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Location
New York, NY, United States
Toptal Member Since
January 16, 2018
Aaron is a UX designer and front-end developer in NYC. He has worked on projects for Facebook, IBM, LinkedIn, R/GA, and Wells Fargo. Aaron's work has been recognized by Cannes, the Art Directors Club, and the New York Times. His focus is on UX design, working with Figma, Sketch, InVision, Framer, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and others.
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Work Experience
Product Designer | UX Designer
2022 - 2023
- Worked within the media, creators, and events team. Designed, developed, and enhanced new content-creation tools for LinkedIn admins and regular users.
- Designed and built JavaScript-based prototypes for new LinkedIn features, including interactive stickers and live events.
- Used the following tools: Figma, React, GSAP, SCSS, vanilla JavaScript, Lottie, and CSS animation.
Technologies: Adobe, Adobe UX, Figma, LinkedIn API, LinkedIn Marketing, Adobe CC
Product Designer
2021 - 2022
YouTopia
- Designed an app that enables users to purchase meals for dine-in or pickup.
- Built a detailed onboarding flow to obtain users' health and food preferences.
- Created user journeys for different customer types.
Technologies: Product Design, Figma, User Experience (UX), User Research, Market Research, Web App Design, User Interface (UI), Complex Application User Interfaces (UI), User Journeys, Iconography, Animation, Commerce, Agile, Design Sprints, Prototyping
UX Designer
2020 - 2021
Anthem Healthcare / Anthem Insurance
- Designed the TeleHealth OS interface between doctors and patients.
- Helped with the design of various views of the patient's interface.
- Contributed to the design of various views of the physician's interface.
Technologies: Sketch, Figma, Prototyping, UX Design
UX Designer
2019 - 2019
Wells Fargo
- Redesigned portions of the Wells Fargo consumer banking design system.
- Constructed the master design system “source of truth” Sketch file, consisting of typography, color palette, grid and column layouts, and global site assets.
- Built a family of button styles and their default, hover, active, and disabled states.
- Designed several interface components, including masthead, header nav menu, and mobile nav menu.
- Redesigned interface components such as the page footer and others.
Technologies: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, InVision, Sketch, Figma
Front-end Developer | UI Design | JavaScript | React | Animation
2019 - 2019
AppNexus (Xander)
- Refactored and added a new functionality to the AppNexus DSP platform across multiple pages and services.
- Upgraded the codebase to ANX-react, their React-based component library.
- Used React, Redux, and Reselect for UI and state management.
- Used GraphQL and REST APIs for data fetching from the server-side.
- Used Bitbucket for remote git and Jira for issues and ticketing.
- Used LESS and inline styles for CSS styling and markup.
- Used Lodash for JavaScript functional utility operations.
Technologies: GSAP, JavaScript, Flexbox, Sass, CSS3, HTML5, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch, Figma, React
UX Designer
2018 - 2018
IBM
- Designed the UX and developed a prototype for IBM Partners, IBM's business services portal.
- Contributed to UX wireframes, UI design, and client-side coded components using CSS3 and JavaScript.
- Implemented IBM’s Northstar and Duo design systems.
- Designed the system implementation of typography, color palettes, JSON type styles, grids, and column layouts.
Technologies: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, InVision, Sketch, Figma, JavaScript
Creative Director | Designer | Developer
2013 - 2014
Droga5
- Oversaw all creative and design work for the Diet Coke US account across all channels, including television, digital, social, outdoor, print, and special builds.
- Contributed to creative pitches across other brands for new business development.
- Sourced, managed, and collaborated with several teams, as well as outside specialists, for creative and design projects.
Technologies: GSAP, JavaScript, Gulp, Flexbox, Sass, CSS3, HTML5, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch
Creative Director / Designer
2006 - 2008
AMV BBDO London
- Oversaw all creative and design work for The Economist launch in the US, from the UK offices.
- Worked on creative development for brands including Guinness, Snickers, The Economist, Right Guard, and others.
- Contributed to creative pitches across other brands for new business development.
- Sourced, managed, and collaborated with teams as well as outside specialists for creative and design projects.
- Pitched and engaged native London firms such as London Graphic Center to manage and develop their creative communications and materials.
Technologies: GSAP, JavaScript, Gulp, Flexbox, Sass, CSS3, HTML5, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch
Associate Creative Director
2004 - 2006
BBDO New York
- Worked on creative development for brands including FedEx, DirecTV, Mountain Dew, Guinness, Snickers, and others.
- Contributed to creative pitches across other brands for new business development.
- Collaborated with teams as well as outside specialists for creative and design projects.
Technologies: GSAP, JavaScript, Gulp, Flexbox, Sass, CSS3, HTML5, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch
Education
1999 - 2001
Master's Degree in Design
Creative Circus - Atlanta, GA
1995 - 1999
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Visual Communication, Design
University of Arizona - Tucson, Arizona
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