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.
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.