SUMMARY:

• Experienced in wire framing, user interface experience/design, UX design personas, and have coordinated internet content for companies’ deploying efficient communications solutions that drive sales growth, while developing strategic PR opportunities with key accounts.
• Experienced in corporate communications within the ITdepartment, and have worked with Directors of marketing and marketing analysts to evaluate agency recommendations, media effectiveness, and comprehensive reporting, for over 17 years.
• User experience (UX) strategy
• User centric design
• Cross browser development
• Cross device development
• User interface design
• SEO / SEM / PPC
• Balsamiq prototyping,
• Taxonomy
• Topography mapping
• Style guides
• Responsive design
• Mobile technology

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skill sets: jQuery UI Axure RP 7.0 HTML5, DHTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSL, XSLT, 2.0 net Markup languages to help navigate GUI environments and web services Wordpress, MVC, Magento Jira, BitBucket, Confluence, Source Tree, Version one, TeamPulse Adobe Creative Suite 5.5, Macromedia, SwishMax, Flash, Microsoft Office tools, Lotus R5 CS5.5 Dreamweaver, PhotoshopCS5.5 QuarkXpress6.5, Notepad++, InDesign CSV,SVN, Source Safe, Source Offsite Foundation JS Library SAP Net Weaver CMS, EFI CMS, Microsoft Visual Studios, Websphere Microsoft Share Point 2013

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Mount Prospect, IL

UI Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining of core applications while migrating from Oracle to a Microsoft platform.
• Collaborating with developers, project managers, business analysts and business users in conceptualizing, estimating and developing UI responsive enhancements.Recommend business process work flow improvements and clearly communicated problem/resolutions to project management as well as analyzing user requests and assisting with design activities.
• Bootstrap JS 3.3
• HTML5
• CSS3 jQuery UI
• TFS
• VS 2017

Confidential, Downers Grove, IL

Creative Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and deployed Ensono’s global intranet product, using my experience with responsive design, developing with Bootstrap within the Sharepoint platform. Was a UX admin for sharepoint, having leadership responsibilities and mentoring less experienced intranet developers to be proficient in content management systems and most aspects of web design production. Demonstrated critical thinking and problem solving skills to help tutor Ensono associates to build a better sharepoint site collection.
• HTML5
• CSS3 jQuery UI
• Sharepoint
• Office 365
• Bootstrap

Confidential, Elk Grove Village, IL

UI UX

Responsibilities:

• Completed the user design for a new cloud product. Created new features while on a team of designers and programmers. Contributed ideas in an agile process within cycles of two week sprints. Responsible for handling 1 - 6 project tasks at a time. Created user centric design for a responsive web platform and did the wire framing and UI development for the mobile application.
• HTML5
• CSS3 jQuery UI
• ThymeLeaf
• Bootstrap JS 3.3

Confidential

Freelance IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely on a continuous basis with teams composed of marketing, IT business development, and management staff . Ensured proper development of websites with regard to design, functionality, and provided feedback for business process improvement using an Agile work flow. Gathered business requirements and analyzed business requests to develop solutions for clients using responsive web design and mobile technology.
• CSS3 design and coding knowledge
• HTML4/5 design and coding knowledge jQuery UI and Bootstrap3.0
• Using MVC, taking existing wireframes and coding to meet desired results
• Managed client relationships
• Designed wireframes and prototypes

Confidential, McHenry, IL

UI UX

Responsibilities:

• Implemented user interfaces, using HTML5 and CSS3 for both web and mobile experiences
• Incorporated responsive design principles into new and existing product features
• Rapid prototyping of new features where and when possible for product layout
• Collaborated with business and back end developers to reach goals for a given design feature
• Built reusable libraries and frameworks to simplify development and web maintenance
• Created site standards for UI strategies by keeping up to date with web best practices

Confidential, Downers Grove, IL

UI UX

Responsibilities:

• Product analysis, ensuring content updates, new product information and other requested features
• Prototyped, developed, installed, tested, debugged, and documented new site features
• Diagnosed and corrected web site problems, including broken links (both internal and external), typographical errors, and formatting inconsistencies
• Contributed to both the design and development of online and in-store sales events, including e-mail marketing campaigns and advertising initiatives
• Participated in the development and integration of graphical and multimedia components
• Monitored web use and provided relevant statistical data and reports regarding utilization of the company’s web sites, making recommendations for enhancements
• Employed hands-on web programming experience in HTML, JS and CSS (style and positioning) to maintain and develop large scale, enterprise-level website

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Front End Developer / Designer

Responsibilities:

• Worked across business, design, and technical skill sets
• Employed good written & oral communicationskills
• Re-examined and implemented data grids
• Worked with a large global project team
• Translated business requirements into designs and rapid prototyping
• Designed UI proposals with defined development & QA practices

Confidential

Web Developer / Designer

Responsibilities:

• Web design, content management, reporting and tracking of products including the delivery ofdaily, weekly and monthly reports documenting projects and campaign status, using reporting systems TFS and TeamPulse
• Creative production using jQuery UI/Bootstrap
• Continuous testing of creative layouts and offering variations on implementation

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Web Developer / Designer

Responsibilities:

• Prioritized work requests and escalated issues to managementWorked with various 3rdparty vendors to complete common goals and resolve problems
• Followed change management and other IT Technology procedures and processes as appropriate, monitored their execution among team members, and made recommendations for process improvements.
• Coded in Java script, jQuery, CSS (CSP), GUI, and mobile
• Designed sites and video and widget integration using CMS tool

Confidential, Tinley Park, IL

Front End Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• Used CSS3 design and coding knowledge
• Used HTML4/5 design and coding knowledge jQuery UI and JavaScript
• Took existing wireframes and coded to create desired results
• Finished design and development tasks as required, and when completed processed a successful unit test
• Finished development as designed and on the schedule provided by project manager
• Provided the migration and its documentation

Confidential, Arlington Heights, IL

Front End Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• Design work plus hands-on coding
• Provided technical design and support on mid to large scale projects
• Worked with business analysts to understand application requirements
• Created document design solutions and implemented according to the design
• Implemented Adobe Test and Target code for marketing to evaluate
• Translated business and functional requirements into detailed technical design
• Designed and developed proof of concepts to test and prove designs
• Participated in the technology standardization process, focusing on application and data architecture
• Researched new products and technologies to determine fit within the organization’s application architecture

Confidential, Chicago, IL

UI/UX Developer/ Designer

Responsibilities:

• Used Agile development and ADDIE methodology
• Collaborated with subject matter experts
• Made recommendations for new internal application design
• Prepared UI elements for standard use
• Provided jQuery layout grids and spry scripts
• Went through business requirements backlog using three reporting systems
• Put Spira Team, Jira and Sharepoint reporting apps in place

Confidential, Skokie, IL

UI/UX Developer/ Designer

Responsibilities:

• Use cases, wireframes, site maps, navigation layout, business and technical requirement documentation, graphics, prototyping and mockups, HTML, Javascript, and CSS coding to make net2.0 demos.
• Worked directly with shareholders from various business units and software developers to ensure accurate implementation of specified web design and functionality.
• Emailed marketing with Exact Target
• Translated conceptual ideas into engaging visual web applications
• Contributed to the design/development of apps
• Helped to develop a graphics library/server environment
• Prepared UI elements for standard use
• Used Agile development and ADDIE methodology
• Collaborated with internal managers and customers web modeling
• Reviewed and provided recommendations for existing application redesign

Confidential, Rosemont, IL

Website Front End Developer/IT Support

Responsibilities:

• CS5 enterprise tools for graphic development
• Dynamically loaded XML pages
• Researched polling capabilities
• Rebuilt a human resource Portal called “SCIL”
• Built presentation templates within Websphere

Confidential, Abbott Park, IL

Website Front End Developer/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used SAP Net weaver CMS to produce web pages for 6 international Intranet portals
• Delivered Q&A using Sharepoint 2007 Server
• Collaborated with staff members to correct and test solutions for each portal
• Worked toward proper governance for web projects including site integrations, new functionality, and design updates
• URS design
• Web production of wireframe development and content

Confidential

Website Front End Developer/User Experience

Responsibilities:

• Web programming clients’ registration site for trade shows
• Q&A of each web design for form and functionality makeup
• Participated in client negotiation of development timeframes until going live
• Worked towards proper governance for web projects including site integrations, new functionality, and design updates
• U I design
• Built graphic overlays for banners, and logos to websites

Confidential, Addison, IL

Website Administrator/Designer

Responsibilities:

• Led the creation of interactive marketing solutions
• Web Admin / designer of 3 Ecommerce websites coupling MIS fulfillment and inventory usage
• Researched and prepared business cases for potential improvements to content, software and on-line services; reviewed vendors and business partner’s products and services to identify goal-targeted improvements to the sites
• Participated in negotiating terms and conditions with vendors, leading the development process from initial discussions through implementation
• Created detailed project plans for major web projects including site integrations, new functionality, and major design updates
• Consulted with business partners about Ecommerce strategy development
• Developed and managed projects, offers, and presentation of the on-line shopping cart
• Built variable data products for client interaction and ordering

Confidential, Bolingbrook, IL

Website Administrator/Designer

Responsibilities:

• Web Administrator/Re-design and support for 6 national & international medical manufacturer’s websites
• Content management organizing and facilitating product placement
• Ecommerce maintenance covering marketing, transaction processing, security, and services delivered over the Web
• SQL database used to retrieve and update clients & product data
• Collaborated with cross-functional groups to determine web strategies, including the identification and analysis of organizational enhancements to the sites
• Responsible for the analytical support of Ecommerce in achieving optimal goals in terms of volume and usage
• Developed and monitored E-Metrics for all sites. Reported web statistics monthly

Confidential, Roselle, IL

Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• ATM development using Crystal reporting system within a SQL database
• Data card driver development and Java project working with iReports and Jboss
• Kiosk-Mapping touch screen monitors
• Worked on producing, managing and tracking campaigns. Proposed test and segmentation strategies and provided regular status reports

Confidential, Park Ridge, IL

Website Designer

Responsibilities:

• Campaign planning
• Creative production
• HTML programming, and application development using JAVA, ASP, CSS, JSP
• Continuous testing of creative layouts and offering variations on implementation

Confidential, Downers Grove, IL

Graphic Designer

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw optimization of campaigns to maximize deliverability, and drive sales
• Recommended and initiated projects to drive list growth

Confidential

IT Services

Responsibilities:

• IT, installations, disaster recovery, and application development for small businesses located in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago
• Marketing data architecture
• Contact data imports, and development
• Good working knowledge of marketing & sales automation solutions as well as data warehousing
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to deliver best results
• As a Technological Advisory Board member of the Illinois Mortgage Bankers Association, I worked towards building a database that would reduce document costs and streamline workflow, and developed technical seminars for the association, with the goal of providing an internal and external communication infrastructure to drive performance and business results.

Confidential, Skokie, IL

VP Marketing & Sales

Responsibilities:

• Streamlined IT Sales and Marketing Processes
• Designed intuitive internet navigation and information design flows to meet business and user needs
• Implemented course for new recruits— speeding profitability
• Gathered business requirements and analyzed business requests to develop solutions for clients
• Managed customer relationships
• Designed tradeshow platforms
• Directed and oversaw the organization’s strategic/tactical and long-range e-commerce goals. Provided internet/extranet strategy and coordinating efforts across all IT functions to support the company's business strategy. Led and directed the work of others, having a wide degree of creativity and latitude, and established plans and administered the overall policies and goals for the information technology department. Analyzed the needs of departments and established priorities for feasibility studies, systems design and implementation to develop new and/or modify the company's information processing systems.

Confidential, Villa Park, IL

Internet Marketing Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Collaboratively developed websites and managed their content
• Worked on a data warehousing project
• Optimized search engines, web performance, and marketing
• Managed multimedia projects
• Expanded sales team from print format to the understanding of Web format
• Raised sales revenues by 300% for internet services through banner advertisement
• Evangelized sales to include mass market accounts, coast to coast
• Became a published writer and public speaker regarding the internet revolution
• Administered (CRM) Customer Relationship Management applications and maintained the.