INTRO
I am a Lead UX UI Designer with extensive Art Director experience. I have succeeded at both internationally recognized and small to mid-sized companies. My most notable achievements have been receiving the Hewlett-Packard Visionary Award for Conversion (team) and increasing the completion speed of supplementary global application products by 500% over the previous year.
RODNEY HOM
UX UI Art Direction
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EXPERIENCE
IQVIA
UX UI Design Manager
August 2020 - May 2023, Telecommute-Scottsdale
• Eliminated a six-year roadblock to funding a SaaS product with UX/UI mockups in seven months.
• Redesigned company’s first TeleVisit product to a successful working solution.
• Designed UX/UI solutions for an omnichannel product featuring Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
• Established processes; created job estimations; and oversaw multiple design teams, ensuring that consumer facing products adhered to company’s UX/UI standards.
American Express
Lead UX Designer, Consultant
February 2019 - July 2020, Phoenix
• Overcame year-long backlog in three months.
• 100% customer satisfaction improvement in eight months, as indicated by user feedback results.
• Conducted UX research, created personas, oversaw testing, and generated data-driven reports with emotional intelligence for Business Rules Management System.
The Secrets of Clouds
Lead UX UI Art Director, Founder
2013 - 2019, Charleston, LA & Scottsdale
• Clients: ADOT, EMI Music/Season of Mist; Gibbes Museum; HarryBarker.com; MidnightBalloon.com; and Theodora Park. American Express
Senior UX UI Visual Designer, Consultant
November 2016 - December 2017, Phoenix
• Increased completion speed of supplementary global application products for Australia, Germany,
Mexico, Sweden, and the UK–a 500% increase
over the previous year.
• Designed Amex’s first Mexican digital card
acquisition product, resulting in a 600,000%
increase in applications in the first week.
• Persuaded “Security & Fraud at POS” to update
SafeKey® designs for greater conversion and fraud
avoidance. Researched, benchmarked, and created
responsive wireframes and content strategy for
UX study.
• Designed augmented reality exploration of the
User onboarding experience.
Shamrock Foods Company
Senior UX UI Visual Designer, Consultant
July 2016 - September 2016, Phoenix
• Designed web app allowing Users to create and
disseminate price changes for the 7th largest food distributor in the US.
Spark Analytics
Senior UX UI Visual Designer, Consultant
January 2016 - July 2016, Scottsdale
• Redesigned a new analytics tool, supporting the
world’s largest foodservice company–a company
that serves both the United Nations and the
Armed Forces.
• Provided competitive business analysis; interviewed stakeholders; constructed user personas; designed
user flows; and created new user stories,
wireframes, and prototypes.
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Education
Art Center College of Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Advertising
UC Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology
Awards
Webby Honoree
2022, Midnight Balloon
Podcast limited-series devoted to performing scripted fictional work for entertainment.
Hewlett-Packard
2015, 1st Place, Visionary Award for Most Impactful Conversion Program Choice Hotels (team)
General Assembly
2014, 1st Place for REDESIGN A UX Design
Hackathon (team)
Burbank & Nickelodeon Animation Studios
2014, 2nd Place for Game+Hack (team)
Emmy Awards
2007 and 2008, Nominated for best campaign
commercial
– Diamondbacks, Father/Son
– Diamondbacks Playoffs Campaign
How Magazine
2004, Best International Design, LA Tofu Festival
Student Academy Award
2001, The Yellow Umbrella
Skills
l Adobe CC l Agile l AI l AR l CSS (expert
understanding) l Design Thinking l Empathy
l Enterprise Product Design l Film/Video
l Heuristic Analysis l IOS (expert understanding)
l ML l Optimost l Podcasting l Programming
Languages (understanding of AngularJS, React)
l Prototypes (InVision) l Responsive/Adaptive Design l Telecommute l UAT/UT l Wireframes (Figma)
Mobile Mini
Senior UX UI Designer, Consultant
November 2015 - December 2015, Phoenix
• Redesigned and reduced a 45-second conversion funnel by approximately 5-9 seconds, creating a better customer experience and ability to close the transaction.
Choice Hotels International
Senior UX UI Designer, Conversion Rate Optimization, Consultant March 2014 - July 2015, Phoenix
• Increased revenue by 69 million dollars in the first five months.
• Received Hewlett-Packard Visionary Award for Conversion.
• 23% average conversion rate (twice Amazons’s rate).
• Succeeded as sole conversion UX UI Designer for mobile and desktop, using research, benchmarking, card sorting, current design trends, wireframes, and user testing results.
• Consulted with stakeholders, business analysts, technical analysts, QA, front-end developers, back-end developers, SEO, and Social Media to further UX research.
• Presented New User Journeys with multiple UI designs and prototypes for a/b testing and multivariate testing at Monetate and HP Optimost.
• Art directed and designed main homepage pic for new site. Rawle Murdy
Senior UX Art Director, Advertising
2010 - 2013, Charleston, SC
• Clients include Lennar Homes, MeadWestvaco Land Sales (MWV), Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Nextonsc.com (MWV), Oceana Resorts, Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum, Piggly Wiggly Grocery Stores, Port-of-Charleston.com, Rawle Murdy and Wild Dunes Resort.
Netherworld Productions
Senior Art Director UX, Founder
2002 - 2014, LA, Manhattan & Sydney, AU
• Clients include Asian Pacific Community Fund, Bungalow5.com
(retail), Channel One, Derek Glass Direct Marketing GoToTraining. com, and Vidatak (award-winning medical device).
The Lavidge Company
Senior Art Director, Advertising
2006 - 2008, Phoenix
• Clients include Arizona Diamondbacks, Chase Stadium, Phoenix Mercury, K-TAR Sports Radio Station, and Phoenix Suns.