SUMMARY:

• Lead UX Designer / Information Architect
• 15+ years of experience in all phases of UX development and architecture
• Customer centric and accomplished Lead designer with extensive expertise in UX design, Information Architecture and Interaction Design. Full understanding project life cycle from definition to test and release. Consistent record of success in completing highly complex projects.
• Excellent project management, cross - team relationships and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Mac & Windows Software Experience Axure Adobe Creative Suite 6 Photoshop CS6 Illustrator CS6 Flash CS6 Dreamweaver CS6 InDesign CS6 Adobe Bridge Acrobat Professional CS6 Adobe After Effects CS6 Aperture Firebug Image Ready I View Media Pro QuarkXpress Corel Draw Quicktime Pro Quicktime VR Nikon View Nikon Capture iWork Keynote Numbers Pages Microsoft Office Suite Word PowerPoint Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Media Bin Sitecore Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Visual Studio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Lead Designer

Responsibilities:

• Direction for integrated consistency across the Confidential Marketing Solutions Suite platform.
• Responsible for leading user experience and design for an online data - driven, analytics platform with five applications.
• Provide ux direction and support to several development teams spread throughout the U.S. & overseas.
• Leading efforts for collaboration amongst development teams in order to streamline more efficient processes and sharing of code.
• Perform research, analysis, planning usability evaluations, project management, design, & quality assurance duties.
• Usage of minimalist approach to design and a design principles that include advocating for the user,
• research, greatly improved usability of interactions and an organized information architecture.
• Design and provide direction for Angular Java Script framework, as well as interactions in GoJS and implemented designs in bootstrap, HTML & CSS.

Information Architect: Interactive Designer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design the Information Architecture for enhancements and continuous expansion of Confidential Mobile Solutions turnkey sites and partner sites to increase profits and streamline the ease of use and purchasing process for customers. Work closely with business executives to establish business requirements for site marketing strategy.
• Also, design of IA and interactions for a mobile version of Confidential Mobile sites.
• User Experience Design for a new responsive healthcare portal for mobile, tablet/ iPad, web standard. Prototype, Research, Usability Lab testing and Analysis.
• Design the Information Architecture for a new responsive design website for Geek Squad that acts as a portal for a mobile app, including a standard web version, tablet & mobile (Apple IOS & Android).
• Develop the UX and IA for a Confidential customer facing in-store application and will also be used in the Confidential Call Center.
• Enhance and modernize by designing for HTML 5, CSS3, jquery, while being 508 compliant. Create functional wireframe prototype, UI specifications, and deliverables while being UX focused for authoring tool and online educational software courseware for Plato Learning. Also, did testing, QA, and aided in gathering of business needs and requirements.
• Provide wireframes, interaction flows, usability centered, UI & UX design for Trane Intelligence Services complex web flex application while setting standards and writing detailed User Interface design documents for development team.
• Creative direction & UX design for Lawson Software intranet site & customization of their IBM Connections social networking platform.
• Development of interactive flash-based educational software, informational design, flash
• for smilechannel.com & caesydemo.com for Patterson Companies. Also, animated web ads for Confidential, edits in Flash, QA, action scripting, css, html, xhtml, & web design.
• Maximize user experience, image optimization, retouching, web content authoring in CMS, formatting & web design for Confidential & Confidential

Confidential

Multimedia Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is the recognized leader in hi - fidelity simulation software & training products within the air transport market.
• Designed interactive graphics for 100% of Confidential s software and training products for over 100 global commercial airlines, military, business jet & general aviation.
• Was a lead designer & organizer for Confidential, a company with over $18 million in annual revenue. M et with new potential customers in the proposal stages and successfully helped to bring in new customers.
• Collaborated on highly innovative team projects and provided full graphics support to persons throughout the entire company including CEO, President of Product Development, Engineers, Developers, SME s, QA, R&D, Sales, & Marketing
• Lead Multimedia Designer with a focus on user experience for the full family of Airbus & Boeing fleets training products - Designed the original Virtual Flight Deck animated graphics, developed the templates, the user-interfaces, the touch-screen graphics for custom made flat screens for the Virtual Procedures Trainer simulators, & also the flash modules for courseware lessons.
• Designed the branding and identity system for Confidential and its suite of products.
• Over the course of several years at Confidential, I trained over twenty-one people in different positions. I was the go-to person for any type of training in Adobe Creative Suite: (Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign), and professional photography. I also trained employees on data recording, guidelines and structured processes that I developed to use in the graphics process involved with customer projects.