Senior User Experience Architect Resume
Chicago, IL
SUMMARY:
- I am a User Experience Architect with several years of experience. In my current role with Confidential, I create user scenarios and task flows. I then synthesize observations and stakeholder input into wireframes and other deliverables.
- I have developed a wide variety of mobile and desktop prototypes for all types of iterative testing.
- While at Motorola and Confidential, I carried out a number of initiatives, including: HTML and CSS Development, wireframing, data analysis and strategic initiatives.
- As a well - versed User Experience Architect, I would be a great addition to your organization.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Software: Axure, Balsamiq, UserZoom, Adobe CS, Microsoft Office
Research: Surveys, interviews, personas, scenarios, user requirements, field visits
Prototyping & Concepting: Sketches, storyboards, wireframes, interactive prototypes, site maps, process flows, Axshare
Evaluation: Heuristic evaluation, competitive analysis, summative and formative usability testing
Development: HTML, CSS, JQuery, responsive frameworks
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Chicago, IL
Senior User Experience Architect
Responsibilities:
- Worked as an integral member of a multi-disciplinary team that included the business requirements team, user experience team, development, functional design team and testing team.
- Created user scenarios and task flows and conducted story mapping sessions for use in prioritizing features
- Conducted remote and in person user testing to validate proposed product direction
- Created high fidelity prototypes that were presented to product development team to communicate and foster a shared understanding of product direction for release cycle
- Produced documentation for distribution to development partners
- Conducted in-depth competitor research
- Rationalized product offerings and customizations into a codex of standardized interaction patterns
- Participated various practice improvement initiatives
Confidential, Chicago, IL
UX & UI Developer
Responsibilities:
- Principle UX UI practitioner tasked with redesigning a unique ecommerce platform
- Facilitated discussions with developers and stakeholders
- Architected a responsive adaptive templates for multiple transactional flows
- Presented research findings and design recommendations to executive sponsors
- Conceptualized ideas into wireframes and task flows
- Working with client managers to ‘bridge the communication gap’ between User Experience and traditional development and I.T. resources.
Confidential, Chicago, IL
UX UI Developer
Responsibilities:
- Agile Scrum member responsible for evangelizing UX concerns
- Translated business requirements and visual comps into responsive brand accurate HTML and CSS
- Architected user flows for integration with the Demandware platform
Confidential, IL
UI Designer
Responsibilities:
- Prepare visual assets and comps of proposed Interfaces.
- Produce high fidelity deliverables in the form of wireframes
- Conduct competitive research and draft reports
- Use of analytic tools to research user goals
- Generate non-technical business development and promotional materials, often including multi-media.
Confidential
UX Contractor
Responsibilities:
- Conducted heuristic evaluations and competitive analyses for client sites to identify existing challenges and opportunities for improvement
- Assisted in research brainstorming and affinity diagramming sessions to generate ideas
- Contribute to new business pitches
Confidential
UX Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Created deliverables, such as site maps and process flows, as part of the current state evaluations of external client-facing portals and partner sites in order to identify problems and plan a research strategy
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate Student learning by lecturing and demonstrating Adobe CS
- Act as a liaison with our community’s not-for-profit organizations to engage students in projects work
- Assist the Dean and the Department Chair in curriculum development
Confidential
C.E.O & Founder
Responsibilities:
- Develop business plans and a marketing strategy
- Research and Identify potential users
- Designed product offerings
- Recruit and manage staff
Confidential
Operations Manager
Responsibilities:
- Worked within process-heavy environment to maximize returns on legacy tools and technologies without requiring additional investment or development resources
- Oversaw the conversion from a silver based process to a digital workflow
- Architected multi-media viewing experience to funnel users in to an ecommerce flow
- Designed and conceived of new product experiences