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
Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, Acrobat, InDesign |
SharePoint Server 2010/2007/2003 |
Microsoft Visual Studio |
SharePoint Designer |
Microsoft Visio |
Quark Xpress |
VMWare |
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
AT&T
Buchanan Street Partners
CDI
Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals
ClearVision Optical
Comporium Communications
Credit Suisse Securities
CSL Group
Cutwater Asset Management
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)
Dunn & Bradstreet
Eisai
Endurance Reinsurance
Erickson Living
The Federal Reserve
GroupM
Girl Scouts USA
Hadassah
Howrey LLP
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Jeffries
J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency
Kingsborough College |
Kraft Kennedy
MassMutual
MBIA
MediaCom
MediaEdge CIA
Memorial Sloan Kettering
Merck
Microsoft
New York City Department of Health
News America
Nordstrom
NYU Law School
Ogilvy
Optinuity
Praxair Inc.
Purdue Pharma
Queens College
Resolute
Ropes Gray LLP
Sard Verbinnen Public Relations
Shearman & Sterling
Steve Madden
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case |
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
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