User Interface Graphic Design

Arun Alexander Email: ad5roo@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arun-alexander-466530113/ Phone: +1-469-***-****

PROFILE SUMMARY:

Have 18 years of Experience in User Interface Development having exquisite Knowledge and hands-on experience in the entire user interface life cycle including planning, Analysis, Design, Implementation, Integration, Testing, Development, Documentation, and Maintenance of various client-server and web-based projects

Strong communication skills and voraciousness to learn new technologies.

Proficient in JavaScript, ES6, Angular, Typescript, XHTML, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JSON, Ajax, Bootstrap, jQuery.

Working Knowledge of React, NodeJS, Java spring boot, SQL

Experience in implementing web Accessibility WCAG 2.0, Section 508, ADA Compliance

Extensive experience in Atomic design principle and implementation of design system based on atomic design principles.

Extensive experience with Cross-browser compatibility, backwards compatibility, Device compatibility, Optimization for the web, including CSS Sprites and best practices.

Strong knowledge in Search Engine Optimization with Google Analytics and other tools.

Worked on Responsive, Adaptive and Hybrid Application for various form factors and devices including Desktop, Smartphone, Kiosk and tablet devices.

Analyzed UI design requirements for various projects and followed best practices. Provided defect fixes and design advice to teams

Experience in using the version control tools like GIT and project management tools like JIRA

Experience in working with clients on client premises, analyzing software requirements, and developing solutions and procedures.

Possess advanced knowledge and understanding of web-based graphic design and layout along with knowledge about the latest cutting-edge technologies. Knowledge in graphic design tools Photoshop, illustrator, Figma and XD

Comfortable in working both as an individual contributor or part of a team, very keen to learn and understand new technologies, follow best practices and contribute towards betterment of the organization.

Strong team builder having excellent analytical skills with capability to handle new technologies Authorized to work in the United States for any employer.

QUALIFICATION:

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Thangavelu Engineering College, 2004.

SKILLS:

Web technologies

Angular, Typescript, React.js, XHTML, HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, JavaScript, ES6, JSON, Ajax, Bootstrap, jQuery, Rest services, NPM, EsLint.

Tools

Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, XD, Figma, Microsoft teams, FileZilla, Jira, Confluence

Cloud tools and Server

GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Sonar cube, JIRA, AWS, CI/CD

Accessibility testing tools

NVDA, wave

IDEs and Text editors

Eclipse, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Bracket, Notepad ++

Web server

IIS, Tomcat, XAMPP, and WAMP.

Operating system

Windows and Ubuntu

KNOWLEDGE:

Web technologies

JQuery Mobile, React, NodeJS, Gulp, ExtJS UI customizing, Ext GWT, ARIA, java, Springboot, wireframe, PHP, MySQL, java, java spring boot, .net

Database

My SQL, SQL Server, Postgres

CMS

Drupal, WordPress, Opencart

Cloud tools and Server

Azure, AWS, CI/CD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: Mercedes Benz Financial Services July. 2022 – Till Date

Employer: Innovative Consulting solutions LLC

Senior UI Architect

Roles & Responsibilities:

Upgrading legacy technologies and recommending upgradation to latest framework standards, impact analysis to identify the changes across projects, developing, testing, documenting and fixing issues in the upgradation process.

Led the migration from old Angular versions to the Angular 14 for improved compatibility.

Handling REST API from java spring boot and consuming in Angular

Improved efficiency of application by 25% through the implementation of lazy loading, caching and modularization

Translated business requirements into Wireframe, UI designs and prototypes using Figma, Angular and JavaScript

Improved user satisfaction through substantial UI/UX enhancements.

Reduced development efforts by incorporating reusable UI components in Angular.

Enhanced the scalability of the application by breaking it down into smaller, manageable modules, allowing for efficient resource allocation and scaling based on demand.

Collaborated closely with backend teams working in Java Spring Boot to integrate REST API calls into Angular.

Gathering requirements and interacting with the backend team for implementing rest API and getting proper request and response parameters based on the functionality.

Implemented JWT authentication mechanism and role base authorization for security of the Application

Contributed to the migration of legacy applications to Angular.

Achieved Responsiveness using UI libraries like Bootstrap and Prime NG.

Re-Architecting the UI for simplifying complex tasks, align with design trends and maintain UI consistency across applications by strategically employing Design System components.

Version control and deployment with GITHUB and GITHUB Actions.

Creating UI test cases and executing test cases in JIRA

Responsible for dev, stage and production deployment of UI in Azure Cloud.

Creating rest API in Java Spring Boot and PostgreSQL DB.

Environment

HTML 5, CSS 3, jQuery, JavaScript, Angular 9-13, Typescript 4.4, Ajax, Node.JS, SASS, DOM, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, XD, Rest API, Visual Studio Code,, ES6, Bootstrap, Agile, Jira, JAVA, GITHUB,

Client: Verizon Mar. 2021 – July 2022

Employer: Infosys

Senior Consultant – Experience Design

Roles & Responsibilities:

Creating the Design system in Angular following atomic design principle for applications for code consistency

Gathering the requirement and collaborating with design team and creating components featuring easy maintenance, easy customization, and developer-friendly.

Creating Angular components, services, routing, Sass variables, and mixin.

Gathering the requirement and collaborating with design team and creating components featuring easy maintenance, easy customization, and developer-friendly.

Created Design system following modular approach and utilizing angular building blocks Modules, Components, Templates, Metadata, Services, Directives, Dependency Injection, Data Binding.

Leading a team of 4 members performing hands-on as well assigning tasks, reviewing tasks

Creating custom directives, services, models in angular for reusability.

Performing WCAG AA Accessibility check for each component at various levels including color contrast checking, Html semantic code validation, and making all components accessible through keyboard.

Creating a tool for custom theming of the design system with pre-defined colors.

Constantly touch basing with the design team for the creation and curation of components.

Publishing and hosting the design system on the server.

Creating documents for developers for usage of the design system.

Creating design view and code view for developers to consume the components with code copy feature’s

Constantly adding new features and components and releasing to developers.

Environment

HTML 5, CSS 3, jQuery, JavaScript, Angular 9-13, Typescript 4.4, Ajax, Node.JS, SASS, DOM, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, XD, Rest API, Visual Studio Code,, ES6, Bootstrap, Agile, Jira, Gulp, JAVA, GITHUB, SonarQube

Client: UnitedHealthCare Aug 2019 - Feb 2021

Employer: Infosys

Senior Consultant – Experience Design

Roles & Responsibilities:

Designing, coding, testing and delivering insightful and architecturally sound business solutions around high complexity work.

Creating Angular pages with semantic code validating the code for best practices

Creating CSS with CSS preprocessors like LESS and SASS following industrial standard naming convention

Creating design tokens for easy maintenance of CSS for varying themes and designs.

Twitter Bootstrap is used for creating a responsive web design for varying screen sizes and devices.

Creating custom directives, services, models in angular for reusability.

Handling REST API from java spring boot, nodejs and consuming in Angular using Angular http client observable.

Handling JWT authentication through interceptor and transforming the JSON using RXJS operators.

Using services, subject, input, outputs decorator to interact between components.

Using typescript type and interface for defining types.

Involve in form validation and error handing both in angular and JavaScript.

Help to improve performance of application by following performance optimizing techniques.

Testing the code in sonarQube before deployment.

Design and develop proof of concept prototypes for advanced features and designs.

Supported the development team in fixing UI and functional issues and adherence to UI architectural standards and best practice during the integration phase.

Analyzing and implementing client feedback and change requests.

Working experience with version control system GIT and bug tracking tools JIRA in an Agile Scrum environment.

Environment

HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript, Angular 8-9, Typescript 3.7, Ajax, Node.JS, SASS, DOM, XD, Rest API, Visual Studio Code, ES6, Bootstrap, Agile, JAVA, GITHUB, SonarQube, Azure.

Infosys May 2015 - July 2019

Senior User Experience Architect

Roles & Responsibilities:

Worked on creating html pages for multiple intranet apps like iTravel, LEDS design system, iCount, Infosys.com Compass etc.

Worked on many POCs and applications

Written custom JavaScript and jQuery components

Created font-based icons for easily adapting for any device. Created a Json based image search tool for the icon repository.

Maintaining a team and dedicating part of work to the team and reviewing the team’s work

Creating Gitlab repository and collaborating through Gitlab. Migrating from GitLab to GitHub

Enablement sessions for backend developers in consuming the design system.

Creating RWD and Adaptive web design using Bootstrap framework, HTML5 and CSS

Managed deliveries with multiple teams.

Analyzing the requirement and creating JSON structures for entire workflow

Getting the same structure JSON from Drupal as REST API using parameters for each component.

Rendering the UI in angular and react for all the components

Testing and fixing issues on various devices for RWD.

Supported the ASP and SharePoint team during the integration phase and helped in cross-browser issues fixing multiple device compatibility.

Managed pre-prod and production releases.

Proactively conducted regular sessions for developers in following the best practices for defect Prevention

Interacting with business to identify the Risks

Performing accessibility checks for all pages.

Environment

HTML 5, CSS 3, jQuery, JavaScript, Angular 5-8, Typescript 3.4, React, Ajax, Node.JS, SASS, DOM, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, XD, Rest API, Visual Studio Code,, ES6, Bootstrap, Agile, Jira, Gulp, .Net, JAVA, GITHUB, GITLAB, SonarQube, Jfrog, Azure, SharePoint, Drupal.

Client: Finacle June 2013- May 2015

Employer: Infosys

User Experience Architect

Roles & Responsibilities:

Creating Html and CSS pages following industry best practices.

UI and Browser compatibility issue fixing.

Supported the development team during the integration phase and helped in cross-browser issues fixing.

Planning the deliverables in a phased manner for multiple teams, since Finacle has multiple products.

Environment

Visual studio, Dreamweaver, Html, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery

Client: ICICI Sep 2012 - June 2013

Employer: Infosys

Senior User Interface Lead

Roles & Responsibilities:

Created RWD pages Using MS Grid in HTML5, CSS3 on visual studio for Hybrid Application.

Developed the complete UI in visual studio

Understanding MS grid and tile concept and developing the pages within short span. Helping developers in UI issue fixing.

Managed pre-prod and production releases.

Proactively conducted regular sessions for developers in following the best practices for defect Prevention

Trained developers in creating HTML5, & CSS3 pages following MS grid system in Visual studio.

Environment

Visual studio, Dreamweaver, Html, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery

Client: Airtel Money Feb 2012 - Sep 2012

Employer: Infosys

Senior User Interface Lead

Roles & Responsibilities:

Created RWD pages in jQuery Mobile.

Helping Developers in UI issue fixing.

Interacting with business and getting requirements for page-level interactions.

Environment

Visual studio, Dreamweaver, Html, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery

Client: Figtree Dec 2011 - Jan 2012

Employer: Keane

Assistant Project Manager

Roles & Responsibilities:

Played the role of Information Architect.

Requirement gathering and Creating Paper prototype

Created flash demo following Android UI design pattern.

Environment

Axure, Flash, Photoshop

Client: Orange Sep 2011 - Dec 2011

Employer: Keane

Assistant Project Manager

Roles & Responsibilities:

Creating pages in Html and CSS.

UI and Browser compatibility issue fixing.

Analyzing the impact of revamping the entire site to RWD.

Supported the development team during the integration phase and helped in cross-browser issues fixing.

Environment

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Dreamweaver, Photoshop

Client: Fidelity Aug 2011 - Sep 2011

Lead Software developer

Roles & Responsibilities:

Creating pages in EXTGWT a Google Web Toolkit based framework for java.

Pages are created using GWT designer.

Environment

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, EXTGWT, Java, Dreamweaver, Photoshop

Client: Wells Fargo Sep 2010 - Aug 2011

Employer: Keane

Lead Software developer

Roles & Responsibilities:

Creating pages with Semantic Html and CSS.

Since wells Fargo is very particular about accessibility creating pages with accessibility and doing accessibility testing with WCAG 2.0 AAA Standards.

Customizing the components for Telerik User Controls, UI, and Browser compatibility issue fixing.

Supported the .net team during the integration phase and helped in cross-browser issues fixing.

Reviewing the pages after development for Accessibility and browser compatibility.

Environment

HTML, CSS, Telerik, JavaScript, WCAG 2.0, Accessibility testing, Dreamweaver, Photoshop

Client: Unisys July 2009 – Sep 2010

Employer: Keane

Lead Software developer

Roles & Responsibilities:

Creating High fidelity prototype in Html and CSS.

Created the complete workflow of the biometric application, simulating all the real-time interactive behavior in the Html using JavaScript and jQuery.

Played the role of a visual designer and Information architect. Closely interacting with BA to understand the use case document.

Creating the basic wireframe from the use case document and taking it forward to development.

Creating icons and other visual design artifacts for development.

Created storyboard animation for airport security using flash.

UI and Browser compatibility issue fixing.

Supported the development team during the integration phase and helped in cross-browser issues fixing.

Planning the deliverables in a phased manner for multiple products.

Customizing the UI of ZK framework.

Environment

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Zk, Java, Ajax, Dreamweaver, Photoshop

Client: McKesson (Scorpion Ordering & Labelling) Jan 2009 - July 2009

Employer: Keane

Software developer

Roles & Responsibilities:

Creating Html and CSS pages following the Style guide.

Customizing the components for ExtJS User Controls, UI, and Browser compatibility issue fixing.

Supported the development team during the integration phase and helped in cross-browser issues fixing.

Planning the deliverables in a phased manner for the developers.

Reviewing the pages for design standards before production and logging the issues.

Environment

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Extjs, Ext gwt, java, Ajax, Dreamweaver, Photoshop

Goodluck Domain private Limited Mar. 2007 - Jan. 2009

Senior Web Designer

Roles & Responsibilities:

Responsible for Creating Visual Design and creating flash and HTML Websites.

Working with php open source portals and customizing the portal as per client needs

Creating dynamic functionalities and forms for portals using PHP

Involved in end to end website design, development and hosting process including requirement gathering, domain registration, designing, developing and hosting the website in server

Performing SEO for websites and improving the pages ranking

Implementing Google analytics to website.

Environment

HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, .Net, JAVA, PHP, MySQL, coreftp, xampp.

Melkash Studios Nov. 2005 – Feb. 2007

Web Designer

Roles & Responsibilities:

Responsible for Creating Graphic Design and designing pages for web site

Responsible for Maintaining the website content and graphical elements

Creating HTML pages, and Flash Animation.

Environment

HTML 5, CSS, DOM, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, flash.

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