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Senior UI Designer – Dynamo Software

Dynamo Software

May 2024 - Current (2 years)

Product: Empower Your Investors & Look Your Best (Investor Portal) I design and maintain the UI for Dynamo’s Investor Portal, a next-generation platform optimizing investor communications, fundraising, and reporting for alternative investment firms. I work closely with UX teams, product managers, and clients to create interfaces that are intuitive, functional, and visually consistent. Key responsibilities: Create high-fidelity visual designs, interactive prototypes, and component-level UI elements for web and mobile. Build and maintain a comprehensive design system, standardizing colors, typography, components, and interaction patterns across the platform. Translate complex financial workflows into clear, usable interfaces in close collabor

Senior Product UI/UX Designer

Dynamo Software

May 2024 - Feb 2026 (1 year 10 months)

• Designing and evolving the UI for a complex investor platform supporting fundraising, reporting, and investor communication. • Translating complex financial workflows into intuitive product interfaces. • Building and maintaining scalable design systems. • Creating high-fidelity UI and interactive prototypes for web and mobile. • Collaborating with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders.

Senior Designer

Dynamo Software

May 2024 - Jan 2026 (1 year 9 months)

Designed and maintained the UI for a next-generation investor platform, improving clarity and consistency across investor communications, fundraising, and reporting. Created high-fidelity visual designs, interactive prototypes, and reusable UI components for web and mobile, enabling scalable and efficient feature delivery across teams. Built and evolved a comprehensive design system, standardizing colors, typography, components, and interaction patterns to accelerate UI implementation and ensure platform-wide consistency. Translated complex financial and regulatory workflows into clear, intuitive interfaces through close collaboration with UX designers, product managers, and clients, reducing cognitive load for both investors and internal u

Senior Manager User Experience

Resolute Software

Apr 2019 - Aug 2023 (4 years 5 months)

Led end-to-end design processes for multiple digital products, establishing UI/UX best practices that improved design quality and team alignment. Created wireframes and low- to high-fidelity prototypes, enabling early concept validation and smoother handoff to engineering teams. Gathered and analyzed business and user requirements, translating them into clear, actionable design solutions aligned with product goals. Defined micro- and macro-interactions that enhanced usability, engagement, and overall product coherence. Consulted with clients and collaborated closely with engineers and stakeholders to align user needs, business objectives, and technical constraints into effective product solutions.

Senior UI/UX designer and Product Manager

Resolute Software

Apr 2019 - Aug 2023 (4 years 5 months)

• Gather and analyze business & user requirements. • Create information architecture diagrams and user flows. • Build detailed wireframes, low & high-fidelity prototypes. • Lead and establish best practices and design processes focused on delivering the best digital experiences. • Create intuitive, easy to use and understandable interfaces. • Define micro and macro interactions. • Provide UX/UI design consulting to clients. • Collaborate and work closely with a fully staffed team of engineers, and other internal and external stakeholders to solve difficult problems for the customers. • Be a passionate advocate of the end-user, incorporating customer insight into the creative process and refining the design concep

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Senior User Interface Designer

Freelance Projects

Jan 2015 - Apr 2019 (4 years 4 months)

Designed end-to-end user experiences, from early sketches to pixel-perfect prototypes, delivering intuitive and visually polished interfaces. Conducted usability testing and A/B experiments to validate design decisions and iteratively improve product performance. Developed personas, user flows, wireframes, storyboards, and interactive prototypes to support user-centered product development. Advised clients on UX strategy and design solutions, helping align product goals with user needs and business objectives.

Senior UI/UX designer / Freelance projects

freelance

Jan 2015 - Apr 2019 (4 years 4 months)

• Validating ideas and designs using split A/B tests and product performance. • Collaborating and communicating professionally with clients and internal teams. • Designing user-experiences from low-fidelity sketches to hi-fidelity pixel perfect mockups. • Measuring recently released product features to establish benchmarks and to identify potential areas of improvement. • Staying abreast of UX trends and looking for creative ideas and inspiration in the real world. • Creating rapid prototypes to validate design concepts with stakeholders and customers. • Consulting clients to understand their goals and explaining research results, usability testing. • Creating wireframes, storyboards, sitemaps and screen flows, product protot

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Product UI/UX designer

Citytelco IT Consulting and Mobile Development

Nov 2014 - Jan 2017 (2 years 3 months)

Designed user experiences for mobile product applications across iOS and Android platforms. • Conducted competitive analysis and user research to inform product strategy and UX decisions. • Defined user journeys, user flows, and information architecture for mobile applications. • Created wireframes and interactive prototypes to explore concepts and improve usability. • Collaborated closely with product managers and engineers to design user-centered product solutions. • Led the visual design process from early concept exploration through final design handoff.

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Interface Specialist

Citytelco

Nov 2014 - Jan 2017 (2 years 3 months)

Conducted competitive analysis and user research to inform product strategy and data-driven design decisions for mobile applications. Defined user journeys and interaction models, producing user flows, wireframes, prototypes, storyboards, and information architecture to clearly communicate mobile UX concepts. Collaborated closely with product managers and engineering teams to design and deliver innovative, user-centered solutions aligned with technical constraints and platform guidelines. Led the full visual design process for iOS and Android products, from early concept exploration through final design handoff, ensuring usability, visual clarity, and consistency across platforms.

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UI/UX designer

Citytelco IT Consulting and Mobile Development

Nov 2014 - Jan 2017 (2 years 3 months)

• Conduct competitor analysis, customer analysis and user research. • Attend to product structure and strategy. • Develop user flows, prototypes, wireframes, storyboards and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas. • Conduct user testing. • Continuously iterate on solutions to make the product increasingly effective and delightful for users. • Collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience. • Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering. • Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks.

Senior UI/UX designer

Kaya Brands

Nov 2013 - Nov 2014 (1 year 1 month)

• Create user-centered design for software projects by considering market analyzis, customer feedback, and usability findings. • Participate in and adding value to creative, business, and technical discussions. • Deliver low, medium, and high fidelity page designs and scenarios. • Quickly and confidently design wireframes, flow charts and mock-ups. • Exceptional communication, relationship, and presentation skills. • Creative thinking and problem solving skills: -Dream big, while maintaining a “get it done” mentality.

UI/UX Designer

WEBSENSE Ltd

Jan 2009 - Nov 2013 (4 years 11 months)

• Produce high-quality UX design solutions through wireframes, visual and graphic designs, flow diagrams, storyboards, site maps, and prototypes. • Design & Test UI elements. • Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions. • Optimize existing user interface designs. • Communicate with our internal Project Management team to understand business goals and objectives. • Analyze user feedback and activity, and iterate to enhance the user experience. • Provide advice and guidance on the implementation of UX research methodologies and test activities in order to analyze and predict user behavior. • Create, contribute to and manage design systems.

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