🍕 Andy Aragon Email & Phone Number

Emeryville, California, Us

Babylist is the trusted platform for millions of growing families with products and services across health, media, and commerce.We are hiring. Come join me! - https://babylist.com/jobsSome things I'm working on these days:Working closely with product managers, designers, customer service, and other high-level stakeholders to identify, create, and implement features across projects that drive the success of Babylist.Leading the improvement of our tooling, documentation, and processes across the engineering department. We are a small team that gets things done consistently, sustainably, and on time.Shaping the feasibility, technical scope, and user experience of projects. We work in 6-week sprints followed by 2-week cooldowns. (See: ShapeUp)Mentoring junior engineering and fostering best development practices.Debugging issues as well as providing incident response to critical business operations. Making improvements to our build processes, frontend/backend test coverage, component library, and converting our React codebase to Typescript.

Emeryville, California, Us

Freelance multi-disciplinary design and development at your service.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Dolo is a privacy-focused location-based message board for uncovering conversations happening right around you. Backed by Floodgate and select angel investors.

San Francisco, California, Us

Executed and delivered IoT experiences focused on the organization’s open source platform, leveraging cryptographically secure NFC/BLE chips registered to the ethereum blockchain for authentication, e-commerce, provenance, supply chain, and finance-related use casesEngineered and launched the Chronicled iOS app, enabling users to verify the authenticity and provenance of luxury goods and other physical items on the blockchain.Planned and launched the chronicled.org website featuring Chronicled's open source initiative, case studies, and live demo.Launched a smart art gallery exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery, allowing guests to connect mobile phones to BLE-enabled works of art to discover more about the artwork.Created a cohesive design language across branded materials: pitch decks, prints, white papers.Ideated and implemented a cohesive design language across branded materials, including pitch decks, prints, and white papers.

New York, Ny, Us

Spearheaded the design and development of the business’s logistics and operations platform.Redesigned a system that enables a fleet of bike messengers in NYC and SF to deliver products to customers in under an hour.Undertook extensive user research, resulting in UX improvements to the business’s delivery app.Collaborated across teams to engineer and develop an iPhone app using AngularJS, providing bike messengers with the information necessary to complete orders with a high degree of efficiency.Handled complex projects from content to completion by working directly with key stakeholders with aggressive deadlines in an agile environment.Wunwun was acquired by Alfred (helloalfred.com) in 2015.

Emeryville, Ca, Us

Supported the strategic acquisition of Gravity Mobile, which now operates as Gracenote's global creative services agency. Demonstrated expertise leading and mentoring a 4-person team, with the focus of creating interactive experiences for international clients and internal business initiatives. Oversaw the design of user interface concepts, deliver products for automotive headsets, and produced second-screen, 10-foot, mobile, and web platforms.Partnered with clients and product owners to define project requirements, implement interfaces with design and engineering teams, and develop wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs. Defined and established all aspects of UI design from start to completion, including resourcing, schedules, budgets, and deliverables.Gracenote was acquired by Tribune Media Services in 2014.

Led the concept and development of mobile applications across iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, Brew, Java, and Windows. Streamlined and generated interactive web applications for clients including ABC, Adobe, AT&T, Fox, MLB, Nielsen, NTT, Pandora, Qualcomm, Sony, Sprint, Wikia, and Verizon. Organized, facilitated, and defined the user experience through wireframes, interaction flows, storyboards, sitemaps, and functional HTML prototypes.Recognized for strong leadership skills in motivating diverse visual design teams to generate pixel perfect designs.Gravity Mobile was acquired by Gracenote in 2008.

Built the backend infrastructure for Shazam (music recognition app)—an Apache Tomcat service which accepted audio files and returned a song match with relevant information like links to song downloads and lyrics. Created a metrics dashboard for Shazam to track growth, usage, and trends.Designed the user interface for MusicID, Gravity Mobile's in-house music recognition app, and ported the design across BREW, Blackberry, Android, and iPhone using a custom cross-platform UI framework.Worked intimately with Verizon to design their VCAST App Store experience on Android.Collaborated with Fox Mobile to create Bitbop, a streaming video service on Blackberry, iPhone, and Android — developing a strategy for the user experience and addressing the limitations and characteristics of each platform.

Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Japan, Jp

Developed wireframes, task flows, and visual design concepts for Vox, LiveJournal, TypePad, and MovableType.Created working user interface prototypes (HTML/CSS/JS) for usability testing.Worked closely with the LiveJournal community — organizing events, copy writing, and reaching out to users for feedback.