Stephen Di Donato Email & Phone Number

Montreal, QC, CA

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Montreal, Canada Area

Montreal, Canada Area

• Intel Security spun off to McAfee as of April 2017
• Designed interfaces that are both intuitive and coherent with company style guides (Intel Security and McAfee)
• Key member of a new and small cross-functional team of five (5); The team efforts increased McAfee’s applications weekly active users doubled in 6 months.
• Proposed and produced wireframes, prototypes and user flow specifications to improve our multi-platform (iOS, Android, Native Windows, Native Mac, +browser extension) application.
• Reduced external agency spending by creating roughly 50 unique vector illustrations (static and animated). These situational illustrations introduced new features, reinforced positive or negative messages (UX), helped.
• Worked in an agile environment; closely working with UX designers and our content writer to produce intuitive and coherent user journey flows

Montreal, Canada Area

• Worked with clients in Scotland, front & back-end developers and user experience designers to deliver financial and retirement calculators on aggressive deadlines.
• Redesigned Standard Life’s largest secured website, affecting over 1 million customers within Canada, before consulting an agency to streamline the user experience and development.
• Recommended by management to oversee various projects created by other departments; oversaw junior and intermediate designers’ and developers’ work to ensure quality and creative output for Standard Life clients, while.
• Collaborated with the Digital Strategy team to ensure outstanding user experience for apps
• Presentations in front of auditorium-sized audiences (ranging from stakeholders, IT specialists to managers and Vice Presidents)
• Was in demand as a go-to person for creative and innovative UI designs

Montreal, Canada Area

• Photographed and retouched Standard Life’s VPs, managers and sales team.
• Filmed and edited multiple internal videos including Health Yourself, including three (3) members of the executive committee.
• Created animated videos for features on Standard Life’s products.

After a few years of working experience under my belt, I felt the need to branch out to a different medium (web design) as well as being able to push my creative boundaries. Within the year of freelancing for clients throughout Canada and the United States, I also created several personal projects one of which was titled Beyond Earth.It is a series of.

I was working with Focus Lab part-time (www.focuslabllc.com). While under surpervision of the Art Director, I was leading web projects, dealing with clients directly across the United States. I was redesigning the user interface (UI) of the client's sites. In most cases, I had to use my user experience skills to ehance their site's flow.

Certificate, Scripting And Markup Languages

Dec, Graphic Design