SUMMARY:

• 20+ years related experience in a complex web applications environment (interaction design, information architecture, software applications design, and interactive content design)
• Ability to translate business requirements into effective user centered design solutions
• Develop and implement design standards and visual style guides, identify conflicting design requirements and constructively solve problems for the end - user's best interests
• Excellent project management and organization skills
• Have effectively managed in house and remote design teams
• HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Balsamiq, LucidCharts

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Interaction/UI Designer/Web Front End

Confidential, Redwood City, CA

Responsibilities:

• Lead UI designer of InSite (SaaS partner UI), Consumer web portal, Mobile Web Application, and iPhone Application
• Created PHP/MySQL driven mockup of Confidential 'InSite portal. This demo was regularly used at board meetings to demonstrate new features and as a presentation vehicle for sales calls with potential partners and service providers.
• Worked closely with developers to troubleshoot and fix UI issues in a JSP environment
• Created and implemented user testing procedures. A/B testing.
• Created in house tools for support and product team that integrated with corporate APIs
• Created POC demos utilizing thermostat control APIs, JSON and PHP (for CEIVA)
• Worked with Computime to streamline their thermostat menu system
• Self managed workload and deliverables for Confidential InSite SaaS portal, consumer portal, mobile website, and native mobile products
• Consistent on - time delivery of templates, mockups, and database driven prototypes to engineering team daily participation in sprint meetings and helped prioritize and estimate effort during scrum planning.

Sr. Interaction Designer

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• In charge of the overall UI design, workflow, and information architecture of CERDAAC, the full cycle calibration, maintenance, and repair tracking software
• In charge of usability including accessibility (Section 508 compliance)
• Document, test and validate usability issues and provide front end solutions
• Simplification of esoteric and complicated processes
• Grow the business through consistent UI and behavior and by ensuring customer delight
• Custom tool building, basic JavaScript programming, rapid prototyping and full fidelity mockups, GWT UI XML
• Worked with QA and independent auditors to ensure software validation for ISO, FDA, and 21 CFR Part 11 requirements.
• Rapid prototyping using Balsamiq, HTML and CSS, basic javascript

Sr. UI Designer, Accessibility Specialist

Confidential, Redwood City, CA

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead for Section 508 and VPAT compliance
• Team lead for UI Redesign effort for the Clarity ITFM product (2 subs)
• PHP and MySQL internal tool development
• Interface and Workflow design on Enterprise level web application (Clarity)
• Rapid prototyping, wire-frames, and Photoshop mockups
• Design and coding of clickable mockups
• Low/High definition simulations utilizing iRise
• Process and standards documentation and use cases, DRD, IRD.
• Focus on user centered design and web accessibility for the handicapped
• Led team of 2 in implementing a usability process throughout the organization
• Created user test plans, personas, and use cases

Sr. UI Designer / Interaction Designer

Confidential, San Mateo, CA

Responsibilities:

• Heavy use of CSS (cross-browser and Sec. 508), some DHTML, and JavaScript
• Jetspeed Portlet template design (JSP and VM Script based)
• PHP and MySQL internal Tool development
• Interface and Workflow design on Enterprise level web application
• Rapid prototyping, wire-frames, and Photoshop mockups
• User centered design and coding of clickable mockups

Director

Confidential, Culver City, CA

Responsibilities:

• Lead global software development effort for Confidential, a project management, budgeting, resource management and billing web application for animators and game companies.
• Director level management of Confidential
• Monitor the performance of software in the field and lead software revision and up-grade activities
• Strategic planning and competitive analysis
• Time budgeting and project planning
• Technical liaison for China and domestic art/animation team
• PHP Web Development and UI/IA Design for Confidential and corporate site
• Video editing, data wrangling, and titles for Confidential
• Interactive UI designs for set top boxes

Sr. User Interface Designer

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities:

• Graphic design for various in-house projects ranging from dynamic graphing applications to web based user surveys
• Creating templates for engineers and other web authors
• User Interface Design, content authoring, prototyping, and maintenance
• Interaction design for in-house virtual network simulator
• Created globalization and localization standards guide and quick tip documention.

Sr. UI Designer / Lead Process Designer

Confidential, Menlo Park, CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the CEO and Founder to produce high impact visual aids for investor and media presentations
• User interface design and implementation for web based network monitoring and dynamic provisioning application.
• Produced user-friendly interfaces based on feedback from customers and internal focus groups
• Simplified complex network diagrams into useable process and data flow between product modules
• Produced static paper and HTML mockups, released templates to engineering for production
• Story boarding, usability testing, process and work flow modeling

Technical Design Lead

Confidential, Hayward, CA

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead for 5 web designers and 3 graphic artists
• Management, maintenance and growth of Confidential US and global websites
• Creation of first ever ViewBar UI and art direction for subsequent redesigns
• Localization design of web pages and the ViewBar application - 8 languages
• Define web look and feel with marketing team and agencies
• Graphic design for print work, web, and promotion
• Created style guides for the web, print, and banner ads as well as process guidelines for graphics, web, and release management departments