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United States

United States

New York , New York, Us

Boulder, Colorado, Us

Working with a variety of clients across sectors to define and execute user experience needs and goals for their specific products. Leveraged empathy driven leadership style to mentor designers, improve team communication and reaffirm best practice while implementing processes that have encouraged company efficiency.- Launched multiple SaaS, web and mobile projects leveraging user research, shadow sessions and rapid prototyping to quickly get to value.- Regularly engage clients to confirm product flows and initiate working sessions to refine and improve overall functionality with a user centric approach.

Cupertino, California, Us

Direct a team of UX designers embedded at Apple.Designing the user experiences that power the internal tooling needed for specialist teams at Apple. Planning and leveraging shadow sessions, data analysis, design system integration and UX best practice. Team building, mentoring and establishing design standards. Drive meetings with key stakeholders.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Helping students find scholarships for college, pay off student debt, and enable student success by leveraging robust relationships with fintech companies, schools and major brands. Driving all product initiatives, strategy and core platform refinement with a focus on UX experimentation, product roadmapping, budgeting, team building, mentoring and new market opportunities. - Reorganized and doubled product team to address core and future product needs within the first month of joining.- Identified and implemented a user first approach to all KPI’s.- Lead roadshows for CEO & major stakeholders with interactive prototypes backed by user personas, UX research, BI analytics and exacting timelines on production timelines.- Leveraged fintech & ad tech experience to introduce new product line that generated the avg. traditional gross monthly revenue for the core product in a fraction of the time at 3 days during its beta launch phase.

Dallas, Us

Focused on streamlining and affecting a new standard in real estate technologies that offers a centralized engagement for buyers, sellers and administrators. Our product suite gives users core industry relevant SaaS solutions that empower agents and encourage user engagement.- Managed all company product & design needs including sprints, roadmap planning, issue creation, product meetings, wireframing, specification and deliverable schedules.- Regularly synced with main stakeholders and tracked project estimates.- Leveraged UX tools such as Fullstory, Intercom, Google, etc. to effect the test and effect desirable change in the product.- Mentored designers and managed weekly design syncs.- Designed and developed over 40 unique SaaS features that increased product value and engagement.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Working closely with dynamically unique clients and ideas to capture and define digital value and market engagement.Worked closely with clients to apply product process to ideas which include product specification, market research, prototyping, design, development (web, iOS, Android, VR, etc.), budgeting, team building, marketing, product strategy, analytics & versioning.

Marina Del Rey, Ca, Us

Was focused on optimization and revenue growth through UX research, experimentation, analysis & implementation using big data and ground breaking technology in Adtech. Persistent objectives include the continued deconstruction of website, advertisement and template elements for deeper comprehension and comparison across product suite. • Managing and delegating team priorities and initiatives to sync and maintain tempo with company roadmap and objectives.• Utilizing a deep understanding of major product goals, to deliver insightful data and metrics on user behaviors and future areas of interest.• Regularly establishing hypotheses and the subsequent steps to delivery which include, documentation, project management, development, deployment & testing, data review and application.• Leveraging frontend development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Yaml, Git), UI, UX and design skills to accelerate the successful launch of product cycles and new products whilst driving industry compliance standards for Google, Yahoo & Bing company wide.

El Segundo, California, Us

Focused on redefining the user experience for all major product offerings which included survey, lead-gen, social sharing, web & mobile. Redesigned the flagship website, incorporating trending functionality and web best practices. Leveraged KPI’s, prototyping & timelines to deliver a refined visionary approach that addressed the requirements of consumers and stakeholders alike. Focused on connecting dots that improved overall product flow & revenue performance. • Delivered engaging and thought provoking presentations to all executive staff as we moved forward with a complete brand and product overhaul.• Wired and defined current and future product functionality for cross department usage.• Worked collaboratively with marketing, product and engineering to capture any and all product and user interaction needs, set timelines, refine deliverables and launch campaigns.• Created company wide standards for branding as well as internal and external email template with usage guidelines.

Santa Monica, California, Us

Headed up Creative Direction and product initiatives (Fin-tech). Designed all versions of the mobile application complete with logic flow and standards compliance for iPhone, Android and Blackberry. Utilized multiple unique and visionary concepts to improve and make projects more intuitive.• Managed all creative needs for growing startup that expanded from 1 – 10 employees to over 70 in one year, spanning 4 countries.• Designed and coded initial web personality with multi language support to be integrated with database.• Regularly worked closely with growing engineering teams to implement new user interface concepts and features over aggressive timelines.• Conducted & participated in meetings to collect engineering, market and user feedback to design more intuitive mobile versions and improve cross platform UX.• Created sales and marketing strategies to help evolve the brand and generate more engaging interaction for both user and merchant.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Lead creative for multiple unique and visionary project concepts. Responsible for UI, interface strategy, graphic design and frontend coding.• Helped develop a new web based revenue arm utilizing leading industry software elements.• Constantly researching new web tech, apps and usability evolutions for increased web-user experiences.

Serving as a UI designer & developer, headed up overall collateral for the foundation and consistently generated new media, websites, presentations, print material and ads for varied usage at the foundation. • Helped foundation raise money by utilizing relevant web technologies.• Designed a protocol specific web portal for the research and maintenance of varied studies.

Beverly Hills, Ca, Us

Worked on Myspace Transmission project to bolster music interaction by user base.Focused on UI design and Action-scripting for varied clients and entertainment mediums such as:- Acura, Honda, So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing With The Stars, etc.

Serving as a UI,UX designer and developer for varied clients with a plethora of stylistic and design concepts that they wish to have captured and represented via the web. Responsible for implementation of all search engine related initiatives; such as Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing and Social Media Optimization.• Designed multiple websites for unique customers with exacting themes.• Applied varied SMO, SEO and SEM campaigns to increase client visibility and gross revenue on average of 35%.• Created custom characters, graphics and templates for future consistent usage by the company.

Served as the design convergence for the SEO, marketing and development department. Responsible for the generation of new concepts for all front-end projects throughout company.• Designed a custom user-interface for new online application.• Generated various banners, ads and promos for online marketing with affiliates.• Successfully integrated investor and company feedback to establish a unanimously applauded business model with multiple options for revenue.• Worked with team to implement eCommerce best business practices to ensure maximum efficiency.

New York, Ny, Us

Coordinate meetings geared to capture the design aspirations of a client. Generate comps and workable samples. Create project estimates. Finalize design goals and recreate the final project for the web or interactive CD.• Repositioned and developed new corporate branding for retailer looking to carve out niche and grow aggressively.• Worked with several entrepreneurial businesses to develop corporate presence and ensuing collateral.• Designed innovative websites geared to allow clients the ability to update and revise without having an extensive knowledge of software or programming languages.

Recruited to lead design marketing strategies for company. Maintain, review and update E-commerce traffic logs for maximum site usability. Established working relationships with Yahoo, Google and other high-end search engines. Obtained and created product shots for featured items. Procured product information and pricing. Created and adjusted website templates. • Revised online information. Created internal and external promotional advertisements for web and print.• Trained team on new and updated features while staying actively engaged in the oversight, redesign, and implementation of all related tasks.

Digital Communication And Media/Multimedia

High School/Secondary Diploma Programs