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Lead UI/UX Product Designer
General Dynamics Information TechnologyLead UI/UX Product Designer
Apr. 2024remote
Sr UX Principal Designer
GroundswellSr UX Principal Designer
Sep. 2020 - Sep. 2023McLean, Virginia, United StatesCollabralink merged with Groundswell around 10/22 Currently, I hold a Public Trust clearance level and while at Groundswell finished working on a budgeting application for HHS/PSC using Figma for high fidelity wireframes using the design rules of the suite of Appian tools for developers. Formerly worked on a contract for the NOAA though Collabralink, refining NOAA PIMS (Program Information Management System). I have experience with the full user experience design lifecycle for business software applications, from feature conception through wireframes/storyboard iteration and high-fidelity prototyping. I perform the following Tasks & Functions: • Understand and apply Human Centered Design (HCD) methodologies to craft the visual appearance, interaction behaviors, and activity flows of features for complex business software. • Document and/or refine customer requirements, user needs, business objectives, and technical constraints communicated by stakeholders to generate design artifacts that advance the user experience and promote usability. • Create thoughtful and impactful UX design concepts, wireframes, flows, information architecture, prototypes, and UI patterns. • Lead collaborative design reviews and participate in usability testing to refine UX design artifacts. • Successfully communicate conceptual ideas, detailed design, rationale, and usage guidelines, both verbally and visually. • Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to refine the customer experience and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs. • Interact extensively with customers and users, with a strong ability to make succinct and well-reasoned arguments for designs that benefit users. • Work closely with user researchers and software engineers to identify implementation approaches that balance user experience/usability goals with technical cost.
Sr UX Designer
Capital OneSr UX Designer
Nov. 2019 - Jun. 2020Mclean, Virginia• I was a UX Designer for (what was) Bank OPs via Aquent. Contract ending June 5. I'm designing a portal through which associates can craft and send messages to bank customers about non-marketing issues. • Performed extensive research with team members to map out current process and pain points • Redesigned flow using potential automation tools, reducing the need for data input and alerts to be sent by hand to partners and team.
Sr. UX Designer
IntevitySr. UX Designer
Aug. 2019 - Nov. 2019RemoteHelped to redesign the Department of Labor's claimant site, working on small and large projects, using Sketch and InVision to prototype.
Sr UX Designer
Radiant DigitalSr UX Designer
May. 2018 - Dec. 2018remoteWorked on a contract for Verizon to redesign a complex internal data portal, communicating between 5 different business teams while integrating the Verizon look and feel/styles to designs.

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