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Senior UX Designer

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Matt is an award-winning designer with over two decades in the digital landscape. His multifaceted disciplines include user experience methodologies, user interface design, front-end development, creating/contributing to centralized/federated design systems, branding, animation, post production, and creative management.

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.

• 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.

UI/UX Designer - Frontend Developer II

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

Creative Director

• 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.

Art Director

• 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.

Senior Graphic Designer

• 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.

Graphic Designer

• 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.

Fashion Designer/Graphic Designer

Matt Kearney is a Senior UX Designer at First American Title Corporation in Laguna Beach, CA.

Matt Kearney

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Codecademy

The Interaction Design Foundation

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

Saddleback College