SUMMARY:

Product Designer / Usability Researcher/ Human Factors Designer/User Interaction and Experience Researcher/ with more than 7+ years of design experience, research and evaluation seeking a challenging opportunity in a stimulating, creative professional environment.

AREA OF MY EXPERTISE:

Product Development, 3D Visualization, GUI Design, User Experience/Interaction, Human - Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Design Innovation and Strategy, R & D, Brand Management, Web and Mobile devices, Augmented Reality, Toy Design, Games Design, Graphic Design, Design Research, Usability Testing, Heuristic Evaluation, Color & Trend Analysis, Packaging Design Innovation, Housewares Design, Gerontology and Design.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

NOLDUS XT: Observer research, CAD, Rhinoceros4, InDesign CS6, Photoshop CS6, Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Adobe Frame Maker®, CAD (NX 7.5), Arbortext® IsoDraw®, Esko ARTIOS Cad, Solidworks, Autodesk 3ds Max 2010, Keyshot, V-ray, Flamingo, AXURE, Universal Typography, GD@T, ANSI Y14.5, TOPS Pro, Cost & Feasibility Tools, Job Manager/Virtual Ticket, Windows XP Vista, Mac OSX, Microsoft Office suite, Excel, Power Point.

Workshop: CNC router, laser cut, Kongsberg XL-24 cutting table, 3D printer, FDM model prototyping, ABS robust plastic, table saw, band saw, drill press, belt sander, tool shop, measuring equipment, blue and sand foam modeling, sketching, and prototyping.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New Bremen, OH

UX/UI Designer

Responsibilities:

• Research of existing products and services, competitors market analysis, social enterprises
• Create and maintain service and parts information, miscellaneous technical information as assigned
• Maintain cohesive style guides to ensure a consistent design language is used throughout each product
• Used user interface design patterns and standard UCD methodologies, infographics, data visualization
• Collaborate with the translators, engineers, account managers, sales managers
• Evaluate engineering change notices, bills of material, intranet request forms, and vendor information to create new parts pages, electrical schematic diagrams and label/decals
• Recommendations, update information on reference guides WCAG (ADA Compliance)
• Create and edit text, art, lay-outs of training modules and other technical information using multiple software applications (UX7.5CAD, ISO Draw, UX Framework, Power Point.)

Confidential, Mason, OH

Product Designer

Responsibilities:

• Create Confidential Display’s reliable, high-performance, attractive products from the design phase through the manufacturing process for clients Procter&Gamble and Kroger
• Collaborate with the clients, stockers, account managers, art director
• Apply new technologies and methods, check and define fit, form, and function of each part, UX design and conduct usability testing, cost and feasibility tools, perform design calculations (CW&M), Planogram, pallet layouts
• Write user-centered retail instructions and assembly instructions
• Prepare new or existing POP design drawings as necessary including CAD, PowerPoint
• Structural design, rendering (Adobe in Design, Photoshop, Autodesk 3DMax, Artios CAD)
• Products simulation in 3D environment;
• Responsible for the design-specific files: Bill of Materials documentation and proof reading

Confidential, Providence, RI

Product Designer

Responsibilities:

• UI games design projects R2D2, JENGA, Angry Birds catcher device, research, ideation, prototyping and total product design realization process, including teenagers needs analysis
• Produce prototypes, usability testing, and card sorting
• Measure and iterate design on user experience behavior analysis
• UX design and conduct usability testing
• Measure real world usage and continuously improve product
• Work collaboratively as part of a product management and development teams
• Augmented Reality and apps, gesture recognition technologies, wire framing prototypes (Visio, InDesign tools),
• 3D modeling design and rendering, engineering documentation, manufacturability assessment and sampling, promotional campaign development
• Series of the milestones oral presentations to the designers, managers and marketers.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Lead Product Designer/ Researcher

Responsibilities:

• Total product realization process, including customer’s needs analysis, metrix and research
• Compare and contrast modern design language trends
• Develop usability goals and objectives
• Produce and manage user personas
• Document UX scenarios
• Create design specifications, UX standards and matrix tables
• Produce prototypes
• 3D product design development
• Engineering, check usability testing, prototyping, manufacturability assessment, sampling
• Marketing plan development and promotion concepts, PowerPoint milestones presentations to the stakholders

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

UX Design Researcher Lead

Responsibilities:

• My responsibilities were to count the pedestrian traffic (include children’s, bicyclists, bus passengers, segways users) and conducting a pedestrian study in designated zones of the central business districts.
• I used an intersection count box DB-400 and standard screen line count form for each increments of 15-minutes interval.
• Research-project conducting a pedestrian study in designated zones of the central business districts
• UX behavior patterns and problem solving solutions concepts for potential retails and businesses
• Pedestrian interviews, heuristic evaluations, task analysis

Confidential, Chesapeake, VA

Product Design Researcher contractor

Responsibilities:

• field trips, data entry, conducting research observations of the recycling equipment design improvements, final design project delivery usability studies on enterprise communication and collaboration products

Confidential, Hampton, VA

UI/ User Interface Designer freelancer

Responsibilities:

• eLearning UX design, style guides, web page layout, designing web buttons
• Information Architecture, creating user flows conceptual diagrams, wireframes visual mockups, prototypes, responsive design, focus groups utilized e-learner’s scenarios as a framework to clearly articulate existing user experience design problems

Confidential, Wake Forest, NC

UX/ User Experience Designer Intern

Responsibilities:

• Practice modern user centric design process across the entire design lifecycle
• Use real world experience, research, and analysis to solve modern UX design problems
• Participate in the complete agile software development life cycle
• Communicate with user stories, wireframes and prototypes
• Brainstorm design concepts and metaphors
• Develop usability goals and objectives, information architecture
• Conceptual diagrams, wire frames, screen interaction flows for multiple channels mobile, desktops
• Prototypes, pixel perfect visual mock-ups and graphic assets for the Confidential web portal renovation
• Built upon and expanded established style guides and user interface patterns,
• Created world-class, user-centered designs through consideration of market research,
• Business requirements, customer feedback, and usability study findings.
• X-rest shooting bench contextual design development,
• Prototyping, design probe, immersive shop,
• Product approbation, improvements, measurements, test
• Active participation at RTP Product Camp events,
• Run questionnaire and surveys, photo recording, collecting testimonials and feedback