UI Designer Resume Profile Boca Raton, FL - Hire IT People

Summary

Confidential is a highly awarded User Experience Architect and Mobile business leader with 15 years of experience delivering remarkable business results to Fortune 500 companies such as Office Depot, Office Max, Walt Disney, Nickelodeon, Best Buy, Remax, ESPN, Land Rover, and Quilmes
His unique value proposition consists of skillfully blending a strong technical acumen, creativity anda solid business mindset.
Vera delivers fast results by masterfully bridging programming teams with the business organizationthanks to his programming expertise and to his strategic business background.
Some of the latest awards and successes he has experienced in his career can be found in the following links:

Professional Background

Confidential

Role: LeadUX Architect / UI Designer

Responsible for the User Experience of all mobile platforms of Office Depot Office Max across B2B and B2C venues.
Accountable for sustained growth in user acquisition and retention of mobile sites and mobile applications spanning from smartphones to tablets.
Designed and implemented a User Experience design and testing competency that drove triple digit revenue growth on mobile apps Android iOS as well as on the company's Mobile Site.
Defined and Articulated Office Depot's UX vision through the creation of style guides, wireframes and prototypes.
Worked closely with Product Managers and Senior Management to align the UX strategy with customer needs and business goals.
Experience with Agile Methodology / Scrum.
Lead and Coordinated Usability Testing with UserTesting.com / Usability Science.
Created prototypes, wireframes, mockups, personas, flow charts and high-fidelity designs for iPhone, Android, Tablets, Re-skinning 3rd party Office Depot Websites, Store Fronts, Shopping Cart, My Account, Dashboards, Subscription, Reorder more...

Confidential

Role: Director e-Commerce Mobile Apps

Direct Reports: 6 Back end Developer, 2 UI Designers, 1 Copy Writer, 2 Graphic Designer, 2 Business Analysts, and 2 UX Architect

Owner of the eCommerce Strategy and Roadmap.
Led the Development, Analytics and Creative teams under an Agile Scrum environment towards delivering highly intuitive, location aware and personalized digital experience across all screens.
Served as liaison with the digital media team to maximize digital marketing efforts and optimize conversion
Secured organic traffic was maximized by focusing on the creation of high quality content and effective monitoring of the quality of code for smart crawling
Designed and Implemented a highly productive Experience Map that allowed for fast results on conversion and a sensitive increase in traffic through the purchasing funnel

Confidential

Role: Senior UX Architect / UI Designer

Developed CSS cross-platform/browser-compatible production-ready solutions in IE6, IE7, IE8. IE9, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.
Built CSS cross-platform/browser solutions and ensure link integrity and overall quality.
Managed testing of finalized sites for stability and work load performance.
Performed media editing and conversion for fusing into site designs.
Built SEO/semantic solutions for client sites to improve the site authority and organic strength.
Managed the design of digital promotional materials for marketing department to increase consumer engagement.

Programming Languages, E-Commerce and CMS

CSS 3, CSS Sprites, DIV, DHTML, XHTML, XML, HTML.
E-Commerce Carts - OS-Commerce, Zen Cart, Pinnacle Cart, Magento Cart, ECWID, WooCommerce, and Open Cart.
CMS / Forum Platforms WordPress, BB Press, Drupal, and phpBB Forum, and Joomla.
Working Knowledge and Code Manipulation of the following Programming Languages
PHP, ASP.NET 3.0, Java, AJAX, Action Script Flash , and Java Script.

Software Knowledge / Windows Mac

Adobe CS6 - Photoshop, Illustrator, Dream Weaver, InDesign, Fire Works, and Flash.
Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio, Outlook.
Operating Systems - Windows and Mac.
Other - Lotus Notes, AS/400, Source Safe, SharePoint, RAD/Web Sphere, Sugar CRM, Trackit, JIRA, Axure 6.5, Scene7, IBM Coremetrics Web Analytics, and GreenHopper.