Lead Information Architect
Resume:
Wenjin Yang
Email: acwkjt@r.postjobfree.com Tel: 917-***-****
UI/UX Designer Online Portfolio: http://www.wenjinyang.com
Professional Summary:
User Experience Practitioner: Delivering Delightful User-Empowered Solutions.
To create a delightful Customer Experience for a mobile app, e-commerce, responsive web or internal app
project, you need someone who can:
Think strategically, while keeping the tactical in view
Elicit and elaborate the user stories, needs and goals of the Business/Product Management
Systematically research the users needs through polling, card sorts, ethnographic user interviews, SME
interviews, whiteboard sketch sessions, usability sessions, etc.
Define the customer experience with personas, taxonomies, user needs matrixes, storyboards, process
flows, user stories, information architecture, wireframes, heuristics, UI visual design direction, prototypes,
mockups, style guides & supporting documentation
Effectively communicate the needs and requirements of the Business/Product Management, to IT,
Creative & Development teams
Collaborate closely in an Agile/Scrum environment with Definition and Delivery teams to ensure that
the big picture and desired user experience is delivered as promised!
A Customer Experience designer and architect, interaction designer, usability analyst, information architect,
UI designer and business analyst, communicating fluently in the strategic, conceptual and technical domains
for user-centered design (UCD) that has an eye for visual design around usability. Experienced development
and creation of IA documents such as wireframes, customer journey maps, user stories, personas, and other
user-centric documentation
Professional Skills:
Photoshop Maya HTML
Illustrator Audition CSS
Premiere Flash Java
After Effect Microsoft Object-C
Sketch Office
Balsamiq Processing
Axure Max/MSP
UI/UX Interactive Creative Designer, skilled in all areas of presentation layer web development and pixel
perfect rendering. 3+ years of experience designing and building dynamic user interfaces for small and
enterprise-scale applications, managing teams of 2-5 members.
Key User Experience skills:
User experience strategy & Advanced Balsamiq skills for Rapid
Collaboration with Creative and IT
evangelism Wireframes & Prototyping
Ethnographic interviews User-centered Design Persona development
Wireframe development Capturing the Voice Of the Customer User needs matrix
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Holistic Approach to User
User experience best practices Creative development
Experience
User story development Workflow Process Documentation Style guide development
Define standard UX conventions Stakeholder communication Card sorting
Information Architecture User interviews & task analysis Interaction Design
Work Experience
Fidelity Investments, Jersey City, NJ Feb 2016 Present
Lead Information Architect
Responsibilities:
In my role as Lead IA at Fidelity Investments, am providing a great customer experience and guide a cross-
functional team toward a standard of excellence; collaborating with a team of other information architects,
visual designers, researchers and usability specialists to tackle complex projects of varying size. Serve as the
clients primary point of contact with the Design team and the overall user experience design process.
Some of my day-to-day responsibilities include:
o Work closely with the usability team to test and refine designs and prototypes.
o Creating functional user interface designs.
o Strong artistic vision in the project and communicating it.
o Determine to do what's best for the user, product and brand even when it doesn't align with personal style
or preference.
o Define site/application structures and create site maps, wireframes and user flow charts.
o Partner with the development team to ensure technical feasibility and flawless implementation
Skills: Visual and Prototyping Design, especially Photoshop, Axure, Sketch
Everlasting Footprint, NYC NY April 2015 Feb 2016
Lead UX/UI Designer & Associate PM
Responsibilities:
In my role as Lead Designer at Everlasting Footprint, am leading design research, design strategy, interaction
design and visual design for a product that encourages collaboration around realty tracking. My process
involves, distillation of foundational research into user personas and a high-level strategy, collaboration on
branding and look and feel, heavy sketching, wireframing and prototyping, visual design, and collaboration
with developers on the little details that matter.
Some of my day-to-day responsibilities include:
o Involved in both visual and functional UI design.
o Creating functional user interface designs.
o Strong artistic vision in the project and communicating it.
o Determine to do what's best for the user, product and brand even when it doesn't align with personal style
or preference.
o User Experience/Interaction Design and prototyping.
o Entered bugs and enhancement requests to multiple development teams in
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Skills: Visual and interface design, Adobe Creative Suite, especially Photoshop, Balsamiq
Icell Guru, Inc. NY February 2014 to December 2014
UI/UX Designer/ Graphic Designer
Responsibilities:
o Wire-framing and rapid proto-typing experience with tools such as Balsamic, Photoshop, etc.
o Have highly developed and refined skills in digital graphic design and art direction.
o User research: Gathering user data via Google Analytics and cross-referencing with data acquired from
user surveys conducted by client, agency or focus-group research contractor.
o Design marketing slicks, magazine ads, brochures, and infographics.
o Manage & participate in the creation of powerful, effective UI/UX web / digital graphic designs.
o Designs and produces art and copy layouts for material to be presented by visual communications media,
such as brochures, emails, flyers, catalogs, technical manuals, print advertising, promotional materials,
Flash banner ads.
o Partnering with development team, designed new corporate website with improved user experience on
tight timeline, resulting in significant lead generation, later updated side with new user library and to be
responsive/mobile-friendly.
Pratt Institute
Web Assistant September 2013 to December 2014
Organize the Information Architecture of OIA website;
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In charge of updating news and managing the website;
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Responsible for updating student digital archive;
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Assist in Standard Operating Procedure documentation.
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Jiangsu TV Station January 2010 to February 2012
UI/UX Designer
Wire-framing and rapid proto-typing.
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Drew illustrations for logos, Web pages, and presentations.
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In charge of designing the Homepage and About Section.
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Valuation of UX activities to define business value delivered
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Interaction Design and wireframes/prototype development for existing product experience redesign and
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improvement
o Demonstrated high aptitude for team collaboration and open communication
Skills: Visual and interface design, Adobe Creative Suite, especially Photoshop and Illustrator
EDUCATION
o Pratt Institute, New York, NY, Interactive Art. M.F.A. (2012-2014)
o Communication University of CHN, Nanjing, Digital Media. B.A. (2007-2011)
o Communication University of CHN, Nanjing, Advertising & Marketing, Associate. (2009-2010)
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