Derek Ryan Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Remote

In this span of time I started as a design lead to help manage and add 6 designers to a existing project. The additional designers were added to the project to deliver designs faster to the several cross-functional teams and to help introduce specialized UX roles based on the team needs.• Conducted weekly internal critique meetings for designers to collaborate and discuss.• Organized Agile ceremony meetings like standups, retrospectives, backlog refinements, and etc• Mentored junior designers, fostering continuous learning, and collaboration• Introduced additional upstream style check-in meetings to involve client earlier in the design process.• Worked with other venders on a project to help further improve consistency by merging design systems.• Helped product owners to refine stories and gather requirements for design needs.• Wrote design stories for product owners occasionally. • Organized internal projects• Worked on pitch decks to seek out new clients

Remote

The first couple of years I operated as the only UX resource to support several cross-functional teams so they're able to build and enable various commerce features.• Introduced 5 design systems for a larger organization that needed to support multiple brands of their own using existing brand guidelines to increase consistency and efficiency. • Introduced discovery sprints as a part of the process before designing a larger feature. • Suggested various improvements to help guide product owners on what to prioritize in the backlog. • Participated in roadmap sessions and planning meetings with clients to help prioritize backlog.• Advocated for data driven or proven design guidelines or patterns to help understand how a feature should be designed instead allowing business stakeholders to make decisions based on feeling. Used various research methods for discovery to help and mature design process for our client. Which includes: • AB Testing• Benchmarking• Heuristic Evaluations • Idea Trees• Prototypes• Persona's • Usability Testing• User Journeys • Operated in SAFe Agile framework to efficiently conduct handoff to other teams.• Identified and reported accessibility issues that could be fixed. • Created responsive layouts to accommodate various devices. • Designed reusable and authorable components for Adobe Experience Manager. (AEM)

Bloomingdale, Il

Worked closely with web developers, video editors, and social media strategists.• Established branding identity with clients that had lack of direction and organization.• Utilized data merge to produce variable layered documents in InDesign ready for production. • Photographed people, products, food, and would post-edit using Lightroom and Photoshop. • Worked closely with web developers, supplied them with mood boards, wire-frames, UI style, icons, visual elements, and web-ready content. • Created campaigns and graphics to use on multiple social media platforms for scheduled posts.• Worked with video editors to create any graphics needed for projects.

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

Worked on a design team creating promotional materials for both the university and its clients.• Primarily used InDesign, but also utilized Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom, and Bridge.• Attended client meetings to discuss concept.• Discussed ideas and routed designs to other team members to review.• Kept in touch with clients via email, and would send proofs and guide them.• Produced multiple formats of designs to accommodate print, LCD displays, and web.

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

Worked collaboratively to design a set of promotional materials which include brochures, posters, postcards, and buttons.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Graphic Design

Associate'S Degree, General Studies