Marcelo Mazza, Designer in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Marcelo Mazza

Verified Expert  in Design

UX/UI Designer

Location
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Toptal Member Since
April 30, 2016

Marcelo has been working for more than ten years in user experience (UX). He has a solid knowledge of mobile platforms, UX, usability, design, front-end development, and WordPress, in addition to excellent interpersonal skills. He has proven experience in project management and strong organizational and planning skills, coordinating deliverables with prioritization of tasks according to each business's needs.

User Experience (UX)WordPressResponsiveAdobe FireworksSketchAdobe IllustratoriOSAndroidAdobe PhotoshopSketch 3

Portfolio

Work Experience

WordPress Designer and Developer

2015 - 2015
UpgradedPoints (via Toptal)
  • Created a new platform for a travel rewards site, starting with wireframes, design, and then WordPress implementation.
  • Set up a staging server with WPEngine and deployed the structure with Git.
  • Created a specific theme and plugin for the site, including different custom post types for the content, with different taxonomies and meta boxes.
  • Created specific widgets for the site.
Technologies: Git, jQuery, Grunt, Sass, HTML, PHP, WordPress

UX Designer and Mobile Team Lead

2014 - 2015
Booking.com
  • Designed, researched, and conducted A/B testing of new features.
  • Designed for mobile web and optimized features for EMK & PPC campaigns.
  • Created wireframes, conducted A/B testing, designed web features, and developed front ends.
  • Analyzed data and came up with creative solutions.
  • Gathered business metrics and defined the impact of improvements.
Technologies: Git, Sketch 3, jQuery, CSS, HTML

User Experience Manager

2011 - 2014
Decolar.com
  • Set up a large team of 20+ interdisciplinary members with a diverse professional profile: graphic and web design, usability, psychology, web development, systems engineering, and marketing and advertising.
  • Planned and designed usability testing and front-end development of every feature of Decolar.com.
  • Designed interactions for all the mobile apps of Decolar.com (iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, etc).
  • Encouraged daily interactions between designers and developers to build a final product of quality and excellence.
  • Utilized agile methodologies.
  • Answered and consulted with more than 20 internal clients, including the CEO, product owners, functional analysts, back-end developers, and customer service representatives.
  • Gathered functional and business requirements and converted them into interaction models.
  • Guarded the consistency and visual style of Decolar.com.
  • Defined design and usability specifications and iterated solutions to problems found in usability tests.
  • Worked directly with front-end developers to assure the quality of the HTML and CSS of the site.
Technologies: Adobe Photoshop, Git, Sass, CSS, HTML, Fireworks

Lead Interaction Designer

2011 - 2011
Decolar.com
  • Unified the look and feel of all the different existent products (hotels, flights, travel packages, car rentals).
  • Defined the aesthetics and visual identity for Decolar.com website.
  • Designed the first versions of the mobile apps of the company.
  • Interacted with all the internal clients to get them to agree on a common design ground.
  • Introduced new technologies and workflows.
Technologies: Adobe Photoshop, Git, Sass, CSS, HTML, Fireworks

Web Designer and Front-end Developer

2010 - 2011
Dridco
  • Was responsible for the maintenance of the site.
  • Generated designs for new products.
  • Redesigned existing sections of the website.
  • Hand-coded CSS and HTML (standards era).
  • Introduced jQuery to the development team.
Technologies: Subversion (SVN), Fireworks, FreeMarker, jQuery, CSS, HTML

Web Marketing Designer

2008 - 2010
Dridco
  • Designed and coded the newsletter.
  • Was focused on converting landing pages.
  • Worked on animated banners and designed graphics.
  • Managed clients.
Technologies: Subversion (SVN), CSS, HTML, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks
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