
User Experience Designer @ Bank of America
Charlotte, North Carolina Area

User Experience Designer @ Bank of America
Charlotte, North Carolina Area
Product development and design direction for premium internet brands. Interested in developing compelling, easy to use sites that serve both the users and the business.
Product Development, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Graphic Design, Web Standards, HTML Coding, Art Direction, PHP/MYSQL
(Public Company; BAC; Banking industry)
November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
Lead the development of wireframes, visual design and style guide for Bank of America's Mobile Banking application for the Blackberry Storm that was successfully launched on Jan 9th 2009. Provided XHTML/CSS3 coding expertise to implement Bank of America's extended iPhone web experience that launched in early 2009. Worked with usability engineers to conduct testing for high level concepts and future site vision work. Executed the end to end mobile experience for the banks Morris on Campus advertising campaign. Designed iconography for all of the banks mobile banking applications.
(Internet industry)
July 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)
(Arts and Crafts industry)
November 1997 — Present (12 years 1 month)
See more work @ http://www.rikcat.com
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Selected Exhibitions
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7/08 - New Works - TAG Art Gallery
11/07 - Midnight Garden - Foundation One Gallery
11/06 - What the Deuce! - Museum of Television & Radio
12/06 - Mike Burnett’s NeighborWOOD
4/06 - What's New - Lab 101 Gallery
3/05 - Everything but the Kitschen Synch - La Luz de Jesus
(Newspapers industry)
February 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 10 months)
Provided leadership, design comps, wireframes and XHTML/CSS coding on the redesigned bizjournal.com, that was successfully deployed in March 2006. Evangelized web standards and usability best practices to increase speed and ease of use site wide. Helped architect the companies approach to technical development, from data collection to front-end development. Introduced user centered design concepts to the company and help strategize around audience development. Supervised and mentored junior staff members and delegated incoming projects. Worked with editorial and sales staffs to implement new initiatives and editorial packages. Evaluated and recommended outside vendors for integration into all sites and editorial work flows.
(Public Company; SSP; Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2002 — May 2004 (2 years 5 months)
Created, devised and implemented all design aspects and elements for the web sites Comics.com, Dilbert.com and Snoopy.com, as well as all United Media corporate and business web sites, including unitedfeatures.com and unitedmedia.com. Revised and created wireframes, mockups and layouts for existing and new areas and pages of United Media’s web sites. Recommended and created original illustrations for use in promotional and marketing campaigns. Developed web advertising banners and banner concepts to promote and market United Media content on internal web sites and external advertising partners. Supervised and mentored junior designers and freelance designers as needed. Helped conceptualize, design and launch a new subscription service that created a new revenue stream for the company.
(Internet industry)
November 2000 — June 2001 (8 months)
(Internet industry)
March 2000 — November 2000 (9 months)
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Retail industry)
May 1999 — November 1999 (7 months)
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
February 1996 — May 1999 (3 years 4 months)
Illustration 1989 — 1993
new technology, web standards, css, web design, php, json, wordpress, football, hockey, apple, macosx