SUMMARY

• Around 10 years of experience in IT Designing and Developing Web applications, Web Analysis, Application Testing, UI development, Performance Tuning and Technical Support, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Design.
• Web Developer/UI/UX/Mobile Designer/Front End Developer with 8+ years of combined experience in the creative, design and technical fields.
• Expert in Visual, Interaction, UI, UX, Mobile, Responsive and Data driven designs. HTML, CSS, jQuery, Browser Troubleshooting, Wire framing.
• Experience in developing applications using Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Have expert ability to code hand - crafted HTML, CSS
• Expert in Responsive Web Design and development, User Experience Design and user interface design
• Expert in mobile user interface designing and front end development
• Expert in Adobe tools (Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator and Dreamweaver)
• Well-versed and up-to-date in Web Design & Web Development standards and best practices
• Strong scripting experience with JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, angular.js
• Strong development experience in Word Press theme development, mid-level Drupal theme experience
• Strong experience using CSS grids & frameworks both fixed and fluid, like bootstrap, 360 grid etc
• Expert in optimizing website by reducing resources with fast loading.
• Strong understanding of Interaction Design, Usability and Navigability
• Experience working with backend languages PHP and ASP.net
• Strong foundation of design principles including: hierarchy, composition, color, layout, balance, harmony, contrast, tone, typography
• Developed page layouts, Navigations and presented designs and concepts to the clients and the management to review.
• Developed simple, usable, attractive and cross-browser web interfaces that account for speed, file size, readability and accessibility.
• Used Polymers in creating web components and developed browser API's to custom HTML elements.
• Developed Single Page Application using UI and angular.
• Strong experience utilizing accessibility, usability and human factors design principles
• Good understanding of SEO, reporting and analytics.
• Good at Documentation on User requirements and System Specifications. Experience in designing Low Level and High Level design documents
• Excellent communication skills, team playing spirit, strong analytical & problem solving abilities, hardworking, self-motivated, attention to details and able to meet aggressive project schedules.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Designing Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, Indesign

Web Technologies: HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, XML

Frameworks: CSS Grid, Bootstrap, 360 grid, Angular.js

Developer Tools: Adobe Dreamweaver, Notepad++, Firebug, Google Developer tools

Web Technologies: XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, JQuery

Web Services: SOAP, REST, WSDL

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Sr. UI/UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Create and deliver a consistent and compelling user experience on external and internal digital properties for the Retirement and Investors division.
• Design elegant interfaces within technical constraints and complex business rules.
• Design effective information architecture structures.
• Create high-level wireframes (whiteboard, paper, Axure and Photoshop) to demonstrate holistic vision.
• Develop high fidelity, highly functional, responsive prototypes using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.
• Use persuasion within design to engage and delight users.
• Collaborate with the business and IT project teams on design and iterate.
• Recent focus has been to convert end-to-end business processes for the ESOP block of business to the record-keeping systems of The Principal. Worked as designer, designing user interfaces and prototypes for a web-based internal
• Using modern web design techniques and languages, I work on a team that develops front end applications for the RIS (Retirement and Investment Services) division of Principal Financial. I use languages ranging from HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript to XML to Java. HTML - Table / Table Less, XHTML, XML, XSLT, CSS, CSS Spirit, Ajax, Object Oriented JavaScript, DHTML, DOM, Jquery, JSON, Advance JavaScript
• Create design and content strategies for specific internal and external web applications.
• Utilize, evolve, and create design principles, web style guide, and design patterns.
• Participate in various steering groups to determine vision and strategy for customer-facing technology.
• Support multiple scrum teams at the program and individual level.

Environment: HTML 4/5, CSS2/3, JavaScript, JQUERY, Bootstrap

Confidential, Washington DC

Sr. UI/UX Developer/Front End Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, Redesign (few) and developed the front end of the all the mentioned website, and making them full responsive.
• Write improved markup, better usability, faster page performance and better visual quality by extending the already defined design system.
• Worked as designer, designing user interfaces and prototypes for a web-based internal system.
• Worked on front-end pages that developed in a professional manner using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQUERY and Angular.
• Developed and implemented user interfaces as per latest W3C standards.
• Developed client side validation code using JavaScript and JQUERY.
• Worked Extensively on WordPress development for the content-based website supporting companies’ verticals and portals, developing complete websites with custom designed themes with additional functionalities and custom plugins development.
• Creating cross-browser compatible and standards-compliant CSS-based page layouts.
• Involved in fixing Front-End issues with the layouts.
• Actively used XML (documents and transformations) for creating templates with dynamic data from XML file.
• Extensively used/modified JQUERY and Angular.js to perform AJAX calls for creating interactive web pages on JSON response.
• Worked with backend developers to convert HTML/CSS non-functional pages into dynamic ASP.net pages.
• Developed cross-browser pages using CSS, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, jQuery and angular.
• Coded pages with best Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques.
• Designed applications that execute on various browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera using various debugging tools like Firebugs/IE Developer Tools.

Environment: HTML 4/5, CSS2/3, JavaScript, JQUERY, AJAX, JSON, XML, Angular, WordPress, .

Confidential, New York, NY

UI Designer/Front End Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed the Web application layout and forms using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Worked with business analysts to understand their business models and goals and help define strategy, content, and features.
• Converted PSD mockups into pure hand-written HTML and CSS pages.
• Handled all the client side validations, slide show, hide and show controls, dropdown menus and tab navigation using JQUERY.
• Responsible for transforming design mock-ups to W3C standards compliant HTML pages using HTML, XHTML, CSS.
• Wrote code to fetch data from Web services using JQUERY AJAX via JSON response and updating the HTML pages.
• Participated in day-to-day meeting, status meeting, strong reporting and effective communication with project manager and developers.
• Participated with SQA team in bug thrashing sessions to discuss and resolve bugs that were reported in JIRE.
• Used JavaScript libraries to create slider and page-turning animations on calendar widgets.
• Designed web pages and used applications that meet business and user goals through a positive user experience.
• Responsible for creating the screens with table less design following W3C standards. Involved in the analysis, design, development, and testing phases of application development

Environment: HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQUERY, AJAX, XML, JSON, SVN and Eclipse

Confidential

Sr. Web Designer

Responsibilities:

• Project coordination between the client and development team. Analyze what the client wants and explain to the development team.
• Visualize the design concept and explain it to the subordinates.
• Usability analysis for web applications and make their designs.
• Documentation, content writing and online help for the web applications
• Creating all the high-level graphical tasks including animation, high-level print media hoardings, interactive flash sites and presentations, slicing and creating HTML for the development team.
• Fulfill all the requirement of the development team regarding or related to graphics and providing them the right thing
• Responsible for creating all the sounds or sentences for the interactive CD’s

Environment: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL and Window XP