Chris Alvarez Email & Phone Number

United States

Wilmington, MA, US

After finding success as a UX designer, I was given an opportunity to lead design and strategy in a whole new way: becoming a product manager. As the company grows, many of our products are moving towards a self-led, e-commerce-enabled experience that looks less like B2B and more like B2C. I found the challenge intriguing, so I said yes.In this role, I've.

Wilmington, MA, US

• My focus area was an $80MM line of business that handles regulatory reporting and sees billions of transactions per year passing through our core systems. In my role as UX architect, I was given broad autonomy and a.
• An AI-enhanced tool for applying tax category codes to large product data sets
• A self-led, hybrid experience that handled onboarding for new enterprise customers
• Redesign of a service-backed tax filing experienceFun fact: I started right as COVID hit (and we all went remote) so I was also given the opportunity to contribute to some meaningful remote culture improvements.🍄.

Boulder, Colorado, US

I started RAD Summit with two other experience designers because we shared the belief that there's a better way to inspire, teach, and challenge people who are craving a way to grow as professionals and as individuals.RAD Summit was a camp-style conference which meant the 100+ attendees were assigned cabins in the mountains of Colorado, creating the.

Sanford, Florida, US

• In this role, I focused on driving product improvements while scaling the design team's impact across the company. Key achievements included:
• Developing a full, interactive prototype, demoing a new customer experience at CES (2018)
• Fully redesigning a legacy Windows application, to include advanced data visualization and hardware connectivity.
• Developing and facilitating internal training and workshops
• Recruiting and hiring top-tier design talent
• Gaining deep understanding of systems supporting products and customers

Sanford, Florida, US

• As UX Design Lead I was responsible for establishing a product design culture through design evangelism, education and execution. In this role, I successfully:
• Led product design initiatives on many new customer-facing products
• Built a foundation for scaling a design team and hired our second UX designer
• Led multiple products demos with customer executives and leaders
• Designed and demoed our first mass-consumer product concept at CES2018
• Collaborated with marketing to create a voice for our Enterprise solution

San Francisco, California, US

Pivotal (Pivotal Labs) heavily embraced the ethos of "eXtreme Programming" (XP) which meant I worked within a small team of two developers, a junior designer and a product manager on each project. With my development background, I'd often jump in with a developer "pair" to adjust styles live in code.Similar to Slice of Lime (which was acquired by Pivotal).

Boulder, CO, US

In this role, I led numerous, complex user experience design projects for clients ranging from small startups to multi-national medical device companies such as Medtronic and large enterprises such as Google. I directly facilitated client discovery sessions and crafted, coordinated and conducted in-depth user research for mobile, web and other digital.

In this role, I was responsible for interface development and programming using HTML5, CSS3 and advanced Javascript within the Play! Java framework. In this fast-paced startup environment, I learned quickly, planning features and application enhancements across multiple platforms and devices including mobile.I conducted user research to inform my efforts.

• Rationale was built by myself and three other members of the interactive team from The Atkins Group. While we produced some amazing work for clients, we ultimately had to face the harsh reality that running an agency.
• A social-media enhanced microsite for SeaWorld San Antonio where park visitors could upload a selfie to the web portal, and other visitors could vote on which photo they liked the best. If selected, the selfie appeared.
• A highly-interactive Flash-based (yes, that Flash) simulator for a local energy company. This microsite allowed users to experiment with various energy sources to create a supply that balanced costs, output, emissions.
• An iPad app for a large beauty product company that allowed in-store representatives to find the right product for customers.
• A 3D microsite for a new distilled-spirits company🍄 Career power-up: Starting a company

Urbana, IL, US

• Designed and developed front-end experiences using PHP, HTML, Javascript and AS3 (Flash).
• Produced sitemaps, wireframes and user-flows🍄 Career power-up: This is where I started my UX career (before UX was a common term)

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Conducted client/SME (including C-Level Executives) interviews to determine educational objectives
• Conducted usability testing sessions for beta products with students.
• Developed performance development programs for executives
• Developed front-end UI template/standards for online education material
• Developed and programmed front-end UI solutions for media management within my department (Custom Flash Media Catalog).🍄 Career power-up: First experience working for a large enterprise

• Developed custom UI for a broad range of student material for digital classroom presentations.
• Worked in the field alongside military instructors, determining the most effective ways to present required training material.
• Served as videographer through numerous training scenarios in the field.🍄 Career power-up: Combining full creative license with structured education

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