J Gingold Email & Phone Number

Wilmington, Delaware, US

Summit, MS, US

• Loss Run Solutions is a privately-held B2B insurance services company providing specialized tools and services to commercial insurance agencies. As Head of Technology and Design, I helmed the modernization of their.
• Led design and development of "next-gen" successor to LRS's legacy software-as-a-service product
• Co-developed product strategy with CEO to help reposition LRS among a growing field of competitors
• Analyzed decade-plus accumulation of undocumented PHP code and database contents to isolate and extract critical data structures and business logic
• Developed phased transition plan to transform software architecture and replace outmoded infrastructure with minimal customer disruption
• Directed and project-managed external design and engineering team — Set high-level direction for design and engineering consultants — Distilled business requirements into functional specifications — Managed product.

• At Karmic Labs, I joined a growing fintech company with a corporate payments and expense management product as it navigated the transition from an engineering-centered pre-launch startup to a sustainable business with.
• Developed automation and templates to empower Karmic’s marketing team to largely self-serve most routine design deliverables, freeing design staff to direct more energy toward advancing the core product.
• Built strong relationships with engineering staff and senior engineering management, enabling me to work closely with both to ensure the undisrupted flow of critical information between designers and developers as the.
• To reduce the frequency of velocity-killing design roadblocks for developers working on routine bugfixes and enhancements, initiated an effort to document and standardize common UI components and layouts, laying the.
• Designed, developed, and maintained multiple websites for our core product and white-label partnerships.

US

• As the first dedicated UX hire at SFCU, I was charged with refining the user experience of the credit union’s digital products and services to meet the expectations of an increasingly tech-savvy member base, while.
• Designed the user experience and managed technical implementation and deployment of a top-to-bottom overhaul of SFCU’s corporate website while transitioning the site from static pages to a WordPress-based custom CMS..
• Developed a coherent set of front-end patterns (design and code) to enable seamless integration of custom data sources and functionality into a closed-source online banking platform via dynamic client-side inserts and.
• Led discovery and UX design for a long-awaited web interface to SFCU’s international wire transfer service, enabling members to easily initiate transfers without physical access to a branch.

Stanford, California, US

• Over the course of my time with Digital & Data Services at the SAA, I helped evolve the department into a capable internal digital agency partnered closely with the Marketing & Creative Services department to provide.
• Provided technological and design expertise as a member of a cross-functional, cross-department team (alongside content strategy, brand management, and project management) tasked with conceiving and developing the.
• Implemented and administrated web analytics tools including Google Analytics and Piwik/Matomo. Using a mixture of quantitative and qualitative analysis, produced actionable insights from available data, and supported.

Stanford, California, US

• As part of a complete functional and visual redesign of the Stanford Alumni Association website and alumni portal, lead a hybrid team of on-site front-end development contractors and staff content producers in.
• Reworked UX design of key components of the in-house–developed CMS (used to manage the alumni website and portal) to reduce cognitive friction for content editors and streamline common production workflows for an.

Stanford, California, US

• Developed print-to-web workflows and automation for Stanford Magazine’s online edition, all but eliminating the potential for manual production errors while cutting production time by nearly 50%; eventually enabling.

CA, 95010, US

• As BayFed’s first on-staff web designer/developer/administrator, I was principally responsible for managing its marketing website and maintaining and enhancing its online banking service. As a member of a team of IT.
• Working closely with the CTO, developed the specifications and RFQ for a project to integrate unobtrusive biometrics—based on users' unique typing profiles—into the authentication flow for online banking, in order to.

CA, 95010, US

• Developed, deployed, and maintained extensive local modifications to the vendor-supplied online banking component of BFCU’s core banking system, delivering functionality, usability, and visual polish not achievable.
• Designed, built, and refined internal tools to support frontline and back-office staff, ranging from a web-based timecard tool and in-house ticket tracking system to a custom digital signature pad integration and.
• Developed and deployed a custom Gentoo-based “live CD” Linux distribution to power a fleet of secure, low-maintenance online banking kiosks using inexpensive consumer computing hardware, providing additional self-serve.
• Built an in-house networked digital signage system using flat-panel televisions driven by consumer computing hardware and presentation software, fed by an rsync-based content server with additional dynamic content.

CA, 95010, US

• Updated information architecture and visual/interface design of BFCU marketing website to better surface relevant and timely information to the home page, promote online banking via a ubiquitous login interface, and.
• Designed and built self-service loan calculators and other interactive tools to promote BFCU financial products.
• Administrated Apache and IIS web servers for internal and member-facing websites and applications.

Santa Cruz, CA, US

• Architected, designed, and developed websites and applications for campus administrative units.
• Maintained and administrated internal and public-facing web servers (Apache/MySQL/PHP on Solaris and NetBSD).
• Provided helpdesk support for faculty and administrative users.
• Trained and mentored student web developers.

Santa Cruz, CA, US

• Working across multiple organizational units, provided design coordination and project management for a complete redesign, re-architecture, and content refresh of the CATS Instructional Computing website and service.
• Developed web/digital, print, and video material for internal projects and faculty/administrative clients.
• Trained and supported faculty in the use of University computing and technical resources to develop their own digital course materials, websites, print materials, and video content.