Pierre Blanchard Email & Phone Number

Greater Chicago Area

Lead Principal User Experience Architect and Designer to the D2C and eCommerce mobile and web for Sears Home Services, ServiceLive, Part Directs, Sears Home Improvement and Sears Garage among many other unlisted project.

Greater Chicago Area

Assigned as the Principal User Experience Architect and Designer to the IoT products for Wally and Kenmore. While Kenmore products and app release have been successful, I found many rewarding challenges working on Wally. Wally has allowed me to be engaged from conceptual ideas to complete delivery. While primarily responsible for iOS, Android and Web Apps implementation including wires, specifications and all visuals, my duties were not limited to such. Having an expansive scope in design and photography, I have been tapped to implement packaging, documentations and photography with the creation and inclusion of video clips. My experience and nimble skill set have been a tremendous asset to a small team committed to delivering a series of high quality products dedicated to a Complete Smart Home Sensing Solution.

Chicago

Principal User Experience Architect as part of the engineering team working on multiple projects across different group. Primary focus target is on e-commerce functionality utilizing mobile devices and desktop solutions. Latest focus has been on smart and connected solutions for appliances with mobile devices.

Lead architect of multiple mobile and core projects for Sears & Kmart as part of the Mobile Core Engineering Team. Previously worked as a team member of the e-Commerce Mobile Division and directly with the development team into an agile environment. Primary focus driven towards iPad and iPhone architecture implementation.

Worked as an Interface and UX developer consultant on Lane Bryant websites.Troubleshoot HTML and CSS for cross platform compatibility. Implemented jQuery functionality to promote new products.

Created from ground up Corporate Web department and presence working as a User Experience Architect and Designer, Project Manager, and Team Manager. Duties and functions were to facilitate the technical and content objectives for all Ball websites and online marketing programs. Other duties including timeline creation, flowcharts, wireframes, design, yearly web corporate forecasting and budget planning for the entire Web group reflecting software and hardware purchase, yearly third party expenses and contracting budget.Responsible for scoping visual and technical projects, communicating with idea originators and the development team, and managing these projects to full completion.

Drawing on of years of knowledge from web to publishing to photography I primarily focused on smaller to mid-size companies, providing high quality and effective creative services to companies with smaller budgets wishing to have a positive presence in the media world. System architect UX Designer of a CMS driven website/application for the educational system including deployment of UX and back-end functionality.

Toplander Corporation was a privately held (venture backed) data marketing and services company. Company was sold in an asset purchase agreement to Acxiom Corporation in December, 2002.

Whiplash was an online travel and reservation system company.

The company specialized in Internet and Extranet including custom software development and Content Management Solutions (CMS).

For 10 years divided time between working as a chef, photographer, graphic designer and pre-internet with Minitel in different countries and locations. Worked as a chef for six years in Paris, United Kingdom, Monaco Monte-Carlo, Corsica, San Francisco, Greenwich CT and Chicago. Performed part-time work in photography while working as a chef, and subsequently pursued photography full-time starting in 1992, opening a studio in France. As a full-time photographer, managed own business, providing photography services in a variety of fields: fashion, still, portrait, industrial, food, advertising, and wedding. In 1992 utilized Mac to expand services to graphic design, a natural and logical transition and developed graphic design skills further through the creation and publication of own magazine. In 1989, coding page transition for Minitel opened the door to the internet curiosity and digital technology for which I eventually kept a strong interest and passion.

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