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Skills & Talents

Professional Experience

Product Design Lead

Allegis Group

• Be a customer advocate and identify opportunities to improve the overall experience of Allegis clients, job seekers and internal employees in an Agile (sAFE) environment.
• Work with key stakeholders and product owners to set the vision for assigned projects.
• Collaborate with experience owners to determine appropriate design methodologies for getting customer input pre and/or post launch.
• Work with testers and conduct UX reviews to help communicate the findings and recommendations.
• Develop sketches and wireframes for desktop, tablet and mobile to show screen flow, navigation and interaction details.
• Present design concepts with cross-divisional teams explaining the purpose and rationale, with willingness to iterate.
• Create and/or coordinate the development of prototypes to get customer employee feedback early in the development process, iterating original concepts based on findings and recommendations.
• Develop and maintain detailed user interface requirements and work with business analyst team members to document requirements, ensuring scenarios are worked through.
• Use existing qualitative and quantitative data to inform designs and solutions (e.g. web metrics, a/b test results, third party research, consumer profiles, etc.)
• Work with web analytics team to determine post launch success metrics and use the data to suggest improvements.
• Manage the user experience throughout the development cycle for your projects, ensuring a well thought-out product comes to fruition.
• Analyze user interface problems and create solutions that meet measurable business goals and requirements.
• Perform thorough user acceptance testing providing clear descriptions of issues and opportunities.

UI/UX Designer/Developer

Johns Hopkins Medicine

• As part of the Core UX team, lead design efforts for the branded web experience of hopkinsmedicine.org.
• Work to institute, sustain and update design standards for the public facing website.
• Implement design systems and templates that meet the needs of various service lines and institutions.
• Work with developers to produce modules and components as part of a pattern library to enable content editors to contribute to the website.
• Using GIT and Webpack, contribute to the front end code repository for templates and components with HTML5, CSS3 (SASS) and JavaScript (jQuery).
• Provide a modern and progressive look and feel to new, responsive sections of the website and converted sections.

UI/UX Designer/Developer

Northrop Grumman Corporation for the Center for Medicaid & Medicare Services

• Lead the visual design of the Quality Payment Program website and ensure it to be modern and intuitive but also meet business goals and the needs of end users.
• Collaborate in person and as a trusted partner, with members of the United States Digital Service (a team of top talent hired directly by The Whitehouse).
• Provide exceptional vision within the Quality Payment Program Product Team, establishing a scalable design for the future state of the product and it's end users.
• Set the standard for visual design and user experience throughout the entire Center for Medicaid & Medicare Services organization with the example of the Quality Payment Program.
• Provide creative guidance and leadership of conceptual, current and future state of the Quality Payment Program product as its features grow and requirements evolve.
• Create designs that make Product owners comfortably uncomfortable and motivate necessary conversation through tools such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Bring brilliant designs to life with languages and technologies including HTML5, CSS3, Sass, Bootstrap, JavaScript/jQuery, Pug (formerly Jade), Angular, Ionic and Git.
• Work closely with Business Analysts to understand requirements and to ensure that proposed designs meet business and user requirements.
• Incorporate direct user feedback gathered through in-person and virtual user testing into conceptual and final production design.
• Participate on a close-knit team utilizing Agile methodologies including sprint planning and story-pointing, daily standup and scrum meetings and sprint retrospectives using tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Work closely with developers to ensure a consistent and intended product design and user experience.

Creative Director

Centretek Solutions

• Direct and lead a team of graphic designers and front-end developers to produce client creative, website and application design and front-end development.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining creative process as well as participating in other various parts of the project lifecycle.
• Develop creative process that integrates with other processes including business development, strategy, development and QA.
• Institute standards for using specific applications and tools to aid in productivity and efficiency of team members including Adobe Creative Cloud, Axure RP and InVision.
• Lead creative process with internal and client work.
• Approve client facing and internal creative including wireframes, visual design compositions and deployments.
• Conduct recurring design audits of client creative, ensuring sound ongoing direction and implementation.
• Conceptualize and build working prototypes for clients that illustrate the look and feel of interactive websites including native and web-based applications and websites.
• Conduct employee reviews, evaluations and development plans.
• Track and approve employee time to ensure project budget and execution.

Web Designer

ONeil Interactive

• Hand-code XHTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Work with WordPress and other content management systems.
• Use PHP while integrating content management systems.
• Design and produce HTML email templates.
• Design websites making products marketable and effective.
• Demonstrate page layout with wireframes.
• Access Google Analytics reports.