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Matt Kearney

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Senior UX Designer
Laguna Beach | United States

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First American Title Corporation

Senior UX Designer | 11/2017 - Current

As a Senior UX Designer for First American Title, I am responsible conducting user experience research with customers, partners, peers and stakeholders. I effectively communicate UX concepts by collecting product & business requirements, identifying key customer experience issues, defining the scope of work, understanding opportunities, generating user personas, creating user flows, designing wireframes, producing multi-range fidelity mockups, and developing framework ready prototypes. • Empathetic user advocate focused on delivering products with an intuitive user experience. • Agile, DevOps, LeanUX, a few keywords to describe the process for the product lifecycle. • Architect project specific UX road maps leveraging a variety of UX methodologies. • Conduct persona research to identify target demographics. • Leverage research to support UX/UI recommendations. • Create low-fidelity wireframes to aid in UI validation. • Create high-fidelity mockups and prototypes. • Develop HTML/CSS/JS prototypes to streamline engineering efforts. • Work closely with engineering teams to ensure the design is fully actualized. • Advocate the user throughout the development lifecycle, promoting user centered design. • Collaborate with corporate marketing to ensure application designs are aligned with brand guidelines. • Direct the visual appearance of new features and enhancements to ensure a consistent user experience.
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Panasonic Avionics Corporation

UI/UX Designer - Frontend Developer II | 04/2011 - 09/2017

• Produce high-quality visual designs from concept to completion for desktop and mobile devices. • Support airline in maintenance of connected airside passenger applications and experiences. • Develop visual strategies to support interactions that deliver a consistent user experience. • Design conceptual wireframes and convert them into beautiful, pixel perfect prototypes. • Provide direction regarding development methodologies, frameworks, and processes. • Drive project scoping, for the development of new products and product lifecycles. • Program airline branded airside portals utilizing a combination of web languages. • Lead regular agile sessions to ensure projects are appropriately managed. • Create personas and wireframes based on user-centered design and research. • Direct engineering and production support teams with airside installation. • Manage sites through repositories via Command Line Interface. • Manage International and Domestic accounts.
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MBA Design Team

Creative Director | 05/2010 - 04/2011

• Inspired professional development of creatives. • Directed campaigns across conventional and digital platforms. • Developed national campaigns. • Actively engaged in all client portfolio efforts.
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XOWii

Art Director | 09/2009 - 05/2010

• Managed a team of 5 (designers and a copywriter). • Challenged team to think beyond the stakeholder’s vision, to realize a highly interactive and engaging user experience. • Designed corporate website from initial concept to completion. • Created product packaging and brand identity.
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Sutra OC

Senior Graphic Designer | 01/2007 - 08/2009

• Complete rebrand of the company style guides, collateral, website and online presence. • Sutra increased traffic and revenue by over 40% within the first year of rebranding. • Designed and developed an intranet system to manage all of their VIP bookings in addition to scheduling and managing talent.
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Taylored Inc.

Graphic Designer | 01/2005 - 01/2007

• Analyzed market competition, pricing, styles and trends. • Created seasonal product line list including price points. • Assisted with print and oversaw completed prototypes. • Identified and suggested market opportunities. • Created technical sheets for both lines.
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Advert Inc.

Fashion Designer/Graphic Designer | 01/2003 - 01/2005

• Separated all vector design colors into individual art boards, in preparation for silk screening. • Created designs from concept to production. • Assisted with product catalog development. • Improved brand equity.

Education history

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Codecademy

Certificate | 2015 - 2017

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The Interaction Design Foundation

Certificate User Experience | 2017 - 2019

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Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at The George Washington University

BFA | 1998 - 2002

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Saddleback College

Certificate | 2007 - 2009

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