Christopher West Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

AWS Panorama - Computer vision at the edge

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Lead UX designer in charge of creating educational user-centric solutions & launching retail products for children in homes & classrooms across mobile & web.-Web based SaaS tools for Teacher to Teacher & Teacher to Student.-Perform user research and collect feedback from target audience to develop products.-Collaborate with a small team of creatives & engineers.-Wireframe & produce child friendly user interfaces.-Perform in office user testing and also testing in classrooms.-Work with engineers throughout implementation and QA team.-Making fun products that teach children of various age groups how to program using state machines, blocks & javascript.Selected Accomplishments:• Greatly improved intuitiveness of the onboarding experience for our main app Wonder for Dash. Collected feedback and tested designs in order to better guide and teach children on how to use the challenge system & state machine programming interface. Through a few months of user testing we were able to see both new and existing users get a better and quicker understanding of the app feature capabilities.https://www.makewonder.com/dash• Produced & delivered an app experience for our new robot named Cue targeted for children 11 and above. Worked with a small team to create an experience that encompassed various robot avatars with a chat system, account system & two different coding paradigm features. Collaborated with an engineering team from Microsoft to cohesively integrate the Makecode(.com) framework into our product.• Created Cue for Education by taking our previous product for home audiences and adapting the UX for teachers and students. Worked with our education team to collect feedback and interview teachers to understand their needs. Adapted the flows and designs alongside an account system that allowed for device sharing & cloud saving. We also adapted the product as a progressive web app that would work well on Chromebooks and Win10 computers.

Glendale, California, Us

Manage a small team of two senior UX/UI designers. Lead large products that require road-mapping, precise scoping, and prioritization in order to deliver under tight deadlines. Create innovative, immersive, and holistic experiences for target audience.Review feature documentation and translate them into user flows, wireframes, and prototypes.Create high-quality visuals that are aligned with Disney branding and deliver them integration-readyto engineers. Improved the production pipeline by identifying the needs of the UI team as well as that of the other disciplines.Selected Accomplishments:• Continuously identified strategies to evolve and advance visual style and usability.Consistently improved output and quality by reviewing team workflow.• Strengthened the UI team by providing ownership and responsibility, improvingUI pipeline with engineers, and consolidating knowledge through documentation.• Championed a mobile-first approach for a cross-platform and cross-device supportto seamlessly translate games to mobile.

Glendale, California, Us

Oversaw online social game properties Pirates of the Caribbean (FB & Mobile), Armies of Magic, City of Wonder, and intermittently Disney Animal Kingdom. Translated game design specifications into compelling and intuitive user experiences and interfaces. Partnered with producers, game designers, engineers, and artists through all stages of production.Selected Accomplishments:• Successfully adapted new product to cater to an untapped target audience while leveraging existing company and industry usability and UX standards.• Significantly improved the product’s monetization flows by identifying data provided by the monetization team.

Design and production of online media: flash minisites, banner campaigns, xHTML websites.AS3 oop development using design patterns such as MVC.User experience conception through wire framing and rapid prototyping.

Paris, Ile-De-France, Fr

Producing and integrating weekly and monthly themes for various in-house web sites, banners, newsletters.Extracting and updating database entries and relaying information with a team of business developers located in France.

Production of full flash mini websites and flash animations focused on advertising campaigns for clients such as Renault, Orange, Petit Bateau.

Licence Professionnelle (Niveau Ii), Cdnl (Valedictorian), Multimedia

Licence, Multimedia

Bachelor'S Degree, Visual Communication (Honors)

Baccalauréat Es, Sociale Sciences And Economics