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Senior User Experience Architect Resume

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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

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