Project Manager Design

Julio Reguero UX/UI Designer

http://resume.julioreguero.com

650-***-**** 1060 Carolan Ave. Burlingame, CA 94010 *****.*******@*****.***

Objective

Interested in a challenging position as a User Experience/User Interface Designer in a dynamic, inspiring and creative

environment that will allow me to make use of my clean, user-friendly and simple aesthetic interface design, front-end

engineering, and visual design skills, with main focus on usability, accessibility and standards compliant output.

Qualifications Summary

3+ years user-interface design experience and a proven track record designing successful, compelling, and

consumer-focused web and mobile applications.

Working experience with Design, Product, and Engineering teams to create beautiful interfaces that facilitate what

users want to do, and delight them along the way, with the ability to express big picture design ideas beyond the

task at hand.

Comfortable designing user-friendly interfaces exhibiting a strong visual design sense with a focus on purpose-

driven interfaces, and an eye for good typography, composition, and use of color.

Experience creating and maintaining detailed application design documentation and deliverables including

personas, wireframes, prototypes, site maps, task flows, interaction flows, style guidelines, UI specs and visual assets.

5+ years experience designing, developing and testing accessible, web-standards complied websites and web-based

applications across multiple browsers and platforms. Always in love with well structured markup and clean code.

Strong understanding and ability to implement a wide breadth of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and

JavaScript libraries to enhance the user experience of a web site, application, or consumer product.

Working experience with relational database management systems, including the ability to write and execute

complex SQL queries.

Proactive and high energy team player with dedicated work ethics and candid communication skills.

A self starter with an aptitude for understanding business processes and learning new skills quickly, and the ability

to manage different responsibilities/tasks simultaneously with an eye for details. Logical, analytical thinking.

Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment with minimal direction. Able to start

a project and make an immediate impact.

Detail-oriented, self-organized, and an obsession for consistency. Capable of taking a project through its full life

cycle from defining and documenting business rules and requirements, through market research and competitor

analysis, to interaction design and prototyping, developing, testing, production release and ongoing maintenance of

the product.

Social media enthusiast with passion for blogging, digital marketing, technology, and the latest web trends.

Technical Skills

Expert-level skills with various software tools to provide real solutions to real problems, leveraging an extensive

hands-on software development background to design and implement customized web and mobile solutions.

Project Management and Planning: Microsoft Project, Basecamp, Confluence

Version Control Systems: SVN, Mercurial, Perforce, MS Visual SourceSafe

Issue Tracking Systems: JIRA, Bugzilla, Bitbucket Issue Tracker

Modeling Languages/CASE Tools: UML / Visio, Smart Draw

Wireframing, Mockup and Prototyping Tools: Balsamiq Mockups, Pencil Project, Microsoft Visio, Creately

Graphic Design Tools: Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop

Programming Languages/Platforms: Java, LAMP, ASP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML

IDEs: Eclipse, NetBeans, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3/CS5, Aptana Studio

App Servers: IIS, Apache, Tomcat, Resin, XAMPP

Content Management Systems (CMS): WordPress, Joomla!, Magnolia

RDBMS: MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server

Test Management Tools: QA Planner, HP Quality Center

Automated Testing Tools: Selenium

Webmaster/SEO Tools: Google Website Optimizer/Webmaster Tools/Ad Planner/Analytics, Reinvigorate/Snoop

Work Experience

Mobile Conex San Francisco, CA

Freelancer July 2010 Present

My role at Mobile Conex is quite varied, covering a number of different disciplines ranging from the initial stage of

proposal preparation, through to the coordination of software development life-cycle activities including requirements

gathering and documentation, UML modeling, interface design and prototyping, implementation, testing, deployment,

and training. To ensure quality, reliability and accuracy of deliverables, all projects are closely managed and adhere to

industry standard and best practices.

As a Project Manager I act as a liaison between the client, the creative team, and the technical team, being responsible

for allocating team resources, planning and scheduling future work, developing technical/functional specifications,

recommending and implementing solutions, meeting specific deadlines, reviewing architecture models for all project

initiatives, troubleshooting, and providing product support to clients.

As a Web Designer and Developer my focus relies on creating simple and usable websites, which are fully hand-coded with

valid standard markup, cross-browser compatible, W3C validated and SEO optimized.

As a UI/UX Designer my mission is to create high-impact designs that make our web and mobile products intuitive,

efficient, and fun. I breathe life into creative ideas and static mock-ups via the technical know-how. I m also able to

lend a hand to the visual design aspect of a project and talk to my design rationales.

In the mobile space I have effectively lead small and medium-sized teams in consulting and internal projects (such as

daFlicks for BlackBerry) through product research, prototyping, development, testing, feature enhancement and

integration among other responsibilities, in times of high pressure and stress.

RIM Fort Lauderdale, FL/Redwood City, CA

Web Developer/UI Designer Jan 2009 June 2010

As a Web Developer and User Interface Designer in the Platform Engagements Group at RIM, I worked on high-

exposure projects creating innovative, market-driven solutions for the BlackBerry platform, developed in

collaboration with key strategic partners like Ticketmaster and eBay.

Highlights of projects and activities include:

Ticketmaster for BlackBerry: With minimal assistance and taking a pro-active role I contributed to the feature

enhancement and improvement of the web-based Ticketmaster application for BlackBerry by finding, reporting,

and fixing bugs and performance issues to ensure each product release was completed and successfully tested.

eBay for BlackBerry: Extensive involvement in the user experience research, user interface and prototype design

phase of the official eBay BlackBerry app, in addition to creating the UI specification describing all the screens and

their intended behavior in full detail.

Created a collection of high-fidelity wireframes describing the content, behavior, and interaction scenarios of

the application interface.

Designed a collection of interactive mockups to capture the whole user interface experience of the application

with a focus on the visual design elements of the application.

Collaborated with other UI designers where overlap between product areas and features naturally occurred.

Contributed to user research efforts and contextual inquiry.

Executed test cases for build acceptance, functionality and regression tests, and communicate all critical issues

to project manager and development team.

Performed compatibility and usability testing on different versions of BlackBerry OS and devices.

Responsible for the design and execution of a pilot usability study, including data collection and analysis, to

address user interface and navigation issues. Resulting findings and recommendations were documented.

Conducted and executed the design, development, and setup of an Intranet Discussion Board based on WordPress

in order to enhance team s communication and highlight questions and problems faced in the life-cycle of the

team s projects from design to launch.

Demonstrated abilities in quickly grasping new technical knowledge by contributing to the development of a

prototype application for the 2009 BlackBerry Developer Conference, in order to provide a better insight of the

next generation web-based development platform which enabled web developers to build full-featured applications

for BlackBerry smartphones entirely in HTML-5, CSS and JavaScript, taking advantage of advanced features

through APIs and services, just as BlackBerry Java applications can do.

ID Conex Miami, FL

Project Manager/Web Developer Nov 2007 June 2008

Worked closely with project managers, engineers, and other team members to build engaging and

dynamic user experiences into new or existing websites and rich Internet applications, while adhering to

current industry standards and best practices.

Leaded and collaborated development efforts on interactive web-based projects, translating requirements

into concepts and elegant user experience design, and ensuring robust, reusable, and lasting solutions

were implemented.

Translated design comps into clean, cross-browser compatible, SEO-friendly and standards-compliant

HTML, CSS and JavaScript code, and created visual/functional prototypes that demonstrate advanced

UI behaviors and effects.

Among the projects successfully completed was:

Subscription and Membership Management System: Responsible for the design, development,

implementation and maintenance of a web-based membership management application that allows

paid subscribers to activate, manage, and track GPS-enabled footwear in real time. The system was

built using PHP Smarty Template Engine, LAMP technologies, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON and

AJAX. Moreover, it s fully integrated with the Authorize.Net payment gateway to provide real-time

credit card processing, including the ability to process recurring payments.

GBM Guatemala

Software Engineer May 2006 June 2007

Contributed to the design, development, test and optimization of Java-based projects, as well as formulating

documentation and training material to guide and support end-users.

Responsible for preparation of test plans describing the features and functionality to be tested. Conducted test

cases execution and bugs reporting using IBM Rational ClearQuest.

Examples of projects include:

Operation Registral: Design and development of Fenix v3.0. Java (Client) and C# (Server) on IBM DB2 V7.1

Catastro: Collect information needed for statistics tracking and analysis from IBM Content Manager 7.1

archives, generated by OCR Software (+500.000 records), based on regular expressions.

Consulta a Distancia: Feature enhancements and bug fixes of existing web service for a better user experience

and to keep up with changing market trends.

EBclosion Guatemala

Software Engineer/Consultant Oct 2005 April 2006

Responsible for the design and development of mobile enterprise applications and services in the wireless domain

(WAP/MMS/SMS/J2ME/MIDP) for sales force automation, mobile work force management, mobile data entry,

bulk messaging, and medical alerts.

Successfully designed, developed, tested and deployed MoviBanca, a mobile banking application that allows two-

way communications, interaction and transactions in real time between client's banks accounts and any supported

mobile device using messaging SMS capability. The application enables a financial institution to place all its services

on a mobile phone allowing their customers to perform balance queries, third party payments, and automatic debit

recharge of air time.

Involved in the development and maintenance of mobile web services for the site ringoytono.com in order to

support and deliver a complete range of mobile entertainment media, ranging from ringtones, jokes, trivias, photos

and wallpapers, allowing media companies and users to interact in new ways.

Monitored the performance of SMS-based services and ensured weekly backups for all the scripting web services.

Collaborated with project teams to refine the scope of work based on business decisions, technical constraints, or

time constraints.

Responsible for creating and executing detailed test cases, logging bugs/defects, and tracking project-related issues.

Soluciones Estrat gicas Guatemala

Programmer Analyst Jan 2003 April 2004

Member of a multi-disciplinary team involved in the analysis, design and development of several n-tiered web

based J2EE applications, including CRM, Time Tracking, Project Management, and Order Entry systems.

Conducted manual testing to check functionality, security and performance during the various phases of the web

applications development. Executed SQL Queries to retrieve information from database for testing purposes.

Responsible for weekly status updates showing the progress of the development and testing efforts, and open

issues/bugs to be resolved.

Generated design specifications documentation and external/internal user manuals.

ESI Camaguey Cuba

Programmer Sept 1999 Jun 2000

Database design, development and optimization using SQL Server to improve response times and query efficiency.

Mentored junior developers in order to influence good programming skills and ensure successful implementation

of applications, and assisted Project Managers in planning tasks including research, requirements gathering and

specification to ensure projects were scoped, documented, managed and implemented effectively.

Education

Central University Marta Abreu of Las Villas Santa Clara, Cuba

July 1999

B.S. in Computer Science

Miscellaneous

Publications

Source Tec Software - JSP sample of dynamic menu created from database

Online Resume and Portfolio - http://resume.julioreguero.com/

Interests

business, entrepreneurship, family, fashion, internet, jazz, meditation, movies, new technology, photography, poker,

politics, sports, travel

References

Available upon request.

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