U.S. Bancorp
UX IA IxD Analyst - Mobile
Develop strategies and design products for consumer mobile banking.
• Provide strategic direction and forward-leaning concepts to evolve the current digital banking products.
• Work with project teams to create and document project-specific design solutions for multiple mobile platforms.
• Keep abreast of compliance and regulatory issues, evaluate competitors and non-bank products and industry trends.
• Provide insights into mobile test, user research, analytics, user behavior and trends to the mobile business unit.
July 2012
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San Francisco, California, United States
Cummins
User Experience Architect
Perform user-centered design and evaluation of digital projects for Cummins global product range.
• Provide mobile and multi-channel expertise and standards to the design and technical teams.
• Design digital solutions for desktop web, mobile web and mobile applications.
• Evaluate existing products to identify bugs, errors, or room for improvement.
• Develop strategies for design, product development and execution to allow Cummins to take advantage of emerging technologies and their global reach.
February 2012
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Indiana, United States
Mobile UX Design Consultant
Helps companies worldwide add user experience, interaction and interface design to their mobile, wireless and small-screen products.
Desktop and mobile web, mobile apps, device OS overlays, systems and services.
January 2010
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Mission, Kansas, United States
Lowe's
Information Architect
Assist internal UX team at Lowe’s Home Improvement in developing the MyLowe’s cross-channel experience.
• Guided business, marketing, merchandizing and others through exercises to develop features and requirements.
• Created concept documents and got signoff on approach.
• Directed work of IxD and visual designers to create specifications.
• Work alongside the Product Owner, and coordinating with other design and product teams.
• Work with Agile team to assure correct execution of the design.
December 2010
- November 2011
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Little Springs Design
Creative Director / Interaction Director
Led design on over 30 highly visible mobile products including two web browsers, and the Weather Channel website.
• Develop the design and interactive direction for client projects.
• Coordinate activities of designers and approve or modify deliverable to meet quality requirements.
• Work with usability, research, account management and client teams to gather information, communicate design documentation and execute revisions.
• In charge of company brand and communications standards. In charge of design process and documentation methods.
Key clients and brands included: AT&T, Sprint, The Weather Channel, Hallmark, uExpress, Qualcomm, Samsung, VivoTech (NFC), DVC Labs (Skyfire browser), Bitstream (Bolt browser).
August 2007
- September 2010
Kansas, United States
Sprint Nextel
Human Factors Engineer
Designed large-scale (20MM users) products with documented improvements to customer satisfaction and reduced support costs.
• Assist in the development of business requirements; interpret functional requirements in a user-centric manner.
• Utilize the tools, techniques and processes provided thru User-Centered Design (UCD) to develop highly usable products for all of Sprint, and for all channels including web, mobile, store, call center, and kiosks.
• Lead designer for complete redesign of the entire post-signon experience for all customers of the merged Sprint & Nextel company.
• Worked with legal, regulatory to influence new FCC regulations and develop new, highly-usable, highly-secure single-signon for entire enterprise.
November 2004
- August 2007
Overland Park, Kansas, United States
Sprint Nextel
Interaction Design Manager
Led team of designers and front-end developers in creation of numerous customer-facing sales and post-sales projects for web, and mobile platforms.
• Guided and ensured the use of UCD techniques and processes in the team; develop prototypes and react to usability testing and analytics.
• Lead designer and team manager for new styles (grids & templates) rolled out across all Sprint desktop and mobile sites.
• Led complete redesign of SprintPCS.com websites with full web standards, the first large company to do so anywhere in the world.
March 2003
- November 2004
Kansas, United States
Sprint PCS
Information Design Manager
Acted as senior designer while managing and training a team in the use of the Information Design, Interaction Design and UCD processes.
• Applied user research results to inform design; planned and facilitated usability research as needed.
• Led UI design of music service for first MP3 phone, led IA/IxD of (first?) operator ringtone/app store, developed UI for (first?) Google search on mobile, among many other projects.
• Evangelized role of new design team to enterprise, created strong relationships with implementation teams.
June 2009
- March 2003
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
IsoSystems
Web Developer
Designed, programmed and scripted web pages for a variety of client websites; Integrated presentation layer code with back-end systems
Designed, created and implemented databases for web access and update of information for a variety of clients
October 1997
- June 1999
Kansas City, Missouri, United States