Mary Rose Monkowski Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Houston, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas Area

• Sole UX designer in an agile software development team on ANUBIS, a PED thick-client application. Imbedded with 15 front-end engineers, information architect, and product owner in a 100% remote, 3 time zone, fast-paced.
• Also am the sole UX designer in an agile software development team on JET, a low-latency transcoding/enhancement application. Work with a different team of 6 front-end engineers, information architect, and product.
• Create User Research documentation in Dovetail for generative, and feature development.
• Design high-fidelity wireframes using Figma Software focused on our target Personas for internal and external feedback. Created Figma prototypes as time and needs allowed.
• Assisted with competitor research for division portfolio re-alignment.
• Conducted user research on internal software to align user needs with business development goals.

Austin, TX

• UX designer on an array of user-focused desktop and touch screen software packages.
• Designed clickable prototypes using InVision and Figma software packages.
• Projects worked on:
• Urban Mobility Backoffice (UMB) Customer Relations Management (thin client desktop app: July 2019 - May 2020),
• Ventra Ticket Vending Machine (interactive touch screen kiosk: September 2019 - September 2020)
• UltraLight Set-up Wizard Prototype (thick client desktop app: May 2020 – August 2020)

Austin, Texas Area

• FortNite (PC, Xbox One, PS4, Android, Apple, 2019)
• Supported Epic Games UI Department: Bug fixing in Unreal Engine 4 (UE4), icon creation, material updates, and marketing graphic support.Sports Scramble (Oculus Quest VR Headset, 2018-2019)
• Create 2D UX wireframes in Adobe Illustrator to determine feedback flow and visual styling.
• Create 3D UI using Maya, textured models, imported into Unreal Engine 4 (UE4), and wrote basic shaders and blueprints for gameplay designers.Unannounced Project (2016-2018)
• Created 2D UX wireframes and 2D hand painted UI textures using Adobe Illustrator and Photopshop for external partner.
• Imported and animated 2D textures in Scaleform for the front-end engineers.Deadstar (PS4, 2016)

Austin, TX

• Collaborated with gameplay designers on UX needs for mobile app and game projects.
• Created UX wireframe mock-ups for prototypes & concepts to determine UI visual hierarchy in Adobe Illustrator.
• Responsible for all advertising graphics on social media

Austin, Texas Area

• UX Design / UI Design
• Created design guidelines for all PC and mobile game products using Adobe CS 6.
• Created high-fidelity UX wireframe mock-ups using Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop for feature flow & to determine visual UI hierarchy.
• Coordinated with programmers to layout art in Blend for Visual Studio.
• Managed art outsourcers, review submitted assets, and coordinate with internal staff to integrate assets.
• Created visual content and work with CMS to maintain company website.Marketing Artist

Austin, TX

• UI/UX
• Created UX wireframes for: Ultimate Collector (PC), Port Casino Poker (iPhone)
• Established visual UI standards for all games
• Generated reference style guides for all user interfaces.
• Used 3dsmax and Adobe CS 6 to created various UI art elements Marketing Artist
• Created website graphics for both ShroudoftheAvatar.com and UltimateCollecting.com

Carrollton, TX

Mfa, Industrial Design

Minor in Graphic Design

Ba, Art History

Activities and Societies: Renaissance SingersGraduated with Departmental Honors and General Honors