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Durham, Nc, Us

User experience design for IBM CIO Web and mobile applications.

User experience and visual design for ibm.com.

Web standards expert, focal point for IBM web teams worldwide, providing compliance guidance for design, user experience, and accessibility.User experience designer for IBM Web Design Standards.Deliver creative assets during all stages of development, from conceptual work, initial wire-framing, prototyping, and HTML mockups, through deployment.

Worked in multi-disciplinary team. designing, coding, and maintaining 6 native language web sites, with 2M unique visitors each year. (Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Vietnamese)Assessed unique requirements of local audiences in order to customize site design for each locale.Developed site designs to accommodate emerging market infrastructure, bandwidth, budget constraints, single sourcing infrastructure, site function and browser compatibility.Provided on-going training and support to remote, native language production teams, ensuring corporate, industry, security and accessibility standards met.Worked as a member of the strategy team to ensure that any new design initiatives account for regional and linguistic nuances.Managed worldwide roll out of new initiatives and designs, delivering customized solutions that meet requirements for each geography.

Designed and developed web user interface assets for IBM developerWorks, in compliance with IBM and standards. Delivered assets during all stages of development, from conceptual work, initial wire-framing, prototyping, and final HTML code. This site receives an average of 48M unique visitors each year. Led team of user interface designers to deliver customized community Web applications, including blogs, wikis, forums and profiles for IBM developerWorks. These applications were designed and developed to accommodate requirements of 7 sites, each in a different language.Participated in user studies, validating web designs and identifying user requirements.Performed cross-browser, cross-platform and accessibility testing prior to each deploy, maximizing site usability for all audiences.Utilized site analytics, competitive analysis, web trends and user research to create designs, meeting business initiatives.

Directed a team of 6 graphic designers, to deliver site graphics, marketing materials, a monthly printed magazine and tutorial user interface designs for the IBM DeveloperWorks site.Delivered creative assets during all stages of development, from concept, initial wire-framing, prototyping, through deployment. Worked with usability engineers to provide wire-frames and prototypes for usability testing and design validation. Analyzed user data from testing to incorporate user feedback into future de-sign deliverables. Collaborated with international design agencies to develop marketing campaigns and supporting collateral for IBM developerWorks. Created web and print design guidelines and specifications for IBM developerWorks organization. Responsible for ensuring brand and style consistency across all developerWorks deliverables.

Worked on cross-disciplinary team with human factors engineers, app programmers, content providers, production editors and Web UI developers to design and develop web sites for software products and online help documentation. Responsible for interface design of online tutorials for software products and interactive demos using Flash technology. Designed Web banners and ad tiles for promotion of product campaigns and IBM initiatives.Led cross-site education series to other IBM designers for web design best practices.

Responsible for visual design of IBM product marketing deliverables, including brochures, posters, magazines, trade show collateral, and product overview sheets.Worked in high volume, quick-turnaround environment. Process included initial meeting with client to determine deliverable requirements, visual design and layout, pre-press preparation of artwork and layout files, and final press approval at off-site printer.

Bachelor Of Environmental Design (Bed), Visual Design

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