User Experience, User Interface Specialist

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE

Seeking a fulltime position to solve complex business and user focused objectives in innovative ways by focusing on the end user experience to design products that work, are fun, easy to use and profitable.

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

User Experience, User Interface and Strategy: Over Eleven years of user experience expertise and user interface design in the varrying industries helping companies, including Fortune 500 companies, strategize, define, and design web and mobile products and applications

Design and Project Management: Expertise in leading small to medium sized cross functional teams in the product development and software development processes:

Proven design leadership and team-building skills with solid people, personalities, process, and idea management experience.
Planned and drove product direction and roadmaps.
Excellent written and presentation skills interfacing with stakeholders (Managers, VPs) to sell designs that meet both business and design requirements.

Designer, Innovator & Stategist: Extensive hands-on experience designing digital products from concept to deployment that are data and usability driven and user-centric:

Information architecture, information design, interaction design, requirements gathering, wireframes, user surveys, personas, task analysis, user needs matrix, use case scenarios, process flows, branding, visual design, proof-of-concept prototypes, usability evaluations and testing, and UI development, analyitics and documentation.
Highly technical and creative with intermediate to advanced skills in Adobe Creative Suite, Web services, HTML,CSS,PHP, Apache Servers, Google Analytics, Google Ad Words, Microsoft servers and Microsoft Office Suite
Industries: B to B and B to C, Technology and Communications, Media, Social Media, Healthcare, Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals, Publishing, Retail, Facilities Management, Architecture and Construction.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Strategy UI, UX Design & Development Salvatera Design San Diego, CA 10/08 – Present

Designed, developed and managed mobile applications, UI, UX, eCommerce storefronts, site branding, business requirement documents, defining client specific style guides, SEO, SEM and hand-coding XHTML, CSS, PHP code modification www.hitachi.com, www.hds.com, www.fusionstorm.com, www.fanbox.com ,Mobile App Medsy, Mobile App Evolve 2010
Branding and developing UI of a new content management system and communication portal Wireframes, Use Cases and Prototyping
Authored appropriate internal documentation to support project deliverables including: site maps, wireframes, UML diagrams and project briefs, (BRD's)Business Requirement Documents,(QAD's) Quality Assurance Documents , (WBT) Web Based Trainings and User Manuals.

Production Manager Creative Department Interactivate, Inc. San Diego, CA 08/06 – 10/08

Client Orientation / Project Assessment/ Department Development

Crusader for selling, instituting, and evolving a user-centered design (UCD) methodology into our design department development lifecycle. Liaison between Product Management and Engineering throughout the product development lifecycle to ensure that business and user requirements are translated into appropriate design solutions
Built, developed and sustained a newly formed Analysis and Design Group within Interactivate Inc. Responsible for recruiting, training, performance-based management, career management, resource allocation and budgeting. Teams ranging from 8-12 people in house and contractors
Authored appropriate internal documentation to support project deliverables including: site maps, wireframes, UML diagrams and project briefs.

Cross Functional Team Management/ Project Management / Budgets and Negotiations

Provided situational leadership to motivate individuals, conflict resolution and training
Facilitated the technical and web objects spanning within a cross-functional team environment for both online and offline marketing vehicles.
Manage all aspects of these projects simultaneously in various stages of lifecycle from inception to completion with assurance that projects are fully scoped, delivered on time, within budget and agreed upon to specifications including conceptualizing and usability.

Software Trainer/ UI Design, Development Mitchell, Inc. San Diego CA 02/04 – 05/06

Prepared and presented training programs to international customers and staf on
Promoted to Medical Software Division to develop web based training programs for both insurance and medical web based applications
Developed, updated and customized curriculum materials in addition to the company's online web training tool www.mitchellu.com
Identified diagnosed and resolved hardware and software technical issues during training

Principle Web Startup Nutshell Digital, Inc. San Diego CA 02/98 – 03/01

Managed and developed Internet marketing and web development campaigns for major companies including Harcourt Publishing, Mitchell Industries and Peregrine Systems
Lead cross functional teams between 6 – 15 consisting of project managers, programmers,designers and contractors
Produced HTML,PHP, Flash and Coldfusion sites from specifications for web applications and custom content management systems

TECHNICAL & STRATEGIC SKILLS

Windows and MAC OS
Microsoft Suite, including Visio, PowerPoint, Excel and Visual Studio
Adobe Creative Suite (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Flash) (legacy Macromedia)
Hand-coding XHTML, DHTML,CSS, Code modification: PHP, JavaScript, JQuery
Video Editing, Sound Development/Design
Branding & Marketing for web, print and mobile
IT Business Solutions, CMS Wordpress and Drupal
Google AdWords,PPC & SEO
Google Analytics,Banner Ad's, Link Building
Email Marketing Campaigns, Constant Contact

EDUCATION

The Art Institute of California - San Diego
Bachelors of Science Interactive Media & Design Focus on UX, UI
GPA 3.8

SOCIAL MEDIA

REFERENCES & TESTIMONIALS

STRATEGY & WEB USER EXPERIENCE (UX & UI)