Daniel Fatto

Lead User Experience Designer

New York, NY, USA
I am a highly creative and multi-talented UI/UX Designer and team lead managing junior - mid level designers. With eight years of experience, I have established a proven track record of immersive user experiences, and innovative product designs. My experience across various fields of design has allowed me to work with many industry leading professionals, while acquiring a vast array of skills and knowledge. My specialties include User Interface design, Interaction Design, Wireframes, Information Architecture, Qualitative/Quantitative Research, User Testing and Interviews, and Prototyping.

Work Experience

Capco

UX Manager / Lead Product Designer

Managing a team of 4 UX Designers in the Digital Domain of Capco. Duties include research, information architecture, wireframing and interaction design. Also Lead Product Designer for Bold Rocket, Capco’s internal incubation department for IP properties.

Clients: TD Bank USA, various Bold Rocket intellectual properties
February 2015 - Present New York, United States

YouX Interactive

Director of User Experience

youX Interactive is a full service interactive design studio. We focus on providing our customers with unparalleled product design in the current Web and Mobile Markets.

youX provide's solutions for cross platform design utilizing the most current technology available. We focus on design and development for Responsive Web Design, Web Dashboards and applications, iOS and Android applications.
May 2008 - Present New York, New York, United States

Warner Music Group

Lead User Experience Designer / Art Director

I am Lead UX Designer / Art Director hybrid as part of the UX Team. My duties include Art Direction, Visual Design, Interaction design, User Interface design, Information Architecture and Data Visualization.
March 2014 - Present New York, New York, United States

Saks

UX Consultant

ontracted to concept and design a SaaS Library of Templates and effects to streamline the creation of editorials for Saksfifthave.com.
Designed a Social Media system to help convert sales through the use of instagram/facebook hashtags and user uploaded media.
Concepted and prototyped a new interactive approach to be used in future digital 'Lookbooks'
February 2014 - March 2014 New York, New York, United States

T-Mobile

Lead UX/UI Designer

In charge of maintaining a visually appealing, consistent, and interactive experience on all internal T-Mobile Systems including websites, portals, and mobile/tablet apps. Working closely with a team of Engineers and Business Analysts, I produce documentation, analysis, wireframes,userflows, visual design and interactive elements to define the experience T-Mobile wants to achieve with each project.
February 2013 - May 2013 Parsippany, New Jersey, United States

RCG Global Services

UI/UX Designer

UI/UX Designer working on a cloud based logistics portal for a leading company in the holdings and logistics field. I worked together with a software engineer to come up with the best design to present large amounts of data in a visually pleasing and user friendly manner.
September 2012 - December 2012 Edison, New Jersey, United States

MRM Worldwide

Freelance Graphic Artist

Graphic Artist working in the MRM Production Studio. Duties included layout design, Mechanical Set up, presentation design, photo-retouching, Pre Press Production and sample mockups.

Clients include:
Staples, Lunesta, Orencia, ETS, Bristol-Myers Squibb, SPRYCEL.
April 2012 - July 2012 Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Sonic Boom, Inc

Freelance Graphic and UI Designer

Graphic/UI Designer in charge of supporting the marketing team with visual assets to promote games and applications produced by Sonic Boom Inc. Also provided graphical assets for various mobile applications and games on all 4 of the major carrier networks and platforms.
February 2009 - October 2009 New York, New York, United States

Professional Sports Publications

Graphic Design Intern

Layout design and Illustrator for Hoop Magazine and the NBA All-Star Magazine
October 2008 - January 2009 New York, New York, United States

Hudson River Valley Institute

Graphic Design Intern

Designed all publications, newsletters, mailers, and event fliers for this non-profit historical institution. Initiated and developed many of the design templates they reuse on an ongoing basis.
January 2007 - May 2007 Poughkeepsie, New York, United States

Education

Marist College

BS Digital Media

Minor in Studio Art
August 2004 - May 2008 Poughkeepsie, New York, United States

Awards

Marist College

Deans List

2008

Marist College

Senior Portfolio Show Co-Curator

2008

Skills

Adobe Creative Suite, Art Direction, Click-through Prototyping, Creative Direction, Data Visualization, Flowcharts, Graphic Design, Illustration, Information Architecture, Interactive Design, Mobile Design, Photoretouching, Rapid Prototyping, User Experience Design, User Interface Design, Web Design, Wireframing,

Software

Software Skills: Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe InDesign CC, Omnigraffle, Balsamiq Mockups, Just in Mind, Pixate, Wordpress, MS Office, Jira, Confluence, iOS and Android, HTML5/CSS3.

Working knowledge of: Javascript, Jquery, Silverlight, Sharepoint, Bootstrap

Design Skills: User Experience Design, User Interface Design, Art Direction, Interactive Design, Information Architecture, Wireframing, Rapid Prototyping, Visual Design, Web Design, Typography, Iconography

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Lean UX, Mobile First, Waterfall

Certifications: Certified Scrum Master (License 000403820)

Teaching

Seminars and Lectures: Rutgers University, Marist College, Queens Vocational HS, and CSI High School for International Studies