Experience

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  Pearson

  • United Kingdom
  • Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Senior UX Prototyper

    • Mar 2017 - Present

    Lead efforts of creating interactive prototypes of new productsAssist in creating and implementing company-wide UX standards and interfacesBuild and maintain systems for rapid prototyping

  • UX Prototyper

    • Jun 2013 - Mar 2017

    .Lead development efforts in creating a Pearson-wide front-end UI framework, based on Twitter Bootstrap v2 and v3.Develop SASS-based approach to overlaying Pearson’s design onto Bootstrap.Collaborate with UI designers to refine design direction.Develop new interactive components needed by adopting teams, and incorporate ones they developed independently.Implement automated UI testing system.• Maintain code repository and versioning

  • Associate Creative Director, Web & Media

    • Jun 2007 - Jun 2013

    UX & Interface Design lead on large-scale web applications.Collaborate with product development to define the UX of products.Manage small on-shore and off-shore teams of designers and front-end developers.Adopt and promote the use of Pearson-wide branding guidelines in UI designs.Lead accessibility implementation efforts.Develop UIs capable of internationalization and localization, including right-to-left languages.Coordinate usability testing and design iteration.Implement responsive design.

  • Web Designer / Developer

    • Oct 1995 - Jun 2007

    (Formerly Simon & Schuster, bought by Pearson)First visual designer of in-house web team.Producer for S&S-AOL relationship, prepared content for S&S's area in AOL.Designed and helped code S&S's first content-focused site, InformIT.com.Transformed InformIT.com into S&S's first commerce site.Lead effort to design and build custom content management system.After Pearson purchased S&S, moved to Higher Education group to build identity management, class registration, and content management systems.

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  One Page Redesign

  • Indianapolis, Indiana Area

  • Owner

    • Jan 2011 - Jan 2012
    • Indianapolis, Indiana Area

    A personal freelance side project that allowed me to focus on visual design.Provided clients with design comps and critical written analysis for a single page of their site.

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  ANGEL Learning

  • Indianapolis, Indiana Area

  • Freelance Web Designer

    • Aug 2005 - Aug 2007
    • Indianapolis, Indiana Area

    Created several visual theme skins for use within ANGEL's learning management system.Developed a promotional site and artifacts for version 7 of their learning management system, in collaboration with marketing team.

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  Macmillan Publishing

  • Indianapolis, Indiana Area

  • Page Layout Technician

    • Sep 1993 - Oct 1995
    • Indianapolis, Indiana Area

    Laid out book interiors using text from editorial team paired with art and design guidelines from creative group. Titles were under the imprints of Betty Crocker, Frommer’s Travel Guides, Que, Sams, New Riders, Hayden, BradyGAMES.Collaborated with proofreaders and indexers to produce the final product.