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Kill Devil Hills, Nc, Us

• Leading efforts in discovery and usability research to understand advisor and client needs• Maintaining strong knowledge of design standards, industry guidelines, and best practices while pushing the boundaries to uncover new and distinctive solutions• Maintaining open lines of communication to ensure project goals are met on time• Designing and delivering artifacts across various environments, ensuring consistency and quality with Figma and other supporting tools•Conducting and structuring UX research efforts such as analytic implementation, persona research, and competitive analysis resulting in an improved product lifecycle

• Creating responsive user interfaces that engage customers across different devices and resolutions• Establishing user-centered designs by creating user-flows and mockups to present to the product owner• Testing cross-browser functionality along with optimizing websites for performance• Conveyed design concepts and deliverables to business partners through in-person and remote presentations as well as through detailed and easily understood documentation• Designing, wireframing, and prototyping complex, interactive solutions in a very complex solution space• Working with clients to translate business problems and requirements into compelling UI's that demonstrate the power and value of rich internet experiences

• Responsible for the experience design of FindCenter.com• Creating user experiences for web platforms that are intuitive, accessible, and highly satisfying• Collaborating with product stakeholders by facilitating meetings, clearing confusion behind product requirements, and pushing designs through multi-disciplinary reviews• Generating simulations and low to high-fidelity prototypes for user testing, market research, and business stakeholder reviews with Figma, Zeplin, and Adobe Creative Suite

• Creating highly usable solutions for web based applications through business requirements, user research, established patterns, design system components and accessibility standards• Strong work ethic with an inherent sense of ownership and responsibility• Rapidly produce concepts and prototypes; distinguishing between when to build a prototype or create a hi-fidelity mockup• Collaborate with designers from different platforms to develop a holistic design for clients

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Building stable and maintainable codebases using Angular• Performing bug fixes and code review while maintaining an organized workflow using GitLab• Ensuring proper documentation through all stages of product life cycles• Implementing company design system into multiple business focus projects• Creating and pushing reusable components back into design system for entire company to use

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Creating user-centered designs for our enterprise platform, U, with careful consideration for business requirements, user feedback, and usability findings• Updating U Web with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Aria attributes to improve accessibility for all usersand responsive web design• Familiarity with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) guidelines• Significant experience with GIT and SVN versioning management. • Prototyping in Handlebars to show functionality to the team

Thomasville, Nc

• Implemented the UX & UI strategy to transition AS400 applications over to Java applications with a uniform look and feel• Responsible for designing odfl.com through wireframes, mockups, style guides, and front-end frameworks, with over 30,000 daily users• Responsible for defining style guide, pattern library and coding standards for internal enterprise applications• Working in both Agile and Waterfall software development principles• Meeting with product owners and users to create low/high fidelity mockups and gain usability testing statistics• Ability to create clickable and functional prototypes through Sketch, Invision or using front-end languages (HTML/CSS/JavaScript)• Designed a user testing plan utilizing pre-release and post-release user observation tests

Boone, Nc

• Ensuring brand guidelines are adhered to each project• Collaborating with team members to create layouts and engaging designs• Updating stylesheets and front-end code as needed