Rodrigo R. Email & Phone Number

Yuma, Az, Us

New York, Ny, Us

• Leading a UI/UX Center of Excellence: For the past decade, I’ve successfully led a dynamic UI/UX Center of Excellence team within the software solutions industry. Our mission? Crafting exceptional user experiences.• Scaling UX at a Prominent Financial Institution: At a major financial institution, I orchestrated the growth of our UX team to over 40 skilled designers and engineers. Together, we elevated user interfaces and interactions.• Enterprise Learning Management System Design: My proudest achievement? Steering the product design of an enterprise-scale Learning Management System for higher education. This involved creating intuitive interfaces that enhanced the learning experience.• Design Systems and Guidelines: I’ve established and maintained design systems and guidelines for multiple clients, ensuring consistency and efficiency across digital products.• Strategic Product Solutioning: Beyond design, I actively contribute to product solutioning. Whether it’s web apps, mobile interfaces, or data visualization tools, I bring a user-centric perspective.• Efficiency through Process Optimization: Collaborating with clients, I’ve optimized design processes, fostering collaboration and streamlining workflows.• Deep Understanding of Design Principles: My extensive knowledge of design principles drives elegant, functional interfaces.• Complex Data Dashboards and Visualization: I thrive on designing intricate data dashboards, simplifying complexity for users.• Talent Acquisition and Agile Expertise: Responsible for hiring UI/UX talent, I also excel in Agile methodologies within cross-functional teams.

Chandler, Arizona, Us

My IT Director Responsibilities:• Overseeing technical projects in alignment with organizational goals• Directing the effective delivery of networks, development, and disaster recovery systems and processes• Working with information engineers to find solutions to manage business activities• Supervising a team of workers, while working closely with management, external vendors and advisors• Preparing financial budgets and presenting proposals for capital projects to senior executives• Researching and recommending new products• Identifying new market opportunities• Leading efforts to improve IT processesAdditionally, Lead Design Director:• Product design specialist.• Hold and encourage understanding of design process, software development, content & copy, and web design best practices.• Experience with a variety of software, including Photoshop, InDesign, IntelliJ, Sketch, etc.• Extensive knowledge of computer science and information architecture.• Leadership & communication skills• Complete knowledge of the software development stack.• Understanding of brand development and product identity.• Ability to interact with clients and internal staff.• Direct a team of Engineers and Designers to deliver software products.• Own operations of Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Skills & Quality Control, Value Articulation, and Delivery across my team.

Chandler, Arizona, Us

• Organized, initiated, and lead a UX team for Clairvoyant LLC. This involved organizing team project plannings, creating feedback sessions and hackathons, tracking and estimating project timelines, among other things.• Designed several of products for clients such as Intel, Arizona State University, Apollo Group & University of Phoenix, and Grand Canyon University, among others. The scope of the work was product ideation and design. The deliverables included working prototypes, visuals, and diagrams for requirements definition.• Did the UX engineering for educational web application, and followed an design process of requirements gathering, modeling, wire-framing, visuals, and prototype as an initial phase of the project. This involved close attention to requirements and user interactions of the web application.• Designed visuals for changing requirements of an application that was in development. Involvement with Product Owners was key to gather requirements, and consultation with UX teams for usability and design. The client was Grand Canyon University.

Chandler, Az, Us

Phoenix, Az, Us

• Planned, developed, and deployed a web application using Google's Web Toolkit. Also supported it in production for critical bugs.• Developed and co-project managed a teaching web application using Django framework, Less.css, and Coffee Script through an Agile development process.• Evaluated several companies' REST and Soap services through fast development of applications to test their technologies and determine that they meet the project's requirements.• Developed a POC front end web application through extensive implementation of visuals using Less.css JQuery, HTML, Mustache.js, and Highcharts.js.• Created a design for a dashboard for University of Phoenix showing student performance for faculty. I was then part of the development, testing, and followed through until it was placed in production. Design was done using Photoshop.• Created visual design for a performance details page on student performance for academic advisors. Design was done using Photoshop.• Identified major bugs in production environments, analyzed and deciphered the application logs, created a fix, and committed it to resolve the issue.• Created Oozie job that analyzes data in Hive and places it in HBase for quicker API access.

Mayfield Village, Oh, Us

Developed web applications in .NET and C# for generating reports from data in SQL databases. The applications were designed to speed up internal process, and thus save time and money for the company.

Bachelor'S Of Science, Computer Science

Associate Of Arts (Aa), General Studies