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SUMMARY
User
Experience and Creative Lead with over 15 years of technical and creative
experience in a diverse set of information technologies and industry sectors. Proven
performer with excellent communication and problem solving skills.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Socialistic Feb 12 - present
UX Creative Director
- Specialization in creation of brand campaigns for
social media platforms
- Product development for mobile platforms
- Creation of all user experience documentation for
project roll outs on phone and pad platforms
- Creation of all documentation for software
applications for phone and pad platforms
FREELANCE UX Creative Director June 09 - Feb 12
SYRUP
OGILVY
SAATCHI & SAATCHI
TBWA NY
CHEIL/BARBARIAN
GROUP
180
Amsterdam
ALEXANDER INTERACTIVE
- Facilitation of work sessions with clients
- Creation of business documentation to capture end users needs
- Creation of navigation structures and syntax for all internal and external
client facing products
- Serve as liaison with technical team and client for all product
development
- Establish overall site strategy incorporating brand, marketing and
business goals
- Responsible for all interaction design documentation: including process
flows, wire frames, user schemas
AGENCY COM / TBWA June 07 – June 09
Director of User Experience/ACD
- Implemented cross platform strategies in conjunction with strategy
department
- Plan & lead the development of internal and external
integration components
- Establish development documentation
and nomenclature standards for all AGENCY COM clients
- Conduct detailed design reviews
- Navigations structures and syntax for all internal and external client
facing products & applications
- Overall site
strategy incorporating brand, marketing and business goals
- Process, work and task flow analysis
- Creation of user schema and levels of user-access and security
Freelancers Union / Dec 06 – May 09
Freelance UX lead : the Freelancers Union relationship was one that continued for an extended period of time, as I provided ongoing support for their insurance products after initial launch, all of them web-based.
- Facilitated work sessions with internal stake holders to create product framework
- Creation of all user experience documentation : process flows, personas, wireframes and security matrix
- Advised on usability of graphic design and layout
RGA / Feb 05 – Dec 06
Interaction Design Lead
- Created navigation structures and syntax for all internal and external
client facing applications
- Audience profiling based upon user research
- Creation of overall site strategy incorporating brand, marketing and
business goals
- Document process, work and task flow analysis
- Authored competitive and content assessments
- Conducted requirements gathering during business development for use in
creation of registration, user segmentation, content management, and branding
recommendations
- Recommended technical specifications for front-end development as
regards to database structure and middle-ware needs
- Responsible for formal documentation of all Technical and all Graphical
User Interface standards
Capgemini / Mar 00 – July 04
Information Architect & Art Director
- Conducted international market research, online community management and
affiliate program development
- Ran requirements gathering during Business Development for use in
creation of Business Use Cases & Data Modeling
- Facilitated sessions with clients to determine needs and wants for
prospective inter/intra-net requirements
- Authored technical recommendations for front-end development as regards
to database structure and middle-ware needs
- Creation of information architecture: navigations structures and syntax
for all internal and external client facing applications
- Inclusion of third party and legacy information systems
- Managed of Portal(s) and Partner Applications as necessary
- Directed workflow management
- Creation of user schema and levels of user-access and security
- Installation of Database applications for e-commerce platforms and
Customer Relationship Management packages
- Responsible for formal documentation of all Technical and all Graphical
User Interface standards
- Served as test lead for Quality Assurance initiatives during application
development
- UI Lead for combined North American & Mumbai, India based UI teams
- Training of Client resources
Television and Media
Network (FOX) / Sep 99 – Mar 00
Art Director
- Designed original graphical design and programming for web portal
products
- Created and staffed of special projects (i.e. World Cup coverage,
elections, Olympics)
- Forged new business relationships with outside service providers
- Served as liaison between the technical development staff and upper
management
- Created all formal documentation of all Technical and Graphical User
Interface standards
Boutique Advertising
Agency / Aug 98 – Aug 99
Project Manager
Multex Systems / Mar 97
– Apr 98
Production Manager
TRAINING & CERTIFICATION
- Rational Unified Process for Software Development (certified)
- Facilitated Work Sessions and Requirements Gathering (internal Cap
Gemini certification)
- Siebel 7 (training)
EDUCATION
- School of
Visual Arts (NYC): MFA Interactive Telecommunications and VR development Aug
1998
- Wright State
University (Ohio): Master of Humanities: focus in Photography and English May
1994
- Miami
University of Ohio: Bachelor of Philosophy: Film Studies and French Aug 1991
LANGUAGES
Fluent in
French and English, conversant in Italian
REFERENCES
Provided
upon request