KENNARD B.
RESUME
What I Do
#EXPERIENCE
Top Tier Mortgage Banker, Los Angeles Ca
MAR 2024 - RECENT
- Led end-to-end UX/UI design for key projects, collaborating with teams to create responsive, user-centered designs that boosted engagement.
- Conducted user research and testing (interviews, surveys, A/B) to identify pain points and deliver intuitive designs, improving user satisfaction.
- Developed design systems and style guides, ensuring consistency and reducing development time with reusable component.
Walmart Global Tech, Bentonville Ar
OCT 2023 - FEB 2024
- Creating UX/UI designs in collaboration with developers and user research teams, ensuring meticulous and skilled implementation through Figma design components.
- In my role as a UX Auditor, I pinpointed and prioritized findings from the client’s past designs, generating a comprehensive list of enhancement recommendations.
- Leveraged user research sessions and UX research methodology to evaluate and predict user behavior, providing valuable insights to shape and direct the development of the user experience strategy.
Sakesh Solutions LLC, Sugar Land Tx
FEB 2022-OCT 2023
- Employed open-ended discussions and panel sessions to analyze and identify issues with contemporary UX/UI and visual design concepts for new products.
- Developed the user experience and interface for the customer journey map, visually illustrating how consumers interact with the applications.
Orange County Dept of Education, Costa Mesa Ca
JAN 2023 - MAY 2026
- After gaining insight into the project’s objectives, analytics, and user mental models, the design strategy was conceptualized.
- Developed a thorough UX redesign strategy for the current product, targeting usage patterns, features, and pain points of the existing system.
- Produced detailed page-by-page UX redesign proposals accompanied by clear, comprehensive documentation.
Weatherford International, Houston Tx
FEB 2022-JUL 2022
- • Generated UX/UI assets for both iOS and Android applications, comprising flowcharts, interaction designs, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes.
- Implemented UX/UI best practices and components to ensure a smooth user experience, particularly with remote project teams.
- Produced captivating visuals within an agile workspace, aligning with brand specifications for both the business and the products.
Southern Ca
NOV 2020-FEB 2022
- Balanced artistic expression with client requirements to achieve successful design outcomes.
- Delivered projects on time, within budget constraints and maintaining a high level of professionalism while building a strong portfolio of diverse design work to showcase skills and attract new clients.
Western Mutual Insurance, Newport Beach Ca
OCT 2019-NOV 2020
- Revamped and modernized the current UX/UI design interface for online applications, utilizing wireframes and high-fidelity screen compositions.
- Developed meticulously front-end HTML/CSS code that ensures pixel-perfection, cross-browser compatibility, and faithfully replicates the UI compositions.
- Oversaw agile/scrum projects, ensuring alignment with schedules, tracking redesign milestones, and setting weekly project objectives.
Homeowners Toolbox, Irvine Ca
MAR 2018-SEP 2019
- Utilized Bootstrap and other techniques to design and develop front-end UX/UI for a variety of mobile apps and web portals.
- Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams including developers, product managers, quality analysts, and stakeholders throughout the design process. This involved crafting user flows, wireframes, and both low and high-fidelity interface mockups and prototypes.
- Produced wireframes, sketches, and concepts, leveraging HTML, CSS, and JS to build web prototypes. Additionally, designed the UX/UI for web-based control panels enabling real-time content management for mobile apps using WebSocket technology mobile app in real-time utilizing WebSocket.
LA & Orange County
MAR 2017-MAR 2018
- I undertook project management, UX/UI design, prototyping, wireframing, and front-end development within a team focused on crafting web and mobile applications for a varied clientele.
- I introduced design concepts, crafted high-level storyboards, and developed both low and high-fidelity prototypes encompassing end-to-end workflows and micro-interactions.
- Daily coordination with project teams ensured goal alignment and swift delivery of pixelperfect assets, facilitating seamless functionality across web, mobile, and desktop applications on multiple browsers.
Alelo TLT, Culver City Ca
JAN 2016-FEB 2017
- As the lead designer in a multidisciplinary team, I spearheaded the envisioning, conceptualization, and development of an online and digital multimedia application designed to prepare American service members for deployment overseas.
- I led the recent transformation of the company’s fl agship product, utilizing Bootstrap and ReactJS technologies, while also defining the new visual direction for the VCAT product.
- I coordinated project management and development efforts to ensure timely completion of designs while meeting all necessary requirements.
Empower Software (UKG), Newport Beach Ca
OCT 2007-DEC 2015
- As a member of a collaborative team, I contributed interface and visual designs to an all-in-one SASS web application suite encompassing HR, Payroll, Tax, Check Printing, Time and Attendance, Workforce Management, and Employee Benefits.
- Collaborating with product management teams and engineers, I ensured a cohesive brand identity across the mobile application through unified visual and interface designs.
- Leveraging Microsoft Silverlight and XAML, I designed the interface, while development was facilitated with Visual Basic, SQL, ASP, ASP.NET, and C#.
Hitachi Consulting, Irvine Ca
FEB 2007-SEP 2007
- As a consultant, I contributed to ideation and provided creative direction for video production, graphic design, UX/UI website development, asset creation, and evaluation of existing visual presentations.
- I spearheaded the user experience and user interface design aspects of multiple projects, guiding activities such as user and market research, wireframing, visual design, interaction design, branding, and the creation of diverse deliverables.
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What I Did Do
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Empower Check - Check Printing & Processing Application UX / UI Design
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TPA - Web publication of the results of physical examinations assessing an athletes prowess, and agility
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TPA - Web publication of the results of physical examinations assessing an athletes prowess, and agility
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TPA - Mobile publication of the results of physical examinations assessing an athletes prowess, and agility
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TPA - Mobile publication of the results of physical examinations assessing an athletes prowess, and agility
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EmpowerPay - A comprehensive, integrated software solution for payroll, HR and employee benefits
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EmpowerPay - A comprehensive, integrated software solution for payroll, HR and employee benefits
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/dēdˈmuhn llc/Mobile Application Login & Create Account UX / UI Design Compositions
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SERVICES
What I Will Do
Determine
I convert client requirements into a suitable and common-sense interactive design form that is task-driven design flow.
I determine!
Design
I translate customer needs into a practical, task-driven design flow that is engaging and suitable.
I design!
Details
For review, I produce low-fidelity wireframes and design layouts, then high-level screen compositions.
I detail!
Develop
Clients are continuously updated to ensure that the final designs satisfy their requirements, preferences, and vision.
I develop!
Defendable
The design is fortified by the process of further examining the interactions and visual cue verification.
I defend!
Deliver
Through competitive analysis, opportunities for improvement, and differential offerings we strengthen the Brand.
I deliver!
Maintenance
Once the website is operational, routine upkeep is typically necessary. To enhance usability and discoverability of features, user testing can be repeatedly conducted on new material and features. New tasks for design and development may result from all of this.
I maintain!
CONTACT
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1313 Mockingbird Lane
Mockingbird Heights, Ca 00700
SOCIAL
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