Eugene Kardash

Product Design / UX Design

cell 650-***-****

ac9j13@r.postjobfree.com

portfolio http://portfolio.kardash.net

Summary

Product designer with strong technical background and ability to understand the intersections of disciplines. Brings the user-centered design principles and system-thinking digital best practices as well as solid design execution skills to the table. Collaborative, highly motivated self-starter with attention to details and an eye for beautiful, clean user interfaces. Delivers value through combination of technology, UX design methodology, and creativity.

UX & UI Design

Information Architecture Prototyping

Design Psychology & UI Patterns

Technology Vision/Strategy

UX Research & Planning

Interaction Design

Agile & Design Sprints

Web, Android, and iOS Apps

Work Experience

Grading Mentor, Designer Track (part-time, remote) – Thinkful Aug 2018 – present

Grading UX Design students assignments, conducting 1-on-1 mentor design sessions

Sr UX Designer – Herbalife Nutrition, Los Angeles May 2018 – May 2019

Essential key member of UX Design team communicating brand vision and user experience.

Focus on data-driven analysis (Adobe Analytics, Salesforce) and usability studies: A/B testing, surveys, card sorting, interviews, expert reviews identifying pain points on task and user flows, etc.

Products: E-commerce, email marketing, Design System.

Sketch, InVizion, Zeplin, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, UserZoom, Axure. iOS, Android, desktop.

Sr UX Designer –Yardi / Wun Systems, Reno, NV September 2017 – May 2018

Partnered with PM, Engineering, Customer Support on defining the system of patterns, use cases, and user interfaces.

Turned ideas and requirements into design solutions, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and POCs.

Used solid understanding of usability heuristics to evaluate new and existing features, offering viable suggestions for improvements.

Incorporated team feedback and achieved necessary agreements and buy-ins.

Sketch, InVision, Axure, Principle, Adobe Creative Suite.

Freelance UX/Interaction Designer & Consultant July 2017 - August 2017

Working with various sizes project teams to understand business goals and identify customer needs.

Advocated for change that creates a positive customer experience and improves task flows.

Developed personas, user journey maps, task flows, system level frameworks, storyboards, mockups, and prototypes to effectively communicate interactions and design ideas.

Clients:

McKinsey & Company, Toronto, Canada; Wun Systems, Reno, Nevada; EzOps, NJ; Mayday Dental Staffing Agency, Walnut Creek, CA

Principal UX/Interaction Designer – Calypso Technology Oct 2012 - Jun 2017

Liaison with product owners, engineering, QA, and techpub to build and improve product features from UX perspective. Define and document user interface, style guides, and best practices for this global financial software and services company delivering software platform for financial institutions for trading, risk, processing, and control. Hands on experience with AngularJS, Node.js, AJAX, REST, JSON.

Financial Cloud Services – designed the UI concept, assets, complete look and feel implementation in AngularJS with CSS/JavaScript/TypeScript. Leadership as product manager and UI specialist let Calypso release in-time to address new regulatory requirements.

Navigator – increased sales by 20%, improving usability, and presales demos. Customizable product Launchpad, designed from inception changing the company’s entire software suite.

Object Workflow – magnified the core value of the software product, and its usability. This collaborative product replaced obsolete Java app by modern highly interactive diagramming tool, while adding new robust functionality.

Task Scheduler – provided 20 to 50% performance boost to professional services during problem analysis with this infrastructure troubleshooting tool.

E-Dealing – bringing in overall sales over $10M yearly, this Forex trading online tool designed from ground up, adding a bestseller to the product line.

Designing storyboards, wireframes, low-fidelity mock-ups, and high-fidelity interactive prototypes with Axure RP, Omnigraffle, Sketch, Photoshop, HTML5/CSS3/Sass/JavaScript/ jQuery/TypeScript.

Promoting standards and providing availability of UI assets, and references.

VP of Product and Owner – LiftDay, SF Bay Area Jab 2015 – Dec 2017

(part-time startup)

Mobile app. Bodybuilding workout journal and complete assistant to record physical exercise, analyze progress, and keep track of fitness and health. Full lifecycle from problem definition to general availability in Google Play store. One of the best in its class.

Full product design and product management ownership, from ideation to building metrics and final specs.

Founded Engineering operations from the ground up including strategy, team, best practices to deliver fully functional product.

Software development management: building offshore development and QA team, technical architecture, and cloud infrastructure. Devops. Building metrics, monitoring KPIs and site reliability.

Instrumental in building efficient agile methodology and led the team forward on adopting agile processes. Acting Scrum Master.

Interaction Designer – Cisco Systems, San Jose Apr 2012 – July 2012

Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud is the private cloud infrastructure and on-demand provisioning management solution for IT operations.

Converted product feature ideas into interactive interfaces to realize design vision.

Storyboards, mock-ups, wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes and other artifacts to effectively communicate design concepts (Photoshop, Balsamiq Mockups).

Responsive design prototyped with jQuery and Bootstrap frameworks.

UI Development Lead – Blue Coat Systems, Sunnyvale May 2009 – Feb 2012

Blue Coat Web Security cloud-based solution secures network by malware scanning, content classification and filtering, policy-based access, and application control on Web traffic.

Conceptualized and designed the new UI, through delivering wireframes and mockups for cloud-centric solution, prototypes in HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

Built a complete UI framework and guidelines for administrative cloud portal.

Implemented a new functionality on ExtJS based framework.

PacketShaper appliance provides application traffic monitoring and control services; identifies and measures critical, recreational, voip, and real-time applications, such as video conferencing.

Initiated and owned a new PacketShaper UI architecture, design and development within tight schedule. UI featuring KPI dashboards and QoS rules.

Solved the major usability issues and technical limitations resulting in double sales of Packetshaper line.

Led and managed development of pilot projects and POC in User Experience group with Adobe Flex.

Software Engineer –Packeteer (acquired by Blue Coat), Cupertino Apr 2007 – May 2009

Designed, implemented and delivered innovative IC ServiceCenter, smart analysis tool, widely used by the technical support team in California and Europe to productively troubleshoot network issues.

Architected and implemented various products. Adobe Flex, AIR, Flash, PHP, MySQL, Apache, JavaScript, HTML.

UI Development Lead – LeapTag, San Jose Jan 2006 – Apr 2007

Lead UI development for the entire startup company product.

Implementation of front-end business logic and user interface with Python, AJAX, JavaScript, CSS, YUI library while working under pressure of startup environment.

Managed outsourced engineering and design teams.

Design and development of the app components from database schema (MySQL), business logic (Python) to UI layouts (AJAX) and web graphics (Photoshop, Dreamweaver)

Software Engineer – Intresys-TurboCourt, San Mateo Aug 2000 – Dec 2005

Instrumental in transforming company business from multitude of consulting engagements to web services delivery platform.

Visual design and prototype delivery for all current projects.

Ownership of UI of every product developed in the house implemented in JSP, Java, HTML, CSS.

Technologies and tools: JSP, Servlets, EJB, Java, PHP, HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, VBScript, Active Server Pages, SQL, Tomcat, Apache, IIS, ANT, Adobe FDF toolkit.

Designed and implemented websites for SamTrans / Caltrain (http://www.caltrain.com and http://www.samtrans.com), and for Transit district, San Mateo county (IIS and Index service).

Courses / Education

MS in Computer Science (Diploma), State University, Belarus

Programming Mobile Applications for Android, University of Maryland 2014

Human-Computer Interaction, Stanford University 2012

Project Management, Project Planning and Control, UC Berkeley Extension 2011

Certificate of Completion in Management, De Anza College, Cupertino 2008

Fine Arts, Art School

Software / Technical Skills / Tools

UX/Design Tools: Sketch, Zeplin, Principal, Figma, InVision, Axure RP, Omnigraffle, Adobe Creative Cloud, Balsamiq Mockups, pencil and paper, whiteboard and marker

Engineering Tools: Android Studio, JIRA w/ Agile, SVN, GIT, Jenkins

Programming: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, RESTful API, WordPress, jQuery, Vue.js, AngularJS, Node.js, D3.js, TypeScript, JSON, AJAX, XML, Unix, Android, iOS

Project Management: Jira Agile, Trello Kanban, Scrum facilitation

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