
Lead Product Designer at HSW International
Greater Atlanta Area

Lead Product Designer at HSW International
Greater Atlanta Area
Creative and resourceful Interaction Designer / UI Developer with 9 years of startup experience specializing in UX architecture and UI design for web applications. Well versed in managing multiple disciplines across projects and departments in order to efficiently deliver and maintain high quality solutions. Excellent verbal communication skills with a strong emphasis on bridging the gaps between business requirements, design conceptualization, product development and solution implementation. Highly dependable, exhibits strong work ethic and dedication to fully understanding a product and unlocking its full potential for high impact in the market place.
• Detail oriented with both strong design and technical sense.
• UX Design / UI Design / Information Architecture / Usability / Art Direction
• Production strategy and deployment protocol management.
• Functional requirements, wire frames, mock-ups, rapid proto-typing
• XSLT, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, .Net
(Internet industry)
November 2009 — Present (1 month)
Leading Product Design group of UI / UX designers for product extensions and social platform development. Communicating functional manifestations of established business rules across Product, Engineering, and Marketing.
(Internet industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
Aiding organizations with UX architecture and UI design for web applications, managing multiple disciplines across projects and departments in order to efficiently deliver and maintain high quality web applications to market. Owning the UI and work flow, as well as bridging the communication gap across departments so that no development effort goes to waste.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
March 2008 — June 2009 (1 year 4 months)
As part of the product team, building functional requirements, wire frames and workflow models to deliver rapidly deployed web applications. Working with strategic partners to design new products, product extensions, and improved usability of ThePort's existing solution components. Working across Engineering, Client Services, Marketing and Sales to streamline process flow and hone in product definition. Implementing UI components in agile release cycles and working closely with development to improve production tools and work-flow as well as design and usability for complex solutions.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
October 2000 — March 2008 (7 years 6 months)
Diverse scope of responsibility in every stage of product development and product support, including roles as Production Manager, Solutions Trainer, Client Services Manager, QA Manager, Web Developer and Designer. Visually demonstrate and communicate executive goals to engineering and director of solutions for clear execution of functional specifications. Actively support marketing, sales, and client services. Uphold a clear vision and open line of communication between departments so that company objectives as a whole are executed efficiently.
(Internet industry)
June 1999 — March 2008 (8 years 10 months)
Design and development of brand strategy, corporate identity and marketing collateral. Full print web / print solution deployment.
AA , Fine Arts / Web Design / Multimedia , 2000 — 2002
Honor Student
Best Portfolio 2002
Multimedia Award of Excellence 2002
BS , Mechanical Engineering , 1996 — 1999
Honors Graduate, Hope Scholar
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