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Senior UI/UX Designer with many years of experience creating dynamic design solutions for various platforms. Interested in opportunities that will utilize my creative, technical and leadership skills towards designing innovative experiences and stunning visuals that delight.
Specializations in
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UI/UX Research, Strategy & Design of Interfaces
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Interaction Design, Wireframes & Prototyping
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High-Fidelity Mockups, Visual Design
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Web, Tablet & Mobile App Design (including responsive)
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Art Direction, Brand Development & Style guides
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FIS, for CAPITAL STAFFING
Senior UX/UI Designer
Bolingbrook, Illinois, 2018 - 2019
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Lead UX/UI designer for a subscription financial application used by internal business and external FIS GLOBAL clients from customer flow diagrams, wireframes and high-fidelity mocks. Collaborated with agile, multi-disciplinary teams to evaluate the feasibility of proposed features. Quickly came up with simple solutions to complex interaction design problems. Defined and documented user experience design patterns. Delivered design specs, checked for design bugs and worked with developers to fix. Project requirements included Angular 6, CSS, Sketch, responsive, and material
design standards.
JOINT COMMISSION RESOURCES, for TEKSYSTEMS
Senior UX/UI Designer
Oakbrook, Illinois, 2016 - 2017
Lead UX/UI designer for three customer-subscription web-based applications sold
by JCR. Designed effective UI concepts in coordination with both the client
and developer's expectations for Angular 4, Bootstrap, Kendo UI, CSS and responsive. Translated requirements into a user interface including screens and interactive elements. Provided designs and concepts for webpages in Adobe Creative Suite. Organized mobile concept content in an interactive prototype using Proto.io. Created well-written design specifications that often elicited positive feedback from developers regarding their usefulness and clarity. Collaborated with others in creating standards documents and cross-application consistency.
FJORD
User Experience Consultant/Visual Design Specialist
Chicago, Illinois, 2014 - 2015
Created web 2.0 solutions for new and existing websites for various clients, utilizing the latest design trends. Produced Competitive/Gap Analysis document to provide a better user experience for the Hewlett Packard product registration web site. Produced several interactive pages for Hewlett Packard product registration web site using Axure RP Pro. Designed for different platforms, Responsive web and Salesforce, desktop, tablet and mobile applications. Took ownership on projects such as the Mega menu navigation for CenterPoint Energy and improved on the design already established. Presenting creative concepts internally and also directly to the clients from a variety of industries including T-Mobile, Centerpoint Energy, Hewlett Packard, DOW, Consumers energy and Coca Cola.
CNH INDUSTRIAL
User Experience Designer
Chicago, Illinois, 2011 - 2013
Lead UX/UI designer responsible for the User experience design for Android based display for precision farming solutions. Worked closely with the product management, and software engineers to improve the performance, aesthetics, and usability of the existing display, based on the research data. Played a crucial role in defining and developing the software interaction model and visual design of the display. Proposed simple yet compelling interaction, visual design solutions and design specifications keeping in consideration user behavior and complex technical requirements to best apply to the product. Collaborated with developers using Polarion Software. Initiated and drove the creation of a living scalable framework and design for Style Guide. Mentored other designers and providing support on advanced design and image retouching tasks.
PARADOX SECURITY SYSTEMS
User Interface Designer
Montréal, Canada, 2010
Lead UI/UX designer conceptualized the user interface concepts for an Iphone application to Arm and Disarm an Alarm system. Defined the interfaces’ requirements and architecture, such as the user tasks, features, user interaction, and navigation flow. Designed preliminary user interfaces with hand-drawn sketches and wireframes in Visio. Performed usability tests throughout the process and documented the results. Created visual mockups, design specifications and worked with the software developers to implement the final user interface design for the company's first mobile application on ITunes Store.
AMAZON.COM, for CORESTAFF SERVICES
Senior UI/UX Designer
Seattle, Washington, 2008 - 2009
Worked with Product Manager and Marketing Consultant and other members of the team to design the look and feel and user interaction experience for a new product of Amazon Payments. Designed the corresponding collaterals such as Ads and Emails Newsletters. Re-design the Sign In experience for Amazon Payments. This included navigational flow charts, and master page designs. Wrote and documented style guide for the developers to use. Designed client side of the Mobile experience, website and several collaterals for Amazon Payments.
MICROSOFT, for AQUENT
Senior UI/UX Designer
Redmond, Washington, 2007 - 2008
Key responsibilities included generating and shaping ideas for Microsoft Events & Microsoft Profile Center into meaningful experiences, look and feel and user interaction. Working in an Agile environment process, developed workflow with the program manager and created sketches and visual mockups and design specifications. Working alongside business planners, program managers and developers.
Accomplishments:
Released many features and websites for Microsoft Events; Admin Tool for Microsoft Events using Microsoft Blend for prototyping and delivering files to Dev. Conceptualization and creation of a more usable website for Microsoft Profile Center in less than four weeks. Interactive Calendar for MS Events. MS Events tool for Marketers to create their Events. Played a key role in the standardization for using Silverlight controls across MS Events.
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Fireworks
Adobe Animate CC
Adobe Dreamweaver CC
Adobe XD
Adobe After Effects
XHTML - coding working knowledge
CSS - coding working knowledge
Bootstrap*
Angular*
Kendo UI*
IOS*
Android*
Proto.io
Sketch
Invision
Figma
Axure RP Pro - working knowledge
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft PowerPoint
Jira
Confluence
Polarion Software
Rally
*Familiar & knowledgeable
LANGUAGE
French (native language), and
comprehend Spanish.
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Coral Gables, Florida, 1988 - 1991
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design and Illustration.
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Saci, Foreign Program Abroad, Florence, Italy, Spring Semester 1990
Studio Courses in Graphic Design, Introduction to Photography, Weaving and Art History