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Leslie S. King, CUA User Interface and Interaction Designer / Developer [email protected] San Diego, California 760-809-6471 Design/Development Portfolio: coroflot.com/lesliesusanking LinkedIn: lesliesking Qualifications Senior level UI and Interaction designer and developer with over 14 years of experience researching, testing, designing, developing and implementing dynamic, three-tier applications on web and mobile platforms. Proven ability to define accurate requirements and deliver elegant interfaces that exceed customer expectations with a rich user experience. Communicate UX / IxD design principles and recommendations with peers and executives. Provide empirical research, analysis, testing, design and development from concept to implementation. UX / IX Design Agile and waterfall SDLCs Competitive analysis Contextual Inquiries Cross-browser Cross-platform Empirical observations Focus groups Functional specs Graphics, icons, favicons Google Glass storyboards Heuristic evaluations Hi-fi DHTML prototypes Iterative process Media research Mobile app redesigns Mobile Augmented Reality Personas Photoshop to DHTML Presentations Product conceptualization Rapid prototypes-sketches Research methods Stand-up scrums System architecture Teamwork collaboration Typography Usability testing User Centered Design Wireframes Dreamweaver, Illustrator InDesign, Photoshop Balsamiq, Visio WordPress GitHub, Jira, PVCS, SVN Agile, Oracle, MySQL Apache, IIS PL/SQL, Transact-SQL Eclipse, Visual Studio Twitter Bootstrap Technical Skills AJAX, JSON, XML ASP, JSP, JSF, Java C++, C#, .NET (basic) CSS, HTML, JavaScript jQuery Education M.S. Human-Computer Interaction, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Certified Usability Analyst (CUA), Human Factors International, Seattle, WA A.S. Computer and Information Sciences, Miramar College, San Diego, CA Certificate Web Publishing - Design, UCSD Extension, San Diego, CA B.S. Marketing, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA candidate Aug 2014 July 2013 2007 1990 1987 Professional Experience Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY Full-time graduate student, M.S. Human-Computer interaction (HCI) Aug 2013 – Aug 2014 Classes include: User-Centered Design with personas and usability testing, HCI Theory and Research, Mobile Augmented Reality with Google Glass storyboards, Typography graphic design, HCI Usability with redesigned mobile RPI student app, Human-Media Interaction with social media analysis, Media Communications Research 1 Present on a weekly basis user storyboards, Balsamiq wireframes, usability test results, graphic design concepts, research paper analysis, mobile app designs Extensive teamwork and collaboration with fellow students Oct 2011 – July 2013 TaylorMade-adidas Golf, Carlsbad, CA UI and Front End Web Developer, eCommerce Lead UX and front-end developer for eCommerce SaaS on web and mobile platforms, collaborating with peers for B2C sales up 165% and 1.2 million visitors in 2013 Coded eCommerce marketing emails to over 1.8 million targeted customers Developed high-profile sweepstakes forms, resulting in 271% data mining increase Created promotion page for Augmented Reality mobile app Coded DHTML / jQuery interfaces from Photoshop and wireframe specs Genoptix Medical Laboratory, Carlsbad, CA User Experience (UX) Designer and Web Developer, Corporate IT and Marketing Lead designer and front-end web developer for the corporate website and eCompass, the primary customer-facing, web application Redesigned and repurposed the eCompass UX from a PDF repository to customer dashboard, based on empirical observations and customer surveys Created wireframes, prototypes, card sorting for eCompass and corporate website Introduced UCD concepts, usability testing, heuristic evaluations, UI design principles SAIC, San Diego, CA User Interface Web Applications Developer, Web Services IT Aug 2007 – Feb 2008 Redesigned web and TV console interfaces for DivX Connected in collaboration with marketing to improve the UX; selected for task out of 3-person team Directed heuristic evaluations, wireframes, usability testing, task analysis, SUS Usability Scorecard to establish a UX baseline for future designs Managed ethnographic surveys to identify target markets for project stakeholders Facilitated multimedia focus groups to create user personas for CEO-level visibility Qualcomm Inc., San Diego CA Sr. User Interface Designer and Web Developer, Engineering IT Feb 2008 – Feb 2010 Developed over eight web applications for eCommerce, intranet portal, financial, human resources, security, travel and computer-based training (CBT) Team expert in DHTML and ASP; sought-after for troubleshooting skills Supervised implementing CSS code and W3C standards Lead developer for prominent jQuery intranet news carousel for 45,000+ employees, prior to full jQuery framework capability Redeveloped and redesigned DHTML and ASP code for highly visible, CEO-level international travel application ahead of deadline. Team received IT Excellence award. DivX Inc., San Diego, CA User Experience Engineer Mar 2010 – July 2011 June 1998 – Aug 2007 Responsible for conceptualization, design and development of internal, engineering workflow web applications; member of three-person team in high demand Increased client workflow productivity by 300%, decreased turnaround time from 2 days to 4 hours, reduced employee support costs by 200% 2 Initiated creating task-oriented web apps with a user-centered design approach that delivered a rich user experience – iterative, task-oriented, intuitive, elegant designs Managed requirements gathering, usability studies, wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, development, production release and technical support for six web apps Conducted usability tests in group labs, initiated individual contextual inquiries and empirical observations to define and extend requirements Quality Assurance Systems Analyst, Engineering IT Managed unit, system, regression and performance testing for production releases Recommended user interface design enhancements to peers and managers Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., McLean, VA Quality Assurance Software Test Engineer, Corporate IT May 1997 – May 1998 Created and executed QA test cases, reported results to managers Converted data from Mac to PC, provided technical support for 20 peers Loral Corporation, San Diego and Palo Alto, CA Export Licensing and Marketing Coordinator 1990 - 1996 VTLS, Blacksburg, VA Marketing Representative, Software Systems 1987 – 1989 3