SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a UX Director / Architect with a strong, empathetic sense and has worked in the Corporate, Music/Video Entertainment, Military, Automotive and Aviation sectors for the last 17 years.
• He believes a Designer should "hear" what "sounds good" and have a knack for composing products that resonate with people and are deeply in tune with the motivations, emotional and mental models, values, priorities, ps, and inner conflicts of their target audience, creating a great User Experience.
• He has extensive experience with Adobe Suite, Sketch, and various Wire Framing Tools. He also has experience with Mobile (Responsive) Interaction, HTML5, CSS/CSS3, and JavaScript.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, OmniGraffle, Axure, MS Office Suite, GSuite, Atlassian Suite

Languages & Plaforms: Experience with a blend of the following areas: RESTful service development, Web API, ASP.NET, Angular.js, HTML5, CSS3, Mobile First, Responsive Design, Frameworks: Bootstrap, Foundation, MaterialUI, React Semantic UI

Expertise: Mobile Interaction, Design Management, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Heuristic Evaluation, Usability Testing, User Flows/Journeys, Accessibility & Compliance Research, HiFi and Paper prototyping, Omni - channel Strategy, UX ROI Measurement, B2B Persona Research Projects, CRM Systems, Agile Development, Data Visualization and Mapping

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Principal UX Design and Technologist

Responsibilities:

• Produce scenarios, process flows, information architecture diagrams, wireframes, visual design and other artifacts required to develop and evolve user experience designs.
• Working with Executives and senior leadership and design executive dashboards
• Presents designs and articulates approach to gather feedback and approval from all key approvers and stakeholders
• Worked with React and Angular Libraries in several cross projects and platforms, create new apps and even use it within the existing code base, without doing a rewrite. Used React is a JavaScript library to extend and build new User Interfaces while upgrading Legacy and other cross platforms previously used.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Sr UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Creates deliverables to support the work effort including wireframes, user scenarios, page flows, competitive analysis, heuristic evaluations, journey maps, etc.
• Work with product owners and tech leads to prioritize business, technical and customer requirements in the design of solution
• Working with product management, designs the user interaction approach for new and/or changes to existing customer experiences within the mobile apps
• Presents designs and articulates approach to gather feedback and approval from all key approvers and stakeholders
• Collaborates within the scrum team with engineers to ensure the technical solution supports the experience requirements, and the overall experience meets design and brand standards
• Work with React/Angular/GWT Cross Platform Libraries to create AWS Calculator using a JavaScript library to extend and build the Chrome and existing AWS Services.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Lead UI-UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Create user-centered designs, demonstrated ability to balance high-level detail-oriented feature designs, and facility designing for both web/desktop and mobile channels.
• These services include the engineering tools to develop, test, operate, and support the cloud services built across Confidential . The CloudES organization is unique as they have the scale requirements of the cloud while having the unique constraint of supporting applications that support Confidential Azure’s live site. Projects were created for Development, Data & Analytics, Support, and Customer Experiences.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Lead UI-UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Design Owner and User Advocate on our Responsive CMS System, working with Product Manager, Engineers, Researchers and Content creators to oversee iOS, Android, & Responsive Design experiences from conception to launch to iteration.
• Leverage Design and User science sensibilities, skills and desire to make a huge impact in the Automotive space.
• Analyze requirements and work on challenging UX business problems, talking to stakeholders to understand problems, iterating on and presenting designs as mockups/prototypes, and working with engineering to see the completed functionality into Users hands.
• Crafted, designed, optimized, and implemented interfaces, interactions, and experiences, from scratch, for 8 applications, 20 websites, 2 blogs, iOS, Android and WinPhone apps, and loads of landing pages.
• Increased websites hits by 300% over the last 4 years by constantly testing, redesigning, refining IA, enhancing forms, and improving user onboarding process.
• Helped in recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding new designers
• Salesforce AppExchange, bringing lead enrichment with Mattermark’s unique data set of growth signals to millions of sales professionals using Salesforce to conduct business every day.
• Worked with GM and designed multi-branded experiences during their automotive industry crisis of was a part of a global financial team that I was extremely proud of.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Lead Web Developer/Designer (Web Master)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for a variety of tasks both creative and technical ranging from continual website updates to entire Site Redesigns, Web Promotions/Ads, Motion Graphics, Video Editing, and Multimedia Kiosk Development. The position required flexibility and a balanced mix between 60% design, and 40% coding.
• Learned about and presented new front-end technologies, analyzed designs and devised/implemented front-end interface that puts as much functionality in the front-end as practically possible, iterating on these implementations to tune the product into a fine machine, creating reusable components for quick integration of similar features, and working with backend engineers to see completed functionality through a perfect execution and into Users hands.
• Designed and developed the portal websites, music assets, app store graphics, press kits, company and game brand identities.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Web Master

Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement and managed the first Confidential Web Site and Intranet for the of the Sales and Marketing.
• Designed Motion Flash Graphics, Video Editing (Avid, Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects), Conceptual Wireframes, High-Fidelity Mockups/Post Production, Red-Line Specifications, and Prototypes for Websites and Kiosk.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Multimedia Designer/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed interactive Hardware Applications/Websites/Kiosks for commercial customers and developed first Corporate Website & Intranet.
• Designed Motion Flash Graphics, Video Editing (Avid, Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects), Conceptual Wireframes, High-Fidelity Mockups, Information Architecture Diagrams, Interaction Red-Line Specifications, and Prototypes for Websites and Kiosks.

Confidential

Computer, Network, Mobile Switching & Cryptographic Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Sustained Network/Mobile infrastructure, cryptographic equipment, and deployable switching systems in a fixed and deployed environment.
• Planned and designed the network infrastructure and enterprise network solutions; troubleshooting, installing, implementing and administering network systems and providing Tier III support.