Snr. UX Designer – Terry

 About the candidate  

Terry is a  Designer with over 25 years of experience in crafting holistic, user-centered experiences. Skilled in workflows, problem-solving, collaboration, leadership,
strategic thinking, and empathy. Excel’s at gathering and integrating qualitative user insights, quantitative market analytics, and product-to-platform heuristics to prioritize the
most compelling, viable, and feasible concepts. Terry’s passion lies in innovation, continuous learning, and mentoring others, and takes pleasure in creating immersive and engaging
experiences.

Skills 

• Figma
• Figjam
• Sketch
• AI – ChatGPT, Gemini
• Adobe XD
• Photoshop
• Adobe CC
• Jira
• Bravo Studio
• Webflow
• Tools
• Notion
• Unity
• AutoFlow
• Anima
• Animation
• WordPress
• Miro
• Moxo
• Balsamiq
• Wire-framing
• Prototyping
• HTML/CSS
• React
• Haptic Design
• Dashboards

 Experience 

• Built products from the ground up for leading tech companies and technologies, including Apple, Google, Intel, Cisco, NFL, Federal
  Government, AI, Cyber Security, CRM, SaaS, Digital Currency, Crypto
• Expertise in using FIGMA (12 years). Beta testers for Figma.
• Proficient in creating design systems, prototypes, components, interactive elements, variables, and branding.
• Lead strategic vision and conceptual design outcomes which provide a clear direction for customer experiences across the AI landscape
• Innovated and led the advancement of Product Design technologies, such as AI, hand tracking, facial recognition, speech recognition, and the
  creation of augmented reality applications.
• Utilized a blend of design thinking, creative problem-solving, and strategic planning to spearhead innovation initiatives within the digital product.
• Developed machine learning AI platforms through extensive user research and contributed to its development by designing low- and highfidelity prototypes.
• Championing the user perspective while collaborating closely with C-level executives, and product managers to strategically address complex
  challenges.
• Organize design workshops (in-person and remote) to drive discovery and better understand the user’s needs.
• Confidently present Product designs to stakeholders, users, and development teams in formal and informal settings.
• Spearheaded the development and implementation of a comprehensive design system, promoting collaboration between design, creativity, and
  engineering to deliver unified, accessible, and engaging user experiences.
• Utilizing ChatGPT, Gemini, and other APIs to develop integrated AI systems that emphasize user experience. This involves prototyping interactive
  features to guide engineering efforts and enhance end-user engagement.
• Drive design reviews, design crits and be the design craft leader and coach to other designers to ensure consistent and cohesive experiences,
• Partner with leadership, stakeholders, cross-functional team members to create a unified design view of capabilities across SNG & Government.
• Led a combination of design thinking, creative problem-solving, and strategic planning to drive innovation.
• Innovated designer & leader, serve on the design leadership team,
• Mentoring, challenging, and helping develop more junior designers and team members.
• Built out IR machine learning AI platform from user research, and low & high-fidelity designs to prototyping.
• Synthesizing and distilling complex and critical user and business needs into holistic, customer-focused experiences & solutions.
• Continually advocate for the end user to ensure a shared understanding of user needs and identify critical problems to be solved.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional team leaders, including Product, Engineering, Data Science, and QA.