KEVIN CORNWALL
San Diego, CA
Product Designer / UX Designer / Interaction Designer
EXPERIENCE
Electronic Arts, Redwood City, California
XD Designer (Contract / Remote)
• Design backend tools, support, and documentation for game studios.
• Design sprint, interviews, concept, prototypes and user testing.
• Contribute to team strategy, design system, process improvements (devised and implemented formal Kanban process)
Wells Fargo, San Francisco, California 04/19 – 12/21 Senior CX Designer (Contract / Remote)
• Remediate dozens of Commercial Banking and Reporting applications to conform with ADA WCAG 2.0 guidelines.
SOCi, San Diego, CA 08/20 – 03/21
Lead UX Designer
• Lead and mentor design team. Align on UX processes, methods, and tools.
• Work closely with management to optimize strategic business initiatives. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Raleigh, NC 08/19 – 02/20 Lead UX Designer (Contract / Remote)
• Consult on existing applications to optimize workflow, usability, consistency.
• Deploy US Web Design System, including WCAG 2, across all properties. Cassida Corporation, San Diego, CA 04/19 – 08/19
Product Designer (Consultant)
• Leading bank note and coin counting machines company needed a workflow- optimized, embedded tablet design, yesterday, to land a major contract.
• Research, concept, wireframes, front-end code, test to shipped in 45 days! Rain Bird Corporation, San Diego, CA 01/18 – 04/19 Product Designer (Contract)
• Nuts-to-bolts overhaul of SAAS application for managing large scale com- mercial and golf irrigation installations in 12 languages.
• Wrangled redesign of project back on track with clear UX process, design patterns, correcting usability issues in agency-produced designs. Reed Business Information (RELX), San Diego, CA 02/16 – 10/17 Product / UX Designer (Consultant)
• Got unusable, stalled redesign of workflow-intensive product for registering mutual funds, nationally, back on track.
• Taxonomy, process-flow diagrams, wireframes, prototypes, assets, design system, design workshop, and user testing.
Email: *****-********@***.***
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kevincornwall
Portfolio: kevincornwall.me
- UX / product design
- interaction design
- information architecture
- wireframes / prototypes
- user research / testing
- design workshop
- personas
- data management & visualization
- copywriting
- WCAG compliance
- design system
TOOLS
MS Office, Visio, OmniGraffle,
Balsmiq, Axure, Sketch, Invision,
XD, Figma, Zeplin, Adobe CC,
Animation, Agile HTML5,
CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery
EDUCATION
UCSC B.A. Cultural Anthropology
Grossmont College - Multimedia
San Diego Gas and Electric, San Diego, CA 08/15 – 01/16 UI / UX Designer (Contract)
• Designed, developed, and unit-tested data-intensive, responsive email sent to SDG&E's 800,000 customers.
• Exceeded expectations in making the email fluid and responsive across 30 email clients, OS, browsers, and devices. QualityTermLife, San Diego, CA
Product Designer (Project) 01/15 – 07/15
• Requirements, branding, content, strategy, design and development for life insurance quotes site. One-man team.
• Analyzed competitive space and researched consumer demographics to inform features, SEO, and conversion.
• 2nd Phase was mobile site. Result: page > 30%; conversions > 100%. Brady Corporation, Milwaukee, WI 01/14 – 12/14
• Lead Product Designer
• Rapid prototypes with Lean UX, delivered design of one app every 6 weeks.Coordinated the contributions of internal and external designers and writers for industrial safety print solution products
• Defined features, worked through concepts, and delivered prototypes for 8 desktop and 2 mobile apps (IOS/Android) Certona, San Diego, CA 02/13 – 11/13
UX Designer (Consultant)
• Redesigned administration and reporting application for industry-leading recommendation engine (MLAAS).
• Innovated navigation, user flows, screens, controls, and maintained the style guide for 8 core modules.
• Introduced interactive prototypes for usability testing, then iterated the design based-on the results. Bloomberg (via Zuna InfoTech) (Kokomo, IN) 10/12 – 02/13 UI /UX Designer (Contract / Remote)
• Designed and coded responsive, flexible web application to access Bloomberg archived email, Personal Vault.
• Gathered requirements, conducted competitive analysis, wrote user stories, specified flows, and features. BMC Software, Houston, TX 08/11 – 07/12
Lead UX Strategist (Contract / Remote)
• Formalized UX deliverables and process, writing 10 sets of guidelines with templates for the UX team.
• Interpreted analytics, identifying opportunities to increase prospect conversion, engagement, and retention.
• Wrote and implemented several remote usability tests and 2 site-wide survey to inform and validate designs. Sony Electronics, San Diego, CA 05/10 – 08/11
Senior Interaction Designer (Contract)
• Merged over a dozen PC utilities into a clear, cohesive user experience on VAIO PC systems.
• Transformed pain-points into selling features. Installed on over 100 million PCs in 34 languages!
• Recognized with Sony Electronics award for product and process innovation across teams, internationally. Hewlett / Packard, San Diego, CA 12/09 - 05/10
Interaction Designer (Contract)
• Designed, iterated, and delivered wireframes for 10 internationally distributed printer-embedded apps.
• Standardized UX templates, archetypes, and pattern libraries for the small-screen format. Verizon Online, Reston, VA / Dallas, TX 2004 - 2009 Lead Information Architect
• Lead design for all Verizon Internet registration and installation applications.