SUMMARY

• Well - rounded IT Professional with successful experience in managing, designing and developing cutting-edge, stream-lined technology solutions for Financial, Telecom, Media, Healthcare, Advertising and Branding business sectors with primary focus on User Experience Design/User Interface Development/Web Accessibility and Product Development, As well as managing and coordinating with stakeholders, customer and sales teams .
• Utilizing technologies to Develop & Manage the User Experience for multiple clients from strategy to wireframe to fully functional application, as well analyze identify and recommend solution for Web Accessibility.
• Proven ability to lead cross functional teams, developers and foster design utilize technical knowhow to Design Workflow.
• Oversaw local/overseas cross functional teams and help m anage the User Experience for multiple clients from strategy to wireframe to development.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MANAGEMENT: Agile Management, JIRA-Confluence, VersionOne

SKILLS: ADOBE XD, UXPIN, PROTP.IO, BALSAMIQ, OMNIGRAFFLE, CSS2/CSS3, XHTML/HTML/HTML5, JavaScriptJQUERY/AJAX/JSON,ANGULAR2/4, Web Accessibility 508/ADA/WCAG, software (JAWS, VoiceOver, NVDAChromeVox(ScreenReader), WAVE AWS Cloud(Orchestration- Automation Provisioning, High Availability & Disaster

TOOLS: Dimensions CM Client, SiGOS Device AnyWhere(for mobile testing),Adobe Creative Cloud, Google OptimizeGoogle Analytics Photoshop, Office 365, Visual Studios 2008/2013 Team Foundation System, SharePointDreamweaver,FLASH, CVS/PVCS, TortoiseSVN, FTP, PHPAds, WebTrends, Webinator/Omniture, Customer Relationship

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Principal UX/UI-Manager/ScrumMaster

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leading the user experience vision for various digital products and initiative. Supporting Product Owner, Internal /External Customer and Sales teams. Identify problems, gauge the usability of products, and make sound recommendations for Improvements and communicating the information architecture, workflows and processes surrounding the user experience with project teams. Bring insights to life drive user research to understand user needs, customer interviews, Wireframe Designs, personas, user journeys, service design blueprints, and shareable artifacts for Prototyping, Usability testing and launch. Assist in defining product vision, road-map and growth opportunities. Drive Data Driven Incremental enhancement to test viability of product enhancement using A/B/N Test, Split Testing, Multivariant testing.
• Design Develop and Conducted all phases of the UX /UI cycle (Analysis, personas, journeys, Wireframes, reviews, interface designs, Visual & functional Rapid Prototypes). Worked closely with product managers, and executive teams to implement best UX and UI practices. As well as responsible for managing, developing end to end product and creating Demo’s for sales and various customers and carry out user research as needed.
• Lead and facilitate technology development and methodology decision making for the team, including standardization of system architecture, development procedures, best practices, and deployment processes in alignment with other development teams. Drive to ensure consistent standards and processes are followed across the Digital Development team
• Responsible for creating (Minimum Viable Product)MVP definition: prioritize according to business and user needs to define the initial release. Setting up Agile Sprint Planning, Resources planning and release dates. Developed complex customer-oriented projects with cross-functional partners
• For Agile Management used JIRA to: Assessing value, develop cases, and prioritize user stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy. Provided Backlog Management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories. Assist with planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities. Interface with the supporting functions (e.g., Legal, Compliance, Marketing) to get the required reviews, approvals and feedback. Backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories. Assist with planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities. Research and analyze markets, users, and roadmaps for our products - benchmarking competitors as necessary. Championed for customer centricity, design thinking and agile across the organization
• Responsible for all delivery from offshore. Team management and development and support Productivity improvement initiatives, Business development. Implement Angular based skeleton for distributed team, so they can replicate and follow best practices and standards.
• Responsible for managing, developing End to End product and co-coordinating with customers to build custom products for various end clients related to Securities Based Lending(SBL) application, which automated and streamlined the process for the Underwriter, Financial Analyst and User Access. As well as create custom product development for Bank Health Monitor systems, Veteran 401k Retirement systems as well as manage and redesign initiatives by NY State to help make NYC.gov a one stop web application for New Yorkers
• Responsible for leading UX/UI/Web Accessibility development and implement UI /Web Accessibility Standard standards and guidelines for the company to meet federal state and private sector requirements based on user analysis of applications and sites . Responsible for redesigning legacy sites and its many sub sites. As well s as well as incorporating new HTML5/XHTML/CSS/JS templates into Interwoven TeamSite.
• Utilized CRM tool like Hubspot to create design track and manage campaign to generate leads.
• Responsible for managing and setting up UI guidelines/standard in redesigning legacy application, utilizing HTML5, CSS3/LESS, Jquery, JavaScript, data visualization API using HighCharts, Twitter Bootstrap, Web Services/Ajax . which would allow sales and marketing team, financial institution to study detailed data and Interactive information, generate reports. compare data etc. The redesigned application allows the user to see visual charts, generate reports, search various data etc.
• Maintain support Cloud Infrastructure(Setup automation for dev environment using S3 Storage, Lambda Automation using CloudFormation, CDN/CLoudFront, Setup CI/CD). Incorporating microservices to UI
• Undertake business analysis as required in order to contextualize user stories. Worked with Backend to create Data Architecture for JSON structure
• Work closely with various departments, product owners and clients to realize Business goals.Work as Technical liaison between Departments.Standardized procedures and constructed roadmap to successful product governance.Managed and multiple sites and campaigns.

Confidential, PENNINGTON, NJ

VP of User Experience /User Interface Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead the user experience vision for one or more products or product lines. Identify problems, gauge the usability of products, and make sound recommendations for Improvements and communicating the information architecture, workflows and processes surrounding the user experience with project teams. Bring insights to life drive user research to understand user needs, customer interviews, Wireframe Designs, personas, user journeys, service design blueprints, and shareable artifacts for Prototyping,
• Managed cross functional/distributed cross functional teams and motivated teams to develop and redesign various sites and an Agile environment.
• Managed and lead UX/UI/Web Accessibility development and implement UI /Web Accessibility Standard WCAG /508 standards and guidelines for the company based on analysis of applications and sites . Utilized various tools to test identify such as screen reader software (JAWS, VoiceOver, NVDA, ChromeVox(ScreenReader), WAVE for validation and testing.
• Designed various wireframe and visual prototype as well as functional prototypes, for IPad WebApps and Desktop application utilizing responsive web design for Merrill Client Center, Feedback related prototypes, Templating, reusable widget creation, and supporting desktop and iPad utilizing HTML5, CSS3/LESS, JavaScript, jQuery JSON,RESTFULL service, HTML DOM, Raphael.js(DataVisualization) in the customized VS2013/TFS environment.
• Incorporated CSS Preprocessor using utilizing SimpleLess to create dynamic CSS from LESS files. Also, incorporated various frameworks, JQuery, Twitter Bootstrap API, Google Charts APIs and Raphael for data visualization. Setup build process using TFS to publish to preview or live.
• Coordinate the completion of corrective actions to resolve issues Provide leadership and guidance to the team responsible for planning and running technology projects using methodologies such as Agile/Scrum.Track blockers and facilitate their remediation. Communicate and escalate as required.Manage sprint planning and execution which includes the management of project progress and provide status and visibility
• Incorporated reusable feedback widget into various prototype, to capture/record various stakeholders’ feedback before publish to live server.
• Created various reusable responsive web layout templates and was responsible for standardizing UI standards and guidelines, was also responsible for setting up reusable widgets incorporating the governance setup for development
• Responsible for design and implementation and working with various Line of business(LOB) to collect gather and bring onboard other departments and implement best practices, guidelines and governance, inspection of widgets, prototypes so that it meets Confidential guidelines.
• Work with stakeholders to gather information and implement proposed prototyping driven process, identify and implement where at various stage during the process the handshake will happen and capture/incorporate various feedbacks from Line of Business.

Confidential, WHITE PLAINS, NY

Principal User Interface/Frontend Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Research & Insight carry out quantitative and qualitative research to understand user needs, such as customer interviews, usability tests, and surveys.Designed developed and Built various wireframes, prototypes and user interfaces for varuois applications that will be used to automate and deploy 10- 10000 nodes(servers)(vm), which will allow the users to check health status globally of all the servers based on Geomaps or tabular view, with ablity to filter or the ability to drill down to specific servers based on geo maps location and warning messages and colors to represent statuses.
• Managed and lead distributed teams.Responsible for deploying, maintain VM machines with specific dev environment for the teams
• As, a UI Lead was responsible for the decision making and guiding the frontend UI teams, such as what framework(s) to best use, setting up of global UI standards, localization/Internationalization (i18n), setting up layout as well incorporated responsive web design(RWD). Built user interfaces to automate and deploy 10- 10000 nodes(servers). Check health status globally of all the servers based on geomaps, with the ability to drill down to specific servers.
• Develop and created front end functionality using web technologies including HTML5/ XML/CSS3/CSS2 / JavaScript /JQuery JSON,RESTFUL service, HTML DOM,YUI & WAI as needed. Created wireframes, prototype to capture business needs
• Incorporated CSS Preprocessor using Node.js/SimpleLess to create dynamic CSS from LESS files. Also, incorporated various frameworks, JQuery, Twitter Bootstrap API, and Google Maps/Charts APIs.
• Responsible for Agile sprint planning tracking user stories and deliverables. Worked with product owner's to identify backlog items, and prioritized stories that were added to sprint planning/iteration. In addition to Sprint planning carried out Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Review, Retrospective. Used VersionOne to plan SPRINT planning.
• Created wireframes and functional prototypes from scratch based on stakeholder initial visions and improved upon it iteratively until the complete product i.e. web application(s). Developed and implemented Bootstrap/iWave web application, where I successfully help implement various pieces of the web application(s) such as Infrastructure Management and Configure Virtual Storage Pool and its sub systems. Implemented TestNG/Ant with Java to improve performance by incorporating modern automation test frameworks, which allowed it to be very flexible and fast to create test cases anywhere in the managed service lifecycle. Developed and setup test classes by utilizing TestNG frameworks with Java and worked to port over legacy test framework to the TestNG, Used JIRA for bug tracking.
• Implemented look and feel across cross- browsers as per UX visuals design and implemented.
• Contributed and implemented development/integration with custom tools like JackBe Presto with other front end technologies. Created Visual designs psd templates for iWave project using Photoshop.
• Work with various JavaScript frameworks such as JQuery, DataTables, Extjs, Twitter Bootstrap to implement Rich Internet Application (RIA).
• Responsible in deploying new builds using VApps for testing and debugging and used SVN for version control.

Confidential

Senior Front End Developer/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible researching and creating Web Accessibility/508 Compliance site, building User Interface templates, prototypes/wireframes, custom web applications using Tableless layouts and following W3C standards. Design and program and front end functionality using multiple web technologies including HTML5/ XHTML/ XML/ CSS2/CSS3 / JavaScript /JQuery JSON, HTML DOM, YUI, JQUERY, & WAI as needed. Responsible for server side Integration /development /upgrading and prototyping.Created various websites such as Prescription Drugs related, Health Insurance subscription using JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks and APIs such as DataTables, Extjs, and Isometrix.Built functional prototypes to ensure all business and user requirements were identified accurately and handled appropriately. Continuously improved the effectiveness of content, design, and technology used, through usability testing, collaboration and comprehensive knowledge of application development.
• Responsible for leading UX/UI/Web Accessibility development and implement UI /Web Accessibility Standard WCAG /508 standards and guidelines for Healthcare Related websites. based on analysis of applications and sites . Utilized various tools to test identify for validation and testing
• Perform A/B testing on creative assets to further enhance campaign performance, A-B or multivariate test pages/components, etc. Advise client and PM on technical aspects of project. Translation of business requirements.
• Review and advice on potential solutions based on their technical feasibility and ongoing production viability. Work as an UI advisor and technical liaison between departments where needed.

Confidential

Front End Developer

Responsibilities:

• Develop User Interface templates, prototypes/wireframes using Tableless layouts and following W3C standards. Design and program back-end and front end functionality using web technologies including HTML5/ XHTML/ XML/ CSS2/CSS3 / JavaScript / JS DOM /HTML DOM, YUI, JQUERY, & WAI as needed.
• Responsible for server side Integrating /development /upgrading and prototyping utilized various API (Bootstrap, Twitter API, Flicker, Google Maps, Implemented Web 2.0 technologies.
• Responsible for leading UX/UI/Web Accessibility development and implement UI /Web Accessibility Standard WCAG /508 standards and guidelines for Healthcare Related websites. based on analysis of applications and sites . Utilized various tools to test identify for validation and testing
• Built functional prototypes to ensure all business and user requirements were identified accurately and handled appropriately. Continuously improved the effectiveness of content, design, and technology used, through usability testing, collaboration and comprehensive knowledge of application development.

Confidential, NEWARK, NJ

Sr. Front End Developer

Responsibilities:

• Develop User Interface templates, prototypes/wireframes using Tableless layouts and following W3C standards. Design and program back-end and front end functionality using web technologies including HTML5/ XHTML/ XML/ CSS/CSS3 / JavaScript / JS DOM /HTML DOM, YUI, JQUERY, & WAI as needed.
• Responsible for implementing new and supporting existing codes in Vignette v7. Use JSTL tags to integrate prototypes and User Interface templates to integrate with Vignette by working closely with Java developers Create Google Search Appliance Front Ends for the Sites created and integrate WebTrend scripts by working closely with the Webtrends team

Confidential

Senior Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed “International Local Loop Access Pricing System Project” (ILLAP) for Confidential -WCOM. The system was designed to track the pricing requests, collect and store data, automate manual input process, provide management reports, route request and /or requestors to the appropriate location and automate status inquiry and the approval coding process through the use of a web browser.
• Designed, developed and automated web based software applications for the “Web Adjustment Tracking Tool (WATT)” which is a user friendly web-enabled application that allows Sales representatives, Account Relations Managers, and National Account Sales Consultants to log in customer credit requests. It will also allow Sales and Operations management to review and approve credit requests, and enable Regional Business Managers and Sales management to generate reports on process turnaround and types and amounts of credits.
• Implementation of a web based application called Confidential EXECUTIVE TRENDING INFORMATION SYSTEM (METIS) which contains data from various systems to provide and end-to-end view of orders, provisioning, and customers for Confidential Business and Mass Markets. METIS provides reporting, data feeds and user reporting environments to support Confidential business needs and objectives. At present, METIS data warehouse is hosted on an Informix database cluster. The Data Marts are hosted on Oracle databases. The objective of the project was to migrate the existing database from Informix to Oracle including migration of all supporting procedures, SQL scripts, and shell scripts to create an integrated environment.