Resume of Jason Post
(better UX for Resume Systems)
(better UX for People)
The perfect overlap of technical-minded plus creative-minded that you're looking for. Experienced UI/UX designer, web developer, social media manager, and graphic designer. Particularly interested in UI/UX Designer roles with a splash of Front End Web Development, implementing UI/UX best practices that drive results, and beautifying media in all of its forms.
Code Samples
This entire site was hand-coded. Do you like it? I hope so :)
Building on a customized Twitter Bootstrap foundation, I designed this site to be mobile-first with progressive enhancement.
I'm incorporating typography best practices to set type to be pixel-agnostic with rem, serving images in a responsive way with the Picturefill library, and semantically marking up the page with HTML5 tags like nav, article, and section.
All this combines for enhanced SEO, screen reader ability, and all-around better experience. Check out the source HTML and CSS for reference.
Need more than this site's source?
Examples include:
- Dynamic Google Map built on PHP that queries a MySQL server, and parses in JavaScript, utilizing the Google Maps API v3. Live Map Demo Above
- Enhancement to the Picturefill library that I implemented on my site, adding support for img-tag level
classes, titles and id to enabling styling like img-responsive and img-circle with Twitter Bootstrap.
- JSON-P GitHub.com repo search by keyword.
- Proof of concept, jQuery and Bootstrap based simulated chat for a tech exercise.
Skills and Training:
UI / UX
- User Centered Design
- Analytics
- Usability Studies
- Wire-frames
- Personas
- Prototypes
- Taxonomy
- User Flow
- iOS Apps (iPad & iPhone)
Web Design / Front End Development
- Responsive-Design
- Pixel-Perfect Imagery
- XHTML / HTML / HTML5
- CSS / CSS3
- JavaScript
- jQuery
- SEO
- WordPress
- Twitter Bootstrap
- Git Version Control / GitHub
Adobe Creative Cloud
- Dreamweaver
- Edge Inspect
- Edge Reflow
- Edge Animate
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- Digital Publishing Suite
- Fireworks
- Acrobat Distiller
- Acrobat Pro
- After Effects
JavaScript Libraries
- jQuery
- jQuery UI
- Modernizr
- Picturefill
- Twitter Bootstrap
- Spry
- Zurb Foundation
Google Tools
- Google Analytics
- Custom Web Search
- Dynamic, Interactive Mobile Maps
- Docs / Drive / Shared Documents
Motion Graphics
- Autodesk Maya 3D
- After Effects
- Cinema 4D
- Final Cut Pro
- Premiere
Experience:
Senior UX Designer, 2017 - 2019
Roostify, Inc. - San Francisco, CA
Roostify is a digital mortgage SaaS responsive web platform that simplifies and accelerates the home-buying experience. Clients include Chase Bank, Guild Mortgage, and TD America.
- Increasing overall efficiency by 30% of Roostify's clients through an improved digital application experience
- Lead designer of major new features
- Redesigning the entire architecture from a max of 2 borrowers to 4-plus on the same loan application, collaborating with engineering to touch every piece of code
- Designer of Roostify Adapt - multiple branch/account management
- Spearheading research, planning, and design for new loan flows for home equity applications
- Responsible for every step of the design process - including mapping user flows, creating mockups and designing high-fidelity UIs across Roostify's websites and apps
- Employing extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish Roostify's broader product and design goal
- Collaborating with engineers and product managers
- Mentoring and growing designers on the team
- Developing team training
Senior UI UX Designer Developer, 2016
Vlocity, Inc. - San Francisco, CA
Vlocity is the first kind of company ushering in the next wave of Cloud Computing. Specifically, creating, from scratch - The Industry Cloud. The Industry Cloud is designed to meet the critical omni-channel sales, service and marketing drivers of the biggest brands on the globe.
Leading the UI and UX on multi-million dollar sales and services contracts with some of the biggest names in the Communication, Insurance, Health Insurance, and Public Sector industries, including Sky Italia, T-Mobile, and New York Life.
- Leading the charge in creating compelling, high-fidelity, aesthetically pleasing product demonstrations that lead to revenue.
- Working with head of department to prioritize the most compelling projects
- Wire-framing and prototyping proof of concepts to get rapid feedback and rapidly iterate upon
- Working directly with C-Level clients and stakeholders to understand business needs and formulate user-centered solutions
- Collaborating with sales consulting team members to understand customer requirements
- Providing recommendations for solving critical use case scenario thru compelling UX
- Developing process and system for cataloging library of UX assets for customer engagements
- Interacting with product management and engineering on qualified projects
- Establishing standards for demo assets
- Developing team training
- Providing design and development mentorship
Lead UI/UX Designer, 2015 - 2016
AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah - Emeryville, CA
Designing iterative improvements to a mobile-first website that serves over 4.2 Million members. Integrating best UX patterns and practices on a tech stack including Drupal, SFDC, Sass, HTML5, and CSS3.
Leading the UX design of outstanding digital products and experiences with internal and external creative resources. Working hand in hand with the Digital Designer as two halves of a design team.
- Leading UI/UX Design to serve 4.2 Million members
- Managing 2 week project sprints in Agile with VersionOne and JIRA
- Leading concept creation through the execution of complete customer facing designs
- Creating wire-frames, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps
- Effectively communicating interaction design ideas
- Leading design efforts end to end (design presentations, coordinating user testing, communicating around design practices)
- Collaborating with product owners up to C-suite, brand/creative directors and designers, engineering leads and agency partners
- Conceptualizing ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex roadblocks
- Presenting and defending designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders
- Using analytics to support the continuous improvement process
- Establishing and promoting interaction design guidelines, best practices and standards
- Overseeing usability testing
UI/UX Designer & Developer, 2013 - Present
jpost-design - San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Leading web design and app development following the latest technology and standards, while incorporating tried and true traditional design skills and styles. Some specifics tied under non-disclosure agreements.
Focusing on HTML5, responsive design, and flat UI patterns inspired by the Bauhaus School and De Stijl Movement.
- Industry Experience:
- SaaS
- Startups
- eCommerce
- Advertising
- Higher Education
- Revenue Management
- Non-Profit industries
- Previous clients
- Cost Plus World Market, Oakland CA
- The Creative Group, Oakland CA
- UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education, Berkeley CA
- Vitamin T / Aquent, San Francisco CA
- Model N, Redwood City
- BrightRoll, San Francisco, CA
- Stealth Startups, East Bay
- UI/UX
- Wire-frames
- Design Patterns
- Taxonomy
- User Flows
- Google Analytics
- Quantitative and qualitative usability studies
- Interaction Design
- jQuery / JavaScript animations
- Performance optimization
- Rich Media Integration
- Responsive Web Design
- Designing mobile first with progressive enhancement support
- Frameworks: Twitter Bootstrap, Zurb Foundation
- Responsive images with
picturefill and noscript fall-back
- App Development
- Geolocation support employing HTML5
Geolocation API and Google Maps API
Audio and Video HTML5 integration, with cross-support for h.264, ogv, and shockwave-flash fall-back
- Email Marketing
- HTML email design and coding
- Increased house/retention list by 22,000 clients with dynamic vs static processes
- Email campaign management
- Campaign integration with HubSpot, Pardot, Salesforce CRM
- Prospect database management
- Prospect flow documentation and analytics
Front End Developer, 2014
Cost Plus World Market, Oakland, CA
Contractor On-Site
- Review design in progress with an eye toward production as well as usability
- Determine feasibility of planned JavaScript interactions
- Slice approved PSD files into optimized assets and build needed HTML/CSS to meet weekly production schedule
- Enter HTML/CSS into webstore CMS and verify it looks/works as expected
- Help diagnose/fix front-end issues (CSS/JavaScript) as they arise
- Use, and continually keep on top of, best practices for compatibility, usability, accessibility
- Collaborate with designers and business owners to deliver best possible user experience
- Develop new user-interface functionality as requested, by hand-coding OO JavaScript and/or leveraging 3rd party libraries
UI / UX Designer, Drupal Web Production, 2014
UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education, Berkeley, CA
Contractor Remote and On-Site
- UI/UX Front End Design and Development
- CMS Drupal, HubSpot, Salesforce, and Google Analytics integration
- Expert usability testing
- Site audit and industry competitor comparison
- CMS Drupal administration and management via GetPantheon platform
- Drupal core and module updates
- Git version control
- Pixel perfect graphic and logo creation with Photoshop and Illustrator
- Wireframe and mock-up production with Balsamiq
- Google Analytics management, administration, KPI goal creation, custom segmentations, and dashboards
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP scripting
- Sitemap creation with taxonomy and IA (Information Architecture)
- SEO auditing and strategy planning
UX Designer, Web Producer, 2014
Model N, Redwood City, CA
Contractor Remote and On-Site
- Website development, website production, HTML email production
- Responsive web design, planning, and development
- Establishing taxonomy and information architecture (IA)
- Migrate content and existing PHP based site to new CMS AutoPilot
- HTML/CSS coding and validation
- QA (Quality Assurance) testing
- Bug logging through BaseCamp
- Google Analytics management
- Connected and synchronized Google Analytics across multiple web domains and MAP (Marketing Automation Program) Marketo
Emarketing UX Designer, Front End Developer, 2014
BrightRoll, San Francisco CA
Contractor On-Site
- Pixel perfect PSD to HTML conversion
- Improved organic SEO by pioneering H1-H6 hierarchy style guide for blog posts
- WordPress CMS content management and administration
- Building Marketing emails and landing pages with a focus on quality and tight turnarounds
- Lead the production and distribution of digital e-communications including newsletters, e-flash announcements and event invitations, including all production and coding for campaigns
- Working with SFDC (Salesforce DotCom) and Pardot pull established segmentation lists and generate campaigns, email testing, email deployment and perform postmortem reporting
Lead UI / UX Designer and Developer - Contractor Remote, 2013
BAY-Peace, Oakland CA
Contractor Remote
Led the UI / UX team in the design and development of an HTML5 responsive micro-site with responsive motion graphics.
- Custom framework development and testing
- Project Management
- Mentoring
- UI Design
- Interaction Design
- Usability Testing
- Creating User Personas
Promotions Coordinator, 2011 - 2013
Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association - Concord, CA
UI/UX, Web Development, Social Media Management and Graphic Design
The Pacific Coast Farmers Market Association (PCFMA) is the largest farmers' market association in the U.S., operating over 70 markets spanning from Santa Teresa in the South Bay up to Vacaville in the North Bay.
This is where being a unicorn comes in. I juggled UI/UX, web development, social media management, and graphic design.
I'll say upfront the current site is dated, its one area I worked very hard on to update, and for the most part only back-end changes were approved.
- Web development of a dynamic PHP/MySQL website with 1,000-plus pages. (Not involved with the 90's style table layout.)
- Correcting over 2,700 HTML warnings and errors
- Boosting mobile redirect from 26% to 100%, based on Google Analytics traffic funnels
- Creating a dynamic, interactive map of 70 farmers' markets utilizing PHP, MySQL, Google Maps API, including custom icon design
- Prototyping an entire redesign of the PCFMA site to be responsive-ready
- Social media management and content creation across 19 distinctive brands
- Achieving a 189% average increase of Facebook Likes across 19 unique brand pages in a single year
- Record-setting 833% organic increase (no ads) from 54 to 504 Facebook Page Likes on a single page
- Record-setting viral post with 153 Shares, on a Page with only 598 Likes, reaching 16,248 unique users
- Developing social media guidelines and policy
- Graphic design in print and digital formats for 70-plus unique markets
- Developing brands' visual guidelines
- Masking and compositing designs utilizing Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop
- Producing print media small and large, including postcards, booklets, posters, and 20-foot vinyl banners
- Generating digital media for the web, social media, and digital ads
Graphic Design and Illustration, 2009 - 2011
Crazy Shirts Hawaii - Honolulu, HI
Founded in 1964 at Waikiki's International Marketplace, the Crazy Shirts brand has risen to be recognized as an international icon. Innovation is a pillar that the company proudly stands on, pioneering specialty dyed products utilizing exotic materials such as volcanic ash, wine and chili peppers.
- Conceptualizing illustrations and graphic designs based on seasonal/monthly categories and nonspecific keywords
- Creating rough sketches to be digitized upon approval into compatible Photoshop or Illustrator files
- Separating art files into compatible silkscreen-ready color separated layers
User Experience, 2008
University of Hawaii Art Gallery and Commons Gallery - Honolulu, HI
The Department of Art and Art History includes two galleries. They aim to serve as laboratories for the critical exploration of ideas about historical and contemporary art, design, culture, and society; and contribute to the cultural life of the region.
- Planning exhibitions for the University of Hawaii Art Gallery and Commons Gallery
- Prototyping 2D and 3D scale mock-ups
- Evaluating user interaction, pace and flow
- Managing teams from 10 to 28 people
- Cataloging and photography of artworks
- Arranging, installation and lighting of artworks
- Constructing custom display cases, shelving and frames
- Coordinating drop-off and pickup of artwork
Education:
Tech SF Digital Design Certificate
BAVC - San Francisco, CA
- Responsive Web Design
- iPad App - Adobe Digital Publishing Suite
- After Effects and Cinema 4D Work-flow
BA Design and Applied Arts
University of Hawaii at Manoa - Honolulu, HI
- Award - Outstanding Electronic Arts
- President of 650 Students in Hale Wainani - Hawaiian translation: "House of Beautiful Water"
- Breadth and depth of "new" and "traditional" processes and styles
- Creating a "little piece of SoHo" in the commons gallery for the department head of Graphic Design
AS Digital Media Production and Animation
Leeward Community College - Pearl City, HI
- Award - Associate of Sciences Degree Valedictorian
- Certificate of Competency in Web Design
- Certificate of Competency in Desktop Publishing
- Certificate of Competency in Motion Graphics
- Open Market
- Closed Market
