Ui Designer Visual

Gus John Chiarello

www.johnchiarello.com

With over 20 years of experience as a diverse Designer, I am able to provide value to any company or organization who needs a full service Interactive, UX/UI Designer, Graphic Designer or Visual Designer able to create web, print, interactive and multimedia projects. I thrive in the corporate environment, and desire to be an integral part of that company’s success.

Education: University of Kansas; Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design.

Job Related Skills:

• 20+ years in multi-discipline skill-sets. UX/UI Design, Graphic Design, Visual Design, and Creative Administration.

• Expertise in the Adobe Suite of products with emphasis on InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.

• Over 8 years working in Agile environments as a UX/UI Designer using Figma, Sketch and Adobe XD.

• Over 6 years designing multimedia projects including video editing, Powerpoint presentations and motion graphics.

• Experienced in traditional media. Architectural Rendering, Technical and creative Illustration.

• Experience as a Content Manager for e-commerce, SEO, and E-mail marketing.

• Proficient with Microsoft Office products, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills relating to clients and Associates.

• Understanding of design trends, design principles, responsive design, qualitative UX research helping setup user

interviews and focus groups and quantitative surveys and analytics.

• Expertise using some of the latest design software.

Career Accomplishments:

• Working with a design system team, I was able to create rules for UI components redefining GUI standards.

• A key contributor to the introduction of mobile healthcare applications designing demonstration prototypes.

• Key member of a team designing a Style Guide or library of reusable GUI components to define a design system.

• Art Director for an award winning e-learning program creating screen layouts, visual designs and motion graphics.

• I was an early adopter of UX/UI design principles as the E-Commerce Manager for Chef’s Catalog and other Neiman Marcus catalog brands in the very early stages of their online presence.

• I helped manage a complete upgrade of hardware and software partnering with a large printing company in the installation of a high-end, In-house pre-press proofing facility.

Relevant Experience:

Freelance Designer – Self Employed - From 2019 – Present

Throughout my career, I have worked as a Freelance Designer. I have done a website design for a body sculpting firm, mailers and collateral for a local real estate company as well as continued online training in UX Research and Design. I have also done a website design for a startup machine learning company, a website design and PowerPoint presentation for a Texas based Engineering firm and motion graphics for a local Media Group revising a PowerPoint presentation into an After Effects version.

UX/UI Designer - United Healthcare Group – August 2021 – May 2023

Full-time 6 to 12 month contract extended twice to 2 years. I created User Interface Designs based on Business Requirements in an agile environment using Figma as our main design tool. I designed mock-ups, wire-frames and prototypes from complex business requirements supporting Optum’s ICM Modernization project. I participated in daily remote scrum meetings with Developers, Analysts, and Stakeholders as part of their Agile Design Process reviewing Discovery, Research, Miro white-boarding, Lo-Fidelity wire-frames and pixel perfect High-Fidelity

Figma wire-frames. I was a creative contributor designing PowerPoint presentations, newsletters, and online creative briefs to present our design philosophy to stakeholders.

John Deere Corporation / Training Design & Marketing Specialist – January 2018 – September 2019

I worked a 6-12 mo. contract as a Training Design Marketing Specialist to design, manage and edit content for interactive training modules (Value Selling Guides) used by Dealers of John Deere's high-end agricultural, turf, and construction equipment. The Value Selling Guides were digital platform training modules designed to help train dealers in high level marketing initiatives using value statements and comparisons against the competition.

Farm Journal Media Group / Multimedia Graphics Designer – July 2016 – September 2018

I was the Content Services Graphics Designer working on print design, web design, social media posts, user Interface design, GIF animations and video editing. I managed many near impossible deadlines in a fast-paced agency environment. I designed many diverse highly creative projects including mood boards, email ads, banner ads, inserts, media kits, Videos, and trade show collateral.

Cerner Incorporated / SR UX/UI Designer – February 2010 – July 2016

As part of the User Experience Design Team, I worked in collaboration with Solution Designers, Developers, and Analysts to design GUI’s based on a set of user centered design requirements and user stories. From these stakeholder initiatives, we sketched mock-ups, then wire-frames, then low and high fidelity click through prototypes for stakeholder presentations. My solutions were mainly web based HTML 3 – 5 using CSS. One of my many accomplishments was creating call outs, visual design components and specifications for the development of a design system/style guide. I worked on a variety of other projects producing high quality graphic design print projects, PowerPoint presentations, and, a creative user interface for a bedside Smart TV known as MyStation which allowed patients to watch TV, movies, play games, surf the internet, or read books on-screen from their bed. I created a children’s version that at the time was sold to a prestigious medical facilities organization.

Electronic Transaction Consultant Corp – Multimedia Graphics Designer – June 2007 – January 2010

The objective was to support the proposal documentation group and the technical documentation group through the use of technical illustrations, diagrams, photography, and web interface designs. As one of a 7-member documentation department, we continually produced award winning technical documentation illustrating the Open Road, Electronic Toll Collection process to local stakeholders and potential clients. We achieved greater image recognition in the design of proposal materials including cover designs, system design diagrams, site renderings and animations using 3D applications.

M-Link Technologies – Multimedia Graphics designer – February 2004 – February 2007

Creative team leader in the design and production of multimedia graphics used in the development of instructional media including e-learning, video instructional media, printed materials, and interactive marketing collateral for large corporations such as Nokia, Lennox, Overhead Door and FedEx. I achieved distinction in the wide use of 3D animations designing short video sequences for post-production by our development team. Also was a vital contributor in the creative design and production of four-color printed materials using Creative Suite and other Graphics Programs. I was heavily involved in creating web interface designs using Adobe Illustrator and Flash. One of my major accomplishments was my contribution to an award-winning training course for Overhead Door Corporation MX operator line of products.

Other Relevant Experience:

NM Direct (Catalog division of the Neiman Marcus Group): 3 Positions spanning over an 11 year period

E-Commerce Marketing Manger, Electronic Systems Manager, Production Designer and Photo Retoucher

Hitachi Semi equipment Group, Art Director: 1 year

Econet Inc. Creative Director for Web Design: 1 year

KMA Advertising Macintosh Systems Manager / Production Designer: 1 year

Education:

University of Kansas

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design

Johnson County Community College

Assoc. of Arts in Graphic Communications

Portfolio Website:

www.johnchiarello.com

Linkedin Profile:

www.linkedin.com/in/johnchiarello

Contact Information:

John Chiarello

8132 Acuff ln. Lenexa KS 66215

cell: 469-***-****

email: ************@*****.***

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