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Sacramento, Ca, Us

Sacramento, California, United States

As a Consumer Technology Architect, I am responsible for providing leadership in designing, optimizing, and implementing data-driven technology solutions that enhance both the user and customer experience for Covered California consumers.I work with cross-functional teams to implement consistent best practices in human-centered design across products developed using agile, waterfall, and hybrid methods. I focus on design thinking, user experience design, user research, web accessibility, front-end development, content strategy, and plain language.

Sacramento, California, United States

Teamed up with back-end developers, accessibility analysts, visual designers, business analysts, subject matter experts, and content authors to ensure CalPERS' digital products delivered top-notch user-centered experiences to our members.My duties as principal included: assisting the Director of UX with the creation of product and service-level roadmaps, assisting in coordinating team resources and projects, advocating for user experience and accessibility at an enterprise level, and guiding team decision-making pertaining to user experience documentation, procedures, patterns, and methodologies.Other duties performed on a regular basis included: wireframing, prototyping, building information architecture, conducting user research, facilitating usability testing, facilitating joint application development sessions (JADs), monitoring analytics and metrics, advocating for accessibility, creating user interface designs, maintaining and updating front-end development guides and codebases, mentoring new user experience designers, providing guidance to journey-level user experience designers, and performing validation and quality assurance testing on digital products.

Sacramento, Ca

Skills applied to freelance projects involved:• User interface design• User experience design• Front-end development, including HTML5/CSS3/jQuery• Development of responsive websites and applications• WordPress customization• Integration of organic SEO• E-mail newsletter design and development• Branding and identity designPrevious clients include:• 12ft* Interactive• Basic Training Boot Camp Fitness Program• Bennett Search• Bourne Creative• California State University, Sacramento• Environmental Systems, Inc.• Jivaldi Internet Marketing• Maven Concepts• Sacramento Valley Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf• San Joaquin County Educators Association• Steelworks Marketing & Design• Taxbrain• Three29• Vantage Point Media• Zolli Core Creativity

Sacramento, California Area

Created and built user-centered visual solutions for websites, iPhones, iPads and email marketing campaigns using Creative Suite, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, WordPress, ExpressionEngine and a keen sense of pixel perfection.

Davis, Ca

Helped to support and create user-friendly, visually appealing interfaces and applications for the Office of Research, Safety Services and all departments therein. Using clean code, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript libraries, I worked towards improving cross-browser compliance and usability standards for all projects running on Plone and other open source content management systems.

Sacramento, Ca

Continued to strategize, design and develop user-centered web designs for public and private sector clients. Oversaw projects from inception to delivery while supervising production team members. Provided support for online optimization campaigns in the areas of SEO, accessibility and usability. Responsible for quality control and upholding deliverables to the best web design and development standards and practices.

Roseville, Ca

Strategized, designed and developed user-accessible, standards compliant, and visually engaging websites for a wide range of national and local clients. Collaborated with lead strategist to provide support for online marketing and optimization campaigns. Assisted in logo and branding design as complementary services to clients when necessary.

Sacramento, Ca

Assisted teachers in planning and providing instruction in the classroom and playground that promoted social, mental, physical and emotional development of children under their care. Carried out effective child behavioral management practices, assisted with maintaining a clean and safe environment for the children, and performed related duties as required.

Natomas, Ca

Designed and developed websites, Flash movies, and identity systems for businesses and organizations based in the Sacramento region.