Philippe Heckly

Graphic Designer Contact: advljg@r.postjobfree.com or 781-***-****

Work Experience: linkedin.com/in/philippeheckly Portfolio available upon demand A seasoned and flexible graphic designer, I have expertise with pre-press, printing digital with over 20 years of expertise in building mobile-first and/or complex enterprise web apps applying ADA and WCAG 2.1 accessibility guidelines. I rely on soft skills—user journey, story telling, and design thinking

—as well as hard skills—wireframing, rapid prototyping, and testing—to sketch Figma, or Axure, wireframe and prototype accessible interfaces working mostly within an Agile methodology. Professional Experience

2016 – Present self employed, Greater Boston Area, MA Visual and User Interface Designer

Contract work for a number of companies in the Boston area. I worked mainly in Sketch, InVision and Axure to provide mobile-first design prototypes, sometimes involved with research and visual design. Healthcare clients GE Healthcare, Healthedge, Shyft Analytics, and Medullan Research

• Designed flows and components for a desktop web app dashboard with mobile in mind.

• Contributed to personas development and usability interviews.

• Participated in research and interviews for a large pharma company.

• Comprehensive review of prototyping tools (Pixate, Principleformac, InVision). Prototyping

• Projects were mostly rapid prototyping, working in 2-week sprints in an agile environment.

• Worked in Sketch, Principle and InVision to provide interactive prototypes and animations.

• Designed assets for a desktop web app dashboard introducing material design to the client's existing design system to provide a quick overview of data runs and their status.

• Helped redesign a legacy web app working in Sketch, Pixate, and Zeplin to prototype mobile flow. Finance and Insurance

Clients were State Street, Sapient, Homesite, Wells Fargo, and Wellington Management,

• Provided in-house expertise and support in implementing a new design system for a major trading platform modernization.

• Combined several Axure files into a minimum viable prototype roadmap for the calendar year.

• Worked in 2-weeks sprints in Agile team, on-boarding web app with a mobile-first approach.

• Supported Product owner by providing variants for A/B testing which were passed on to developer. Higher Education

Client: Harvard University

• Contributed to an accessible and adaptive web app questionnaire using a mobile-first, user-centered approach for Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT) to match students with financial aid.

• Built an accessible interactive responsive prototype in Axure to share patterns and behaviors with engineering team.

2013 – 2016 self employed, Greater Boston Area, MA Integrated Digital Designer

Selected Clients were Novartis, Sasaki Architects, Fresenius

• Production work in Photoshop updating layer comps for responsive website for Novartis Alzheimer!s drug (Hill Holiday).

• Transferred 30+ years of past projects summaries to a new template at Sasaki Architects.

• Designed infographics for small agencies (Bennet Group, Fresenius, Lavoie group).

• Formatted graphics for a proposal template for Boston-based international development firm JSI.

• Branding and design for Food Link a small non-profit food recycling company. Non-profit

Clients included Enfants du Cameroun, JSI and RTI

• Design and development of a Wordpress site for the French non-profit "Enfants du Cameroun.”

• Design and upkeep of e-newsletter on Mailchimp for Washington DC-based RTI international. 2007 – 2013 Management Sciences for Health, Cambridge MA Senior Graphic Designer

• Supported the business development unit by formatting proposals and creating graphics to visualize our strategies, contributed to an increase of our proposals production from 18 in 2007 to 4 time the output with 89 in 2012. PowerPoint, Word.

• Supported and advocated the use of standards and templates for greater consistency and accuracy across our material for better brand recognition. InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator.

• Designed various collaterals pieces (annual reports, brochures, posters, fact sheets, banners) consistent with company’s corporate branding guidelines to support the communication department and increase our brand presence and recognition within the industry.

• Participated in the re-branding of the company to a clean, contemporary look and was involved with usability testing of the site redesign.

2001 – 2007 The Boston Company, Boston MA

Graphic Designer

• Supported sales department producing and updating core marketing materials.

• Traffic of presentations through revisions, approvals, binding and delivery.

• Point person for graphic, and production issues for sales department including the conversion of documents, font issues, and updating the look and feel of publications.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams on new client pitches and creative launches. Tool belt

Adobe Creative Suite

(Illustrator, Photoshop,

InDesign)

Sketch

Axure

Figma

Principle for mac

MS Office Suite

InVision

Keynote

Balsamiq

Confluence

Html5

Css3

Accessibility

Rapid Prototyping

Scenarios

Story Telling

Task Flow

User Journey

Wireframing

Education and Professional Development

• International Information Architecture Day 2016-2017, 2019

• Human and Technology Forum (The Atlantic) 2018

• Design Thinking Bootcamp (BCBS) 2017

• Data Visualization (General Assembly) 2017

• WordPress Day 2015-2018

Bentley University User Experience Certificate Class Fall 2017 Measuring emotional engagement – Shmuel Bollen

General Assembly User Experience Design Immersive Program (UXDI) Spring 2015 An intensive 500 + hours program learning everything about User Experience (including but not exclusive of interviews, user research, contextual research, rapid prototyping, IA, white-boarding, 5 whys method, 6 hats method, UI best practices, story telling) and the best way to use these tools through a series of both collaborative and personal projects. Startup Institute Product Track Summer 2013

An introduction to Boston StartupS and modern web technologies (responsive design, accessibility) Graphic Design Certificate Program – Massachusetts College of Art and Design Master of Fine Arts – Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France

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