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Boston, Ma, Us

Shrewsbury, Ma

Specializing in developing component libraries, marketing websites, and product UIs. Always keeping in mind accessibility, user experience, responsiveness, and code performance. Worked with clients in financial, medical device, higher education, ecommerce, SaaS, and other industries. Experience navigating front-end code inside of various platforms: Java, .NET, Adobe AEM, etc. The focus is on front-end development (CSS, JS, HTML) with the ability to fill the gaps in UX and visual design when needed (IA, wireframes, mockups, animations).

Beverly, Massachusetts, United States

Working on improving UX and performance across multiple devices of a complex financial product built in ASP.NET. Supporting development of new features by designing wireframes and building responsive code for the front-end. Upgraded front-end JS libraries from old high-security-risk code to the latest versions. Refreshed visual styles in addition to upgrading product UI to the latest Bootstrap version.

Marlborough, Ma

Working as a part of a team to translate a new design system into a new component library for multiple company’s web properties. Creating new microsite themes and customizing core components for Adobe AEM. Making web animations and providing other design support.Led two teams of offsite front-end developers to create a complex components system for multiple websites/themes. Worked with external Adobe AEM team to coordinate back-end implementation of new components in their CMS system. Built and wrote content for UI client-facing style guides for multiple themes.

Salem, Ma

Building mobile-first responsive web apps and websites for clients such as BJ's, Northeastern University, Natixis, Akamai, and VistaPrint.

Waltham, Ma

Shifted professional focus from design to development. Joined the team of web developers and engineers that provide support for non-product website properties such as an acquisition website, landing pages, blogs, communities, etc. Building and supporting pages using HTML, CSS/LESS, JavaScript (plus jQuery, Angular), Bootstrap, dotCMS, Git and other tools and technologies.

Waltham, Ma

Constant Contact is a leading email marketing provider for over 500K small businesses customers. Recently the company added Social Campaigns and SaveLocal to their online marketing services suite. Publically traded company (CTCT) since October 2007.Responsible for the navigation, organization, interaction and visual design for company’s marketing web properties. Lead all user research activities for prospect-facing websites, including remote and on-site usability testing and user interviews, online participant recruitment and unmoderated testing using various online UX tools and services. Applied user-centered design methods to translate user needs, business objectives, and technology capabilities into world-class user experiences. Lead design of website properties through several major changes related to company’s service expansion.

Waltham, Ma

In addition to leading visual and user experience design work took on team management responsibilities. Managed and mentored a team of three direct reports consisting of web designers and front-end web developers as well as a couple of contractors on as-needed basis. • Working with product owner, marketing and engineering website managers, and an outside agency led the team through a major website redesign. Starting with participation in conducting series of usability tests and focus groups helped create new user experience and website architecture, led development of the new website branding, effectively organized the team to meet the project deadline, was hands-on with creating wireframes, sitemaps, design mockups, coding website pages and other work necessary to complete project successfully.

Waltham, Ma

Besides being a lead web designer for main customer acquisition website, community, landing pages, partner websites and other marketing-focused web properties, provided creative direction to other team members, aided in project management, and led execution of user experience initiatives.

Waltham, Ma

Started out in a contract position designing and developing email templates for company's email marketing service. After fulfilling the initial contract was offered a full-time web designer position in the team working on main customer acquisition website (www.constantcontact.com).• Actively participated in developing and executing marketing initiatives: website A/B split testing, search engine optimization, launch of various marketing programs and campaigns.• Lead designer on website redesign project. Being limited by existing website architecture developed design that improved information organization within website pages, enhanced appeal to small business target market, and supported new company branding initiative.

Shrewsbury, Ma

Worked on- and off-site with various small and medium-sized companies in marketing, technology, financial and other industries. Provided a wide range of services from branding system development and print collaterals design to user experience design and web development and support.

Lexington, Ma

e-Dialog was a leading email marketing provider for Fortune 500 companies. Designed, developed and implemented various HTML and Flash-based e-mail and web marketing materials (e-mail newsletters, banners, mini web sites and landing pages, etc.). Troubleshooted browser and email client compatibility issues.

Waverley, Ma

Provided graphic and web design support for all company projects.

Continuing Education, Marketing, Business, Writing

Continuing Education, User Experience, Usability Testing, Human Factors

Certificate, Front-End Web Developer Nanodegree

Project-based paid online certification. Focused on building working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Various online courses.

3-Day Course, How To Design For Persuasion, Emotion, And Trust (Pet Design)

Teaches to develop persuasive strategies and implement research-based methods throughout the design process to make websites more.

Certificate, Computer Graphics

Masters, Special Education And Educational Psychology