SUMMARY

• An excelling UX / UI Lead /Marketing Spec Advisor/ Product Manager with an extensive knowledge of mobile, web, desktop, and POS solutions. Strong ability to motivate and manage agile/lean/waterfall creative teams. In addition, I'm able to visualize and rapidly prototype and create engaging designs, wireframes, and user flows within deadline driven environmentsfrom conception to testing to release.
• I use consumer insights gathered from research, psychology, and UX best practices, and take a consumer - centric approach to help the company make strategic decisions, and act as a change agent and content specialist.
• A dynamic team player / leader, with well-developed public speaking, training and writing abilities.Practical knowledge and experience with global clients and offshore teams.
• Over 8 years of design experience across multiple industries including advertising, financial, technology, in-house marketing, and education. Familiar withdevice ecologies and project management. Practical knowledge and experience with global organizations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Adobe Creative Suite
• Photoshop CS6
• Illustrator CS6
• Dreamweaver CS5
• HTML5 / JQuery / CSS3
• Flash Animation
• Wireframes
• User Flows
• CMS
• Smart board
• Axure
• Antitype 2
• OmniGraph

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

UI / UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented leading-edge web design in a collaborative, startup environment building the RedJade Application for leading food companies.
• Developed prototypes for technology and UI evaluation purposes.
• Conducted research with end users.
• Understood, discussed and innovated new practices for food analysis.
• Sustained a key role in driving the end-to-end release of the product and developing a deep expertise in multiple areas of web and mobile technology.
• Organized, created and structured web application development from UI to QA.
• Communicated with management and business regarding timelines, requirements and innovation and production dates.
• Used Smart boards, wireframes and Adobe CS6 creative suite.

Confidential

U I / UX Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the User Interface Design and User Experience of Confidential Mobile Products and Services.
• Led a team of 10 UI Designers and developers on different mobile platforms (e.g. iOS, Android, RIM or Windows Mobile).
• Maintained an expert level of mobile PRODUCT design.
• Responsible for understanding the business requirements of the Product or Services to be implemented, and translate those to the Mobile or Web Designs based on the platforms.
• Created Wireframes, screen flows, UI Designs and quick prototypes that represent the Business requirements of the project.
• Worked with a wide range of Barclay’s stakeholders ranging from Business Analysts, Customer Experience, Branding Agencies, UI/UX teams, Design and User Experience, Development teams and Quality Assurance.
• Familiar with both Lean and Agile UX and testing models.
• Managed the end-to-end release of the product while working with the requirements from London, Africa, or Lithuania and how they correlated with the efforts of our in-house iOS, Android, and BlackBerry development teams.
• Designed and implemented leading-edge mobile platform software in a collaborative, test-driven environment.
• Developed prototypes for technology and UI evaluation purposes.
• Played a role in driving the end-to-end release of the product and developing a deep expertise in multiple areas of mobile technology.
• Worked in an agile environment on Confidential Mobile Banking device ecology.
• Led kickoff meetings, wireframe reviews and UI scrums in order to provide the best user experience for the user.

Confidential

UI Designer / Marketing Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for the digital face of the credit union.
• Creatively designed, developed, and managed various corporate websites, print advertisements, mobile applications, and online banking UI’s that lead to successful sales of the organization and performance goals.
• Proficiently insured the clean well-structured easily maintainable designs to arrest the attention of potential members and captivate existing members to strengthen relationship with the Credit Union.
• Collectively, while creating Ads, Websites, layouts, UI (User Interfaces), posters, Email marketing, and debit/ credit card plastics.
• Developed the direct marketing skills of event planning, Public speaking, television appearances, interior design, and direct marketing to potential members.

Confidential

UI Designer / Graphic Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Proficiently designed, developed, and managed materials ranging from Web Design to Logo development for over 8 clients.
• Extremely attentive and consistent with project productivity and overall security of client happiness.
• Maintained design elements including print, web and new media initiatives.

Confidential, Topeka KS

Web Marketing Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Efficiently coordinated web development and print production from concept through completion.
• Worked closely with the Art Director to create a vision, conceive the designs, and consistently meet strict deadlines and requirements.
• Effectively built, motivated, designed and coded websites and email templates from start to finish.
• Meet with in house publications regarding websites, email templates and print materials.

Confidential, Topeka, KS

Graphic Designer (Intern)

Responsibilities:

• As an intern I gained real - world experience working with clients, vendors and other agency staffers.
• Throughout my time as an intern I was accredited with the production of several corporate logos and assisted art directors with several statewide campaigns, including Shiners’ Circus and HTK architecture.
• I was able to participate within a team environment to complete various projects gaining experience in the ad business.
• I was able to learn much of what I know about Web design and Print Production, as well as the overall flow of a campaign from start to finish.
• I received the award as an intern at the company in November 2007.

Confidential, Topeka, KS

Business Representative

Responsibilities:

• Taught a workshop of 15-24 year olds the importance of being employable by introducing them to a 28-hour job and life skills readiness course that implemented the importance of Soft skills and life management.
• Also required to keep close contact with over 160 employers in Topeka area to ensure the times, dates and quality of opening jobs as well following up with the employees hired from our program.
• This project allowed me to help a young adolescent by teaching him or her how to help 3 other people. Successfully recruited from 6 local area high schools for participation with the program.