Samuel Fitzgerald

Samuel Fitzgerald

A dynamic, multi-faceted Digital/User Experience Principal with knowledge across the disciplines required to be a competent UX professional. Strong management and leadership skills have supported my efforts in the development of highly innovative business applications.

I can say I’m quite skilled with the following

Entrepreneurial/Management

Delegating

 

Business Plans

 

Concept Development

 

Time Management

 

Communicating

 

Research/Discovery

Brainstorming

 

Interview Sessions

 

Heuristic Evaluation

 

User Task Analysis

 

Business Requirements

 

Analytical/Logical

Information Architecture

 

User Personas

 

Story Boarding

 

Concept Maps

 

User/Data Flow Charts

 

Use Cases

 

Interface Design (UI)

Wireframes

 

Interaction Design

 

Prototyping

 

Applications

Axure

 

InDesign

 

Photoshop

 

Rally (Agile)

 

Justinmind Prototyper

 

SharePoint Online

 

Microsoft Visio

 

MS Office 365 Suite

 

Work Experience

Recent Clients/Projects

03.2015
07.2015

eBay Enterprise

Digital/UX Consultant
  • Provided senior management with ideas and recommendations that assist in improving the process of the UX department.
  • Redesign the IAD for a library of GNC products selection tools to optimize the user experience for touch, and support a ’responsive/adaptive’ architecture.
  • Work with the PayPal product team in documenting and communicating an improved integration of the user checkout process. The project entailed created an HTML prototype to demonstrate the recommended IAD.
  • Created and demonstrated a high-fidelity clickable prototype used in a usability lab study for the Bath & Body Works stakeholders.
07.2014
01.2015

BrightStarr

Lead UX Analyst
  • Challenged with the redesign of enterprise intranets, I lead various workshop sessions with clients, using many game storming techniques in analyzing and gathering vital information to understand the structure of the organization, the needs and goals of the business stakeholders, and the various problems being faced by their employees.
  • Prepared and delivered a detailed “findings document” to the stakeholders that communicated my understanding of the results from each workshop session. The report contained applicable UX client deliverables (user personas, content matrices, user stories, IA diagrams, recommendation, next steps, etc.)
  • Manage and lead the team’s efforts with the design, documentation and presentation of UX deliverables to the client. The deliverables included solution specification, sitemaps, high fidelity wireframes, a clickable prototype, design style guide, and a training manual among others.
  • Assist in improving the internal operational processes and building business moral.
  • Provided leadership support and advice to other consultants/team members.
03.2014
06.2014

McGraw Hill Financial - Standard & Poor’s

Lead IA/UX Consultant
  • Participated in focus group sessions to better understand the problems at hand.
  • Prepared concept maps, heuristic analysis and other UX research documentation for discussion with my team.
  • Assist the usability team in collecting user feedback during the evaluation of current systems.
  • Created wireframes to demonstrate the functionality of the new credit rating tool, and showed how the tool should align within S&P’s overall systems architecture.

Accomplishments & Education

Some of what I have done in my academic career

BS, Computer Science

University of the West Indies

Certifications

Information Technology, Coldfusion MX, Internet Concepts
|