Barbara Quinn Cleveland, Ohio 440-***-****
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/topdogdesign/
Creative UX/Visual Designer Profile
Enthusiastic, results-driven lead designer with years of exceeding clients’ design needs. SUMMARY:
Proven expertise in leading design projects from ideation to implementation. Collect and analyze data to generate innovative marketing strategies. A results oriented person with agility, initiative, customer focus, and enthusiasm. Ability to prioritize, influence, collaborate, inspire others, and work creatively under pressure. Highlights of Expertise
UX /UI & Visual Design Marketing Project Management
● Content Mgmt
Systems
● Customer-focused
service
● Collaborative leader
● Diverse software skills
● Branding & Revamping
● Creative problem-solving
● User-centered campaign
● Monitoring & Evaluation
● Prototyping & user
testing
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
OEConnection
Sr. UI/UX Designer (March 2021 – Present)
Work closely with stakeholders, product and business to help improve our existing applications and to design new ones. Integrate closely with engineering teams to ensure applications match the design through an agile environment. Designed two Design Systems for the company. Routinely conduct in person and remote user research, analyze user data through third party software.
Top Dog Design
Founding Partner/Designer (July 1993 – Present)
Project manager, visual director and digital designer. Retained clients over many years through providing client-centered services and offering competitive options. Interact regularly with vendors, customers, and staff. Primary areas of focus are front end design including responsive design, internal applications, mobile first, b2b websites, accomplished through wireframes, customer journeys, mockups, requirements, user Barbara Quinn Page 2
research, user flows, storyboards and visual design. Supporting clients campaigns with email, print, digital design and social media.
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Federal Reserve Bank
Contract UX designer (January 2018 - June 2019)
Collaborated with an interdisciplinary team to revamp and streamline the operators daily workflow payment processing application for the Federal Reserve Bank, increasing user-friendliness and efficiency. Coordinated with product owners, software engineers, and end users in ideation sessions, gathering business requirements, observing users, creating user flow diagrams, detailed annotated wireframes with css specs, high/low fidelity prototypes, user research and user testing. Fathom Marketing/KeyBank
UI/UX Designer/Visual Designer (August 2015 - March 2017) Collaborated closely with both the digital marketing and creative team to produce creative and technical deliverables. Crafted and maintained marquees and landing pages for Retail and Corporate Banking pages. Developed digital marketing guidelines. Designed the Corporate Knowledge Center from ideation to execution, including prototype, user testing, and technical requirements. Produced email campaigns, ad and print collateral material while supporting the company brand. Equity Trust Company
Frontend Web Designer (November 2013 - August 2015) Responsible for look, feel and maintenance of company websites, various microsites, lead generation sites and private client account access sites. Served as UI/UX designer for the Innovation Team on the creation of a new online user experience for existing account holders. Worked on concepts, wireframes, interaction design and user interface from written technical requirements. Internal user testing. QA testing and tracking. Working with internal and external developers.
TOA Technologies
Senior Web Designer (June 2011 - November 2013)
Responsible for redesign of the company website in Wordpress. Daily maintenance of new content and design. Design and implement blog site and event oriented micro-sites. Coordinate the transfer and development of User Guide documentation for individual international customers.
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Advanstar Publishing
Group Art Director
(Jan 1989 to July 1993)
Art director and designer for various company publications. Duties included monthly design and production of publications. Collaborating with editorial staff on concepts. Outsourcing photography, illustration and printing. Responsible for company wide “trade show daily” design, pre-print, and on-site show printing at trade show locations across the country.
EDUCATION:
● Cooper School of Art (Communication Design)
● Cleveland State University (English)
● Lorain County Community College (Programming)
SOFTWARE EXPERTISE & SKILLS:
• MS Office Suite
• Angular/Material/ Bootstrap
• Google Apps
• Responsive Design
• Accessibility Testing
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Axure
• Figma
• MIRO
• CMS Systems: Joomla/WordPress/Kentico/Drupal/Tridion
• Atlassian/JIRA
• Azure DevOps