Brandon Tisherman

Summary:

Over ** years of web application development and design.

Possess excellent customer experience intuition; demonstrated success in creating beautiful and user-friendly websites, mobile apps and/or business software.

Demonstrated visual design expertise through mockups and style guides

Analyze user interface problems and create on-brand design solutions that meet measurable business goals and requirements.

Use metrics and research to inform design/UX optimization efforts.

Javascript, UI/UX., MVC 5 Razor and CSS3 developer with an emphasis on building strong User Interfaces along with intuitive functionality across multiple platforms.

Extensive experience in using JavaScript, JQuery, KnockoutJS, Foundation, Bootstrap, AngularJS, D3.js, CSS2/3, XML, RESTful API, Web Services, ASP.NET, C#, XHTML, HTML 4/5 and XAML.

An experienced troubleshooter and tester in Javascript and C# code behind depending on the type of bug and solution that was presented. Heavy use of Jasmine, Karma Unit Testing and JSFiddle and Firebug.

Drive the design review cycle and close on design requirements independently.

Strong bias for action; ability to juggle multiple priorities and effectively deliver in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Be willing to roll up the sleeves and do what is necessary to meet team goals.

Possess excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills.

Education:

B.S. Telecommunication Jun 1987

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Security Clearance 2006

Technical Skills:

Platforms/Frameworks/OS:

User Interface-1st Tier –API: Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate, Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver MX, Adobe Photoshop CS 3, Adobe Illustrator CS 3, Adobe Premiere and After Effects. Microsoft Expression Blend

Languages/Scripting: C#, HTML 5, CSS 3, MVC4 Razor, XML, JSON, XSLT, XUI, ASP.NET, XAML, MCML, Actionscript 3.0, Foundation Css, DHTML, LUA, JAVASCRIPT, KnockoutJS, ASP, T-SQL, Windows 8, .NET,Windows Mobile, JQuery, AJAX,YUI, Windows 2003 Server R2, Microsoft IIS, FMOD, Share Point Portal Server 2013, AngularJS, D3.JS

Databases and web services: MS SQL Server 2005, MS SQL 2000/DTS /ADO, Filemaker Pro & Server 9, Restful API

Workflow and Source Control; Microsoft Product Studio and Source Depot, Team Foundation Server,

QA and Debugging: Perforce, Seapine Test Track, N-Unit, Jasmine, JSHint, JSFiddle JSUnit, Havoc Script Debugger, Firebug (Firefox) web dev debugger: Visual Studio debugging and tracing and JetBrains -webStorm.

Professional Experience:

Microsoft Inc., CFE Financial MS Approvals, Redmond WA Mar 2015 – June 2015

UI/UX Developer-Designer

Design and develop all javascript Angular Unit tests for MS Financial approval tool using Jasmine framework and Karma as the test runner.

Worked with lead dev to determine which functions would require the most testing along with the types of Mocks and Promises and “negatives” that would be required to prove the application was either succeeding or failing after any changes in the code.

Set up the automation of these tests through the integration of node.js and Bower scaffolding tools and Gruntjs.

Environment: Single Page Application with Javascript, coffeescript, LESS, KnockoutJS Custom Databinding Handlers, MVVM, AngularJS, Jasmine, Karma, GruntJS, Bower scaffolding, Foundation CSS, Bootstrap Responsive Design Library, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, HTML 4/5, CSS 3 and JQuery, TFS, Agile/Scrum, Balsamiq and Axure.

Microsoft Inc., Machine Learning and Information Security, Redmond WA Jan 2015 – Mar 2015

UI/UX Developer-Designer

Design and develop all UI/UX for internal tools along with front –end functionality. Strong design sensibility needed to mockup metro look and feel using Photoshop and Illustrator, html 5. Heavy Javascript for mockups and functioning prototype customization. Custom knockout Data Binding Handlers were developed for the animation of our UI; Interactive Data Visualization with D3.js; Design patterns and library was KockoutJS with MVVM.

Created working prototypes to finalize existing and future “user stories and epics”.

Participate in code review and unit testing to ensure quality code and markup and performance.

Developed RESTful web client to consume windows RESTful API (and secure data layer).

Developed pixel perfect fit and finish interface layouts and functionality from redlines with HTML 5 and CSS 3.

Created UI designs through consideration of business requirements & technical limitations along with end result being all UI considerations be responsive layout to many platforms and resolutions.

Translated high-level feature concepts into use cases and customer experience requirements.

Presented design work to the product development team, executives, and external partners for review and feedback.

Produced wireframes, high-fidelity mockups and production art assets.

Developed and maintain detailed UI specifications.

Ensured my designs would work across many languages using different character sets localization string replacement.

Worked on several different projects at once, and met demanding deadlines.

Environment: Single Page Application with Javascript, typescript, LESS, KnockoutJS Custom Databinding Handlers, MVVM, AngularJS, D3.js; C#, Foundation CSS, Bootstrap Responsive Design Library, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, HTML 4/5, CSS 3 and JQuery, TFS, Agile/Scrum, Balsamiq and Axure.

Microsoft Inc., OCTO Campus Sharepoint Site, Redmond WA July 2014 – October 2014

UI/UX Designer-Developer

Developed pixel perfect fit and finish interface layouts and functionality from redlines with HTML 5 and CSS 3 and responsive design using Bootstrap.

Created UI designs through consideration of business requirements & technical limitations per different platforms.

Presented design work to the product development team, executives, and external partners for review and feedback.

Produced wireframes, high-fidelity mockups and production art assets.

Developed and maintain detailed UI specifications and templates and site collections.

Create new Sharepoint “Display Templates,” “Master Page(s)” for the Campus Sharepoint Site using Adobe photoshop and Illustrator with redline pixel perfect addendum. Along with UX specifications and use cases.

Environment: Sharepoint 2013 Sites and Applications with Javascript, typescript, LESS and SASS, Foundation CSS/Sass, Bootstrap Responsive Design Library, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, HTML 5, CSS 3 and JQuery, TFS, Agile/Scrum, Balsamiq and Axure.

Microsoft Inc., Exchange Group, Redmond WA Jan 2014 – Jul 2014

UI/UX Designer-Developer

Design and develop all UI/UX for internal tools along with front –end functionality. Design sensibility to metro look and feel using Photoshop and illustrator, html 5, heavy Javascript for mockups and functioning prototypes, jQuery, Ajax and MVC 4 for finished applications and tools which supported the many fortune 500 and 100 clients of Microsoft. Design patters were AngularJS with MVC.

Created working prototypes to finalize existing and future “user stories and epics”.

Architect the UI/UX for Search Engine application with thorough commenting of code for future developers.

Participate in code review and unit testing to ensure quality code and markup and performance.

Developed RESTful web client to consume windows RESTful API (and secure datalayer).

Developed pixel perfect fit and finish interface layouts and functionality from redlines with HTML 5 and CSS 3.

Created UI designs through consideration of business requirements & technical limitations along with end result being all UI considerations be responsive layout to many platforms and resolutions.

Translated high-level feature concepts into use cases and customer experience requirements.

Presented design work to the product development team, executives, and external partners for review and feedback.

Produced wireframes, high-fidelity mockups and production art assets.

Developed and maintain detailed UI specifications and templates.

Ensured my designs would work across many languages using different character sets.

Worked on several different projects at once, and met demanding deadlines.

Environment: Single Page Application with Javascript, typescript, LESS, Knockout Databinding, MVC 5 Razor, AngularJS, C#, Foundation CSS, Bootstrap Responsive Design Library, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, WPF,HTML 4/5, CSS 3 and JQuery, TFS, Agile/Scrum, Balsamiq and Axure.

Microsoft Inc., Academic Search, Redmond WA Jan 2013 – Oct 2013

Web Developer

Updating academic search site to metro look and feel using html 5, heavy Javascript, jQuery, Ajax and MVC 4.

Work with UX guys to finalize workflows and best practices for the UI. Created working prototypes to finalize future user stories and epics. All UI had to be responsive ready for many different platforms and resolutions.

Architect the UI/UX for Search Engine application with thorough commenting of code for future developers.

Participate in code review and unit testing to ensure quality code and markup.

Developed RESTful web client to consume widows RESTful API.

Developed pixel perfect fit and finish interface layouts and functionality from redlines with HTML 5 and CSS 3.

Environment: MVC 4 Razor, AngularJS, Windows 8, Foundation responsive library, Expression Blend, C#, Foundation CSS/Sass, Adobe Photoshop and Ajax, WPF,HTML 5, CSS 3 and JQuery, Javascript, TFS, Agile/Scrum

Intel, Inc. Duvall, WA Jun 2012 – Nov 2012

Web Developer

Projects: Intel’s Ultra book applications: Tap Detection/Device Personalization

Designed and developed interface layouts and functionality for the Intel’s new Ultra book release and its’ custom applications: Tap Detection and Device Personalization; using XAML markup and C# code behind for functionality and data binding.

Create storyboards for User Experience testing and Photoshop and flash mockups for the design aspect of the UI which was to be presented to Intel decision makers.

Used HTML 5 for prototyping the interfaces.

Used CSS 3 for doing interface animation.

UI had to be responsive to many platforms and resolutions-achieved through Bootstrap library.

Designed and architected the UI/UX for both applications with thorough commenting of code for future developers. UI had to be responsive to many platforms and resolutions-achieved through Foundation framework.

Extensive Metro Design principles employed for both applications in both design structure and UX negotiation (metro animations) for Windows 8 and Win forms for Windows 7.

Primary development tools were Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate with Team Foundation Server (storied agile methodology) and Microsoft Expression Blend for Development and Source Control.

Environment: XAML, Windows 8, Expression Blend, C#, Adobe Photoshop and Flash, HTML 5, CSS 3, WPF, JQuery, JavaScript, TFS, Agile/Scrum

Microsoft Inc., Redmond, WA Jun 2011 - Feb 2012

UI Developer

Project: Sports Entertainment Group/XBOXLIVE360/ESPN

Provided fit and finish interface layouts and functionality for the XBoxLive360/ESPN portal releases 2.3 and 2.4 using LUA scripting tied to XUI interfaces.

Work with XUI artists to implement UX and UI designs.

Contribute to ‘storied’ Agile next release meetings with producers and developers on usability and engineering plausibility.

Rebuilt look-and-feel of advertising materials, including image and brand content, iconography, email campaigns, ads, banners and other graphic materials, thereby improving visual experience, visual design, and UI design.

Programmed and supported many different tools for work-flow and asset management control.

Video editing and compositing effects for “Inside XBOX” weekend review promo.

Adobe “Premiere “and “After Effects” programs utilized.

Primary development tools were Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with Team Foundation Server and Havoc Script for Debugging and Development and Source Control.

Environment: XAML, Expression Blend, LUA, XUI, WPF, Silverlight 4.0, JQuery, JavaScript, TFS, Agile/Scrum

T-Mobile Inc., Bothell, WA Apr 2010 - Apr 2011

Web and Flash Developer

Project: Web Sustainment Development-Content Team.

Optimized and recoded parts of T-Mobile’s customer management application-flash version when JavaScript was disabled (billing, plan management, adding services, etc.) using pure MVC design patterns and advanced Action script 3.0 techniques. Application tied to backend web services with SOAP, JSON-RPC and XML-RPC protocols.

Developed Restful Web services to read and update data using MVC web APIs.

Responsible for revision of code, fixing defects and implementing new enhancements (UI and the business) requirements; also fixing bugs and troubleshooting technical problems via bug tracking lifecycle along with close work with business owners and web producers for timely completion of projects and requests

Bringing the proposed redesign of existing page layouts and/or creation of new page layouts for the T-Mobile Enterprise site, lead nurturing and e-mail campaigns to life, with an increased emphasis.

Provide fit and finish layout and functionality from design specs using advanced .CSS (specificity) and JQuery also employing the high standards from the UX people when it came to performance and intuition of interface.

Cross browser functionality expertise needed considering the high demographic numbers the T-Mobile site was experiencing with the different browsers and their respective challenges (IE 6, 7, 8, safari, chrome and opera).

Environment: MVC, Adobe Flash, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, Action script 3.0, JQuery, JavaScript, TFS, Agile/Scrum

Microsoft Inc., Redmond, WA Oct 2009 - Jan 2010

Design Integrator-Windows Mobile Group

Provided fit and finish interface layouts and functionality for the Microsoft Mobile Group’s next mobile OS release using Microsoft’s proprietary language Splash.

Daily SCRUM meetings and code review with senior developers and worked closely with designers to solve current bug queue. (Agile dev models) to satisfy pixel perfect layouts.

Provided graphical support to Marketing and Business Development groups for email campaigns and other promo needs.

Strong knowledge of XML and backend class libraries was needed to succeed in this position.

Utilize Microsoft Product Studio and Source Depot to manage code and versioning

Environment: Splash, Product Studio/Source Depot, Visual Studio v10, Mobile Phone v7, Agile/Scrum

Cascade Engineering Services Inc., Redmond, WA May 2009 - July 2009

Web Developer

Web application development centered on scheduling and custom content management interface features. C# functions tied to numerous stored procedures were the general framework.

Using User-Centered designs, modeled the following design compositions: “Personas, UI Design Specs, Wire Framing and User Flows, to form and test the development of user interfaces for better client experiences and for more intuitive interface design.

Environment: JavaScript, Microsoft Ajax libraries, CSS, XML, XSLT, XSD, Web Services, ASP.NET, C#, XHTML, SCRUM

Microsoft Inc., Seattle, WA Aug 2008 – Mar 2009

MCML Author

Debugged and designed new layouts and created animations for the Microsoft Media Center application using Microsoft’s proprietary language MCML and XAML and WPF.

Troubleshoot some C# code behind depending on the type of bug and solution that was needed. Strong knowledge of XML was needed to succeed in this position.

Utilize Microsoft Product Studio and Source Depot to manage code and versioning and to logically follow the bug tracking model and to satisfy those owners that were involved with its creation and resolution.

Collaborated closely with the Marketing Department, editors and developers, creating advertisement segments, branding, marketing proposals, landing pages, email campaigns and other ad creative, resulting in improved customer conversion rate.

Strong technical, analytical and communication skills were used to debug and solve the new bugs introduced by user experience groups, program managers and testers.

The organization and follow through needed for code reviews and follow through further strengthened my software development and team building skills.

Environment: MCML, XAML, WPF, Product Studio/Source Depot, Visual Studio v10, Agile/Scrum

Net Motion Wireless Co Inc., Seattle, WA Sep 2006 - Jun 2008

Web Developer/Designer

Designed from scratch interface prototypes and live models via Flash and tested and deployed with advanced Action script 3.0 and Adobe Flex. With User-Centered design principles created the following: “Wire Framing, Personas, UI Design Specs and User Flows, to form and test the development of numerous projects for better dev team experiences and for more intuitive interface design; thus, for better benchmarking of these UX and development initiatives.

Designed and developed external facing web site along with several web-based applications according to specifications by the marketing and sales departments.

Using JavaScript, YUI libraries(AJAX), CSS, XML, XSLT, XSD, Web Services, ASP.NET, C#, XHTML, and tied to back end (MS SQL, DTS and Stored Procedures), coordinated with others to develop the overall product and web site architectures which would perform optimally under these topologies.

Designed the user interface and API’s after extensive wire-framing and prototyping methodologies had been agreed upon; along with using current technologies like XML, XSLT for storage and manipulation of data allowing for faster retrieval and better web client experiences.

Bug reporting was handled with Seapine’s Test Tracker Pro.

Responsible for all design and development of our intra-net and SharePoint web sites which ran integral sales, CRM tools and web applications that I developed and tweaked continually to better serve the NMWCO sales force and marketing departments along with the finance arm of the company that needed traditional reports from these tools.

Environment: JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, XML, XSLT, XSD, Web Services, SQL Server 2008, ASP.NET, C#, XHTML, Agile

Idaho Army National Guard, Boise, ID May 2004 – Aug 2006

Web Developer/Designer

Analyzed, specified, designed and developed several web-based applications using Action script 2.0 to create “Rich-Internet Applications” that provide a better presentation layer than older web applications interfaces could provide.

Coordinated with others to develop the overall product architecture, utilizing the following technologies: XML, XSLT, Web Services, HTML, CSS, ASP.NET, C#, with a working knowledge of MS SQL, DTS, and Flash Comm. Server and Share Point Server (MOSS).

Created the GUI’s along with ADO.NET data layer tied to a MS SQL Server 2000 of, said, web and console applications.

From XML, XPATH AND XSLET transformations the Web Services were a refreshing change from the older ASP the Guard had been using. Via Triggers and Stored Procedures we maintained strong, secure, fast performance of our web applications and web services.

Strong technical, analytical and communication skills were deployed to function as the team/project lead by reporting bi-monthly on application performance, technical specifications and bug reporting using Segue’s web application and web services testing products.

Responsible of all design and development of external and intra-net sites for the Idaho Army Guard along with traditional server production and development duties and maintenance via custom scripting of the API and server environments.

Environment: XML, XSLT, Web Services, HTML, CSS, ASP.NET, C#, MS SQL Server 2000, SharePoint Server

MBA Technologies Inc., Boise, ID May 2003 - May 2004

Web Developer/Designer

Responsible for all design and development of corporate client web accounts (over 12 accounts).

Part of development team focused on .net and flash remoting technologies.

Designer of all print & marketing collateral-brochure, business cards and logo for the company- T-SQL relational Database, including building and structuring tables, indexes, and entity relationships.

Further experience involved using XML in at least one project for structuring or sharing data.

Visual Studio.net was experience was used to create a user interface for the applications.

Environment: HTML, CSS, ASP.NET, Adobe Flash and Photoshop

Empowerz Inc., Boise, ID Feb 2003 - Feb 2006

Web Developer/Corporate Accounts Manager

Responsible for design, development, marketing, search engine optimization and strategies of all corporate and medical web accounts.

Designer and Developer of all sites: flash and html based.

Print designer for local business to business magazine “Rising Leader.”

Account executive with all advertisers and designer for all advertisements.

Environment: HTML, CSS, ASP, Action script 2.0, Adobe Flash and Photoshop

Publicis Dialog Inc., Boise, ID Aug 2002 - Nov 2002

Interactive/Web Developer (freelance)

Responsible for programming and development of two major CDROM’s: T-Mobile Blackberry Handheld and the HP Thermal Inkjet launch using advanced Action script programming skills.

Successful and timely completion of project working with large team: Account Execs, Copywriters, Artistic Director and, of course, the client.

Further duties include web development and backend database integration for HP’s “On-Demand” campaign (lead collection in an ASP environment/MS SQL7).

Rework of the HP Inkjet CDROM project for European markets (programming and artwork rework).

Environment: HTML, CSS, ASP, Action script 2.0, Adobe Flash and Photoshop

Web Blends LLC, Boise ID Feb 2002 - Feb 2005

Owner/Web Developer/Designer/Flash Application Engineer

Responsible for design, development, marketing, search engine optimization and strategies of Web Blends.

Designer and Developer of all web templates sold on the site: flash and html based.

Integrator of ASP based shopping cart system.

Further responsibilities include copywriting and original artwork creation.

Environment: HTML, CSS, ASP, Action script 2.0, Adobe Flash and Photoshop.

Previous work history:

Ineto Services Inc., Austin, TX Feb 2001 - Feb 2002

Webmaster/Web Developer

Liaison Technology Inc. Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

Web Developer

Amicus Networks Inc. Nov 1999 - Jan 2000

Web Producer/Designer

One ecommerce Apr 1999 - Oct 1999

Web Designer

Technologies on Target Dec 1997 - Apr1999

Media Producer/Sys. Integrator

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