Summary
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I'm a seasoned UX Designer with 10 years of experience designing enterprise websites, desktop apps, mobile apps. As a collaborative designer, I have delivered a wide range of design deliverables, scoped and managed project, and an enthusiastic, client-facing team member. I'm passionate about human-centered design, a very good communicator, and deftly straddle product, engineering, and marketing teams.
Work Experience
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Snr. User Experience Consultant
04/2016-CurrentBrainstorm and execute creative solutions for Interaction Design plan on desktop, mobile and tablet devices. Research, complete competitive analysis for a fortune enterprise clients. Team up with product managers for requirements gathering, then create wireframes based on product requirements in collaboration with Project, Product, and Engineering teams.
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Traveled for several months on and off
10/2015 – 03/2016Asia, Europe and Hawaii.
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Snr. Interaction Designer–Apollo Group
2/2015 – 8/2015Collaborated with Business, Product, and Engineering teams for Self-service web application for UoPx students. Translate business requirements to detailed interaction design, iterate on feedback. Delivered, created wireframes and low-level prototypes for Self-service project using Axure RP Pro 7. Participated in Self-service applications usability studies during early prototype iterations.
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Freelance UX/ID consultant
6/2014 – 12/1014Brainstorm, create, ideate, and deliver high-level User experience research into detailed wireframes. Translate business requirements to detailed interaction design, iterate on feedback for a stealth company.
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Snr. Interaction Designer–Bank of America
8/2012 – 3/2014Worked for the Online Banking group on multiple, high profile projects. Partnered with a senior in-house Idx, initially on a re-design desktop project then segued into native mobile design. Responsibilities: Requirements gathering, wireframe creation, interaction design, usability testing, strategy & client presentations. Task analysis, and client facing interaction in an both agile scrum and waterfall environments for desktop and mobile applications (iPhone, iPad, and Windows 8).
Education
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San Francisco State University
1991-1993Bachelor of Arts, Film Writing & Production Emphasis
City College of San Francisco
OngoingTaken and passed numerous CS classes for web, mobile design and development. For example, CNIT 133M is a responsive design coding class.
Training
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Virtual conferences & webinars for Apollo Group
Spring 2015In May 2015, attended People Skills for UX one day virtual conference along with several Apollo Ux colleagues.
Enterprise UX 2015 was attended by two Ux managers. Recorded video was made available for all team members. I reviewed several segments including Opening Keynote by Catherine Courage, former SVP of Citrix; Theme 2: Craft amid Complexity & Enterprise Storytelling Sessions.
A few weeks later, attended a webinar called Color Is Relative: Designing for Accessibility.