Summary

Bringing business requirements and resources together in order to create an optimal User Experience Dann has 15 years' experience as a UX/UI Designer, working in the Healthcare, Pharmaceutical and Financial industries. Bythoughtfully and effectively interpreting client needs, he is able deliver a new strategyto drive business and achieveoptimal ROI. He utilizes creative solutions to create superior User Experiences.

Professional Experience

Confidential

User Experience Designer / Application Design Consultant

• Maintain and develop internal and external intranet and extranet sites, using CSS, HTML5
• Provide leadership and mentoring in User Experience best practices, usability and AB Testing
• Lead marketing and communication initiatives in agile production environment
• Wireframe and UI Spec document creation and maintenance, Business Requirement Gathering
• Analyze and ensure consistency across various web sites providing consistent responsive design to optimize User experience

Confidential

User Experience Designer / Architect

• Monitored analytics usingForsee/ Adobe Site Catalyst, A/B testing data to identify user experience issues, find opportunities for engagement and conversion
• Conducted user research, stakeholder interviews, and competitive analysis
• Created wire frames and UI Specification Documents using Visio, Omnigraffle and InDesign,
• Conducted user research, stakeholder interviews, and competitive analysis
• Lead efforts planning and establishing social media presence, implementing SSO
• Developedenhancements for ecommerce site to optimize user experience, lead generation and sales
• Trained in SLII leadership, conflict resolution andvendor procurement / management

Confidential

Manager, User Experience Architect

• Estimated effort and budget of UX deliverables with account executive, project management and clients
• Conducted user research, stakeholder interviews, content inventories, competitive analysis, remote and in-person usability testing
• Created wire frame and site map documents using Omnigraffle and Visio, for responsive designs on web and mobile platforms
• Managed freelance and internal development, design and vendor resources
• Managed Social Media projects: including games, applications and marketing efforts
• Acted as liaison between clients, business, development and design teams
• Lead Agile Development efforts, SCRUM leader, sprint manager

Confidential

Consultant User Interface Engineer / Visual Designer

• Conducted stakeholder interviews and user research, requirement gathering
• Created UI and screen designs, icons and motion graphics for B2B and B2C transactional web sites
• Managed developers from conception through implementation and UAT
• Created Visio wire frame documents using Visio and Omnigraffle, creation of personas and user stories/scenarios

Confidential

Consultant / E-Learning Developer / User InterfaceDesigner

• Lead Accounts: All internal products, both domestic and global including: team communication intranet portal, Oncology University, Business Development Basics, Virtual Headache Clinic, Comet Initiative
• Created wire frame documents and UI designs / prototypes using Photoshop, Visio, Dreamweaver, html and Flash
• Designed of UI concepts and interactions, screen layouts, motion graphics, marketing material, and multimedia E-learning Applications using Photoshop, Flash, Articulate, Engage, Quizzmaker
• Designed and maintenance of several informational, promotional, and educational web sites using internally developed CMS, HTML, XML, Flash and Dreamweaver
• Recording of audio and video in our in house studio. Managing recording sessions, and pre and post-production
• Analyzed project requirements to develop User Interface Specification Documents, Wire-frames, interaction flows using

UI Designer / Lead Visual Designer

Confidential

• Conducted stakeholder interviews to develop business and user requirements, personas,
• Designed user interface specification documents, production graphics/icons, and presentation layer HTML and CSS
• Translated user requirements into screen design prototypes, wire frames, flowcharts, icons, motion graphics, info-graphics
• Proposed new feature development and enhancements based on user research
• Managed off-shore devlopers through product life cycle using Agile Methodology and SCRUM
• Visual design of icons, motion graphics and screens for web and desktop software application UI
• Perform user validation / usability testing, gained insight into success and failure of our product and designs by observing customers use our product in our training lab
• Introduced process efficiencies, streamlining production process and UI Specification documents
• Created and maintained style guide documentation to insure consistant branding and user experience

Confidential

System Analyst / UI Architect

• Lead designer of UI graphics and iconography for a web based enterprise Electronic Medical Recrods applications
• Created/maintained style guide, wireframe, and User Interface Specification documentation
• Translated functional requirements into UI concepts and designs, wire-frames, Visio flowcharts,
• Conducted stakeholder interviews and shadowed clinicians and RNs at several hospitals that served as beta sites
• Performed user validation,UAT, stakeholder interviews, and usability testing
• Managed off-shore development team through the production life cycle
• Produced Instructional documents and web tools for overseas developers
• Trained in Agile development, sprint, and scrum developmentprocesses,

Confidential

Senior Interactive Developer

Accounts: AstraZeneca, Aventis, Bayer, GSK, Janssen, Merck, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi, Wyeth

• Development of Flash, Director and HTML interactive multimedia pharmaceutical sales training, CME and E-detailing applications and websites
• Worked with product managers account team developing new products lines sales demos
• Managed, directed, and mentored freelancers, developers, interns, and vendors
• Created Visio and Omnigraffle wire frame documentation, flow charts, user scenarios and personas
• Conducted stakeholder interviews, lead UI usability testing, focus group and user training sessions
• Managed audio production, ran studio recording sessions, directed video shoots, built audio studio and all A/V recording processes, casting of audio and video talent.