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Creative Strategy
Proficient design leader and creative / UX manager with a specialty in Design/UX. I have been directing teams, using collaborative, agile (iterative, incremental) and waterfall methods for over 20 years. I keep the end goal in sight, the details and work within evolving constraints to achieve success. I believe in inspiring excellence through example, helping others discover and achieve their best.
Management Extensive experience managing large teams of diverse personalities in deadline driven environments, establishing employee career development programming, leading cross-functional team collaboration, and developing industry outreach opportunities.
Software
Mac OS, Windows, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Acrobat Professional, Microsoft Office, InDesign, Sketchapp, Agile methodologies, Keynote, PowerPoint, HTML, JavaScript, CSS
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Senior Professional - User Experience/Creative Director, Specialist! Aaron Usiskin
NYC // 03.2015 - Present
Proficient Design Leader and Creative/UX Consultant with over 20 years of experience working on hundreds of projects. I've honed my processes to a specific goal: getting results. I care about understanding you and your customers, in service of creating experiences that deliver. Always looking for new clients. I design and build beautiful User Interfaces & Experiences. I work closely with your development team, marketing professionals and stakeholders to design and develop responsive, UX and UI that make your website, application or software a joy to use.
Current client: Oath.com, UX/IA
What I do!
● Meet with clients to understand their desired goals and objectives.
● Ideate websites and mobile apps by sketching ideas, and creating detailed wireframes based off content strategist planning.
● Build UX teams and UX infrastructures.
● Optimized Agile methodologies, both independently and collaboratively with team members to design solutions that meet client needs with the goal of surpassing expectations.
● Spearhead clients to translate their vision into clear project objectives, tangible outcomes.
● Manage and work closely with sales, PM, artist, and engineers on high-scope features to solve large-scale design problems.
● Introduced full usability guidelines, templates, and onboarding process for company-wide UX, process.
● Fashion animated mockups to illustrate functionality and choreography
Clients
Wyndham Vacation Rentals, MapMyRun, LookyLoo, Stuart Steel, Nation Wide Imaging, Viiad, AbilTo, DIRECTV, Coldwell Banker, HealthCost, Endava, Merrill Lynch, Chapin School, Unio Corporation, Speedpay, Western Union, Go To College Fairs and Soccer Poet, to name a few.
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff - Sr. Creative, User Experience Manager
NYC // 02.2009 - 03.2015
Designed wsp-pb.com and intranet, combined efforts for unified look. Led allnew product marketing activities, products and strategic initiatives from ideation to concept. Integrated Content Management System. Developed and delivered Lync 2010-2013, SharePoint training 2007 - 2013, cross functioning teams. Created migration Plan for move from SP 2007 to Balfour Beatty's 360 (SP 2013)
Resolute Solutions
Bellevue, Wahsington // 2006 - 2009
Creative Direction, User Experience, Business Analysis, IAand supervising development. Developed one of the first Personal Health Record, Electronic Medical Records and Electronic Health Records sys-tems for Health Dialog (HighMark BCBS). Worked with clients implementing leading edge creative andtechnologies, including .Net, SharePoint, Social Networking, Tag Clouds, and cloud computing. Incor-porated technology with solution selection and resources from Strategic planning, business solutions and technology services.
Key Brands
Pfizer, BCBS, Aetna, J&J, BMS, Novartis,
Merck
LexisNexis | Martindale - VP Creative Director
New Providence, NJ // 2005 - 2006
Lawyers.com, Martindale.com - Over-site and management of Creative Agency, an internal creative and development agency for Law Firms within LexisNexis. Sold company to Internet Brands. Devel-oped over 700 custom websites and 1500 premium websites. Oversaw Search Engine Marketing, ban-ner development, Sponsored Links/Results, and Account Management for over 2000 firms. Responsi-ble for over $18 million in revenue. Responsibilities include training/educating 250 sales reps, client in-teraction, proposals, programming, and technology, IT, infrastructure, account management, budgets and web practices.
Impact Unlimited - Creative Director Producer
Dayton, NJ // 2002 - 2005
Delivered technical and creative solutions for conventions, meetings and events worldwide. Successful in developing GOD System (Graphics on Demand) an interactive question and marketing messaging tool.
Agency.com - Creative Director
NYC // 2000 - 2002
Delivered strategic communication solutions that help the brand attain the marketing and communications objectives. Ensured that the creative team operates in an efficient and innovative manner. Worked with the Technology Director to ensure that our creative deliverables were leading edge and ahead of our competition. Ensured that a high quality of creative and production is upheld, maintaining consistently high standards.
Merrill Lynch - Assistant Vice President Online Operations
Princeton, NJ // 1998 - 2000
Creation and launch of ML.com and Merrill Lynch's online trading and wealth management system. Compliant with Y2k standards.
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2009 Nielsen Norman Intranet Usability Guidelines Killer Applications (WSP/PB)
2005 Webby Award athenos.com
2000 Cre@te Online Merrill Lynch
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Masters of Fine Arts in Computer Art / Graphic Design
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Business / Graphic Design with Distinction
Bethany College, WV
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Available upon request
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