Garren DiPasquale, Designer in Charlotte, NC, United States
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Garren DiPasquale

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Location
Charlotte, NC, United States
Toptal Member Since
March 3, 2017

Garren is a product design and UX strategist with deep experience in the financial industry and is passionate about bringing genuine human experiences to fintech and enterprise technologies. With more than 18 years of design experience, Garren focuses on holistic user-centered design practices. He creates solutions to problems for clients and businesses and gives life to incredible brands, interactions, and experiences.

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Portfolio

Work Experience

Product Design Lead

2016 - 2017
Levvel LLC
  • Built the product design team including advice on selling design and input on hiring.
  • Worked in conjunction with the practice lead to create productized workshops and user experience audits.
  • Consulted on the design strategy to design prototyping with clients from small startups to Delta Airlines and Wells Fargo.
Technologies: Proto.io, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Craft CMS, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch, UX Design, Interaction Design (IxD), Dashboard Design, SaaS Design, Early-stage Startups, UI Design, Visual Design, Web App Design, MVP Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Design Consultation, Web Design

Senior User Experience Designer (Consultant)

2015 - 2016
Wells Fargo
  • Aided the Wells Fargo customer experience group finish and deliver a long-running internal standards and constancy project.
  • Completed day-to-day tasks including meeting with business stakeholders and CX management to set deliverable expectations and timelines.
Technologies: Adobe Illustrator, iRise, Prototyping, SaaS Design, UX Design, UI Design, Web App Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Design Consultation

Senior User Experience Designer (Consultant)

2015 - 2016
Pera Health
  • Worked as an independent consult to help fund a healthcare startup by auditing existing software that was already in the field as well as research and design a new product for development.
Technologies: Adobe Illustrator, Dashboard Design, SaaS Design, UX Design, UI Design, Visual Design, Web App Design, MVP Design, Design Consultation, Web Design

Vice President User Experience (Shared Operations Technology)

2014 - 2015
Bank of America
  • Accepted the full-time role continuing the work that I was performing as a consultant.
Technologies: Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, CSS, HTML, Adobe Illustrator, Dashboard Design, SaaS Design, UX Design, UI Design, Visual Design, Web App Design

Senior User Experience Designer (Consultant)

2012 - 2014
Bank of America
  • Handled and was responsible for the strategy and management of user experience and design of a holistic wholesale check processing exception system for the bank's global check exceptions.
  • Worked on HTML prototyping, user testing, delivering design artifacts within the agile team as well as consulting team managers and EVPs on user-centered design practices.
Technologies: Adobe Illustrator, UX Design, UI Design, Web App Design, Design Consultation, Web Design

Senior Interaction Designer (Consultant)

2011 - 2012
Lowe's Inc
  • Led the strategy and interaction design on projects for Fortune 50 client.
  • Conducted research and created strategy documents, wireframes, personas and storyboards to influence product development and a future roadmap.
Technologies: Apple Keynote, Adobe Illustrator, OmniGraffle, Dashboard Design, UX Design, UI Design, Visual Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Design Consultation, Web Design

Front-end Developer (Contractor)

2010 - 2011
Lowe's Inc
  • Worked as the front-end developer—specializing in web standards HTML5, CSS3, and cross-browser capabilities.
  • Help lead the prototyping of many fidelities including working on an iOS iPad app.
Technologies: PhoneGap, iOS, CSS, HTML

Director of Design and Application Development

2009 - 2010
MyFillin.com (startup)
  • Directed the investment, design, and development of a web-based Ruby on Rails application for the dental industry.
  • Handled and was responsible for keeping the development within budget, managed the production schedules, contractors, and developed the growth strategies.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails (RoR), JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Adobe Illustrator, UX Design, Early-stage Startups, UI Design, Visual Design, MVP Design