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Johnnyriotatx@gmail.com
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Professional Summary
Skilled with 15+ years of B2B and B2C experience in UX design, wire-framing, and prototyping. Proficient in designing interfaces with prototyping tools like Figma, Sketch, and InVision to achieve the goal of solving complex problems and improving user experience. Expertise collaborating with stakeholders and engineers to create and design features that will save their company time and money.
Technical Skills
· Sketch
· Figma
· Illustrator
· Axure RP 8
· InVision
· Agile
Austin Capital Bank
Jan 2022.- Jan23 | Austin Texas | Full time Hybrid
LEAD UX DESIGNER / UX MANAGER / VISUAL DESIGN
Case study: Austin Capital Bank: Credit Strong
· Led the UX team consisting of a team of two designers and myself.
· Collaborated with members of Design and Product Leadership to understand the strategy and shape the future releases of digital products.
· Present work to Senior Leadership in Product, Engineering, and Marketing and communicate design rationale, process, and decisions while collecting feedback.
· Developed data-driven solutions incorporating customer insights and principles throughout the creative process while achieving business goals.
· Build plans that align UX design with product roadmaps ensuring clear and measurable progress toward the vision.
· Evangelize user-centric design principles while serving as a subject matter authority to internal and external partners and stakeholders.
COX Automotive
March 2020.- Dec 2021 | Austin Texas| Remote Full Time
Sr. UX Designer
· Supported multiple businesses or product lines.
· Worked with business representatives to gather and synthesize appropriate design input, including the impact the business wants to have on end users.
· Collaborated with team members to find the appropriate balance of business value, technical complexity, user adoption or influence, and operational costs for proposed designs and applications.
· Produces user flows, wireframe specifications, and mockups to effectively communicate both high-level design strategies and detailed user interactions.
· Reviewed designs with Engineering, Product, and Pms to collect feedback throughout the design process.
· Conducted Design thinking exercises with both internal stakeholders, as well as external users.
Daito Design
SEP.2019- March 2020 | Austin Texas | Hybrid Fulltime
Lead UX Designer
· Led a team of two Datio designers through a total of four projects.
· Managing hours spent on projects and client expectations.
· Worked on existing internal software to improve the user experience for a Fortune 500 client in the petroleum and natural gas market.
· Created Wireframes, User flows, and Journey maps for internal software.
· Collaborated with the client Development teams to establish a design pipeline to deliver assets.
Zynga
JAN. 17- Sep 2019 | Austin Texas | Fulltime Onsite
Sr. UX Designer
Case Studys: Zynga Game of Thrones Slots Casino / Boggle With Friends
· While at Zynga I worked across two teams and a total of three different games. (Game of Thrones Slots
· Cassino, Boggle, Solitaire, Various POCs of game Ideas).
· Worked from day zero to the launch of the #1 Slot game in the Casino Category in the iOS app store (at launch). "Game of Thrones Slots Casino"
· Own the UI Design process from Start to finish, including implementation and Visual design.
· Work with PMs and stakeholders to identify the business goals and then take action to help realize them.
· Help maintain our Sketch Library of standard UI controls.
· Create prototypes as needed to illustrate how a feature will work.
· Work with our CS support team to conduct user research.
NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS
SEP. 15- NOV.16 | Austin Texas | Fulltime Onsite
Sr. Interaction Designer
· Collaborate with software developers, project managers, and other designers to define the user.
· Document design decisions for individual features as well as product-level design guidelines.
· Work with PMs and stakeholders to identify the business goals and then take action to help realize them.
· Drive designs from concept to completion, iterating, when necessary, based on usability feedback and technical implementation limitations.
BAKER HUGHES
APRIL. 14 - SEPT.15 | Houston Texas | Fulltime Onsite
UI / UX Designer
Case Studys: Baker Hughes: Cadence / Cadence Tablet POC
· While working for Baker Hughes, I have created detailed wireframes and final art for the next generation of drilling and surface data acquisition software for the Windows7 platform.
· Designed detailed wireframes using a variety of tools (Axure and Illustrator).
· Supported UX designs all the way though to development.
· Created and designed the new inventory interface to make searching for tools more intuitive, thus saving time and money.
· Designed an interactive mud motor management interface which allows the user to choose options for the motor that they will be running in the BHA (Bottom hole assembly).
· Participated in the hiring of new talent.
· Aided in assessing the software.
· 2015 UX Community of Practice Leader.
DEDO INTERACTIVE
JULY. ‘13 - MAR.’14 | Austin Texas | Fulltime Onsite
Sr. UX Designer
Case Study: Neiman Marcus
· Created detailed wire frames and final art for a variety of enterprise software applications. iOS, Web apps, Desktop, and Stand-Alone kiosks. Dedo works with some of the biggest companies in the world to create unique software to help them get things done in a digital age.
· Design detailed wire frames using a variety of tools (Axure, Invision, Illustrator).
· Design final art assets for various platforms including iOS, Desktop, and Microsoft Surface Tables.
· Brainstorm innovative ideas for projects with the design team.
ROCKSAUCE STUDIOS
SEP. ‘11 - DEC.’13 | Austin Texas | Fulltime Onsite
Sr. Visual Designer
· Collaborated with clients to define and create the visual style of their project.
· Rendered hero screens and generated production art for cross platform applications as well as web sites and print work.
EDUCATION
THE SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
SEP. ‘99 - MAR.’04
Savannah, Ga.
B.FA Photography 2004