UX Designer

• Delivered SkillPages 2.0, a full and comprehensive upgrade to UI and UX with colleague Tony O'Donogue to our 8 million members.
• Metric based design and iteration delivering user numbers and engagement.
• Written documentation to include technical interaction specifications while working closely with the development team to ensure front end implementation quality.
• Collaborating and problem solving with other members of the UX team.
• Creating and working with site maps, rich media storyboards, user flow, wireframes, and other information design documents.
• Evaluating and writing user testing reports.

• Responsible for all aspects of running a small web design & development company.
• Delivered a comprehensive redesign for Boston based startup Vaultus Mobile Technologies. Full redesign of corporate website, banner adverts, email marketing, website literature downloads with technical diagrams, tradeshow banners, graphics and background multimedia presentations and brand identities for new products. Company bought by Antenna Software 5 months after final iteration.
• Delivered full re-design and corporate identity for petsbehave.com including full HTML/CSS development of website. Managed SEO and updates. Referrals from website saw sales grow by 21%.
• Conceptualized and composited user interfaces and oversaw the development of online directory for startup BERCentral. Created full branding for both print and web and magazine advert.
• Project managed to include client meetings, writing proposals and functional specs and other appropriate literature, research and analysis, managing sub-contractor developers.

• Developing processes and procedures to improve project workflow.
• Project management including liaising with clients, managing other team members, and scheduling work.
• Technical writing to include: Website auditing, Website proposals, and Functional Specs.
• Creating layouts for website projects and HTML/CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, XML, coding of websites.
• Design of flash animation sequences, presentations and authoring of flash websites.
• Design of professional graphical identities, stationary, brochures, posters, signage etc.

• Produced and managed interactive CD-Rom’s including animating, sound editing, video editing, testing and replication for clients such as: Eircom, UCD Smurfit School of Business and UCD Quinn School of Business.
• Produced corporate presentations / animation sequences for deployment on CD-ROM for UCD Quinn School of business and Golden Spiders Web Awards.
• Shot and produced a series of video interviews for deployment on CD-ROM.
• Front end HTML/CSS, DHTML, JavaScript development.
• Website auditing with technical and design recommendations for potential clients.
• Research and analysis with technical documentation.
• Designed and produced PowerPoint presentation templates.
• Developed the first company WAP website.

• Delivered “Guinness Marketing Manual” project from design concept to fully deployed Windows and Mac format interactive CD-ROM.
• Constructed HTML/DHTML websites and testing cross platform and on all supported browsers, validating front end code and scripting, and load time.
• Created PowerPoint and CD-ROM based corporate presentations.
• Built email newsletters and email campaigns.
• Organized and managed project archival.