Cassandra Allen Email & Phone Number

United States

Lake Oswego, Or, Us

Engaged as a Senior UX/UI Designer on a contractual basis to revamp a substantial financial web application pivotal in processing loans and subsidiaries for agencies and students at KinderCare Learning Centers. Collaborated closely with Product Owners to enhance the user experience and interface of the Billing and Payments responsive mobile app, implementing requested updates.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Hired as part of the Human Centered Design team as a contractor to design wearable and smart device interfaces for the manufacturing workers and managers in the electric car department. Recent projects include: an IOS mobile app design for Process Mobile Coaches to receive alerts when vehicle lines are down and to improve communication with the line workers. Also, recently finished a 22 page story board for the Work Station of Tomorrow project walking through pain points and possible solutions for workers in the work stations using new wearable devices.

New York, New York, Us

Temp freelance hire as part of the Cox.com internet team to help re-design the TV Learn Center pages as well as to ideate and conduct design exploration for the Shop Mobile section of the website. I collaborated with a team of designers to ensure consistent brand across landing and shop pages. Also, created a series of icons for client review.

Washington, Dc, Us

Hired as the Senior UX/UI Designer on the Public websites and Decision Tools teams to design responsive online tools and websites for Veterans. These projects included: The online harassment reporting tool, My VA dashboard, UI design search tool consistency and the VA Outreach and Events page. I collaborated closely with accessibility, development and content and worked in an agile work environment to complete each task. I also created prototypes in In Vision that were used for discovery and design research for Veterans.

Hired as the Senior Visual Designer to design responsive websites for medical and medical device clients. Created wireframes as well as high-fidelity mockups that incorporated a color palette and logo provided by the Creative Director. I also created click through prototypes for client and content reviews. I created iconography, graphics and chose photography for each website design. I used google and web safe fonts such as font awesome.

Carlsbad, California, Us

Hired as the Senior Visual Designer to design responsive product pages and email campaigns for Nixon.com I worked closely with the design studio to incorporate custom life style and product photography on the eCommerce website. I also created the men’s and women’s brand pages for Amazon.com.

Somerville, Massachusetts, Us

Hired as the Senior Visual Designer as part of the UX team to redesign an online COPD tool for a large pharmaceutical client in Germany. The goal of this tool was to improve the COPD patients quality of life by tracking medication, exercise and self-care. I collaborated closely with the Senior UX designer, UX manager, content writers and a team of researchers. I created a calming look and feel for the patients that was incorporated into the high-fidelity mock ups, color palette and photography. I also created custom illustrations and iconography.

Boston, Ma, Us

Hired as the Senior Visual Designer to redesign their patent software interface. I collaborated with the UX team and product owners to not only re-vamp the look and feel of the software but also to improve the user experience as well. This involved client interviews with Sony, Disney and Toyota executives, as well as user research and white boarding sessions to uncover key areas of use and any pain points. I was also responsible for accessibility to ensure that we met color contrast requirements.

Boston, Ma, Us

Hired as UX & Visual Designer to redesign a client website PC Connection. Worked directly with the client onsite 2 days a week. Responsible for style guide, high fidelity mock-ups and weekly client and stakeholder presentations. Also took part in weekly user testing.

Boston, Ma, Us

Hired as the UX & Visual Designer to design an estate planning tool which was a responsive website optimized for tablet users and the senior demographic. Responsible for creative direction, style guide, pattern library, managed two mid-level designers as well as an illustrator for icons and parallax page animation. Worked in an agile work flow and set up daily scrum check-ins and lead weekly client presentations.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Hired as a contract Senior Visual Designer to redesign various responsive web sites, tools and mobile apps for Merrill Lynch, Bank of America and U.S. Trust. Managed a team of designers as well as worked closely with the developers, business teams and UX designers. Responsible for style guide, and weekly client and stakeholder presentations.

Irvine, California, Us

Hired as the Digital Art Director for the redesign of the WrinkleMD website. Also took part in product design, store display and posters for Ulta Beauty, Harrods and Bloomingdales.

Scottsdale, Us

Responsible for the redesign of the main website for from wireframe design to creation of full scale interface designs for the responsive website. Also designed sister sites such as Purpose Driven. Responsible for style guide, and weekly stakeholder presentations, managed a team of designers.

Livonia, Michigan, Us

Successfully redesigned the RedPlum.com site targeted to coupon moms, educating and enabling them to have easier access to coupons and articles about better ways to save. Oversaw all digital design efforts and delivery for RedPlum.com. Managed a team designers with the design and development of various banner ads, e-mail campaigns, and micro-sites.

Laguna Beach, California, Us

Hired to design various websites, microsites and email campaigns for clients such as Walter’s Auto Mercedes, Audi and Porsche. Managed junior designers, and worked closely with developers and marketing team. Led stakeholder and client presentations.

Boston, Ma, Us

Created and designed new client proposal flash shows for thePrincipal Architects to present to potential clients such as: General Electric, Wentworth Institute, Spaulding and Sly, and ING.Responsible for the maintenance of company website, as well as interface design for external clients such as Opas Las Vegas, Kalisto, and The Rath Group.Designed and prepared award booklets and submissions, designed logos, advertisements, party invitations, lobby banners and displays etc.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Worked in collaboration with the creative director to re-design the corporate web site. Participated in creative meetings and handled the production of the lower level web pages in both flash and photoshop. Tested the game build for Sony PlayStation game console.

Bachelors, Web Design & Multimedia

Certificate, Adventure Recreation

Certificate

Certificate, User Experience