SUMMARY

• Consultant with 17+ years of experience in user interface (UI) design, information architecture (IA) and user experience (UX) design for web, mobile and tablets. Expert at creating mockups, wireframes and prototypes.
• Knowledgeable in personas, scenario analysis, usability design, usability testing, responsive web, iRise and Axure. Artist with skills in leveraging corporate identity across brand touch points.
• Excellent communicator, active listener and problem solver that turns feedback into usable design solutions. Familiar with WCAG 2.0, Section 508 and WAI - ARIA standards.
• Team player, MBA graduate with strengths in engaging stakeholders, gathering business requirements, creating unified brand user experience and project management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Adobe CS6, Sketch, iRise, Axure, InVision, Google Analytics and MS Office.

Languages: Working knowledge of JavaScript/AJAX, HTML, XHTML CSS, SQL, PHP, and JSP.

Operating Systems: Windows, Mac and Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Columbia, SC

UX Architect

Responsibilities:

Leading the redesign and development of the new responsive website. Creating wireframes, mockups and iterative prototypes to visualize the future state application. Managing the agile roll out of features as and when developed and tested. Web enabling management of the houses and fundraising needs. Establishing digital outreach strategies.

Environment: WordPress, GUI design, UX design, iOS, Android, Mobile Safari, Fireworks

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

UX Project Lead (Rapid Design and Visualization)

Responsibilities:

Consulted for various Fortune 500 clients such as confidential etc. Established the branding, UI design and UX guidelines in the form of project style guide. Worked as a team with business analysts and technical leads in dozens of projects to create hundreds of wireframes, mockups and iterative prototypes to validate the look, feel and behavior of the proposed applications. Created prototypes for mobile apps, tablets, responsive web and desktops. Projects ranged from waterfall to agile developments. Prototypes were used for sales demo, training and product development. Our efforts accelerated time to market. Reduced waste of time and money by reducing miscommunications between stakeholders and developers. Improved usability, innovation and quality of the product.

Environment: iRise, Axure, GUI design, UX design, iOS, Android, SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, SharePoint, Fireworks

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior UX Consultant

Responsibilities:

Created 3 iterative prototypes for the Mutual Fund application. Consulted on enterprise wide change management of the prototype process (which was being hand-coded) to using tools such as confidential. Worked as a team with Project manager, Analysts, designers, UI and Java developers to build Prototypes and validate the look, feel and behavior.

Environment: Fireworks, Dreamweaver, GUI design HTML, XHTML, CSS, iRise, JustInMind.

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

Sr. iRise Developer

Responsibilities:

Created 12 iterative prototypes in iRise for review by the business stakeholders and the analysts. Prototypes include low fidelity analysis level simulation for analysts to decide the best approach and High fidelity simulation for business stakeholders to validate the look, feel and behavior. Conducted usability testing to gather first hand feedback from users to fine tune the claims application design. Worked in a team with UX Architect, Project manager, 3 Analysts, designers and developers.

Environment: Fireworks, Dreamweaver, GUI design HTML, XHTML, CSS, iRise.

Confidential, Greenville, SC

Sr. Web UX Designer

Responsibilities:

Designed and developed the website for smoke free spartanburg. - Created concept sketches, 5 mock ups in Fireworks. Designed the site architecture and user interface. Upon design selection and approval, created the front-end theme for Wordpress and coordinated the development with a backend programmer. Tested in multiple browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera and IE)

Environment: Fireworks, Dreamweaver, GUI design, HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, PHP, Wordpress

Confidential, Greenville, SC

UX Architect

Responsibilities:

Designed and developed the website for Confidential . - Created concept sketches, 3 mock ups in Fireworks. Designed the site architecture and user interface. Conducted scenario analysis and created user interaction flow diagrams. Hand coded the layouts with table-less HTML/CSS. Lead a team of 1 project manager and 4 developers. Tested in multiple browsers

Environment: Fireworks, iRise, HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, YUI, Story boarding, Google Analytics and SEO.

Confidential, Greenville, SC

Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

Evaluated existing business model and proposed changes where improvements were necessary. Created process flow diagrams. Worked with the C-level executives to establish IT strategy. Built a proprietary intranet with a team of programmers, for the easy flow of inventory, sales and financial information. Trained staff to use the intranet. Reduced overhead costs by 35%.

Environment: Fireworks, MS Visio, GUI design, HTML, XHTML CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Management education.

Confidential

Web Designer/Senior Business Analyst (Market Intelligence)

Responsibilities:

Created 3 mock ups to meet the aesthetic and functional requirements. Routinely interacted with Finance, HR, IT, Operations and Marketing departments to deliver the functionality and UX required. Created custom user interface, menu etc for Joomla CMS. Participated in the development of a 5-year strategic business plan under the guidance of the Executive Committee.

Skills used: Fireworks, Dreamweaver, GUI, Joomla, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, XHTML, and CSS.

Confidential, Anderson, SC

Web/IT Administrator

Responsibilities:

Designed and developed the company website. Created custom graphics with reduced file size for fast loading. Maintained the servers of the local area network (LAN) and 25 client computers. Kept the database updated to reflect inventory status.

Environment: Fireworks, Dreamweaver, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, ASP, MySQL, Windows 2000 Server OS, Exchange 2000.

Confidential, Clemson, SC

Media Designer

Responsibilities:

Designed and developed Confidential ’s clients’ websites with target audience in consideration. Designed pages with dynamic content and maintained user interface using templates. Designed marketing collateral such as brochures, logos and business stationery to enhance clients’ corporate identity. Tested sites in multiple combinations of browsers and Operating Systems.

Environment: Dreamweaver, Photoshop, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP.

Confidential, SC

Web Developer

Responsibilities:

Developed FZ-52 SAP admin pages that would retrieve and display status information of the SAP system. Designed the FZ-5 IT department wide Intranet based on BMW’s corporate design guidelines as part of the IT Operations intranet project team.

Environment: Fireworks, Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP, SQL, SharePoint Portal.