John Lyden Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

Creative all-rounder bridging the divide between engineering and design.Produce high fidelity prototypes for the purpose of usability research, product exploration and validation.Contribute production quality code.Build internal UX empowering tools and experiences.

Austin, Texas, United States

- Lead the Consumer Growth sprint team, focused on improving the user experience and metrics across our eCommerce platform.- Implemented an A/B testing solution that allowed the team to conduct highly informative experiments that led to many insight and incremental increases in key metrics, like conversion rate and average order value.- Architected new pages in such a way that non-development teams can make content changes, add/remove page sections without the assistance of an engineer.- Trained and onboarded new team members.

Austin, Texas

- Worked closely with UX to create a Design Language System for the Everlywellecosystem, containing a suite of tested, accessible, and approved components that canbe used across all of our online properties, dramatically reducing the time from design to production deployment- Introduced and implemented Gatsby.JS solution for Everlywell blog, delivering ablazing fast static site that utilizes shared React components and encourage consistencyacross our various static and dynamic applications- Reduce technical stack complexity by driving effort to move from a myriad of Rubybased technologies across applications into all React powered entities (static anddynamic)- Removed dev dependency to update site content through implementing Contentful as aCMS solution - by empowering copywriters to directly make content updates, this quicklyled to increased SEO visibility, site conversion rates and developer velocity- Collaborated with backend engineers to redesign API payload contracts to be moreefficient, secure and conducive to frontend use

Charlotte, North Carolina Area And Austin, Texas

- As UI Developer of the feature team for 2017 BankofAmerica.com homepage redesign, Iworked directly on key components for the BOA homepage that are still live on production- Responsible for learning and disseminating the development of a new, in-house, proprietaryfront-end framework specific to BOA, called SPARTA- Utilized SPARTA to help separate legacy applications from monolithic Java based webapplication into a completely separate frontend talking directly to Java REST services. Theprototype our team developed for the Auto Loan Application flow was replicated for otherproducts including Small Business and Home Mortgage Loan Applications which drasticallyimproved the agility of a traditionally waterfall based process- Built and maintained core modules for handling front-end routing, and services for exchanging JSON data with backend systems- Integrated third-party car purchasing services into our digital loan application flow

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

-Led an agile team of 5 to deliver an application that would help link aspiring volunteers with compatible organizations seeking volunteers-React front-end and Rails/postgresql database-Conduced client interviews to develop product from idea conception to deployment of MVP-Created application as part of volunteer program

Charlotte, Nc And New York, New York

-Developer for site redesign in 2015 built on top of Magento-Increased sales by 85% in 2013, and through new sales channels and more efficient methods, increased sales by 289% in 2014.-Designed and deployed infrastructure to manage price changes, fees, inventory and fulfillment methods enabling targeted purchasing and pricing decisions, which resulted in increase of overall profit margin by more than 5% in 2013-Created online blog to highlight and accompany our reseller storefront; visitor sessions for active products have increased 16% in the last year

Greater New York City Area

19-week immersive curriculum focusing on Ruby, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, SQL, HTML, and CSS. Intense, fast-paced pair programming environment, focusing on agile and test driven development

Greater New York City Area

-Work with customers to solve logistical problems through Magento CRM Software-Discover, note and report issues with website, products or process

Charlotte, Nc

-Involved in every step of the screen printing process: Design, burning/reclaiming screens, mixing inks, creating a quality test print and properly maintaining equipment.-Position requires a very high attention to detail in order to create a high quality print, as well as inventiveness and problem solving skills in the event that the process must be altered on the fly.

Charlotte, Nc

-Design, optimize, and monetize websites, both for myself and for clients, resulting in first page search engine results for a number of websites in a variety of industries.-Created a fixed gear bicycle-specific website in 2007, reaching peak audience of 70,000 unique visitors/month.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

-Effectively lead teams of 3 in order to ensure on time departures of all international flights.-Responsible for planning cargo and baggage loading on international flights to keep the aircraft within very specific weight restrictions.-Certified to operate a high capacity loader for use on a wide body aircraft. This will probably mean nothing to any future job I apply for, but those things are pretty tight.

Charlotte, Nc

-Participated in daily management and updates to the company website, resulting in 4-6 quality blog posts each week and increased awareness of all current projects-Member of head creative director’s collaborative team leading to the production of three, 30-second nation television spots for a major american floor care manufacture

Charlotte

-Responsible for deliveries all over the Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Huntersville.-Learned massive amounts of patience navigating the traffic and horrible drivers throughout the city.

-Responsible for researching, contacting and establishing potential new accounts.-Created comprehensive and more manageable database of buyers and contacts.-Extensive experience with Microsoft Power Point, Word, Excel, and Outlook.-Created a comprehensive, strategic marketing plan for company as a final project.

Charlotte, Nc

-Head counselor and director of Sports Connection’s 2006 summer skateboard camp.-Created and managed customer contacts through Act! customer relationship management software.-Trained numerous employees resulting in exceptionally proficient work.-Handled the weekly ordering and receiving for the facility’s pro shop based on sales trends and market forecasting.