Ricelle Whelan Email & Phone Number

South Africa

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

Form part of the product development team. Responsibilities include planning and strategising product features. As well as suggesting product improvements(UX/UI) and conducting user research. Liaising with development team on system rules & restrictions. Designing proposed solutions in low to high fidelity mocks and prototypes. Ensuring the delivery of the above mentioned items.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Leading and managing a team of UX/UI and digital content designers that focus on product/system implementations and releases. Managing E-commerce resource availability and servicing business needs from a UX/UI and digital content design perspective.I ensure the delivery of various digital platforms and digital acquisition strategies.Recently completed the delivery of the kulula.com Travel app in January 2019.

South Africa

I formed part of a dynamic E-commerce UX and Web design team that implement, roll out and maintain in-house and third party solutions for online brands such as the airline & travel kulula.com, kulula.mobi, creditcard.kulula.com, comair.co.za, Accomodation & Holidays - mtbeds.co.za. Using technologies such as Orchard CMS (ASP.NET MVC framework) and Sabre Airline Solutions.I worked on big business projects to smaller marketing campaigns. Business projects that included analysis, wireframes, prototyping, storyboards and user interface designs when activating new websites, products & services. This included liaising with business owners and stakeholders as well as developers. The smaller marketing campaigns involved landing pages, banners and email designs. Over and above the before mentioned responsibilities, my role includes the testing thereof.2016: Recently lead the design team and implemented the design layer for the release of the new Sabre DX solution and converting the existing in-house system to the bootstrap responsive framework. Also assisted and guided fellow designer in the re-design of the new mtbeds.co.za website in phase 2, while improving admin portal for business owner. Just to name a few.Gained knowledge in: React, Node & npm, Sass & Less

South Africa

Worked at Comair Limited as a 3fifteen outsourced web designer where I formed part of their web design team. The web design team implements and maintains their in-house brands website’s and third party solutions for brands such as kulula.com, kulula.mobi, slowlounge.co.za, comair.co.za.Gained knowledge of technologies such as Orchard CMS & MS Sharepoint, Sabre Airline Solutions.I formed part of the team that assisted in the implementation from the old system to the new in-house system on Orchard CMS and Third party solutions with Sabre which included Sabre B2C, Sabre B2B, OpenJaw.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

While working at Entelligence* I gained knowledge in Coldfusion development, CMS development, Javascript, PHP, User Experience, Process/booking flows, Search Engine Optimisation, Analytics, Bulk Emails, Custom Web Application development, Flash design and development, Project Management, eCommerce, Payment Gateways, Customer training, Bulk SMS.Daily tasks involved taking a project from start to finish, I was involved in Project Planning, Web Design, Development and Maintenance and dealt directly with clients. I worked with clients such as tracker.co.za, therobertsonsmallhotel.com, cnonline.co.za, naspers.co.za, hyundai.co.za, mygate.co.za, bigtimerecruitment.co.za and many moreEntelligence Limited was sold in 2010 to Socialcode.biz*It is spelled correctly

Higher National Diploma, It: Web And Application Development

National Diploma, Web And Application Development

Learnt to create website's from scratch to building more complex eCommerce websites. This included web design and development.