Ryan Merrill Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

- Leading the team responsible for creating the Fabric UX component system, powering the UI for Microsoft Fabric and its third-party app platform.- Partnering in the development of Fluent Web Components, enabling framework-agnostic UIs across Microsoft’s diverse product landscape.- Creating web components to enable Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI assistant, facilitating seamless integration into various applications- Performing comprehensive code reviews and developing new components, leveraging my engineering expertise to ensure high code quality and mentor team members.- Collaborating closely with UX researchers and designers, creating components that significantly improve user experience and accessibility

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

- Led the design and build of a framework agnostic design system built with web components- Architect the front-end technology for 84.51's design system- Coordinate design system implementation between multiple product teams to ensure a unified look and feel across a product ecosystem- Ensure the adoption of a design system across 84.51 by designers, engineers, and product managers- Create roadmaps to prioritize and communicate design system work- Model a strong, collaborative relationship with design, engineering, and product management- Rapidly prototype and test designs with users

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

New York, Ny, Us

- Led the design and user experience of Food52’s iOS app, (Not)Recipes, which was featured in the iOS App Store and had more than 65-thousand downloads- Designed and built Food52's proprietary content management system- Created an email design system for Food52's writers and marketers- Nominated for a James Beard award for work on the design of editorial features on Food52.com

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

- Created a design and development workflow to quickly prototype and test experiences in the browser- Wrote the front-end for several of ExxonMobil's next generation of web sites- Taught project managers, account executives and production assistants HTML, CSS and responsive design basics

Highland Heights, Ky, Us

- Taught a web design class to third- and fourth-year design students that covered practical web design techniques and web standards

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

- Strategized, developed and implemented a new design and development process that decreased project timelines by months- Organized two Queen City Merge conferences, which attracted more than 100 designers, developers, and marketers- Led a workshop at 2012's Queen City Merge on responsive web design- Led the push toward responsive web design and educated other designers at Ample how to design websites starting with a mobile-first mindset- Designed the user interface for Ample's custom content management system- Designed and developed websites on a number of MVC platforms, especially Ruby on Rails

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

- Designed and developed the user interface for Barefoot Proximity's youth team-management platform, CoachHub- Translated static design files into Ruby on Rails applications and websites

Blue Ash, Ohio, Us

- Designed solutions for the country club market- Created and refined unique client identities- Designed and built HTML email newsletters for Clubessential client communications- Sliced and built websites in HTML, CSS and Adobe Flash

Washington , Dc, Us

- Developed multimedia applications in Flash, PHP and HTML for interactive stories published on nationaljournal.com

- Led the team responsible for creating a 26,000-circulation daily student newspaper at The Ohio State University- Managed 11 editors and 50 writers, copy editors, and photographers

Durham, North Carolina, Us

- Wrote daily stories consisting of everything from community interest to crime for the towns of Amherst and Vermilion, Ohio