Post Job Free

Resume

Sign in

UX Designer / Information Architect

Location:
Austin, TX, 78727
Posted:
July 13, 2016

Contact this candidate

Resume:

Stephanie Mitten

acvom3@r.postjobfree.com 512-***-**** Portfolio: stephaniemitten.com

Page 1 of 2

RECENT PROJECTS

Natural Language Processing: Metal Networks

• Designed UI to reduce click count, from 8,000 to 16 clicks for a 10 item RFP.

• Identified, documented, and trained Sales, Engineering and QA to fix inconsistencies in math and unit of measure conversions. eCommerce: Metal Networks

• Re- architected 110 search pages into four, reducing dev time from 8 months to 2.

• Consolidated eleven Personas into four.

• Reduced per item search click count from 78 to 5. Reservations: Metal Networks

• Identified personas, created user workflow, data workflow conducted usability testing, and segmented feature into multiple versions.

• Increased Sales response time from hours to minutes by reducing search complexity.

• Designed email tracking, inventory alerts, and inventory forecasting. Cloud Cost Analytics: Gravitant

• Added Section 508 Compliance and a responsive UI for web, tablet and mobile.

• Increased usability to find financial information with > 95% success on standard tasks with my design, compared to 11% using Cloud vendor websites. EXPERIENCE

Information Architect, S3 Venture Startup: Metal Networks (Oct 2014 – Present) Collaborated with onshore / offshore Engineering, PM, Users, and Sales on requirements, designs, personas, user studies, wireframes, workflows, and prototypes for a SaaS B2B eCommerce and mobile app. Lead, managed, and mentored UX / UI team.

• Developed NLP system to reduce 100 item RFP click count, from 80,000 to 215.

• Reduce engineering and QA time by creating design patterns and style guides.

• Created and monitored Jira tickets with epics, stories and tasks in an agile process.

[Contract] Interactive Designer, Baatz Consulting (Jul 2014 – Sep 2014) Collaborated with Founder and CTO to write personas, requirements, use cases, and user stories that balanced business goals and optimal user experiences. UX/UI Designer, S3 Ventures Startup: Gravitant / IBM (Feb 2014 – Jun 2014) Consolidated and simplified a single UI for over 15 cloud vendors, including: Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and SoftLayer. Company acquired by IBM.

• Collaborated with CTO, Product Management, onshore / offshore Dev on design, personas, workflow, requirements, versioning, and timelines.

• Assisted in defining hierarchy of information, navigation and sitemaps.

• Created user personas, sketches, wireframes, low and high fidelity prototypes. Stephanie Mitten

acvom3@r.postjobfree.com 512-***-**** Portfolio: stephaniemitten.com Page 2 of 2

Interactive Designer, Baatz Consulting (Aug 2009 – Feb 2014) Translated business and marketing requirements into site maps, marketing assets, websites, wireframes, versioning, and user interface designs for mobile and web applications. Consultant, Brain Games (Jan 2009 - Aug 2009)

• Evaluated usability for game software targeted toward 4 to 6 year olds. Kindergarten Teacher, Austin Independent School District (Aug 2001 – Aug 2009)

• Introduced problem solving strategies and educated 20 – 24 five year- olds per year.

• Created Blog and Website for internal class communications.

• Taught educators how to build websites and blogs with their 30- 50+ parents / class.

• Dyslexia designee: assessed and prescribe educational accommodations. EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• Adobe Suite Certification – 12 month course - Lumenbrite

• Web Design Certificate – 18 month course – University of Texas

• Graphic Design Certificate – 18 month course – University of Texas

• BA Elementary Education, Major in Special Education, Minor in Visual Art – Pacific Lutheran University

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Software: Adobe Suite, OmniGraffle, Sketch, Invision, Axure, Corel Painter, Wacom Tablets; Final Cut Pro, iMovie.

• Coding: Familiar with HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript and basic SQL database structures

• Film: Created and edited 9 films of my skateboarding bulldog - youtube: austinglove



Contact this candidate