SUMMARY

• Highly creative and multi - talented Visual/UX Designer with 18 years of practical visual design experience and over 8 years of UX/UI experience in digital production development, synthesizing color, space, texture, illustration and task- flow to surpass the needs and goals of end-users and stakeholders and create designs that identify a product or convey a message.
• Possess exceptional collaborative and interpersonal skills, dynamic team player with well-developed written and verbal communication abilities.
• Competitive analysis, analytic reviews, stakeholder discussions
• Contextual interviews, surveys, user testing
• Production of user research site strategies for the development of user centered outcomes Interaction Analysis & Documentation
• Focus on User Centered Design, information architecture and facilitating collaboration between project team and stakeholders
• Personas, user groups, and user scenario development
• Style guide creation, pattern library development
• Prototyping to facilitate communication and functional consensus
• Design & illustration of brand and usage guidelines
• Creation of sitemaps, wireframes, task flows, and design assets
• Low and high fidelity mockups using Photoshop, Fireworks, PowerPoint, Muse, Omnigraffle, Sketch and HTML

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Adobe Flash Adobe Fireworks Adobe Muse QuarkXPress Corel Draw A/B Testing Identity Branding Packaging Design Image Editing
• HTML5
• XHTML
• DHTML
• CSS Omnigraffle
• Sketch
• Invision Autodesk 3D Studio Max Macintosh Keynote Microsoft Office Site Maps
• Wireframes
• User Flows Web Presence Development Traditional Illustration
• Web Project Management Web Graphic Production HTML Web Content Developer 2003 ites (e.g. Facebook
• Twitter
• LinkedIn et al) in a central location whose user-centered design platform required high fidelity mocks for vc and development purposes. (user-flow wireframing storyboards info-graphic development visual design)

PROF ESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Jose, California

Senior UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Play a central role in the execution of customer inquiries for a product or experience, helping to conduct sessions, analyze feedback, and identify needs and insights to inform or evolve the Confidential experience
• Drive design discussions and collaborative sessions with teams and stakeholders, helping generate concepts and inspire peers and teams
• Deliver high fidelity schematics, workflows, interaction storyboards, and design deliverables that guide creative, content, and development efforts
• Formally and informally lead small teams around discreet threads, helping peers and junior contributors to raise the bar o their delivery
• Confidently present design decisions to teams and stakeholders, articulating and rationalizing needs against user insights and business goals
• Assist in the planning and estimating of design activities, participating in broader workstream coordination and expectation setting
• Contribute to Confidential 's UX discipline and community, adopting core approaches and tools, helping identify challenges and solutions, and enabling a fertile creative environment
• Maintain an awareness of industry and UX trends, sharing with peers and the broader community and leveraging them within the design lifecycle

Confidential, Santa Clara, California

Senior Visual Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead creative sessions for project kick-offs
• Manage multiple projects from concept generation through completion with internal and/or external designers
• Develop creative programs and design concepts that meet the business objectives of the organization and advance brand strategy
• Establish creative direction for the entire brand presentation within retail, online, and print
• Manage, lead and inspire team members in creative (authority) as well as product and marketing (influence)
• Provide quality control over concepts and projects
• Understand strategic goals and brand identity; analyze the creative team, environment, processes, technologies, etc., to determine areas of improvement; and build and direct a creative function aligned with and supportive of those goals
• Assure that timely and informative communication takes place between the creative function and other relevant business partners

Confidential, San Leandro, California

Senior UX Graphic Designer

Responsibilities:

• Designed high-impact, user-centered storyboards with strong emotional appeal, sophisticated production values and intuitive navigation to maximize user engagement and drive brand identity
• Established UX design as the first stage of all Confidential mobile medical devices through a user-centered design (UCD) approach
• Pioneered specific design concepts, page templates, layouts of special packages and interactive modules, promotional graphics, and other design elements for Confidential properties
• Successfully defined strategies for product development with product managers
• Executed other duties or special projects as assigned including, but not limited to board meetings, participating in concept development, proto-typing, design or graphic productions

Confidential, Santa Rosa, California

Senior UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines in a fast-paced dead-line driven environment
• Responsible for design, site structure, and daily maintenance of global website and many localized sites
• Extensive web development experience involving UI/UX development, domain Wireframes, and various Information Architectures
• Primary contributor in the design and layout of numerous sites, corporate brandings, illustration, and other projects