UX Designer & Front-End Developer

Nicholas Romano

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UX Designer/ Web Designer

UX/UI Designer proficient in user research, wireframing, and designing interactive prototypes focused on accessibility. Skilled in Figma, usability testing, interactive design, and front-end web development. Utilizing my UX/UI skills to work productively within a product design team.

Skills & Tools

Figma Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Wireframing Interaction Design Prototyping Information Architecture Visual Design Design Systems User Research HTML CSS Bootstrap JavaScript JQuery SASS ReactJS Angular

Featured Projects

Sightmark Travel App Case Study Live Prototype

Social Travel App for Finding New Places and Connecting with other travelers

•Applied research, designed interactive prototypes for mobile and desktop screen sizes with reusable components, and executed user testing

•Includes an interactive map, search filters, scrolling capability, dropdown menus, and overlay forms

•User can create posts, see and write reviews, check-in at a location, and redeem rewards points

Fred-A-Scare E-Commerce App Case Study Live Prototype

E-commerce mobile app for Halloween costumes

•Designed 6 interactive app pages including a Checkout page to process payments.

•Implemented interactive features such as a splash page scaling logo animation, slide-out search filter, scroll sections, button hover and click state changes, add to cart overlay slide in, and purchase confirmation pop-up overlay.

To Do List App Presentation Case Study Live Prototype

An application for scheduling event notification reminders inside an interactive calendar

•Integrated a calendar weekly and monthly view filter.

•Designed the ability to create, edit, and delete events on the calendar, and modify their priority level and category types.

•Implemented an interactive filter based on category and priority type.

Professional Experience

Retail Merchandiser, SAS, Raleigh, NC 05/2025 - 11/2025

•Integrates products inside a user interface, adding new ones, and removing discontinued ones.

•Maps product codes and configures them to display in the correct component locations

•Adjusts price amount data, aligning tags, and adding new tags as needed.

•Integrated an average of 3 product sets per week resulting in a total of 12 sets per month.

E-Commerce Marketing Strategist, Raleigh, NC 11/2023 - 07/2025

•Owned and operated an online E-Commerce business using Shopify.

•Managed products and orders, and optimized selling strategies.

•Used SEO for product titles, descriptions, and keywords.

Web Developer, Extron, Raleigh, NC 02/2022 - 07/2023

•Updated, contributed to, and maintained the Extron Sync Library – An Angular Storybook web directory application of components and features used by developers on product sites.

•Developed and maintained component features such as cards, dropdown menus, tabs, sliders, interactive forms, and buttons using Angular and HTML5.

•Completed an average of 6 Jira tasks per month including both bug fixes and features, keeping the library up-to-date, while also updating the software packages to the latest version available every 4 months.

Software Engineer, Martin Marietta Materials, Raleigh, NC 07/2021 - 01/2022

•Created a newly designed magnesia product website in 3 months time improving client usability with an intuitive layout, well-organized navigation bar, and high-definition images.

•Dynamically displayed data using jQuery to make AJAX REST requests to JSON files to display data on certain pages.

•Utilized Bootstrap CSS style library to design a responsive layout and sized images using Adobe Photoshop, and created wireframes and prototypes with Figma.

Database Developer, Upland Bluevenn, Raleigh, NC 10/2020 - 07/2021

•Built data and database subsystems using data visualization techniques to scale to maximum performance.

•Managed operational needs of databases such as backups, maintenance, monitoring, tuning and performance optimization.

•Automated incoming daily/weekly client data, into table joins and views inside MSSQL to chart and graph data in more efficient ways.

Web Developer/Designer, Cisco Systems Morrisville, NC 01/2018 - 10/2019

•Utilized web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery for website structure, design, and interactivity.

•Updated customer service agent instruction web pages using Adobe Experience Manager, making the overall user interface and user experience more efficient.

•Completed an average of 60 updates per month, keeping information up-to-date for product specialists.

Web Developer, Raleigh Jaycees Raleigh, NC 12/2016 – 12/2018

•Updated and created new content and functionality on the Jaycee owned WordPress sites and created a new design for an online administrator portal that queries member data

•Successfully designed and developed a responsive, mobile compatible Chapel Hill Holiday Parade site for the 2017 and 2018 winter seasons using HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, and JQuery

•The parade site has an appealing winter theme that is organized and easy to navigate, displaying information in tiles and panels with overlay photo galleries and a photo slider with pictures from previous years.

Applications Programmer, Pragmatics Inc. Arlington, VA 07/2015 – 03/2016

•Obtained a Public Trust Security Clearance.

•Developed responsive, mobile-compatible user interface for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) Bank Data Systems Institution Directory search application using HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Bootstrap, JQuery, and JavaScript to display information on banks located throughout the U.S.

•Enhanced the responsive user interface of the FDIC’s Receivership Oversight Management System (ROMS) application using BackboneJS and JQuery

•Tested SQL queries in Oracle MS SQL database to correctly map and chart data on Receivership reports.

•Programmed and committed codebase using Git commands inside Visual Studio

UI/UX Designer, Association of American Medical Colleges, N.W. Washington, D.C. 01/2015 – 06/2015

•Created a responsive mobile-compatible user interface design for a financial disclosure application for institutions and organizations nationwide using HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JavaScript, and jQuery

Education

UX/UI Certificate, TripleTen 04/2025 - 12/2025 See Certificate

Full-Stack Web Development Certificate, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 02/2020 - 08/2020 See Certificate

Certified Internet Web Professional, CIW, Online 02/2017 - 05/2017 See Certificate

Web Design and Development Career Studies Certificate, Northern Virginia Community College, Manassas, VA 06/2012 - 05/2013 See Certificate

BS in Media Arts and Design, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 08/2008 - 05/2011 See Degree

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