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Dedicated and experienced professional, seeking a position as Interface Designer / Associate Creative Director. I possess strong organizational, interpersonal and leadership skills with a proven understanding of visual design and web technologies.

•	Bridged the gap between the business departments, clients and technology groups, while overseeing efforts throughout the planning and execution phases 
•	Conducted stakeholder interviews, best practices reviews, competitive analysis of major US competitors, Gap analysis, and persona creation to strategize user experience
•	Worked to develop measurable goals and manage the product strategy process
•	To gain perspective on product fundamentals and current marketing initiatives, I performed independent research through conversations with key legacy experts
•	Evaluated competitor products, identifying user challenges and successes, and worked with Marketing to incorporate this research into market positioning and campaign efforts
•	Performed R&D for product advancement, tactical competitiveness, and ROI
•	Represented UX in external stakeholder meetings with existing and potential partners 
•	Applied talents of aligning business units by representing the goals of each department in the UX strategy and promoting knowledge share between departments
•	Translated business and user goals into personas, user stories, flows, wire-frames and prototypes on five VirtualWorks projects

Sr. UX Designer

•	As product owner I maintained constant visibility on projects to ensure client feedback was conveyed to my development team and staff in a timely manner, assuring quality
•	Collaborated with business & engineering teams to streamline production efforts
•	Managed interface development releases throughout the product life cycle stages
•	Met and exceeded IT solution industry challenges by creatively applying the latest user experience trends to BluePoint’s monitoring system
•	Under R&D I brought SkyView to life by translating their conceptual business ideas into wireframes and feature lists and managing the product strategy as project owner
•	Performed stakeholder interviews with Pomeroy’s senior staff and account managers
•	Conducted competitive analysis and provided UX best practice recommendations
•	Produced research such as gap analysis, taxonomy, flows, and user stories 
•	Identified system users and defined user personas and challengers for higher adoption

UX Information Architect

•	Managed product strategy process across depts. during the planning & execution phases
•	Met with stakeholders, performed competitive analysis and best practice reviews, and created a product strategy process to accommodate for external factors 
•	Developed product Gap analysis and features backlog with Marketing & Customer Service and provided phased business requirements for the product strategy process
•	Preformed a system audit and a taxonomy review for user experience and user adoption 
•	Conducted A/B testing and analytic evaluation on conversion rates in registration path 
•	Created wireframes and prototypes for STOPzilla’s new ecommerce customer portal

User Experience Designer

•	As Strategist on the Corning Credit Union account, I owned and managed client goals throughout the planning and execution phases of their site redesign process
•	Identified company goals by performing stakeholder interviews with clients
•	Identified system user personas and challenges based on client member life cycle
•	Undertook competitive analyst and best practice review for Corning Credit Union
•	Reconstructed system taxonomy, flows, and user experience for higher user adoption
•	Applied best UX practices by producing wireframes for several high brand clients for BGT
•	Designed wireframes for a five-tier, dynamic-driven, CMS site utilizing Visio for CCU

UI Strategist

•	Lead efforts as UX/ UI Designer on Kitara Media’s online ad network platform product
•	Redesigned GUI and user experience for Kitara’s ad placement product 
•	Wire-framed and developed prototypes for our clients web based application
•	Designed online media placement application to include localization applied layouts
•	Coded HTML5 pages and implemented CSS on a Java framework utilizing Dreamweaver
•	Produced branded graphics style guides, style sheets and web assets for development team for UI development team and partner associations
•	Maintained and updated lead generation landing pages for online marketing Regpath

Information Architect

•	User Interface lead on a nimble and talented Agile based Development team
•	Translated client feedback and challenges, from the product manager, into user experience solutions and requirements, while assuring quality, for the development team 
•	Conducted user experience enhancements to Sumitomo Tire’s ecommerce website
•	Achieved success with TBC’s email campaigns designing a better user experience
•	Rapidly prototyped marketing campaigns and website redesign ahead of development
•	Managed branding integrity across Big O, NTB, Merchants and Tire Kingdom’s interfaces
•	Worked with analytics review team to establish metric points to identify most lucrative market for Big O Tires to target
•	Produced personas, taxonomy, user stories, wire-frames from business requirements
•	Developed solution prototypes for product user experience for websites and POS system

•	Designed user experience flows and displays for social networking web application in St. Thomas US Virgin Islands two weeks a month on a highly skilled user experience team
•	Promoted to User Experience Information Architect to derive business requirements from user challenges and translate them into user experience solutions
•	Developed system personas, user stories, and scenarios for social networking platform
•	Selected for advanced research team to work under R&D in St. Thomas to produce rapid prototypes and wireframes
•	Traveled 50 percent of the month to develop out of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands

User Interface Engineer

•	Provided user experience direction for desktops, smart phones, kiosk, microsites, CMS’s
•	I utilizing Visual studio, Visio, MS Project and Adobe suite tools for UI development 
•	Asked to apply creative to all branding and user experience to all mediums for DayJet
•	Gained knowledge of CMS tools with open source rainbow portal for FAA portal and Sharepoint portal for DayJet’s employee intranet site
•	Designed and maintained DayJet’s ecommerce environment and reservations system
•	Storyboarded user interactions, flows and use cases from performance GAP Analysis 
•	Coded pages and implemented style sheets in the.NET framework while ensuring quality
•	Served as Creative Lead on all user interface creation, application GUI and aircraft brand
•	Oversaw DayJet’s marketing publications, microsites, media assets and campaigns 
•	Managed numerous front end projects in parallel why maintaining quality of output
•	Handled maintenance for web site, including graphics, multimedia, HTML and CSS
•	Collaborated & designer DayJet’s interior & exterior configuration for 1400 Eclipse 500’s why maintaining relationships with Pontiac and Eclipse engineering teams
•	Applied DayJet’s brand on fleet of 1400 aircraft complying with FAA regulations

Web Developer / Creative Director

Branding, Aircraft Paint Schemes, Print Publications, Logo design, Web Design and content management. Hand coded XHTML, HTML, CSS2. All multimedia development.

Creative Director

•	Designed marketing content and user experience strategies for  StategIM’s
•	Coded interactive user interface graphics, icons utilizing Photoshop and Flash 
•	Developed Flash interactive components and managed multiple client websites
•	Created diagrams, publications and service imagery for marketing department ads

Web Developer

Franklin Printing, Farmington, Maine.
Graphic Intern 
January 1998 – June1998 
Color Correction, Mass Scanning, Image Manipulation

Graphic Intern

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Dylan Nickerson

Champlain College

Foster Tech Center

Full Sail University