UX Designer – New York
Why did I want to become a Designer? Two words: Walls Sausages. When I was a child living in England I discovered that with every pack of Walls sausages you could get a card which depicted a scene with a dinosaur. They were cute and well-drawn (for the 1970s). But the thing that fascinated me most was that they could be put together in any order and would still make a panorama.
That was so cool. I wanted to do that, I wanted to make something magical out of something simple. That’s design, and that’s what I wanted to do.
Here is a bullet list of the things I do:
- Wire-framing and prototyping
- User testing, personas, and use cases
- Development of sites in CMS
- Product development
- Design
- UX
- SE0
- Responsive design
- App development
After studying design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, I worked as a designer for several magazines and journals. With the introduction of the internet, I started working for a computer magazine and was asked to create a website. I have made every mistake that a graphic designer can make on this journey from HTML 1.0 to responsive mobile sites.
I am an experienced designer who has followed his passion for printing with ink and lead to coding in bytes. I have designed for magazines and newspapers, websites and apps, and love the process of design that follows the UX needs of the user as an integral aspect of the design process. More information about my design process, and UX procedure, can be found on this website.
My favorite projects:
Integration of all 330 World Trade Centres into one database and social network
A dynamic graphic website popularizing statistics
Leveraging content from a publisher back catalog into mobile and tablet apps.
SKILLS RESUME
InDesign, Photoshop CS (Adobe Expert), Strata 3D Pro, Illustrator, OmniGraffle, Dreamweaver, Flash, Joomla, Drupal, HTML 5, CCS3, JavaScript, Muse, Edge Animation
EXPERIENCE RESUME
Senior UX designer
Wolters Kluwer 2014 – present. 6 years of experience with remote working
Wolters Kluwer (Euronext: WKL – revenue $ 5 billion) is a global provider of professional information, software solutions, and services for clinicians, nurses, accountants, lawyers, and tax, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and regulatory sectors.
UX / Interaction Designer
Verizon 2013 – 2014
Design, prototype, and specify mobile device user interfaces.
Author UI requirements and administer test plans for those requirements.
Achieve team consensus and executive buy-in on my proposed designs.
Manage external design teams.
UX Designer
MetLife 20 12 – 2013
The designer responsible for digital products, UX, information architecture and accessibility
Roll out of a global intranet, from just US-based to 10 different languages.
Designed UX within the confines of the brand.
Design and UX of a Mobile app for a people finder.
Design for Video showing how to use the intranet in 10 languages.
Using UX to introduce social media to the intranet.
Building templates for team sites within the intranet.
Designing infographics as content for the Intranet.
UX Design of forms which are easy to understand for onboarding new employees
General UX and Graphic Design handyman.
Wire-framing and Prototyping
User testing – Use cases, user journeys, and A/B testing
Creation and documentation of digital workflow, methodology, and best practices
Agency
work
The New School
UX/UI and visual design for the New School intranet
The Princeton Review / Tutor.com
Design Synchronous and Asynchronous on-line Learning portal
Student On-line Chat/Video portal
McCann Erickson
Several Healthcare websites and apps
kirshenbaum bond senecal + partners
UX report on the BMW forum
UX Designer and Marketing Manager
World Trade Center Association, New York
Designer and Marketing Manager
World Trade Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands (March 2004 – August 2010)
Compuware Europe, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1995 – 2002)
My favorite projects:
Integration of all 330 World Trade Centers into one database and social network
A dynamic graphic website popularizing statistics
Leveraging content from publishers back catalog into mobile and tablet apps.
General Interests:
I am at the moment developing my own art portfolio
52paintings.art
I am the author of the AI novel Citizen Robot
Start-up
Owner Brindian Press – an independent publisher of eBooks
Concept, programming, and design “Netgate Cities of Europe” 1997-1998
Concept, programming and design “Pyrenees” 1999
Concept, programming, and design “Cuba” 2000
Co-author of a book about QuickTime – 2000
EDUCATION RESUME
Bachelor in Education, Hull University, England
BA in Design and Illustration, Gerrit Rietveld Art Academie, Amsterdam
Adobe Certified Photoshop Expert and Instructor
Certified ENG Cameraman
