Senior UX Designer Resume San Jose, California - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Highly creative and multi - talented Visual/UX Designer with 18 years of practical visual design experience and over 8 years of UX/UI experience in digital production development, synthesizing color, space, texture, illustration and taskflow to surpass the needs and goals of end-users and stakeholders and create designs that identify a product or convey a message.
Possess exceptional collaborative and interpersonal skills, dynamic team player with well-developed written and verbal communication abilities.
Competitive analysis, analytic reviews, stakeholder discussions
Contextual interviews, surveys, user - testing
Production of user research site strategies for the development user centered outcomes
Focus on User Centered Design, information architecture and facilitating collaboration between project team and stakeholders
Personas, user groups, and user scenario development
Style guide creation, pattern library development
Prototyping to facilitate communication and functional consensus
Design & illustration of brand and usage guidelines
Creation of sitemaps, wireframes, task flows, and design assets
Low and high fidelity mockups using Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Omnigraffle, Muse, HTML

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Confidential, San Jose, California

Senior UX Designer

Responsibilities:

Play a central role in the execution of customer inquiries for a product or experience, helping to conduct sessions, analyze feedback, and identify needs and insights to inform or evolve the experience
Drive design discussions and collaborative sessions with teams and stakeholders, helping generate concepts and inspire peers and teams
Deliver high fidelity schematics, workflows, interaction storyboards, and design deliverables (task - flows, wireframes, hi-fi prototypes) that guide creative, content, and development efforts
Formally and informally lead small teams around discreet threads, helping peers and junior contributors to raise the bar of their delivery
Confidently present design decisions to teams and stakeholders, articulating and rationalizing needs against user insights and business goals
Assist in the planning and estimating of design activities, participating in broader work-stream coordination and expectation setting
Contribute to Confidential UX discipline and community, adopting core approaches and tools, helping identify challenges and solutions, and enabling a fertile creative environment
Maintain an awareness of industry and UX trends, sharing with peers and the broader community and leveraging them within the design lifecycle

Confidential, Santa Clara, California

Senior Visual Architect

Responsibilities:

Lead creative sessions for project kick - offs
Manage multiple projects from concept generation through completion with internal and/or external designers
Develop creative programs and design concepts that meet the business objectives of the organization and advance brand strategy
Establish creative direction for the entire brand presentation within retail, online, and print
Manage, lead and inspire team members in creative (authority) as well as product and marketing (influence)
Provide quality control over concepts and projects
Understand strategic goals and brand identity; analyze the creative team, environment, processes, technologies, etc., to determine areas of improvement; and build and direct a creative function aligned with and supportive of those goals
Set expectations and standards (build a culture) for creative team attitude, behavior, teamwork and
Professional development
Assure that timely and informative communication takes place between the creative function and other relevant business partners

Confidential, Santa Rosa, California

Senior UX Graphic Designer

Responsibilities:

Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines in a fast paced dead - line driven environment
Responsible for design, site structure, and daily maintenance of global website and many localized sites.
Extensive web development experience involving UI/UX development, domain Wireframes, and various Information Architectures
Play a key role in the design and layout of numerous sites, corporate brandings, illustration, and other projects