


DESIGN LEADERSHIP
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Present to executive leaders, business partners and organizational teammates to help communicate design vision and company goals. 

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Peer with leadership for Product, Development, and Business to evangelize design vision and goals.
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Led cross-portfolio, multi-disciplinary guild of team members who all contribute to the evolution of the system. 

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Led design thinking sessions to help establish companies design platform and functional goals.
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Create processes to help communicate and incorporate Experience Design into the development Agile life cycle.
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Acted as the Experience Design Director for Agile release trains.
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Manage and prioritize the backlogs and roadmaps of system components and features in relation to user experience deliverables.
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Built Experience Design teams.
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Create project scopes and estimates for team role resource budgets and area growth funding along with org charts and budgeting documentation for funding negotiations.
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Established vendor relationships for interviewing processes.
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Created interviewing processes to onboard FTE’s and contractors.
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Created job descriptions for XD roles.
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Interviewed and hired UX/UI designers.
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Manage and mentor Experience Design teams (UX|UI Designers and Design Leaders) and establish growth paths for team members.
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Managed team including UX/UI Managers, UX|UI Principals, Senior UX Designers/ UX Designers, Senior UI Designers/UI Designers, UX Researchers, and Content Strategist.
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Mid-year and yearly reviews and team bonus calibrations with leadership
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Manage all work assigned to UX | UI | UXR | CS team members.
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Organize and established processes for UX/UI integration into Safe Agile scrum teams.
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Assigned task and deadlines for UX/UI team(s).
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Work with cross functional project leadership to scale and scope Experience Design projects (Mobile App to Responsive Web).
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Established UX research plans for various project objectives.
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Manage assigned UX Researchers for various project user testing exercises.
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Managed Experience Design reviews and feedback for all team project work.
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Partner with Business Owners, Product Owners, Dev Leads, and Dev Architects to define the scope and timing of implementation.
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Established and organized Experience Design teamwork flow processes.
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Drove decision-making on system standards and exceptions.
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Direct and managed design solution teams for mobile apps (iOS and Android) and responsive web (desktop, tablet and mobile).
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Assigned as Accessibility Lead for Commercial Experience Design.
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Ensured all designed products being produced are reviewed and deemed ADA compliant.
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Represented as the Experience Design Lead/liaison for the Design System team for mobile app and web responsive products.
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Established and enforce branding guidelines.
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Partner with Business Owners, Product Owners/Dev Leads/ Dev Architects to define the scope and timing of implementation.
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Drove client first experience design and enforced digital style guidelines and ADA Compliance guidelines for all projects.
Design team support, hands on experience, and created artifacts.
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PowerPoint presentations for leadership and team meetings.
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Miro board competitive analysis and UI inspiration boards for supporting functional goals.
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Miro board Design Thinking sessions artifacts for facilitating working sessions.
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User flows and journey maps to establish full project visions.
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Wireframe flows artifacts for various projects.
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Click paths and prototypes for various projects.
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Prototypes for user research.
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Style guide creation
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Visual UI design studies