SUMMARY

• Research and analysis of competitive apps and parallel user demographics experiences to propose strategic content development, and positioning through user experience, functionality and marketing Able to see the big picture end to end to progressively design and develop products/enhancements with regard to business needs
• Design across multiple media formats to coordinate with existing standards and the ability to offer expertise on the development of new design/branding that is evolutionary or revolutionary
• Collaborating with internal and external executive stakeholders, customers, vendors and suppliers to identify and translate business requirements, and opportunities into system and feature requirements.
• Software development life cycle fundamentals, investigative and problem solving skills.
• User - advocate for appropriate architecture, functionality, usability, accessibility and interface design.
• Passionate designer/developer of highly efficient user interfaces and experiences.
• Multi-platform responsive design development and testing on Windows and Mac operating systems.
• Pixel-perfect output across browsers from style guides, brand standards and design documents.
• Development lifecycle methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.
• Active promoter of team development to encourage a sense of mutual commitment and support.
• Mentoring junior developers and designers to drive personal and professional growth.
• Supportive collaborator of a richly diverse team that spans the global, social and political spectrum
• Self-Motivated, and demonstrated ability to contribute independently, as well as part of the team.
• Proven continuous professional development for skill advancement and trend awareness.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages & Libraries: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Angular 2+, ngx-Bootstrap, jQuery, Underscore, Lodash

Familiarity: PrimeNG, Perl, Ajax, Node.js, MySQL, JSON, PHP, React, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Dev Tools & Applications: Visual Studio Code, Komodo Edit, MAMP, Git, Subversion, Terminal/CLI, Groovy/Grails Tool Suite, Ingeniux CMS, Drupal

Design Applications: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, QuarkXPress, Sketch, Gimp

Environs Project Management: Microsoft Word, Excel & Outlook, JIRA, Acrobat, Google Analytics, Windows, MacOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

UX/UI Designer Developer

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

• I bring a fresh take on UI design to a small, organically - grown company whose main product is an event management platforms in corporate B2B environments. The initial focus has been on the integration of UX/UI design into an engineering-focused workflow to improve user experience and increase productivity.
• User Interface and user experience market research to develop relevant, and up-to-date, design concepts for B2B/B2C web and mobile apps in an increasingly competitive market.
• Design concepts that balance marketing proposal efforts with timeline/budgets to improve profitability.
• Introduce product management methodologies that stress thorough requirements gathering and wireframe creation for customer and engineer sign-off to reduce costly work stoppage/rework.
• Concept research into a design/development lifecycle that incorporates a design system with configurable Bootstrap HTML/CSS/JS/Angular components into the UI/UX conception and prototyping phase to minimize effort duplication and significantly decrease production time through the use of a standardized library/framework that allows simultaneous front-end and back-end development.
• Customers, external: McAfee 2019 MPower Cybersecurity Summit, Nu SkinCore Technologies: Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop, Jira, Confluence, Bootstrap, Git, Visual Studio Code

UI/UX Developer (contractor), Confidential State Government Solutions

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN)

• I worked with a diverse, international team of UI/UX designers and developers to transform the user experience of a mainframe - based legacy system. Using Angular, the interface will integrate with a Java-based middleware application to modernize connectivity while increasing user satisfaction and efficiency.
• Greatly contributed to the creation of the development team s methodology and mindset that stressed greater flexibility to accept the demands of development concurrent to UI design and customer approval.
• Built extensible Angular/Bootstrap-based components, using a configuration string, for consistency.
• Conceptualized a build tool that generated HTML and JavaScript starter files, by using available spreadsheets, with form data, to insert values into the from component configuration strings.
• Contributed to the build of application form pages with CRUD functionality.
• Participated in Agile-based development cycle that used page-pointing design reviews manage workload for sprint planning, sprint reviews, stand-ups and virtual vendor meetings.
• As a co-team lead, I organized weekly meetings and happy hours to encourage a sense of mutual commitment and support, communication and aid in personal and professional development.
• Worked with the lead designer to translate the working style guide into pixel-perfect CSS using Bootstrap s SCSS theming files, while allowing flexibility in continual updating.
• Reviewed and edited code for language usage, phrasing, spelling and overall consistency, typography, formatting, and UX functionality.

Analyst (Front-End Developer & UI/UX Designer)

ICF International, Minneapolis, Minnesota

• I worked remotely on multiple projects/teams. My roles included: lead/sole developer, JavaScript developer, UI/UX designer and all matters involving HTML & CSS, depending upon team needs.
• Collaborated with customers, subject matter experts and division partners.
• Coordinated with teammates to outline and prioritize development tasks.
• Consulted with accessibility experts for Section 508 guidelines and testing.
• Routinely created site graphics and performed content updates.
• Developed standardized code consistently and in a timely fashion.
• Used Agile methodologies with sprints, scrums and reviews.
• Performed multi - browser testing to ensure cross-browser compatibility.

Core Technologies: HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Photoshop, Illustrator, Groovy/Grails Tool Suite, Jaspersoft Studio/JasperReports, SVN, JIRA, LESS/SASS, Jenkins, Rhythmyx, Drupal and Trello.

UI/UX Designer & Front-End Developer (contractor)

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

• Specifically hired to develop a departmental user interface and template system based on corporate brand standards and unified user experience to be applied to Web and Windows - based applications.
• Worked with subject matter experts to develop project scope, write functional requirements and build data structures for process management monitoring.

Technologies: HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Photoshop, Illustrator & Visual Studio Express.

Front-End Developer & UI/UX Designer (contractor)

Confidential, IT Operations, St. Paul, MN

• Designed the user interface for a suite of applications to improve network and application monitoring response rates during critical incidents through tracking, reporting and messaging improvements.
• The design and development of dashboards to display performance data for monitoring and forecasting.
• Designed a set of forms to simplify messaging during critical incidents and creation of incident reports.
• Integrated responsive design techniques to decrease development time for multiple device delivery.

Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Highcharts JS, Photoshop, Illustrator & Gimp.

Web Developer

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

• Created and updated customer facing content in a fast - paced atmosphere.
• Liaise with nationwide business partners to balance projects and tight deadlines while ensuring accuracy and legal compliancy.
• Core Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, ASP, .NET and Visual Studio.

Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, ASP, .NET and Visual Studio.

UI/UX Designer (contractor)

Confidential

• Instrumental in making cost - effective site-wide design updates to coordinate with a new print branding and before a complete site-wide redesign.
• Responsible for the support of the undergrad and graduate sites, building new pages and edit existing department and program sites.
• Created graphic components, proposed design and content changes.

Technologies: Ingeniux CMS, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, HTML and CSS.

Creative Services Manager

Confidential

• Hired by the president to enable the company to offer design creative as a value - added marketing tool to attract new customers.
• Completed a redesign of all packaging to implement revised FDA labeling regulations well under the previous manager s estimate.
• Oversight of all private label graphics and design (over 30 brands and 1,000+ SKUs) to ensure brand unity, integrity and FDA regulations.
• Responsibilities included design, production, proofing, copywriting, vendor relations, coordinating with plant production, marketing and trade shows.