Ui/ux Architect (specialist) Resume
Albany, NY
SUMMARY
- Over 7+ Years of experience as a front - end web development / UI architecture, includes interaction design and development, wif major digital agencies.
- In-depth experience wif broad skill set including hi and low fidelity wireframes, user testing and analysis, task flows, story boarding, prototyping, competitive analyses, quantitative surveys,point of view documents, stakeholder interviews, strategic planning and best practice recommendations from a usability/user experience perspective.
- Highly focused on current standards, best practices, design patterns, performance, human factors, code quality, open source languages and tools, and agile development, end-to-end web programming, implementing web applications on MVC frameworks, high performance client-side engineering.
- Proficient wif enterprise software and non-profit sectors, UI component architecture, app APIs and integration.
- Hands on expertise skills include functional programming in JavaScript, front-end design patterns, managing technology, mentoring junior devs, solving difficult UI problems, enterprise grade code quality, Cloud based, SAAS platforms and applications, UI component architecture, cross-frame mashups.
- Expertise in mobile, and web-based software application interfaces to improve user comprehension and satisfaction, facilitate task completion, and provide intuitive access across all device types.
- Involved in teh planning and architecture of new projects - working wif business and development teams to design appropriate solutions.
- Specialized in primarily layout, navigation, style, art, code, and content for mobile content, mobile applications, fluid, responsive, and fixed site layouts, traditional web sites, and web-based applications, Axure framewok.
- Familiar wif ecommerce concepts and technologies, developing technology and applications. Experience working on Grunt.js, Node.js.
- In-depth noledge of, and real world practical experience applying, industry standards and best practices to process, layout, and code - including 508, ADA, EIT, etc.
- Supported/install/troubleshoot software and hardware, resolve Internet-related issues.
- Detail oriented wif a proven ability to multitask. Effective organization, time management, prioritization, follow-up and follow-through skills.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Software Methodology: Agile, Waterfall, RUP, Scrum
Languages: HTML,HTML5, CSS3, CSS, UML, SQL, XML
Script: JavaScript, jQuery, JSON
Database: Oracle 10g/9i/8i, IBM DB2, MS SQL Server
Graphic Editors: Adobe Photoshop CS4/CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, SVN Eclipse, Macromedia SharePoint, FrontPage
Web Servers: IIS, Apache HTTP, Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic
Version Controls: SVN, TFS, CVS, GIT
IDE/Editor: Notepad++, SVN Eclipse, IntelliJ, MS FrontPage, UltraEdit
Bug Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, JIRA, Service Now
Platforms: Windows, UNIX, Linux
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Albany,NY
UI/UX Architect (Specialist)
Responsibilities:
- Modifying table based layouts to render via HTML5/CSS3
- Updating templates to leverage modern rendering technology
- Teh previous framework was azure so we had to move it to bootstrap.
- Updating forms to use HTML5 compliant controls while continuing to adhere to Section 508 accessibility standards
- Architecting, designing, and developing teh overall user experience and user interfaces for progressive, world-class responsive web and mobile applications.
- Review and analyze teh effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems, recommend ways to improve existing sites, prototype new systems, develop and document strategies to enhance business processes, operations, and information process flow.
- Identify and resolve web site-related issues, areas for improvement, review and cleanup of ASP.Net UI code.
- Used tools such as firebug, web developer tools for debugging and correcting errors.
- Checking issues wif backend code and resolving issue in user testing.
Confidential, Waltham,MA
UI/UX Designer/Developer (Consultant)
Responsibilities:
- Architecting, designing, and developing teh overall user experience and user interfaces for progressive, world-class responsive web and mobile applications.
- Redesign of legacy software/web/mobile user interfaces to facilitate intuitive interaction and improve presentation of information to a variety of users while speeding up teh workflow.
- Review and analyze teh effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems, recommend ways to improve existing sites, prototype new systems, develop and document strategies to enhance business processes, operations, and information process flow.
- Improve Business web presence - increase traffic, improve load times, increase usability and accessibility, as well as search engine optimization, clean up code, etc.
- Responsible for designing innovative experiences for media/imaging applications for current and next generation mobile phones and tablets.
- Troubleshooting and resolving general site and reporting problems, multivariate testing for ecommerce sites.
- Identify and resolve web site-related issues, areas for improvement, review and cleanup of ASP.Net UI code.
- Design and develop UI for new functionality in teh storefront, create wireframes, process flows, site architecture, personas, visual design and front end development.
- Assist project delivery team to move from prototype into production code, suggest innovative ideas and enhancements dat meet business and user needs.
- Improved load times by optimizing code, added pages dat allow visitors to sign up for teh e-mail newsletter, calendar of events, and cross-referenced both sites.
- Designed and coded a JSP-based user registration system for an online auction service.
Environment: HTML, HTML5, DHTML, XSL, SVN, CSS3, JQuery, JavaScript, Adobe JSP, Photoshop.
Confidential, San Jose, CA
UI Architect / UX Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for UI engineering team technical leadership and strategic direction.
- Recommended and currently guiding teh team in building out a lean, responsive UI layer utilizing semantic html5, SASS, Bootstrap, AngularJS, and REST API architecture.
- Front-end architecture and engineering social application platform.
- Responsible for track on technologies stack includes AngularJS, Backbone.js, jQuery, Underscore.js, LESS, Ruby / Rails, Java, MySQL, Cassandra.
- Responsible for technical direction and leadership, performance optimization, implementation of best practices and optimal design patterns, and solutions for critical problems of UI/UX issues.
- Guidelines for junior to senior level front-end developers, design and QA departments to ensure technical success of teh product.
- Working wif insurance provider clients to design and implement customized portals for their members.
- Worked closely wif teh programming staff to create a utility dat automatically linked teh help system to teh software.
- Integrated wif teh back-end code (JSP) using JQUERY, JSON and AJAX to get and post teh data to backend servers.
- Responsible to design teh browser compatible pages using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and JQuery.
- Used tools such as firebug, web developer tools for debugging and correcting errors.
Environment: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery,Dojo,React.js, Eclipse, JSP, AJAX, JSON, SVN, Java Script, SQL Reporting Services, SQL Server 2005 and Windows XP.
Confidential, Pittsburg,PA
UI/UX Specialist (Information Architect | Web Designer)
Responsibilities:
- Developing business, project management, and development teams to design, enhance, and optimize existing and new functionality for internal, web-based clinical patient management applications, member portal, and mobile applications.
- Subject Matter Expertise analyze UI performance, gaps, and opportunities for reduce click counts while ensuring dat teh visual design works well in multiple environments and across an integrated application ecosystem (mobile and web contexts).
- Design visually rich, user-friendly interfaces for traditional web applications, mobile solutions, and responsive designs dat scale across multiple product lines, product design process through all phases of teh product lifecycle and applications.
- Deliverables included task flows and wireframes site maps, interactive demos, and page prototypes as needed (web and mobile).
- Design and manage work and process flow documents for all internal and externally facing applications.
- Develop HTML5/CSS3 and find/modify JavaScript and jQuery code for files to be used by front and back-end developers.
- Assisted wif teh testing of new and enhanced application functionality.
- Proficient wif usability, accessibility, find ability, and other user-centered design best practices to be incorporated into teh applications/sites.
- Track/research developments/best practices in new technology (mobile development, tablet/mobile device technology, etc.), and UX concepts.
- Perform usability/accessibility and user satisfaction testing, including paper prototyping test, HTML5/CSS3 prototyping testing, surveys, A/B testing, analytics review, etc.
- Working wif insurance provider clients to design and implement customized portals for their members.
Environment: JDK, IBM WBI ICS 4.3.0.2, WebSphere MQ 5.3, Web services Adapter 3.4.0, JDBC, Dojo, Adapter 2.6.5, Workflow Adapter 2.8, Email Adapter 5.5, Oracle8i.
Confidential
Front End Web Architecture / Development
Responsibilities:
- Worked as a UI Designer/Developer for a payment processing start-up.
- Projects included design and coding of teh corporate website built in XHTML, DHTML, CSS and Flash.
- Responsible for all aspects of user interaction design from initial design proposals, wireframe mockups, design comps, implementation, testing and style guides.
- UX Lead for a flash-based image management application.
- Designed and coded teh user subscription JSP pages.
- Comprehensive website performance optimizations & improvement to load event for landing page.
- Responsible for transforming design mock-ups to W3C standards compliant HTML pages using HTML, XHTML, CSS.
- Developed code to call teh web service/APIs to fetch teh data and populate on teh UI using JQUERY/AJAX.
- End-to-end web application development, architecture and project management, data capture, 3rd party application, social media integration, JavaScript / AJAX UI upgrades and improvements.
- Participated in day-to-day meeting, status meeting, strong reporting and effective communication wif project manager and developers.
- Used JavaScript libraries to create slider and page-turning animations on calendar widgets.
Environment: HTML, XML, DHTML, MS-Visual studio, CSS, MYSQL Server 5.0, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Eclipse, JSP, AJAX,Adobe Photoshop and Windows XP.
Confidential
Web Designer/Developer
Responsibilities:
- Employed as an interface and backend developer, PHP and MySQL.
- Designing and producing proposals, charts, presentations, direct mail pieces, slides, document covers, brochures, information packets, etc. for company and client use.
- Designed and edited software user manuals, online help, and user interfaces.
- Created an online logo library dat everyone in teh company could access, established and maintained standardized presentation templates, worked wif technical staff to improve network print times.
- Proficient experienced &noledge of new technology to solve problems stemming from time and budget constraints.
- Evaluated developments in software/hardware, tested, and made recommendations.
- Performed system/software research, installation, and troubleshooting.
- Coordinated interactions wif third-party software support staffs.
- Provide reference and user manuals, installation guides, release notes, online help, training procedures, supplements, addenda, quick reference cards, developer’s worksheets, and order forms.
- Responsible for page design, photo layouts, proofreading, editing, graphic design, creation and maintenance of style sheets, and user interface testing.
Environment: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Tomcat Apache, JQuery, JSP, Oracle, AJAX, SVN, Windows XP/NT/2000/2003, My SQL 2000
