Lead UI/UX Designer Resume RedwoodCity,California - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

I have been in the field of software design and development for 6 years.
I have led multiple core products from initial design to launch, with hands - on experience in user research, story grooming, designing, prototyping and coding. My motive is to enable products to have an intuitive & effective User Experience.

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Confidential, Redwood City, California

Lead UI/UX Designer

Responsibilities:

Design Lead of a 20+ member cross functional team for a new big data product.
Worked directly with the product director and drove key product strategy decisions. Planned and estimated work for the team in an agile development environment.
Led several new features, revamping and branding of the whole product, handling multiple features in parallel. Created and maintained a brand standards guide.
Conducted user research with in-person user interviews.
Created information architecture based off of high level requirements. Solved several complex problems creatively .
Created low and high fidelity mockups, interactive prototypes, wireframes & flow videos to help communicate the expected behavior to the team.
Created original icons in Illustrator & maintain them in a shared folder.
Worked with the developers to modularize the front-end application structure. Wrote and reviewed team’s HTML, CSS and JS code.
Implemented responsive design for compatibility with smaller screens.
Encouraged team to be detail oriented.
Performed sanity testing on the product for each release. Triaged and provided resolutions for defects.

Confidential, Palo Alto, California

UI/UX Designer

Responsibilities:

Designed several new feature designs and wireframes in Photoshop and Flash, as part of the core UI/UX team.
Conceptualized, designed, led and delivered an over 80K grossing, Christmas themed feature for “Gardens of Time” Facebook Game.
Co-authored style guides for setting the look of the game.
Performed UX studies by analyzing internal data and user feedback, identified key UX problems and offered working solutions.
Created functional prototypes in ActionScript, like the “Scene Spinner” animated carousel for randomly selecting gameplay scenes.
Created wireframes and flow diagrams for web & mobile game “Pirates of the Caribbean: Isles of War”.
Created several skeuomorphic assets for the applications.

Confidential

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Developed software in JavaScript and Java on multiple projects for major European banks and railways.
Designed user interface of a new internal resource management tool for Senior Management.
Introduced new technologies like Dojo and Ajax to increase quality and productivity.
Conducted technical training sessions for the team.

Confidential

Software Intern

Responsibilities:

Worked on and solved a complex software design problem for resource management software of Indian Railways.