UX Designer & Front-End Developer
Resume:
Eric Thayer
Team-focused UI/UX creative with professional experience in providing design and
development services to support an organization's daily operations. Skilled in, design discovery, visual design, prototyping, and front-end development. Ability to collaborate with cross-functional department team leaders, identify and resolve issues, prioritize projects, and provide a high level of service. *******.******@*****.***
Portfolio
CodePen
WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior UX Developer
CoBank (current) – Hybrid
cobank.com
Dec 2023 - Present
Senior creative design engineer and lead design system manager responsible for employing a user-centered design approach across all of the organization's software products. Creating and maintaining a comprehensive design system, working on front-end component libraries, and providing both UI (User Interface) and UX (User Experience) design and development. This requires the design of the structure and layout of interactive elements, ensuring a smooth user journey within the digital product line.
● Created Figma based design system consisting of: brand style guide, UI kit, design tokens, component library, and documentation structure.
● Initial development of Storybook/React component library development pipeline with Figma integration.
● Established a web design tokens development workflow that syncs Figma variables to JSON based tokens.
● Developed responsive: prototyping templates and front-end components for company wide used component libraries.
UI/UX Designer / Front-end Developer
Threecolts, Inc. (Onsite Support) – Remote
onsitesupport.io
Jun 2023 - Present
Lead design consultant assisting Amazon Sellers through their onboarding life-cycle to create branded web design themes with Figma and implement with the front-end platform. Provide initial support needed so that their brand can continue to build out its own knowledge base by setting up the different needed features: live support, FAQS, articles, video media, etc.
● Created CSS framework to help automate layout and styling changes throughout the platform.
● Established code based document formatting that replaced manual process of attaching imagery to document links.
● Refactored HTML framework used to create support landing pages to modify content easier.
● Created mobile layout solutions and converted over 200 non-responsive sites to mobile friendly layouts.
● Developed grid system for different content types (videos, article list, call to actions).
SKILLS
User Interface Design
User Experience Design
Front-End Development
VR Interface Development
Design Discovery
Design Sprint Facilitation
Rapid Prototyping
DEVELOPMENT PROFICIENCIES
HTML/SCSS/JavaScript
Bootstrap/Foundation/Tailwind
Vue.js
Storybook
AWS
GraphQL/Hasura
Hugo
WordPress
Kentico
SOFTWARE PROFICIENCIES
Figma
Sketch
Adobe CC
Git/SVN
CodePen
MS Office
Google Suite
Jira/Trello
EDUCATION
B.S. in Media Arts
Platt College, San Diego, CA
Video Production, Motion Graphics, and
Graphic Design
Graduated 2005
UI/UX Designer / Front-end Developer
Health Scholars – Westminster, CO
healthscholars.com
Dec 2017 - July 2023
User interface designer and front-end developer focused on building web and Unity interface design systems for a healthcare simulation training platform. Collaborating with several teams to meet product design requirements to produce: VR app development platform, "Workbench", 6 Web applications, 10 VR applications, marketing materials, and customer support.
● Established brand design systems and style guide for Web/VR engineering teams.
● Created a web component system with Vue.js and Storybook.js.
● Established VR design system with Unity UI Toolkit to help with rapid prototyping.
● Developed interactive prototypes, mockups, and wireframes with Figma, Sketch, or HTML to test concepts and feature requests.
● Lead Design Sprints and VR interface training for web, vr, and marketing teams. UI/UX Designer / Front-end Developer
KyaMedia (freelance) – Denver, CO
July 2015 - Dec 2017
Lead designer and developer of organizational creative needs for KyaMedia, a web templating platform. Services include: logo/branding creation, UI/UX prototypes, DevOps, customer experience, and project management.
● Produced 2 front-end design systems for rapid Kentico development.
● Established custom CSS framework for rapid prototyping.
● Developed front-end architecture for 3 startups.
● Created interactive wireframes and HTML based prototype templates.
● Successfully revised 2 non-responsive code bases. UI Designer / Front-end Developer
The Navigators – Colorado Springs, CO
navigators.org
Jan 2012 - July 2015
User interface designer and front-end developer of organizational creative needs for The Navigators, a non-profit ministry network. Services include: logo/branding creation, web design/development, Kentico CMS Integration, and platform on-boarding.
● Delivered 40+ responsive websites for internal departments and missions that improved poor donation success rates.
● Created Bootstrap based framework for rapid Kentico CMS development and decreased development time with custom template system.
● Established documentation and guidelines for client discovery team. Multimedia Specialist
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center – Monterey, CA dliflc.edu
July 2010 - Sept 2013
Cross-team visual design and production designer focused on the creation of training videos, motion/web graphics and iOS interface/content design for the Department of the Army (Defense Foreign Language Center).
PROJECTS
Health Scholars Workbench
Workbench Webinar
UI Design and Unity Developer
Experience - 2023
MadRamps
madramps.com
UI/UX Design - 2021
Denver Museum of Nature and
Science
dmns.netlify.app
Pattern Library
Front-end Development and Pattern
Library - 2018
REFERENCES
Troy Fulton
troy.fulton@kyamedia
CTO - KyaMedia & The Navigators
Dustin Parham
dustin.parham@healthscholars
CTO - Health Scholars
John Lindmuth
john.lindemuth@healthscholars
Art Director - Health Scholars
Brian Modansky
brian@onsitesupport
Design Lead - Threecolts
● Delivered 100+ training videos and graphic materials used in iOS applications to help deployed US military personnel communicate with foreign cultures.
● Introduced first responsive website template system used to create modern front-end systems.
● Optimized existing non-responsive admin dashboard websites for mobile use so they could update content from their mobile devices. UI/UX Designer / Front-end Developer
Concept Portal – Castle Rock, CO
Jan 2011 - Jan 2012
Served as a web designer and front-end developer for a Kentico CMS web site platform. Providing visual and interactive design as well as assisting in the production of client branding and content materials.
● Delivered 20+ responsive websites for small and large churches.
● Designed 30+ web designs for church ministries and organized sport clubs.
● Created Bootstrap based framework for rapid Kentico CMS development. WORK EXPERIENCE
Designer / Front-end Developer / Video Editor
Multiple Companies – Denver, CO
Jan 2009 - July 2010
Web designer, front-end developer, video editor, and graphic designer with multiple companies: Page1Solutions, Claremont Information Systems, and HD Net. Also providing visual and interactive design as well as assisting in the production of client branding and content materials as a freelance contractor.
● Delivered 20+ WordPress designs and templates for real estate listing search engine.
● Developed visual design process for marketing team used in targeted campaigns to retain existing customers.
● Assisted as video editor for live event and production cable programming. Post-Production Artist
Multi-Image Productions – San Diego, CA
Sept 2005 - June 2008
Video production creative focused on delivering: motion graphics, video editing, and DVD authoring for a live event production company. Collaborated with corporate companies like, Pizza Hut, American Airlines, MasterCard, NCR and Pitney Bowes.
● Designed 20+ live event motion graphic packages with themes and assets used on-screen during corporate live events.
● Produced 50+ DVD interfaces and packaging templates used for live event recordings or feature releases.
● Contributed on location shoots with equipment setup and operations.
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