Daniel Merrill Email & Phone Number

Douglasville, Ga, Us

Foxhall is a resort destination for events, weddings, sporting excursions, and corporate retreats.• Implemented Generative Artificial Intelligence to create agents to streamline and improve sales process.• Manage implementation, setup, onboarding, and training for new technologies meant to increase productivity as well as overall success of the resort.• Stepped into more of a Project Management role• Evaluate, design, and develop consumer facing digital experiences for both website and mobile applications (iOS and Android).• Produced wireframes and mockups for the conceptual native app in Adobe Illustrator.• Created responsive website using CSS, SCSS, and HTML.• Defined the new sales process based on the new online booking experience.• Facilitate meetings with the president of the company on a multitude of things including advising on future technological investment opportunities such as a crowd funding venture we took on.

Networked.ai is a social event platform that personalizes events to users specific interests; Encourages connection with other users on the platform with similar interests, industries, and networks.• Started the app from concept of the idea to the fully developed prototype.• Tools used to design this app encompassed Userflows, Personas, Scenarios, Style guides, wireframes, Hi-fidelity mockups, UX Discoveries, UX Research, and rapid prototypes.• Developed a multi-tiered business strategy for the company to maximize revenue.

Feature Live was an app meant to create and stream live broadcasts, concerts, events; Book celebrities for live performances and private video calls. Similar to Cameo, but in real time.• Worked closely with the CEO and a small design/development team.• Tools used to design this app encompassed Userflows, Personas, Scenarios, Hi-fidelity mockups, UX Discoveries, UX Research, and rapid prototypes.

• Managed and organized meetings with department heads and staff to ensure everyone worked together as harmoniously as possible.• Strategized and negotiated many key partnerships to help keep the resort ahead of the competition.• Implemented changes and additions to many different technologies which resulted in significant increases in productivity, interdepartmental cooperation, and higher ratings to name a few.• Set up new standard operating procedures for different departments within the resort which resulted in operations running more smoothly.• Resolved guests and groups problems and concerns quickly, efficiently, and courteously to their satisfaction.• Discovered and eliminated many redundancies which resulted in saving lots of resources, time, and money.

Jinja, Uganda, Us

Akola is a nonprofit whose mission is to empower women and help to transform their lives and communities they live in.• Improve, design and develop the consumer facing products and pages for Akola's Shopify website incorporating a variety of UX & UI tools such as User research/scenarios to find the best ways to reach people and have Akola's story touch them in a unique way; Use cases and user flows to ensure the users are able to enjoy seamless navigation throughout the site; StyleTiles to make sure the site has a consistent style with it's typography, colors, and overall mood; Wireframing and mockups so the responsive design of the site keeps a sense of continuity. • Facilitate meetings with Akola's marketing/branding team to be sure they maintain the right direction with their digital presence in order to maximize their overall impact.• Have begun to take the necessary steps to create a mobile app(IOS and Android)

Austin, Tx, Us

Eagle Eye Networks is a surveillance company on the cutting edge of cloud based video surveillance.• Designed a mobile application that allows security technicians to go through installation processes over 50% faster than normal on average. The tools used in creating this app included User research to identify the problems and pitfalls in the installation process; Use cases & User flows to ensure the steps were organized in the most efficient way possible; Wireframes; Hi-Fidelity mockups; Outside the box thinking to come up with some pretty creative ways for the app to identify the different cameras that were being installed along with some creative interaction design for the installers using the app.• Chosen to be on an exclusive team to create Eagle Eye’s second product to date called the Transaction Auditing System. These responsibilities included formulating marketing tactics; creating user personas, scenarios, use cases, and user flows; Designing the User Interface for the web-app, .• Redesigned Eagle Eye’s Wordpress website which included a full site recording and redesign after identifying all problems with functionality, User interface, and navigation. This project included visual design elements, HTML, and CSS development.• Redesigned Eagle Eye’s Web-App by creating many Hi-fidelity mockups and iterations of those mockups to improve usability and intuitive interactions for the clients.• Created a heat map of the world and the locations around the world that utilize Eagle Eye’s services.• Responsible for designing all Data Sheets & Catalogs for the different products offered such as Managed Switches, Bridges, CMVR’s, etc. This was done with adobe InDesign.• In charge of creating the Marketing campaign banner for Eagle Eye and sister company Brivo for upcoming American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) EXPO; As well as many customized promotional ads and mockups targeting specific companies.

Los Angeles, California, Us

MeWe is the first private collaboration platform and socialnetwork. Think facebook with the privacy of dropbox.• Drastically improved the “Groups” platform by creating a much more ascetically pleasing and user friendly platform with many different advanced permissions. The tools I used for this project included User research, User Personas, User flows, StyleTiles, Wireframes, and Hi-fidelity mockups for both the web-app and mobile app(IOS and Android).• Created an intuitive advanced search that allowed the user to find exactly what they needed without having to leave the page they were currently on. This included Use cases, competitor research/analysis, user research, Wireframes, and Hi-fidelity mockups for both the web-app and mobile app(IOS and Android)

Rental U was a virtual apartment locator service that I was asked to design and create. The idea behind it was to create an app with a seamless experience to help the user find an apartment in the area that they wanted, and allow that user to use the app to also book a tour with an apartment locator that would meet them there.• Conceptual native application mockups designed in Adobe Illustrator and prototype designed in Pixate/InVision.• The project encompassed a wide range of UI and UX discoveries, planning, design, and prototyping.

Situs was an app that allowed it’s users to interactively see what venues their friends were at in real time, see what was going on with their friends at that venue with a snapshot, and to see what cool places they had been visiting throughout their day. • Started the app from the concept all the way to the fully developed app for IOS.• Tools used to design this app encompassed many UI & UX discoveries, wireframes, Hi-fidelity mockups, and rapid prototypes.• Developed in Swift using API’s, SDK’s, geolocation, multiple frameworks, social feeds, and Parse for the backend.

Mobile Engineering, Ios Development

User Interface Design, Ui/Ux Design

Business, Business Management

Business

Generative Artificial Intelligence Llms

Real Estate Agent, Real Estate