• UI/UX Designer/Developer with a passion for both design and development with a strong technical background.
• Compassionate in driving multi - faceted complex solution integrations from concepts, pre-sales to design, development, and implementation.
• Responsible for keeping up-to-date on current research and technology, identifying and pursuing areas for development and training that will enhance job performance, able to conceptualize the learning process.
• Ability to clear roadblocks and hurdles, manage technical and non-technical resources, design and sell solutions to various stakeholders, think out-of-the-box, cultivate partnerships, drive revenue, achieve win-win results, and increase competitive advantage.
• Continuously strive towards a thorough understanding of internationalization, localization, globalization, and accessibility.
• In-depth knowledge of Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act rules and procedures to ensure effective communication with individuals with disabilities.
• Extremely detail oriented, self-motivated, disciplined with an eye for detail and can put ideas into a tangible form.
• Proficient with HTML5, (RWD/AWD) Responsive / Adaptive Web Design, (SP) Single page application, CSS3, Bootstrap, LESS, SASS, ngGrid, MVC, Visual Studio 2013, Axure, Photoshop suite, Web 2.0 standards, W3C standards, DOM architectures and libraries, cross-browser compatibility issues.
• Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act compliant, JAWS screen reader program
• Skilled using TFS, JIRA, Team Explorer, Policy Tester, RSS, HP Quality Center.
• Comfortable using JavaScript MVC frameworks (AngularJS, Backbone, JQuery, Kendo UI, Widgets and related libraries), Perl, CGI, UNIX, Linux, VI, SSL, XSL, XML, and XHTML.
• Experienced working in a Waterfall, Agile/Scrum methodologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Lead UX Designer/Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a Manager leading, mentoring, developing, recruiting and retaining high quality resources and subject matter experts on team.
• Lead meetings with clients and key stakeholders to gather requirements, analyze, finalize and have formal sign-offs from approvers.
• Manage teamwork slate to ensure timely delivery of artifacts on agreed timelines.
• Interact with Technology senior management committees and provide status, risk/issues reporting.
• Create responsive web designs both internal and external for a small startup company using technologies like AngularJS, HTML5, CSS/CSS3 and other web technologies.
• Produce high quality UI code while adhering to standard coding practices for UI, security, performance and scalability.

Confidential, Oklahoma City, OK

Sr. Multi-Platform UX Application Designer/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with front-end and back-end engineers, product managers, UI Development Teams and customers to design, prototype, and develop a next-generation single page (SP) application.
• Provide User Interface (UI) development for business applications and reports in a variety of form-factors (web, responsive web).
• Participate in daily SCRUM/Agile meetings to discuss the progress, impediments and any roadblocks of project.
• Use cutting-edge web technologies such as AngularJS, Bootstrap, ngGrid, HTML5, LESS, SASS, CSS/CSS3 and Axure to define innovative user interfaces and interaction models that result in improved user productivity and operational efficiency.
• Help establish a clear, user-centric design vision and direction across mobile, desktop, web and dedicated endpoints.
• Analyze the current web application and create a new direction for the web and mobile applications.
• Gather requirements from the sales team to understand which capabilities need to integrate with Salesforce and Outlook.
• Develop wireframes, interaction models, information architecture, quick prototypes, and design specs.
• Collaborate closely with product management to iterate on designs based on user feedback, tech constraints, and market dynamics.
• Create the mockups and design flows for SFDC workflow process.
• Implement visual designs, interactive web and mobile elements with well thought-out UI and code design using AngularJS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, HTML, and CSS/LESS.

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Sr. UX Application Designer/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with key stakeholders to communicate design strategy and rationale.
• Work in cross-functional teams to plan, prioritize, and deliver information to support the complete user experience of the customer.
• Design look and feel for the new Confidential Customer Service portal; create all JavaScript, graphics / HTML templates.
• Work in web application development technologies; HTML/CSS/DHTML, JavaScript, Flash, and Ajax
• Educate internal teams on best practices around information architecture, interaction and visual designs, usability and supporting technologies.
• Responsible for analysis, development, implementation and bug fixing for assigned work items as a team member
• Track application change requests, enhancements and bug fixes and participate in the change control and versioning process.
• Participate in weekly meetings to discuss the progress and impediments of project.
• Lead the team through large projects full life cycle including kickoff, strategy, documentation, technical delivery, and quality assurance.
• Identify and mitigate risks early in the project lifestyle to ensure a successful product launch.

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Sr. UX Designer/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Design the new corporate look and feel while working closely with key stakeholders to communicate design strategy and rationale.
• Develop using JavaScript, Dreamweaver, Photoshop CS6, HTML, XML, XST, and XHTML.
• Engage in outside-the-box thinking to provide high value-of-service to clients.
• Build professional Web sites for Confidential using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks.
• Designing / developing new master pages, page layouts, web modules, navigation, and menus using HTML, CSS, and Photoshop.
• Adhere to accessibility standards using WCAG / Section 508 / ADA regulations.
• Check and compare individual pages for either Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act or WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) errors.
• Analyzed web usage statistics, highlight key trends, emerging issues and critical insights that may risk lost revenue and poor usability.
• Produce high quality UI code while adhering to Standard coding practices for UI, security, performance and scalability.

Confidential, Alameda, CA

Sr. .NET UX Designer/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Work with business groups to quick-grasp concepts, mock-up prototypes and visual interfaces.
• Work closely with the development team to integrate Web Forms with the Corporate Site.
• Substantial programming used HTML, CSS, XML, XSLT and JavaScript with thorough understanding of cross-browser compatibility.
• ASP.NET, Master page layout design, Visual Studio 2008, and jQuery.
• Build professional web sites using HTML, XML, ASP, and ASP.NET framework 3.0, JavaScript, VB and CSS.
• Responsible for the day-to-day management of HR web sites which includes managing content updates for existing sites, construction of new web pages/sites, ensuring quality control, and implementing all web maintenance procedures and standards such as archival processes, file naming conventions, branding and coding standards, legal and compliance requirements; troubleshoot and fix bugs on HR web sites.
• This includes international as well as Career web sites.
• Serve as emergency contact for off-hours publishing needs or outages for HR web sites. Develop global web solutions to optimize web team's efficiency.

Confidential, E-Commerce − Sapphire Technologies (contract) − Remote

Sr. UX Designer/Developer Oct 2006 - Jul 2008

Responsibilities:

• Confirm pages were accessible, usable and compliant to Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative).
• Worked with JAWS screen reader program as well as other tools to ensure the pages was accessible for the disabled.
• Develop both English and Spanish sites ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) compliant, which meet the W3C compatibility standards and web accessibility.
• Site / page design, rapid prototyping, templates, graphic creation / optimization, and extensive browser testing. Using HP Quality Center, worked with QA testers, programmers on bug tracking and component failures.
• Translated and launched the new Spanish online banking Web site for global markets quickly, effectively and with reduced risk and cost.
• Created visual representations ranging from wireframes to dynamic HTML prototypes of a Web site; performed usability tests on wireframes and/or dynamic HTML prototypes as necessary during the iterative development of the Web site; developed wireframes in support of use case development style sheets and user interface HTML code for java -based web applications.
• Coordinated closely with upper management, front-end and back-end engineers, product managers, and customers to design, prototype, and develop cutting-edge applications.
• Application design, rapid prototyping and build templates using ASP/XHTML/CSS code development, graphic creation / optimization, and extensive browser testing.

Confidential

Sr. UX Designer/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Recommended improvements in process, and identify opportunities for additional expertise and training. Develop and maintain web site usage statistics for a business-critical e-commerce application. Basic job functions included formatting web server logs, nightly management of log files, parsing the log files into a database, creation of standing reports for business users. Create custom logs and reports as well.
• Redesigned websites look and feel while providing UI design consultation from initiation to completion. Design logos, brochures, as well as all marketing pieces to align with the new corporate identity. Guaranteed the website delivered was fully compliant with each applicable guideline specified in Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations.
• Texas Section American Water Works Association -- Remote
• Redesigned websites look and feel while providing UI design consultation. Liaise with third party providers and co-branded web sites to ensure technical, functional and branding integrity.
• Responsibilities included all aspects of the user experience including, planning, user research and requirements, information architecture, wire framing, visual design and interfacing with development team for web based applications.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Web Services Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a large development team in a highly diversified; changing environment. Identified, coordinated and integrated the activities of multi-disciplined teams. Developed programs, projects, budgeted, planned and designed, scheduled, resolved conflicts, adhere to contracts, SLAs, SOWs, managed risks, and executed full life cycle projects within budget and schedule.
• Primary liaison between Web team, IT, Marketing, Support, third party vendors and technology providers; continued to stay abreast of industry and usability best practices and technology improvements.
• Designed user interface workflow, wire frames, storyboards, and created the user interface specification for the Support Web sites SSO project.
• Lead the Web team through large project's full life cycle including kickoff, strategy, documentation, technical delivery, and quality assurance identify and mitigate risks early in the project lifestyle to ensure a successful product launch.
• Designed the user interfaces for all sites including international sites (APAC, CALA and EMEA).
• Designed and implemented the user interfaces for all customer and partner facing Web sites including international and support sites.
• Interfaced closely with upper management, product managers, and customers to design, prototype, and develop cutting-edge applications.
• Designed user interface workflow, wire frames, storyboards, and created the user interface specification while building a rapid prototype. Built and develop scripts using Perl.
• Received several Outstanding Performance Awards
• Primary liaison between Web team, IT and third party Web and technology providers; continued to stay abreast of industry and usability best practices and technology improvements.
• Responsibilities included Web site administration, Web site management, verification of web-content, navigation, links, and scripts, developed tools to automate the process and the day-to-day management of amd.com including all international Web sites.