Sr. Consultant UX Design

YURI CURTIS – ux.yuricurtis.com

713-***-**** Houston, TX 77045

**********@*****.***

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Over ten years of experience as a successful goal-driven Senior UX, web & graphic design consultant who recognizes that good design takes more than technical skills. Manage cross functional teams, perform user research to gather business requirements, manage multiple stakeholders, and drive a vision from inception to completion by utilizing strategic marketing, user experience, front-end design and web development methodologies.

• Broad strategic UX design background, including interaction flows, usability research, organizing content, creating wireframes and high-resolution comps

• Demonstrated success in extending brand identities, by promoting the tangible and intangible characteristics of products and services to various niche audiences creating successful business retention and matriculation

KEY COMPETENCIES

User Interface Design (UI/UX Design) Service Design Product Branding Global Marketing

Front-end Web Development Product Development Market intelligence Niche Marketing

Marketing Communication Planning Positioning Strategies Usability Analysis Graphic & Web Design

HIGHLIGHTS OF EXPERIENCE AND ABILITIES

CURTIS CONSULTING, LLC, Principal Houston, Texas 5/2015 - Present Senior Consultant UX Design

Client: GFT Site: Keane

Project Start date: August 2019

• Consulting – Serve as a UX Design subject matter expert and consultant operating on-site & remotely for the client.

• Service Design – Provide organizational and behavioral considerations while designing, conducting, analyzing, and reporting on user-centered design research and usability testing for the Operations application; Lead design thinking workshops to solidify project milestones, deliverables, and execution plan.

• Project Management – Lead the design team in creating SOW deliverables (User Research to develop and design User Experience (UX) including user flows, wireframes, information architecture); oversaw the front-end development team implementation of the user interface.

• UX Design – Oversaw the design of the EMH application from concept to creation.

• Travel – Traveled to the client frac and maintenance sites in Midland/Odessa as needed for research, interviews and user testing.

Senior Consultant UX Design

Client: Hydrogen/People 2.0 Site: Shell Oil (Royal Dutch Shell) Project Start date: April 2019 – July 2019

• Consulting – Serve as a UX Design subject matter expert and consultant operating on-site & remotely at Shell as a part of the Agile Hub.

• Project Management – Synthesize complex problem areas into intuitive designs, creating solutions for digital applications, platforms or products with an experiential outlook beyond just digital.

• UX Design – Lead design thinking workshops to develop projects from concept to creation.

• UX Design – Perform User Research to develop and design User Experience (UX) including user flows, wireframes, information architecture, and design to establish the look & feel of the application and related consoles.

UX Design Manager

Client: Brilliant Basics (BB) Site: British Petroleum (BP), Houston, TX Project Start date: August 2018

• Consulting – Serve as a UX Design subject matter expert and consultant on behalf of BB, operating on-site & remotely at BP as a part of the UDBSL project.

• Project Management – Working with the develop team to oversee the design, creation and implementation of the UDBSL application. Contributing to the creation of User Stories and Use Cases in Confluence.

• UX Design – Develop User Experience (UX) including user flows, wireframes, information architecture, and design to establish the look & feel of the application and related consoles.

• UI Design – Develop User Interaction (UI) for the UDBSL application with the Keylines toolkit for network visualization and analysis.

ExxonMobil, Sr. Consultant UX Design Houston, Texas 6/2017 - 3/2018

• Consulting – Serve as a UX Design subject matter expert consulting on the iRMS project for the geoscience and reservoir engineering feature Team Leads.

• Project Management – Work with the develop team to oversee the design and implementation of various iRMS features as determined by the geoscientist and reservoir engineers. Created User Stories and Use Cases in Visual Studio.

• Client Relationship Management – Builds relationships with the business, project delivery and associated design and development points of contact. May serve as a design point of contact for user interface projects.

• UX Design – Develop User Experience (UX) including wireframes, information architecture, and design for the iRMS desktop application.

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES, Sr. Consultant UX Design Houston, Texas 5/2015 – 6/2017 Client: Wal-Mart - Bentonville, Arkansas

• Consulting – Serve as a UX Design subject matter expert and consultant leading various projects that the on-site design and development team engaged in. Presented projects in client meetings on behalf of team members; oversaw and evaluated work to develop deliverables for the client.

• Project Management – Oversee Line Review application development for company-wide Buyers, Planners, and Replenishment Managers. Created and updated User Stories and Use Cases.

• Client Relationship Management – Built vendor relationships with the business, project delivery and associated design and development points of contact. Served as a design point of contact for user interface projects.

• UX Design – Develop User Experience (UX) including stakeholder research, wireframes, personas, information architecture for web application and mobile application development.

• Team Lead – Developed milestones, conducted personnel evaluations, scheduled training assessments.

• Travel – Travel to various client sites working with cross functional teams of Managers, Systems analysts, and Developers.

Freelance projects between major contracts

PANTHEON Unlimited (Curtis Consulting), Marketing & Design Consultant Houston, Texas 10/2001 - Present

• UI/UX & Web Design – Develop User Experience Strategy (UX) including wireframes, personas, information architecture and perform client web content cleanup; HTML page creation Develop and maintain websites, micro-sites, and landing pages utilizing Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop, CSS, and HTML.

• Management – Managing partner, responsible for print and web site design, brand and corporate identities, and advertisement campaigns for numerous businesses and corporations. Managed several small cross-functional teams of developers and designers (project dependent). Developed regional and niche multimedia marketing campaigns.

• Consulting – Consult with clients and technical copywriters to generate ideas for the content development of proposals, websites, and branding.

• Creative – Responsible for editorial creation, design, production, direction and distribution of all marketing materials and publications. Manage press checks, art directed photos, and supervised team design efforts.

• Media – Coordinate media interest in the organization through professional promotions, and ensure regular contact with target media and appropriate response to media requests. Social media monitoring and management.

• Marketing – Responsible for the achievement of marketing/communications/public relations mission, goals and financial objectives. Coordinate the appearance of all organization print and electronic sales and marketing materials such as letterhead, brochures and proper use of logo.

ADULT EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

Art Institute of Houston - North, Adjunct Instructor Houston, Texas 4/2010 - 5/2011

• Instruction - Train students in the fundamentals of Advertising and related marketing techniques. Train students in the use of design principles regarding typography, use of color, layout, graphic elements, pre-press preparation and output for the creation and publishing of print materials such as letterheads, business cards, advertisements, annual reports, brochures, and multi-page documents o Certification - eCollege/eCompanion certified

Houston Community College, Instructor - Graphic Design Houston, Texas 9/2006 – 9/2008

• Instruction - Teach design principles for the creation and publishing of print and marketing materials such as letterheads, business cards, advertisements, annual reports, brochures, and multi-page documents. Implement design principles regarding typography, use of color, layout, graphic elements, pre-press preparation and output. Teach the basic tools, commands, and controls inherent to InDesign CS2, Adobe’s state-of-the-art design, layout, and pre-press software. Designed curriculum, provided training resources, and conducted web design classes

EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Web & New Media – UX - 2014

Academy of Art University

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Marketing Management - 2009

University of Houston – Victoria

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Studio Art: Painting - 2000

University of Houston

UX METHODOLOGIES

• Agile • Lean • Customer Experience (CX) Strategy

• Conducting User Research • Stakeholder Interviews • Develop Personas

• Consumer Journey Maps • Competitive Analysis • Use Cases

• Wireframe • Prototyping • Usability Testing

SKILLS

Adobe Corel Microsoft Office Programming Prototyping Other Acrobat Image Ready Draw Word AJAX Axure Bootstrap Bridge InDesign Freehand Excel AngularJS Balsamiq Drupal Dreamweaver PageMaker Photo-Paint PowerPoint Javascript Invision LESS Fireworks Photoshop Publisher JQuery Omnigraffle MySQL Flash Premiere Outlook PHP Pencil Responsive Web

Illustrator Visio CSS3 Sketch WordPress

HTML 5

XML

AWARDS AND HONORS

First Place – University of Houston - Victoria

MBA Conference Competition

May 2009

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