SUMMARY

• As an interactive designer I focus on all aspects of visual design, with the goal of creating intuitive layouts and user interfaces.
• In addition, I design user experience documents and develop specifications based on requirements and testing.
• As a developer I build front - end functionality using semantic, scalable code with accessibility and compatibility in mind.
• Languages: X/HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM Scripting, jQuery.
• Programs: Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, DreamWeaver; Omnigraffle, Axure RP Pro, Visio, PowerPoint; Final Cut Pro.
• Visual design including layout/UI, hierarchy, typography, color theory, patterns and asset production for web and mobile apps.
• Concept development and design ideation.
• Turning business requirements and complex interactions into intuitive user interfaces while considering the effect of design decisions on overall application.
• UX and interaction design experience creating annotated wireframes, task flows, site architecture diagrams and prototypes.
• Understanding of heuristic evaluation methods and cognitive walkthroughs.
• Presenting and defending design decisions and UX deliverables to a team and implementing feedback.
• Working alongside front and back end developers.
• Writing clear, semantic code to create user-friendly front-end experiences as well as prototypes.
• Application of progressive enhancement and graceful degradation principles.
• Basics of performance considerations: jsPerf, minification.
• Familiar with testing, debugging and editing tools such as Firebug, Web Inspector, jsFiddle.
• Cross-browser compatibility tools and methods: VMWare Fusion, IE Tester, BrowserShots, etc., object detection.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Newport, NJ

Senior UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Senior UX Designer for J.P. Morgan’s global treasury management portal (ACCESS) built to facilitate transfers, transactions, and manage FX and liquidity for corporations and other banks.
• Solely responsible for UX re-design of the FX Vertical for the application.
• Designed for desktop, tablet and mobile.
• Style Guide Manager for entire ACCESS UX Design Group. Updated and maintained Style Guide used by the UX group and developers. Produced UI comps of modular components and provided guidance for implementation by the development teams.
• Ensured component styles were compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act.
• Point of contact between UX design team, development teams and UX Patterns Manager.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Senior UX Designer of financial services platform for the Confidential Group of Companies. The new platform delivers complete front-to-back financial services.
• Developed and integrated UX solutions for CITCOne’s variety of specific offerings, such as fund accounting, portfolio capture, investment relations services and position monitoring among others, as well as for different clients such as hedge funds, private equity firms, real estate firms, institutional banks and private companies.
• Senior UX Designer for Confidential ’s Radius Fitness, a subscription digital video service.
• Conceptualized the guiding principles of the UX solution for the mechanism used to give users a prescriptive journey through a curated selection of fitness programs based on their selected fitness goals.
• Utilized discovery phase information to define relevant personas and describe user flows.
• Explored and articulated solutions at the conceptual, strategic and detail phases of the design process.
• Designed experience for iOS and Android and tablet devices.

Confidential - New York, NY

Senior UX Designer/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Sole UX/UI designer responsible for defining a universal style guide applied across six separate applications used by the Strategy and Planning Group of the Confidential .
• Produced design solutions from wireframes to final mockups. Designed branding and corporate identity artifacts.
• Developed (HTML, CSS, JQuery) a web-based style guide to augment the customary document deliverable.
• The stand-alone style guide website contains code samples, use cases, branding guidelines, annotations, as well as built-in prototypes.
• Developed (HTML, CSS, JQuery) additional sample pages, within the Visual Studio environment, containing all possible major application modules styled appropriately, using one CSS page per respective module, in order to further simplify the implementation and customization work of the development team.
• Introduced, designed and coded Responsive Design Solutions to be applied across the applications.
• Worked in tandem with developers towards the .NET integration of markup, the application of the created style guides, as well as towards ensuring browser compatibility (IE 7 through IE 10).
• Led the creation - from the UX design to the implemented, coded final product (HTML, CSS, JQuery) - of a “Hub Portal”, a single location that points users to the group’s six main applications.
• The Strategy and Planning Group is an Agile environment.

Confidential, New York, NY

UI/UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Sole UX/UI designer responsible for redesign of Deal Management Section of Corporate “Control Room” Compliance application, used globally.
• Implemented information architecture and information design solutions for large amounts of data, with a focus on enhancing usability while adhering to the data-handling guidelines of various financial processes.
• Explored and defined enhancements and fixes through conceptual wireframes, user-flows and comprehensive mockups.
• Solely responsible for front-end development (HTML and CSS).
• Worked with business and onshore/offshore development groups through all the phases of the development lifecycle to obtain, interpret and balance user, business and technology needs.
• Worked side by side with development team to ensure smooth .NET integration of markup, browser compatibility (IE 7 & IE 9), as well as application of created style guides.
• Responsible for the design and front-end development (HTML and CSS) of a “Transaction Entry and Monitoring System (T.E.A.M.S.)” client-facing portal. Though limited in functional scope, its intended users are bankers throughout the country. Project is currently on hold.

Confidential, New York, NY

Mobile UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Engaged to develop and articulate UX guidelines for modular, adaptable and scalable platform that served as encompassing design framework for customizable iOS and Android apps and responsive websites.
• Articulated solutions informed by iOS and Android UX best practices, design strategies and target industry research.
• Worked closely with owners in start-up environment. Balanced critical business needs and client conversion strategies with innovative and up-to-date UX design principles.
• Collaborated with UI designer to ensure customized iterations deployed for clients utilized the unifying, brand-specific UX specifications.

Confidential, New York, NY

Interactive Designer/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for interactive web and UI design.
• Produced visual designs and mockups for iOS and Android apps.
• Designed wireframe documents that include functionality annotations.
• Defined web experiences through sitemaps, user-flows.
• Created interactive prototypes.
• Wrote standards-compliant, semantic XHTML/HTML and CSS.
• Implemented responsive design solutions using fluid grid and media queries.
• Front-end development using JavaScript techniques including both DOM Scripting and working with jQuery.
• Used jQuery plug-ins, jQuery UI.

Confidential, Garden City, NY

Web Designer/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of web design and user experience design.
• Translated Photoshop mockups into hand-coded HTML, CSS.
• Collaborated with front-end developers.
• Built accessible, user-friendly front-end experiences using JavaScript and jQuery plug-ins.