Sharepoint User Experience (UX) Resume

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Position

SharePoint User Experience (UX) Designer & Information Architecture (IA) Consultant

Summary

Possessing a rare blend of both creative and technical abilities, I am a SharePoint User-Experience (UX) Specialist with a formal background in Graphic Design, Usability, User-Centric Design (UCD), and Information Architecture (IA), helping organizations take ownership of their SharePoint experience through forward thinking, leading-edge techniques, and best-practices.

Applications  

Design Skills

Requirements, Wireframes, UX Design, IA, Taxonomy, Analysis, Usability, User-Centric Design (UCD), User-Stories, Workflows

Development Skills

XHTML, CSS, JQuery, JavaScript, Master Pages, Page Layouts, Agile/Scrum, ASCX User Controls, Social Networking, .Net

Experience

• Fourteen years of experience in user-interface design and information architecture.
• Six years of experience designing for SharePoint 2010, 2007 & 2003 Platforms.
• Three years of experience delivering projects through Agile/Scrum methodologies and practices
• Scrum Master experience leading teams in delivering high-value, feature-rich applications
• Engage throughout all phases of project implementation including concept development, scope-of-work requirements, functionality, prototyping, testing, and evaluation.
• Managed multidisciplinary teams including developers, application architects, system administrators, designers, and copywriters in the implementation of feature-rich, enterprise applications.
• Analyze and foresee how users are likely to use an interface design and test user behavior in practical application.
• Organize and design shared information environments such as web sites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability.
• Apply design & IA principles to web-based applications that maintain standards compliance and best practices.
• Leverage SharePoint’s Managed Metadata, Term-Store, and Content Type Hub to develop enterprise taxonomies
• IA deliverables include site maps, flow diagrams and screen-level design prototypes to represent the structure of a Web site or interactive application.
• Complete working knowledge of SharePoint Content Type structure.
• Carefully consider the context of usage to create user interfaces that meet user needs and expectations.
• Apply user-centered design principles to information architecture around the needs and capabilities of the intended user audience while maintaining internal consistencies and logic.
• Optimize the user interface around how people can, want, and need to work.
• Public-facing SharePoint Internet s, Secure Intranets, and Extranets.
• Customize the SharePoint Experience through Master Pages, Page Layouts, CSS, JQuery, JavaScript, & themes.
• Web Content Management (WCM)
• Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
• Records Management (RM) and Retention

SharePoint Client History

Awards & Accolades

Guest Speaker at the SharePoint Conference in Baltimore (2011)
— Session: SharePoint Branding, Avoiding the Pitfalls
Graphics.com Editor’s Choice Award for Logo Designs
Graphics.com Editor’s Choice Award for Graphic Design
CoolHomePages.com Design Award Winner
Graphic-Design.com Site of the Month
Creative Public's Top 10

education

Hendriks Institute
660 North Welwood Ave.
Lindenhurst, NY 11757
Graduated 1999

contact

Christopher Arella
Palm Harbor, FL 34685
(631) 716-3453
Click here to email me.

portfolio

SharePoint Sites | Websites | Logos | Brochures | Photography | Advertising | Flash