Robert Grasso

UI & UX Designer

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Résumé

Profile:

User-centered experience and visual design professional specializing in creative, team oriented–solutions.

Skills Include:

  • Several years of experience with embedded touch, browser-based responsive, and mobile app UX design.
  • Collaborate with customers, product management, marketing, and development to transform requirements into user-friendly applications.
  • Edit behavioral documentation, provide hands-on HTML5 and CSS3, and illustrate image assets. Leverage Adobe and Microsoft suite of products, as well as Axure and many others.

Experience:

2013 – Current

User Experience Design Lead

XEROX, Webster, NY

  • Collaborate with product management and development organizations to provide UX designs and behavioral specifications for Xerox multi-functional devices with embedded touch interfaces, Web enabled applications, and mobile apps.
  • Projects include native embedded UIs, custom branded interface designs for large retail customers, and several specialized Xerox ConnectKey enabled apps.
  • Awarded several design patents for work related to the Xerox Instant Print Kiosk.

2006 – 2013

User Experience and User Interface Design Contractor

ROADNET TECHNOLOGIES, Towson, MD

  • Lead an initiative to design the MobileCast Ontrack iOS app that tracks mobile fleet resources and related data.
  • Responsible for workflow, screen layout, visual design elements, and Apple iOS Human Interface Guidelines compliance.

PAYCHEX, Webster, NY

  • Focused on creating wireframe and screen behavioral requirements for the Paychex "Next Generation" payroll app.
  • Work with product/operations experts and business analysts to design intuitive and user–friendly screens.
  • Collaborate with other UX team members, developers, and test engineers to provide highly detailed wireframe and screen behavioral requirements documentation for development and QA testing.
  • Observe user testing and collaborate with usability experts, provide alternative solutions to improve the user experience.
  • Contribute to product wide UX standards and pattern documents.

OPENTEXT, Baltimore, MD Formerly Metastorm Inc.

  • Provide user experience direction and UI elements including HTML and CSS for existing products and POCs. Interpret product requirements, identify personas, clarify use cases, and illustrate wireframes.
  • Primary UI designer for the Smart Business Workspace POC, a Silverlight mash-up of Metastorm products.
  • Contribute UI elements and direction for Metastorm BPM application version 9, a leading process management application with client and Web-enabled interfaces.
  • Refactored UI interaction process to improve UI designer and developer collaboration focused on user centered design.

FIRST NIAGARA BANK, Rochester, NY

  • Design a new user experience and visual interface for a revised on-line benefits enrollment application.
  • Collaborate with product management and development to improve the user experience,and visual design.
  • Provided wireframe and full color screen design documentation as well as image assets and CSS.

1998–2005

WORKSTREAM INC., White Plains, NY Formerly ProAct Corp/CFN and iExpert

User-Interface Manager [2001 – 2005]
  • Lead and provide direction to a team of designers, and front-end developers.
  • Communicate with product managers, developers, and clients to determine UI requirements and provide solutions for custom branded Web-client browser–based applications.
  • Build interface prototypes with HTML, CSS and JavaScript as well as provide wireframe and workflow diagrams for new and existing applications.
Senior Graphic Designer, iExpert [1998 – 2000]
  • Design and implement client branded interfaces using iExpert's proprietary knowledge management application.
  • Responsible for iExpert's promotional materials including electronic media and print.

1994–1998

NORTH COUNTRY MEDIA, Stamford, CT

Lead Animator and Graphic Designer
  • Business communications designer responsible for broadcast and corporate video graphics, Web sites, and CD-ROM's.

1990–1994

VISUAL SERVICES INTERNATIONAL, South Norwalk, CT

3d Artist/Animator and Video Graphics Designer
  • Design and implement animations and graphics for corporate videos, interactive interfaces and electronic presentations.

Education:

SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY

  • Bachelor of Arts in GRAPHIC DESIGN
  • Minor in COMPUTER SCIENCE