Amanda Williams Email & Phone Number

Cary, NC, US

• Create a unified user experiences for client websites and application, which includes leading wireframing activities, accounting for human factors in design and identifying new web features
• Coordinate seamlessly with web developers, designers, and SEO Analysts to optimize website interactions, improving user engagement by 40% within 3 months of the website going live
• Maintaining effective communication and attention to detail throughout the design process.
• Perform testing and research on user journeys and deliver presentations on strategic design enhancements
• Design graphics, presentations, and social media posts for clients

• Created interactive prototypes, low to high-fidelity wireframes, logic flows, visual design and icons
• Produced content strategy, UI design direction and user experience design
• Negotiated fees, discussed requirements, developed new ideas, and presented solutions for clients
• Created fitness videos, model headshots, and business websites

Raleigh, NC

• Assisting professors with lesson preparation, class critique and grading
• Encouraging students in their design and project goals and offering guidance as needed
• Cultivate a positive, organized learning atmosphere through clear communication

• Worked with Dr. Matthew Peterson to research and Design accurate 3D models for Scale Worlds, a new immersive virtual environment showing scientific entities of different sizes that is part of a $1.3 million research.
• Researched navigational and typographic elements for Scale Worlds

• Collaborated and interned with Red Hat team to design user surveys to better accommodate the context and refined based on multiple user interviews
• Organized and designed data into a functional dashboard to allow for quick input and insights of Data Grid data
• Assisted with user interviews and user research about Data Grid

Raleigh NC

• Developed a graphic design/UX studio project spanning over one and a half days to introduce high school students to UX and Graphic Design in both college settings and as a career path
• Encouraged students to explore their creativity, research and critical thinking skills while pushing them to try a range of techniques and media, including brief introductions into using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
• Collaborating with teaching assistants, counselors and team members to create an enriching and fun experience for campers

Raleigh NC

• Collaborated with team and the Laboratory of Analytic Sciences to design a personalized user experience and streamline government analysts’ day’s workflow
• Created clear elegant data visualizations enabling analyst to intuitively understand the prioritization system and easily drill down to specific data points within a case
• Obtained user data through targeted interviews and user research
• Organized research into easy to process visuals for improved communication and ideation
• Created and presented animated high fidelity prototype to clients which resulted in improved workflow

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Greeting and welcoming guests and providing them with a positive first impression of the organization
• Directing guests and answering their questions and maintaining security and telecommunications systems
• Created and managed new and current member profiles
• Maintained HIPAAA practices and standards
• Designed graphics for social media platforms

• Collaborating with instructors to support and encourage campers in their design projects and goals
• Supervised campers and ensures their safety, development, growth, skill achievement, and general well-being
• Leading design, recreational and educational activities

Raleigh NC

• Created and implemented research plan, carrying out user research through targeted interviews and surveys to identify business priorities for improved user flows
• Constructed design strategies using A.I. to create clear and engaging user interactions within the Habitat for Humanity donation process

Raleigh NC

• Developed solutions for new website navigation system and improved visual communication of company product offerings and benefits resulting in increased customer base and improved customer communication
• Synthesized user insights into feasible design decisions
• Collaborated with team and TerraFirma Software to redesign the company branding to clearly represent and communicate company mission and goals
• Created animated designs for complex web applications

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Communicated and worked with clients, design team, directors, and production to achieve customer design ideas and goals
• Designed branded posters, charts, signs and graphics that correctly convey intended messaging
• Managed the coordination of multiple sign installations across multiple states

Alamance County, North Carolina, United States

• Collaborated in creating marketing material that integrated Alamance County branding with succinct and engaging stories to explain and introduce Alamance County Parks and Recreation to new users
• Animated designs for complex web applications

Cary, North Carolina

• Working with customers to find and suggest materials for various projects
• Answering the phone and handling customer transactions
• Stocking shelves and making sure the store is clean and organized

Asheville, North Carolina Area

• Collaborated and interned with Greenstone Media to gather user research for improved communication of company benefits and offerings
• Created high fidelity wire frames resulting in improved visual communication and navigation of company digital marketing pages
• Managed the filming and editing of footage for a company video series about custom development, digital marketing and web design

Chapel Hill, NC

• Created branded media for the companies social media sites
• Increased production by designing over 750 advertisements for digital, print, and mobile platforms
• Improved low-quality logos for client advertisements and created social media content for company and clients

Raleigh, NC

• Ensured the safety of the patrons in the swimming area and performvarious maintenance duties as required by the Pullen Aquatic center
• Taught ages 6 months old and up, swim technique and pool safety

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

• Designed over 550 advertisements for digital, print, and mobile platforms
• Fixing low quality logos for various client advertisements
• Created filler advertisements and logos for clients

Cary, NC

• Created and directed events, branding, emails, website work, generalpaper work
• Assisted the Marketing Manager in the development and evaluation of comprehensive marketing strategies and direct the implementation of marketing tactics
• Led a project to encourage the Cary community to engage with public art

Asheville, North Carolina Area

Guilford College

• Creating advertisements, forms, invitations etc using adobe software
• Conceptualize, design, and produce materials for marketing campaigns including posters, email newsletters, and print and digital advertisements
• Designed visual appealing and on brand graphics for different campus departments

Guilford College

• Created digital representations of future galleries using Google Sketchup to create engaging environments that communicated the curatorial vision effectively and helping to ensure the gallery runs smoothly
• Assisted in the design, production, and installation of exhibition signage, art labels, and text panels for gallery exhibitions, ensuring clear communication of artwork and artist information.
• Prepared and printed exhibition materials, including flyers, brochures, and event invitations, using digital printing processes.

Master'S Degree, Graphic And Experience Design

Bachelor’S Degree, New Media (Concentration In Animation And Video Production), Fine Arts (Focus In Drawing), 3.927

Activities and Societies: • New Media Arts Council President • Received the Marshall Green Award

Education record

Activities and Societies: Koto Club Defying Gravity Flash Mob Manga Drawing ClubStudied abroad for the 2014 spring semester

Bachelor’S Degree, Major: Fine/Studio Arts, Drawing, Minor: Japanese Language Studies, 3.58

Activities and Societies: fencing club Art Gallery Helper tutoring refugee children