CAREER SUMMARY:

• I am looking for roles where I can help improve productivity, usability and customer satisfaction for consumer facing Mobile and Desktop applications and experiences.
• I am skilled at creating concept tests, prototypes, mobile apps, responsive web sites and desktop applications with experience and other technology and industry leaders.
• Some of the areas where I have worked include R&D, Ecommerce, Enterprise, Government, IT, Financial, Gaming, Business Intelligence, Software, Industrial and Scientific.
• Research
• Envisioning and Collaboration
• Information Architecture
• Interaction Design
• User - interface Design
• Visual and Graphic Design
• Project Management
• User Research, Testing and Usability

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND DELIVERABLES:

• User Research and Requirements Gathering
• Heuristic and Cognitive Evaluations
• Brainstorming, Ideation and Collaboration
• A/B, Card Sort, User Testing and other Research Methodologies
• Customer Journeys, Site Maps, Affinity Diagrams, Mind Map, Business Process and Workflow Diagrams
• Personas, Scenarios, User Stories and Use Cases
• Functional Specifications, Style Guides and Pattern Libraries
• Wireframe Diagrams and Storyboards
• Proof-of-Concepts and Interactive Prototypes
• HTML5/CSS3, Rapid Prototyping and Production
• Visual Design, Illustration, D Confidential Visualization, Mock-ups, Graphics, Icons and Collateral Assets
• Fina art, photography, animation and video editing
• User-centered, Participatory and Contextual Design Processes
• Waterfall, Agile and Blended Methodologies (iterative and formative)
• Project Management, Leadership and Mentoring
• Stakeholder Presentations and Reviews

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY:

Adobe Creative Cloud (CC): Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, Dreamweaver, Premiere, After Effects and others.

Confidential Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, OneNote, SharePoint, Visual Studio and others.

Prototyping Tools: Axure RP, Sketch, iRise, InVision, OmniGraffle, Folio, Balsamiq, PowerPoint, InDesign, HTML5/CSS3, and many others.

CAREER HISTORY:

User Experience Designer

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Responsibilities:

• Consumed large amounts of business process information and applied it to the iterative design process while working with directors, managers, analysts and other key stakeholders to gather business and customer requirements which drove the iterative design process.
• Participated in sprint planning by helping size and scope the design process and deliverables for consecutive sprints and milestones.
• Provided UX leadership throughout the team ensuring adherence to best practices throughout the design and development process.
• Frequent and regular whiteboarding design and collaboration sessions with directors, managers, analysts and other key stakeholders was instrumental in envisioning solutions.
• Presented formal, scenario-based design solutions to directors, managers and other key stakeholders for review, feedback and approval.
• Provided HTML5/CSS3 prototypes, templates and production for design layouts and interactions for hand-off to developers and hands-on for production code within Visual Studio.
• Sorted and emphasized information surrounding business information, processes and requirements with emphasis on cognitive understanding, flow and usability for the end-user while also applying relevant interactions which helped drive the usability and workflow with simple as needed user-interfaces and artistic visual designs using the appropriate use of color, graphics and typographical treatments.
• Created wireframes and storyboards based on persona, scenario and use cases using previously gathered requirements and transferred knowledge with PowerPoint and other Wireframing tools.
• Created static and workable interactive prototypes based on workflows, wireframes and storyboards with a variety of tools like HTML5/CSS3, and other prototyping tools.
• Created .SVG vector and .PNG bitmapped graphics and icons for prototypes and applications using the Adobe Cloud suite of tools.
• All proposals and designs were of a mobile first requirement with emphasis on responsive capabilities across form factors, devices and platforms.
• Helped create numerous interactive dashboards and reports consisting of complex d Confidential visualizations and interactions.

User Experience Designer

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge Transfer
• Sprint Planning
• UX Lead
• Requirements Gathering
• White boarding and Collaboration
• Stakeholder Reviews
• HTML5/CSS Prototyping and Production
• Information Architecture, Interaction, User-interface and Visual Design
• Wireframes and Storyboards
• Rapid Prototyping
• Mobile and Responsive Design Dashboards and Reports

User Experience Designer

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge Transfer
• Requirements Gathering
• Wireframes/Storyboard
• White boarding
• Collaboration
• Information Architecture
• Interaction Design
• User-interface Design
• Visual Design Stakeholder Reviews

User Experience Designer (Lead)

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge Transfer
• Sprint Planning
• Team Lead
• Requirements Gathering
• White boarding and Collaboration
• Project Management
• Stakeholder Reviews
• Axure RP
• Information Architecture
• Interaction Design
• User-interface Design
• Wireframe Diagrams
• Prototyping Responsive Design

User Experience Designer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Business Analysis
• Requirements Gathering
• Project Management
• Stakeholder Reviews
• Responsive Design
• Information Architecture
• Interaction Design
• User-interface Design
• Wireframe Diagrams Prototyping

User Experience Designer

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Responsibilities:

• Sprint Planning
• Requirements Analysis
• Responsive Design
• Information Architecture
• Wireframe Diagrams
• Prototyping

User Experience Designer (Information Architect)

Confidential, Tumwater, WA

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis
• Project Management
• Prototyping
• Wireframes
• Information Architecture
• Stakeholder Presentations and Reviews

User Experience Designer

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Responsibilities:

• Collaboration
• User-interface Design
• Visual Design
• Animation
• Wireframes
• Prototyping

User Experience Designer

Confidential, Renton, WA

Responsibilities:

• Interaction Design
• UI Design
• Prototyping
• Visual design
• Usability
• Testing

User Experience Designer

Confidential, Kent, WA

Responsibilities:

• Sprint Planning
• User Stories
• Prototyping
• Pattern Libraries
• Visual Design
• Icons
• Wireframes
• Storyboards
• Interaction Design
• User-interface Design
• Usability Evaluations
• Testing

User Experience Designer

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Responsibilities:

• Sprint Planning
• Collaboration
• Wireframes
• Prototyping
• Interaction Design
• User-interface Design

User Experience Designer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis
• Collaboration
• Wireframes
• Prototyping
• User-interface Design
• Visual Design

User Experience Designer (Information Architect)

Confidential, Lacey, WA

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis
• Collaboration
• Workflows
• Wireframes
• Prototyping
• Information Architecture
• Interaction Design
• User-interface Design

User Experience Designer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis
• Wireframes
• Prototyping
• Interaction Design
• User-interface Design
• Visual Design

User Experience Designer

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Responsibilities:

• Collaboration
• Animation
• Motion Graphics
• Adobe After Effects
• User-interface Design
• Visual Design

User Experience Designer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collaboration
• Animation
• Motion Graphics
• Silverlight

User Experience Designer (Information Architect)

Confidential, Lacey, WA

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis
• Collaboration
• Site Maps and Workflow Diagrams
• Wireframes
• Storyboards
• Information Architecture
• Interaction Design
• User Interface Design
• Presentations and Reviews

User Experience Designer

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis
• Collaboration
• Leadership
• Mentoring
• Presentation
• Reviews

User Experience Designer (Manager)

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis
• Envisioning and Collaboration
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Outsourcing and Vendor Management
• Wireframe Diagrams
• Prototyping
• Information Architecture
• Interaction Design
• Visual Design

User Experience Designer

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Responsibilities:

• User Research
• Envisioning
• Collaboration
• Competitive Analysis
• Scenarios, User Stories and Use Cases
• Wireframes and Storyboards
• Information Architecture, User-interface and Interaction Design
• Visual Design, Style Guides and Design Patterns