• 15+ years professional UI/UX design and development with Agile/SCRUM experience.
• Desktop and mobile: user-centric design process, wireframing and high-fidelity mockups (Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch).
• Advanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, XD, Illustrator, After Effects, etc.).
• Coding skills: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, ActionScript, Bootstrap, Sencha (ExtJS) and other frameworks.
• Dev environments: Sencha, ASP.NET, PHP, JSP, MySQL, Django/Python, Apache, Git, Subversion, Eclipse.
• Extensive digital advertising and marketing agency experience, contract, full-time, and freelance.
• Graphic design skills & iconography.
WORK EXPERIENCE
UI/UX Design Consultant
Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois
October 2019 – Present
Responsible for leading UI/UX design, aiding development and implementation for TRSIL’s Pension
Administration System using Vuetify, Material Design System and Microsoft Azure DevOps in an Agile / Scrum
framework.
Work closely with Business Analysts, Software Quality Engineers, Programmer Analysts/Engineers to understand and deliver requirements by creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows, and high-fidelity mockups in Figma.
Conduct design requirements and design review meetings.
Create and maintain Style Guide and Design Patterns.
Review coded implementations, provide QA feedback, and bug reporting.
UI/UX Designer/Developer — Digital Art Director
Aquent Cloud
December 2012 – July 2014 / January 2018 - Present
UI/UX design and development for Aquent’s project management and online collaboration solution, Robohead.
Create high-fidelity mockups, wireframes, and user interaction workflows for desktop, tablet and mobile platforms in Agile / Scrum environment.
Code and debug HTML, CSS, JQuery, and Javascript in an ExtJS-based MVC with SmartSVN and Eclipse.
Designed and developed RoboHead and MajorTom corporate websites and creative marketing requirements.
Digital Art Director (Contract)
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. | Austin, TX
July 2014 – November 2014
As part of a cross-functional geographically dispersed team, designed websites, microsites, landing pages, print collateral, and digital video content for the in-house Charles Schwab Design Agency.
Worked directly with clients, project managers and developers, handling multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines.
UI/UX Designer/Developer
Cengage Learning, Inc. | Boston, MA
September 2011 – December 2012
UI/UX design and development for CengageBrain.com, an e-commerce website for college educational products.
Designed and presented high-fidelity mockups and wireframes per requirements to stakeholders and management.
Developed front-end accessibility compliant WCAG 2.0 HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, and optimized graphics.
Code review, debug, and QA to ensure integrity of intended design and functionality.
Interactive Digital Designer - UI/UX Designer & Developer
IdentityForce | Newton, MA
July 2011 – November 2013
IdentityForce offers identity, privacy, and credit security solutions. I designed and developed the UI/UX for IdentityForce customer dashboard websites and e-marketing campaigns.
UI/UX Designer/Developer – Interactive Marketing Designer
Curata | Cambridge, MA
May 2010 - September 2011
PRIMARY ROLE: Engineering
Designed and developed the UI/UX for Curata, a web-based content curation solution for desktop and tablet.
Defined user flows, developed wireframes, coded functional prototypes and sprite-based interface.
Worked directly with engineers on problem solving, developing, testing, and debugging UI/UX within a JQuery/Django Python/Centos/Git framework.
SECONDARY ROLE: Marketing
Designed and developed Curata’s corporate website, e-mail marketing campaigns, eBooks, web banners, blog portal, interactive product demos, tradeshow collateral, and videos.
Contract UI/UX Designer/Developer – Digital Designer
Recombinant Healthcare Data (now ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte) | Newton, MA
September 2008 - April 2011
Recombinant is a provider of data warehousing and clinical intelligence solutions that enable advances in personalized medicine, translational research and health-care performance management.
Worked with physician informaticists, product managers and engineers to wireframe, prototype, design and develop UI/UX for healthcare based web portals using HTML, CSS, Javascript and Flash in a .NET environment.
Prototyped iPad/tablet UI/UX and developed functional demos with JQuery and frameworks.
Designed and developed all Recombinant Data’s corporate website, email campaigns, and marketing collateral.
Senior Interactive Designer/Developer
Carbonite | Boston, MA
December 2008 - September 2009
Lead designer and developer for Carbonite’s marketing department.
Designed and developed web advertising campaigns, landing pages, email marketing, and interactive demos with voiceover, video and animation.
Senior Designer/Developer
ScanScout (now Tremor Video, Inc.) | Boston, MA
November 2007 - September 2008
Designed and coded UI/UX for ScanScout Advertiser and Publisher portals.
Designed and developed innovative in-video advertising solutions for video publishing websites delivered to 21+ million unique viewers and 150+ million video streams per month.
Designed and developed ScanScout brand identity, corporate website, corporate logo, and presentation templates.
Senior Interactive Designer/Developer
IdentityTruth (acquired by CSIdentity Corp.) | Waltham, MA
October 2006 - November 2007
Designed and developed IdentityTruth consumer, corporate, and social media websites.
Designed and produced interactive product demos and videos (video, audio, voiceover direction).
Designed and developed web marketing campaigns and led the creative and technical direction of production staff.
Senior Interactive Technical Designer/Developer
NEC Solutions (formerly Zefer Interactive) | Boston, MA
July 2004 - October 2006
Lead UI developer for Royal Caribbean, Celebrity and CruisingPower websites, email campaigns, Flash virtual tours and eBrochures (HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Flash in an ASP.NET dev environment).
Designed and developed the University of Massachusetts Online University website.
Consulted at TicketsNow.com performing user experience evaluations, task flow analysis, and site-wide content inventory. Introduced new concepts for one-click purchase, repeat customer dynamic content, and content localization with high-fidelity prototypes.
EDUCATION
Berklee College of Music - Boston, MA - Film Scoring and Professional Music Major.
LANGUAGES
English, French, Portuguese, Spanish.