John Hirleman Email & Phone Number

Chico, Ca, Us

Chico, Ca, Us

Chico, California Area

Chico, California Area

Web design and development from preconception--to complete and cohesive designs for websites and other new media.

Chico, California Area

My role as UX/UI Developer at NeedPlumbingSupplies (NeedDirect) encapsulates overall product development from conceptualization of new features to optimizing existing features for a frictionless home improvement shopping experience. I serve as the product design liaison, and champion new design patterns throughout a robust software application.Current responsibilities include:- Collaborating with development team and company stakeholders to gather project requirements.- Research current UX trends through site data collected in Google Analytics to identify where improvements can be made.- Create high level concept wire-frames and user flows from project requirements to establish a minimum viable product for future releases.- Translate wire-frames, user flows, and any relevant data to proposal documentation.- Write development roadmaps for engineers highlighting specific user interactions.- Create semantic HTML/CSS.JS markup for front end development- Actively practice and apply agile methodologies to keep new ideas flowing, and maintain a high level of team collaboration.

Chico, California Area

At DesignByHumans I am responsible for the design, documentation, and agile implementation of product features. Gather product requirements and conceptualize the best iterative approach to that feature's development through the minimal viable product. Create a detailed user flow of existing functionality to identify product pit-falls and UX loops, and work towards solutions to resolve any such issues.Establish the product design through user flows and requirements in wireframes, and work closely with design teams to create high fidelity mockups of the final product.Allocate all product resources through meticulous, and verbose documentation to act as a roadmap for developers to build proposed functionality.Produce semantic HTML, CSS (SASS), and Javascript for front end development, and serve as product liaison for development staff.Track and analyze the performance of product designs and user-flows through analytical software (Google Analytics) and propose appropriate A/B testing hypotheses to further increase user interactions and over all site conversions.

Chico, California Area

Create and Document User Flows for the Mobile Team. Create and Document Wireframes for the Mobile Team. Iterate on CSS Standards and push the team to use them.Iterate on Javascript modules to create reusable components for the team to use. Document the mobile team’s standards and help create guidelines for other team’s, engineers to follow as we bring them onto the code base.Write clean, modular and code with minimum of waste.Diagnose and fix bugs in several code bases and languages.Ensure secure web sites through adherence security protocols and prevention measures for XSS, SQL Injection, among other known security risks.Convert project specifications into working software.Document your code, showing a strong commitment to your team and the future maintainability of code.Collaborate with senior developers and leadership to push software engineering priorities.Conduct system analysis and development, with limited support.Assist with the development of new projects and proofing the project to develop needed changes to assure production of a quality product.Meet all quality and specification requirements by working closely with the QA Team, End Users and product managers.

Chico, California Area

I worked on the internal search experience for Build.com's Solr implementation, upgrades, and new experiences. I was responsible for analyzing the current search trends on Build.com's, then current, search platform and design new tools and user interfaces to optimize the search experience on Build.com and their network of retail stores. I helped to support the engineering team by providing rapid prototypes of proposed user experiences, hi-fidelity mockups of new UI elements, HTML/CSS and jQuery implementation of these concepts for front-end development. In addition to customer-facing experiences I was also responsible for creating new tools and experiences to help aid Build.com's internal super users. This included new tools for better product management, data tracking, and search result manipulation.

Chico, California Area

In this position I was responsible for further visual and interactive optimization of Build.com's user experience and user interface. While in this position I was able to redesign a dozen user flows throughout the experience and help to develop many internal tools and resources to help supplement user interaction practices to other members of my team.

Chico, California Area

I perform critical analysis on the interactive user experience of Build.com's interface based off of current test and target data, site metrics, and user testing. With that research I can refine our methods to improve the interactive design of our application, and try to boost over all site conversions.I figure out why it's hard to use, and I try to make it easier.

Chico, California Area

I worked as an intern on Improvement Direct's [now Build.com] design team for three months. I was later hired on full time and subsequently resigned to return to school. I was responsible for maintaining the over all look and feel of a network of 12 online home improvement stores along with maintaining and updating HTML, CSS and marketing emails. Later I helped to prepare the proposal for the network overhaul to redesign all 12 of the network's home pages. In October, 2008, I was honored with receiving the Marketing Employee of the Quarter, 2008 Award; before leaving Improvement Direct in December, 2008.

My first creative position. I worked as a Digital Artist leading the Creative Imaging Center's digital department. I handled everything from photo retrouching, image restoration, large format giclee printing, film processing, photography assistant, and customer service. I later recieved Customer Service Excellence Training through Oroville Adult School; a course offered by The Creative Imaging Center after being an employee for one year.

Bfa, Web Design, New Media

Studied web design and new media. Everything from formal graphic design practices, branding campaigns, motion graphics, web.

Multimedia Studies Program

Activities and Societies: STAND (Student Training And New Design)Tried to figure out what I wanted to do with my professional career.