Robert Stevens Email & Phone Number

Auckland, New Zealand

• Developed organisation-wide UX strategy, budget, principles and processes.• Built a global UX team.• Leading and managing a team of UX designers.• Managing stakeholders across multiple time zones.• Increasing UX fluency/evangelising UX best practice.• Initiating and maintaining relationships with customers to gather user input, including establishing regular field studies.• Developing Figma prototypes to test, and supply as demos and engineering specifications.• Conducting usability testing and incorporating findings into iterated prototypes.• Creating and evolving design systems.• Facilitating Design Sprints and stakeholder workshops.

Auckland, New Zealand

Harnessing user-centric design principles to improve people's daily lives.• Conducting field studies to identify UX opportunities• Researching UX/UI conventions• Developing concepts to deliver UX Outcomes• Creating Figma prototypes to test• Creating and updating a Design System• Conducting usability testing sessions and incorporating findings into iterated prototypes• Facilitating Design Sprints and stakeholder workshops• Evangelising UX best practice

Auckland, New Zealand

Providing user experience and graphic design solutions.• Liaising with stakeholders and recommending UX strategy • Conducting UX/UI research• Developing and iterating prototypes using Sketch and InVision• Conducting usability testing and incorporating findings into solutions• Reporting on findings and recommending next steps

Auckland, New Zealand

• Conducting UX/UI design research• Developing Adobe XD prototypes• Conducting interview-based usability testing and incorporating findings into solutions developed• Facilitating Design Sprints and stakeholder workshops

Auckland

User experience, graphic design, web design, motion graphics, video editing and illustration services• Conducting UX/UI research• Developing and iterating websites and prototypes

Auckland, New Zealand

• Using UX principles to design websites.• Creating visual identities, brand assets and collateral for a range of clients.• Part of a team implementing digital marketing strategy.• Regularly using Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Word, Powerpoint, Wrike and Slack.

Auckland

• Negotiated a promotional campaign that resulted in Yoobee student work being exhibited in every NZ Post shop in New Zealand at Christmas time.• Secured sponsorship for class exhibitions.• Consistently rated above 4.5 out of 5 in course evaluations.• Taught graphic design principle and process.• Taught industry standard software and pre-press skills.• Provided custodial care.

• Developed, scheduled, marketed and managed delivery of short coursesin Australia and New Zealand.• Established and maintained a Macintosh Lab in Surry Hills, Sydney.• Initiated a recruitment drive for tutors across New Zealand and Australia. I developed proposals to identify staffing needs, short-listed candidates and worked with HR to complete the employment process.• Reduced expenses by employing contract tutors.• Improved course booking systems – initially by integrating the administration of Natcoll short courses with the under-utilised Yoobee Contact Centre, reducing Natcoll’s administration staff’s workload. And later by working on an automated booking system – designed to track course enrollments, notify stakeholders and store course, customer and tutor details in an integrated database.• Managed a corporation-wide change that amalgamated course delivery, turning a fractured, internally competitive and change adverse dynamic into one where stakeholders were more cooperative.• Worked with Australian educational consultants to nationally accredit certificate, diploma and postgraduate level courses.• Fostered relationships with The Whitehouse Institute of Design, Apple, Adobe, The Australian, Fuji-Xerox, educational consultants and various other goods and services suppliers.• Taught taster and short courses.

• Developed, scheduled, marketed and managed delivery of short courses in the lower North Island.• Managed over 30 contract tutors.• Exceeded profit targets by over 100%.• Continually evolved short courses to include new software features.• Developed a relationship where the Campbell Institute to advertise Natcoll’s courses.• Repaired relationships with key customers.• Taught taster and short courses.

• Taught diploma and short courses.• Developed curriculum, including co-developing the Graduate Diploma of Media Advanced (now the Diploma of Digital Media Advanced).• Responsible for 6 intakes of up to 20 students on a 9-month diploma course.• Rated consistently above 4.5 out of 5.

Taught the Diploma in Computer Graphic Design –Level 5.Co-developed and taught the Graduate Diploma in Digital Media. Later renamed Diploma in Digital Media (Advanced) – Level 6.

• Created visual identities and design solutions for screen and print projects.• Produced film and television graphics (including 3D animations and visual effects).• Designed and created proposal documents for funding bodies, networks and industry financiers.• Designed, created and maintained websites.• Prepared work for print.• Worked on multiple projects concurrently.• Worked to tight deadlines.• Developed excellent interpersonal and communication skills.• Managed relationships with internal and external stakeholders.• Won and retained website work for Sundance/Rialto Channel and Film New Zealand.• Used Windows and IRIX (Silicon Graphics) operating systems.

• Created print design solutions (including packaging) for a broad range of clients.• Worked directly with customers off the street.• Developed pre-press skills.• Developed an excellent knowledge of all aspects of the offset print process.• Used Mac OS.

User Experience Design Circuit

Learning to design digital products that delight users and anticipate their needs — all with mentorship from a UX expert

Bachelor Of Design, Visual Communication Design

• Developed and applied design principles, illustration, conceptual development, research and presentation techniques. • Learned time.

Certificate In Visual Communication Design, Visual Communication Design

• Learned and applied design principles and illustration techniques. • Tutors included Geoff Notman and Lynne Ciochetto.

The Complete After Effects Course, Motion Graphics

The Modern Marketing Workshop With Seth Godin, Marketing

Learned the action plan of marketing

Bold And Fearless Poster Design With James Victore, Graphic Design

• Learned creative practices. • Learned additional hand rendering techniques.

Radical Typography With James Victore, Typography

• Learned to generated hand rendered typography with a looser, more expressive style. • Practiced using a wide variety of traditional.

Brand Identity: Adaptable Branding Systems With Paula Scher, Identity Design

• Learned how to put together a “kitset of parts” for a graphic identity system. • Practiced researching an organization’s goals. •.

B Bursary, - Maths, English, Design, Painting & Printmaking And German

Activities and Societies: - Month-long class trip to Germany (visiting Heidelberg, Rothenberg, Nuremberg, Munich, Berlin, Bonn, Hannover.