SUMMARY:

Product designer and manager who thinks like a programmer, with strong technical background and ability to understand the intersections of disciplines bringing the big picture to the table. Deliver value through combination of technology, business, and creative perspectives. Passionate focus on driving excellence and continuous improvements. Thrive on innovation, risk - taking, and high levels of personal accountability. Strong international experience.

• Product Design and Innovation Product Management
• Application Development
• Release Management
• System Architecture & Integration
• Project Lifecycle Management
• Offshore & Outsource Operations
• Agile & Rapid Development Models
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Technology Vision/Strategy Planning
• Production Infrastructure Mgmt

UX/Design Tools: Axure RP, InVision, Sketch, Omnigraffle, Balsamiq Mockups, Photoshop, Illustrator, pen and paper

Engineering Tools: Eclipse, IntelliJ, Android Studio, JIRA w/ Agile, SVN, GIT, Jenkins

Programming: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, TypeScript, PHP, Python, XML, SQL, REST API, PHP, Wordpress, Unix, Android, jQuery, AngularJS, D3

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Lead UX/UI/IxD Designer 

Confidential, San Francisco

Responsibilities:

• Financial Cloud Services - designed the UI concept, assets, complete look and feel implementation in AngularJS with CSS/JavaScript/TypeScript. Leadership as product manager and UI specialist let Calypso release in-time to address new regulatory requirements.
• Navigator - increased sales by 20%, improving usability, and presale demos. Customizable product Launchpad, designed from inception changing the company’s entire software suite.
• Workflow Diagram - magnified the core value of the software product, and its usability. This collaborative product replaced obsolete Java app by modern highly interactive diagramming tool, while adding new robust functionality.
• Task Scheduler - provided 20 to 50% performance boost to professional services during problem analysis with this infrastructure troubleshooting tool.
• E-Dealing - bringing in overall sales over $10M yearly, this Forex trading online tool designed from ground up, adding a bestseller to the product line.
• Designing storyboards, wireframes, low-fidelity mock-ups, and high-fidelity interactive prototypes with Axure RP, Omnigraffle, Sketch, Photoshop, Balsamiq, CSS/jQuery/HTML/JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Promoting standards and providing availability of UI assets, and references.

VP and Owner

 Confidential, SF Bay Area

• Founded Engineering operations from the ground up including strategy, team, best practices to deliver fully functional product.
• Full product design and product management ownership, from ideation to final specs.
• Software development management: building offshore development and QA team, technical architecture, and cloud infrastructure.
• Instrumental in building efficient agile methodology in technology organization and led the team forward on adopting agile processes. Acting Scrum Master.

UX/Interaction Designer

Confidential, San Jose

• Converted product feature ideas into interactive interfaces to realize design vision.
• Storyboards, mock-ups, wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes and other artifacts to effectively communicate design concepts (Photoshop, Fireworks, Balsamiq Mockups).
• Responsive design prototyped with jQuery and Twitter Bootstrap frameworks.

UI Development Lead 

Confidential, Sunnyvale

• Conceptualized and designed the new UI, through delivering wireframes and mockups for cloud-centric solution, prototypes in HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
• Built a complete UI framework and guidelines for administrative cloud portal.
• Implemented a new functionality on ExtJS AJAX JavaScript framework.
• Initiated and owned a new PacketShaper UI development within tight schedule. Solved the major usability issues and technical limitations resulting in double sales of Packetshaper line.
• Led and managed development of pilot projects and POC in User Experience group with Adobe Flex.

Software Engineer 

Confidential, Cupertino

• Designed, implemented and delivered innovative IC ServiceCenter, smart analysis tool, widely used by the technical support team in California and Europe to productively troubleshoot network issues.
• Architected and implemented various products. Adobe Flex, AIR, Flash, PHP, MySQL, Apache, JavaScript, HTML.

UI Development Lead 

Confidential, San Jose

• Lea d UI development for the entire startup company product.
• I mplementation of front-end business logic and user interface with Python, AJAX, JavaScript, CSS, YUI library while working under pressure of startup environment.
• Managed outsourced engineering and design teams.
• Design and development of the app components from database schema (MySQL), business logic (Python) to UI layouts (AJAX) and web graphics (Photoshop, Dreamweaver)

Software Engineer 

Confidential, San Mateo

• I nstrumental in transforming company business from multitude of consulting engagements to web services delivery platform.
• Visual design and prototype delivery for all current projects.
• Ownership of UI of every product developed in the house implemented in JSP, Java, HTML, CSS .
• Technologies and tools: JSP, Servlets, EJB, Java, PHP, HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, VBScript, Active Server Pages, SQL, Tomcat, Apache, IIS, ANT, Adobe FDF toolkit.
• Designed and implemented websites for SamTrans / Caltrain, and for Transit district, San Mateo county (IIS and Index service).