Bryan Mcfadden Email & Phone Number

Reston, VA, US

Hired as a Sr. UX Designer for creating a government contract funding seed, quickly adopted the Power Platform to become a member of the creative solutions team. Specializing in UX, design systems, frameworks and custom control implementations, various government and commercial projects are developed in the Power Platform/Dynamics365 application.

Minneapolis, MN, US

Hired by Concord as a Sr. UX Designer to work on Delta Airlines Crew Mod (Modernization) application.

• Hired as a UX Researcher for the U.S. Forest Service Christmas Tree ePermit Project to evaluate research as business and design needs dictate according to the phases of Agile product development. My previous contract.
• Independently design, run/moderate and analyze usability studies, via online remote sessions.
• Prepare and deliver compelling presentations of findings and recommendations for improvements to stakeholders at all levels.
• Work directly with the development team to create production ready assets using Angular, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS (SASS).

• Brought on as the UX lead for the HUD – Disaster Data Project to define, design and document the user experience.
• Created wireframes and designed the entire UI foundation for the HUD - Disaster Data Portal.
• Conveyed UX design strategies, concepts, proposals and deliverables to business partners through daily remote presentations while also leading remote user discovery and stakeholder workshops.
• Produced information architecture, task flows and page schematics for product owner review.
• Supported UX design implementation for the development team by taking charge of front-end development using tools including HTML, CSS, JavaScript (VueJS), Less and Bootstrap.

Dallas, TX, US

• Rehired as a UX Designer (employed 2011-2016), I focused on the internal IT (RAFT) Resource Allocation and Financial Tracking application.
• Developed information architecture, task flows, navigation, site maps, wireframes, mock-ups and prototypes based on product owner requirements and user research data.
• Conducted user card-sorting exercises and created affinity diagrams to validate UX information Architecture strategies.
• Ensured mock-ups met both visual and textual branding standards through creation and ownership of the platform style guides and documentation.
• Developed adaptive layouts to maintain a consistent user experience across products.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Hired as a UX Researcher, I designed the UX and developed prototypes for all projects within the NTM (Notice – to – Mariners) government contract.
• Conducted off-site UX workshops and contextual interviews to gather user data and requirements.
• Created personas, task analysis and flows, competitive analysis, wireframes and simulations while attending weekly remote requirements gathering sessions with business analysts.
• Created user stories for UX deliverables in an agile lifecycle environment.
• Developed prototypes and web pages by using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, (JWT) JSON Web Tokens and RequireJS.

Dallas, TX, US

• Earned an expeditious promotion to Director of User Experience by championing user-centered design principles throughout the organization advocating for simple, innovative and intuitive user interfaces and standards.
• Mentored a team of UX designers while evangelizing client trust through transparency of the UX process.
• Defined and integrated best practices and standards related to UX across the organizational structure.
• Created rapid simulations for stakeholder review and presentations using the tool iRise.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

Contract lead UI/UX developer for the NBOK (Nuclear Book of Knowledge) project. Mobile designs were created that allowed leadership quick access to documents stored within a Sharepoint environment.

Hanover, MD, US

• Team lead for user interfacing within 15+ applications in daily use. (U.S. Army Reserves RLAS Application)
• Prototyped UI elements, created custom server controls (C#.NET) and studied human interaction via color theories and design.
• Required Secret Security Clearance – Transferred 4/10 (Expires 8/16)

Falls Church, VA, US

Helped in migration and support of flash and ColdFusion applications into.NET platform.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

3D Studio Max, Photoshop and Illustrator graphics while also programming and creating Adobe Flash applications supporting in-store employee e-learning projects.

A.A., 3D Animation

High School Diploma, Airbrush Design

A.A. In 3D Computer Animation, Graphic Design/Animation/Computer Science/Multimedia