User Experience (UX) Architect / Designer Resume

SUMMARY:

User Experience Architect wif more TEMPthan 15 years’ experience specializing in user - centered design techniques dat focuses on the continuous involvement of the target user audience.
Extensive work experience ranges from developing innovative product ideas to the detailed design of interaction patterns, while collaborating in multi-functional teams.
User-Centered Design, User Experience (UX) architecture, conceptual design, interaction design, user flows, scenarios, site maps, dialog flows, key wireframes, equal access (European and Canadian accessibility guidelines)
Customer journey maps, scenarios of use wif personas, user stories, user audience wif user groups / personas, user (task) flows
Detailed interaction design for UI elements, mobile, web, and desktop user- interfaces
Layouts for optimal visual communication, data visualization, presenting data in meaningful context
High-turnover conceptual prototypes, Click-through prototypes, High-fidelity prototypes
Assess software usability, web analytics, usability metrics, usability test laboratory, heuristic analysis, requirements gathering, task analysis, questionnaire design, structured interview techniques, walkthroughs, collaborate wif stakeholders, workshops, brainstorming, card sorting
Team work, collaborative design, analyze wif stakeholders
Planning, Time-boxing, simultaneous projects
Documentation, report findings and recommendations, follow up
Design and provide presentations,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

User Experience (UX) Architect / Designer

Responsibilities:

Designed and built a responsive web-based app for finding nearby services in Cusco, Peru.
Did market analysis of product ideas.
Analyzed the competition and identified the strengths/weaknesses and opportunities/threats.
Visited and interviewed potential customers to obtain understanding of the functional requirements from different user groups.
Created rapid prototypes to solicit feedback.
Tested ideas, designs and prototypes wif stakeholders.
Created conceptual and detailed designs, and all graphics.
Built prototype wif jQuery Mobile framework.
Followed agile principals.
Designed and built Content Management System for administration and restaurant owners.
Designed content structure, relational data model, and database.
Designed flexible subscription model wif introduction periods, discounts, late payment penalties, and tracking of mutations.
Designed and built billing system wif automatic statement emailing.

Confidential

Senior UX Designer

Responsibilities:

Maintained a mock-up of a portal for business clients as a Scrum team member in Sketch.
Introduced new methods for documenting business requirements and wireframes in Vision. SBB (government agency for work placements), Netherlands:
Built mobile website (based on bootstrap) wif search and filter functionality. Slim Stock (inventory management), Netherlands:
Redesigned complex application according to a quick wins formula.

Confidential

User Experience Architect

Responsibilities:

Performed a heuristic review of a high-level design.
Created scenarios of use wif personas, documented them wif task flows.
Extended list of requirements together wif the team, based on these task flows.
Designed dialog flows and wireframes for all main personas.
Conducted verification (walkthroughs, unit tests).
Acted as the team lead for development.
Organized and led three different projects over the years, wif the purpose of expanding the functionality according to the changing needs of the organization.
Designed and created a CMS dat uses Word Press as a framework.
Designed and created an SQL database. JAAP.NL, Netherlands:
Performed a heuristic review of a real estate website
Communicated results and quick wins recommendations. MDS Analytical Technologies, Vaughan ON, Canada:
Developed UI component guidelines based on Windows Presentation Foundation.
Created a plan to expand the guidelines and obtain buy-in from the organization based on user testing.

Confidential

User Experience Architect

Responsibilities:

Through task analysis and in-depth interviews formulated new methods to be used in proteomics research.
Created user scenarios, personas, and task diagrams and verified these wif members of the target audience (biologists, physicists).
Built conceptual models, high-level designs and navigational models, and wireframes.
Performed walkthroughs.
Introduced new ways of task modelling and created Visio templates and stencils for facilitation, which got included into company standards.
Collaborated in a geographically dispersed team.

Confidential

Usability Specialist, Team Lead

Responsibilities:

Collected requirements and created wireframes in time for implementation sprints.
Determined backlog in cooperation wif Product Manager and Development Manager.
Led a client development team during a customization project of a webmail product for a specific customer.
Ensured customer requirements were understood and scope was agreed on.