Albert Vargas Email & Phone Number

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

As a leading authority for UX design inside and outside of the company, I provide creative and UX direction to the business. I work with various stakeholders to establish best practices and UX standards for Lexis Nexis. Responsibilities - Analyze customer use cases, business and organisation. - Partner with stakeholders to challenge product strategy based on knowledge of customers, competitors and market trends.- Champion the voice of the customer to drive product innovation that delivers value to users and growth.- Lead others to develop confidence in their ideation and support the development of these ideas through efficient experiments.- Create and drive a UCD strategy and implement advanced UCD processes at scale.- Communicate and evangelize the importance of real customer engagement in the company.- Define interaction patterns that become key drivers of the UI Brand of the company.- Define the overall user experience for the company's portfolio of products in collaboration with designer - Actively mentors other designers and cross-functional teams where needed.- Plan and execute UX testing strategies.- Prepare and present findings of data driven UX analysis and testing to senior stakeholders

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

This position is responsible for the User-Centered Design (UCD) process and deliverables for a portfolio of related products as well as with partnering with department leadership to drive the UCD vision and strategy across the projects.Key Responsibilities• Develop and drive the UCD vision for solutions and consult on the goals for the team that support the vision.• Look beyond the current release cycle and explores future scenarios and innovate across a portfolio of projects (process included). • Help define user experience for the portfolio and the execution of strategic user research and defining product strategy.• Ensure user insights/needs and research impact of product strategy and assist in defining product strategy.• Effectively partner with product management to ensure solutions meet the needs of users and serve as a liaison to business area and to technology partners.• Communicate and evangelize the importance of a real user-centered approach within the portfolio.• Effectively promote consistency and integrations across solutions where needed.• Generate new ideas at the product level and project level, present to department colleagues, and prepare implementation plans.• Establish and maintain relationships with senior stakeholders, users, and product/technology staff.• Work closely with visual designers and web developers, providing limited direction as necessary.• Collaborate with User Experience coworkers and technology staff.• All other duties as assigned.

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

- Plan and execute user research activities to gain a better understanding of software application users. Research findings should be analyzed and synthesized to develop conceptual models, personas, workflows, design prototypes, and user interface specifications.- Develop and present innovative user interface designs by analyzing and synthesizing market requirements, user analyses, product innovation, technology, and business needs. - Collaborate with product management and business analysts to develop product requirements.- Present and explain complex concepts, designs and interaction models to a variety of audiences.- Conduct and/or participate in product usability tests.- Communicate and work effectively with cross-functional team members including but not limited to software engineers, software architects, sales, marketing, product managers, and project managers.- Provide mentoring and education on user experience, as needed.- Stay current on trends and best practices in user experience field.- Complex & transactional based application interface design - Data visualization of large and complex data sets

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

- Complex & transactional based application interface design - Data visualization of large and complex data sets- Business process and workflow modeling - User Interface design (graphics)- UX analysis and interaction design - Navigational and content design- Content coordination and media aggregation with state sites- Content design and management- Internal application branding- Misc graphic design (presentation) services

Miami, Florida, Us

- Functional specifications creation and analysis- Rapid and Hi-Fidelity (HTML and JS) prototyping- Heuristic evaluation of legacy applications- User Interface design (graphics)- UX analysis and interaction design - Interactive design for eLearning modules and applications- SharePoint interface customization and content support (intranet)- Internet brand promotions (design, implementation and tracking)- Website and eCommerce navigational and content design- Social media design (Facebook, Twitter)- Cross platform mobile application design (HTML5/JQuery)- Content coordination and media aggregation with state sites- Intranet content design and management- Internal application branding- Misc graphic design services

- Prepare, estimate costs and coordinate creative needs analysis for various clients - Produced Hi-Fidelity wireframes for websites, interactive kiosk designs and applications based on creative analysis, business needs and functional specifications- Mobile interface design for iOS & Android native applications- HTML/CSS coding for client websites- Direct and manage the pre-production process of various design artifacts for output into multiple channels including print and web- Provide strategic creative direction to sub contracted designers for a various projects - Creative design of reports, brochures, application interfaces, interactive forms, exhibit displays, maps, presentations, and slide shows. - Design dynamic presentations for clients

- Created and prepared landing page designs for SSV Affiliates- Performed A/B evaluations and CPR based on iterative designs- Created and branded various lead generation programs. Create and prepare landing page designs for SSV Affiliates - Created and prepared E-mail marketing designs- Designed and edited marketing materials, as required- Maintained corporate website design- Researched and designed virtual sets for use with video productions- Provided creative leadership to effectively conceptualize, translate, and implement marketing objectives into web-enabled designs of the highest standards. - Created multiple solutions to solve creative problems that met both marketing and communication objectives. - Successfully communicated and presented design recommendations, including conceptual ideas, design rationale, and design prototypes to Marketing leadership for review and approval. - Effectively interfaced with both marketing and operational team members as a subject matter expert on design. - Researched competitive marketing campaigns as part of the design process.- Designed marketing materials for multiple web based products. - Created interactive promotional materials including static graphics as well as Flash-based artwork.

- Devised and implemented production strategies for all incoming projects. - Responsible for reviewing and finalizing all graphic related projects for the company or clientele.- Coordinated with in-house Graphic Designers as well as Freelance Graphic Designer to meet project requirements. - Directly involved in the design and development of all interactive presentations and websites for clients. - Designed and implemented E-mail marketing blasts- Design and edit marketing materials, as required- Maintained corporate website design- Research and design virtual sets for use with online video productions- Created Wire frames and base HTML coding for sites and landing pages

Human Computer Interaction

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Graphic Design

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