide a better user experience for the Hewlett Packard product registration web site.
• Produced several interactive pages for Hewlett Packard product registration web site using Axure RP Pro. Designing for different platforms, Responsive web & Salesforce, desktop, tablet & mobile applications.
• Took ownership on projects such as the Mega menu navigation for CenterPoint Energy & improved on the design already established.
• Presented creative concepts internally & also directly to the clients from a variety of industries including T-Mobile, Centerpoint Energy, Hewlett Packard, DOW, Consumers energy & Coca Cola.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

User Experience Designer

Responsibilities:

• Lead UI/UX designer responsible for the User experience design for Android based display for precision farming solutions.
• Worked closely with the product management, & software engineers to improve the performance, aesthetics, & usability of the existing display, based on the research data.
• Proposed simple yet compelling visual, design specifications & interaction design solutions keeping in consideration user behavior & complex technical requirements to best apply to the product.
• Played a crucial role in defining & developing the software interaction model & visual design of the display.
• Collaborated with developers using Polarion. Initiated & drove the creation of a living scalable framework & design for Style Guide.
• Mentored other designers & providing support on advanced design & image retouching tasks.

Confidential

User Interface Designer

Responsibilities:

• Lead UI/UX designer conceptualized the user interface for an Iphone application to Confidential & Confidential an Alarm system. Defined the interfaces’ requirements & architecture, such as the user tasks, features, user interaction, & navigation flow.
• Designed preliminary user interfaces with hand-drawn sketches & wireframes in Visio. Performed usability tests throughout the process.; defined testing parameters, recruited users, facilitated tests & reported results.
• Used the Apple builder to create some of the visual elements to hand off to developers.
• Created visual mockups, design specifications & worked with the software developers to implement the final user interface design for the company's first mobile application on ITunes Store.

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

Senior UI/UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Product Manager & Marketing Consultant & other members of the team to design the look & feel & user interaction experience for a new product of Amazon Payments.
• Designed the corresponding collaterals such as Ads & Emails Newsletters. Re-design the Sign In experience for Amazon Payments. This included navigational flow charts, & master page designs.
• Wrote & documented style guide for the developers to use & collaborated using Jira.
• Designed client side of the Mobile experience, HTML website & several collaterals for Amazon Payments.

Confidential, Redmond, Washington

Senior UI/UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Key responsibilities included generating & shaping ideas for Confidential Events & Confidential Profile Center into meaningful experiences, look & feel & user interaction.
• Working in an Agile environment process, developed workflow with the program manager & created sketches & visual mockups & design specifications.
• Working alongside business planners, program managers & developers. Released many features & HTML pages for Confidential Events; an Admin Tool using Confidential Blend application for prototyping & delivering files to developers.
• Conceptualization & creation of a more usable website for Confidential Profile Center in less than four weeks.
• An Interactive Calendar for Confidential Events. Confidential Events tool for Marketers to create their Events.
• Played a key role in the standardization for using Silverlight controls across MS Events.

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

Senior UI/UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Designed & helped define purpose for Amazon Your Media Library & other web-based administration tools.
• UI designer & advocate for online customer experience for Amazon Video Games Download Client.
• Quickly learn about the products, marketplace positioning, brand positioning, & future direction of the products to ensure products success. Created original art for Site Stripe, Ads, logos & Icons.
• Created designs from concept to completion for partner branding page such as Amazon/TiVo. Produced Photoshop mockups, HTML prototypes with developers, graphics, & design specification documents.
• Assessed the CSS to make sure it adhered to the design specifications.
• Position was a blend of interaction design, UI development & visual design for rich Internet applications.

Confidential, Renton, Washington

Visual Designer

Responsibilities:

• Designed visual interfaces that enhance usability & support the brand.
• Worked as a part of the marketing promotions team to create advertising campaigns for external clients, including CBS, TIVO, Nissan, Lamps Plus, eBay, AMO Eye Care, Chevy, & Best Western
• Designed several HTML email newsletters & online marketing promotions & design specifications. Emails designs were chosen over old designs after usability testing proved better performance (80%).