Michael Victor E-mail: mike@domopod.com Principal UX Designer Xevo, Sept 2016 - Present Create end-to-end user experience designs for hospitality and automotive customers including Carnival and General Motors. Work with General Motors, FCA, Hyundai, Toyota, Ford, and more on creation and launch of Marketplace, Entune and other products and services deployed to millions of vehicles. Work directly with merchants such as Starbucks, McDonald's, Office Depot, Yelp, Mopar and others to define Marketplace and Entune UX. Work with Carnival to realize and launch Ocean services by serving as Visual and UX designer on OceanView (Apple TV, iOS, Amazon Fire TV, and Roku), Ocean.com, OceanReady app, the Stateroom Entertainment Console and more. Advise leadership on UX goals required to measurably improve results. Lead cross-organization process for UX ideation and conceptualization process for many experimental data, video, geo-location, and authentication services. Guide 10+ team members through processes and successful delivery of customer-approved designs. Lead communications across teams in multi-partner projects. Create design concepts and demos for business engagement to help grow business value and improve Xevo UX technical leadership. Build and maintain unique design languages for Xevo and Xevo auto and hospitality customers. Create wireframes, concepts, motion specs and redline specs using Adobe and Sketch products. Engage as a developer in design prototyping to help expedite intent and quality using Unity, HTML5, and service components. Senior User Experience Designer & Researcher AT&T, Entertainment Group November 2015 - Present Lead user experience research and design efforts for AT&T mobile products and services including Sponsored Data, Data Perks, myAT&T, Device Help, NumberSync, DirecTV Mobile as well as other experimental data, video and navigation and location services. Typically this includes ideation, modeling, building/executing user tests and demos, wireframes, redlining, developing motion and/or working prototypes and work hand-in-hand with developers. For AT&T, I use Adobe products for static or motion deliverables, and HTML5, Unity, Native, for working prototypes. AT&T Mobile Data Services Interaction and visual design for mobile and console experiences including DirecTV, out-of-box experiences AT&T Ready2Go and AT&T Setup and Transfer, GoPhone experiences including AT&T Refill Plus and AT&T Data Perks, AT&T cloud service experiences including AT&T Locker, international mobile experiences including AT&T Passport and AT&T International Travel App as well as tablet and driving experiences as AT&T AllAccess and AT&T DriveMode. Responsibilities also include leading designers and stakeholders through ideation for new product designs for mobile advertising using big data services, sponsored data, authentication, and beacon technologies. Advanced Microscopy Group - Art Director/Senior Graphic Designer Art Director, Senior Graphic Designer ( 6 months ) As the Art Director/Senior Graphic Designer at AMG, I owned the creative leadership, design, and development of all AMG brand/identity collateral, all web properties including amgmicro.com, photography and video production, advertising, print and interactive product collateral. Microsoft Corporation - Graphic and Software Design Entertainment Console (2010-2012) I worked on the XBOX Live Studios and XBOX Console Teams. Work included prototyping of new user experiences for Xbox, Kinect, and Windows Mobile. Prototypes include systems for glass and air gesture, and speech UX. Developed WWA/HTML5 applications for next generation Xbox. Mobile Applications - Software Designer and Developer: UPG, Microsoft Learning (2008-9) Designed OneApp Learn mobile education application and mobile learning management system using Kojax platform for Sun/Java feature phones. Work includes the mobile client interfaces design and content prototypes. See OneApp Learn. Developed high-fidelity prototypes, motion studies, and UI comps for a Blend and Silverlight mobile LMS prototype. Content Viewer Experiences (2003-2007) Designed and developed learning management system viewer and content types supporting Latin, Han, and Sanskrit based languages. It supports bi-di presentation, implements Flash and Silverlight content games, supports note and bookmark functions, implements community forums, and rebranding features. This viewer is implemented as the help system in Windows Starter Edition and most eLearning courses from Microsoft Learning. Cover and Magazine (1994-1998) Produced 4 Color gloss magazine and cover layouts and illustrations for product and marketing materials. Created cover, jacket, and jewel case design guidelines and branding kits. Book and Manual Design and Illustration (1994-1998) Produced b/w, 4-color and duo-tone layouts and illustrations for content products such as The Road Ahead. Created page and artwork guidelines for partners and vendors. Web Application Design (2003-2007) Responsible for design and development of end-to-end, web-based product marketing system. This system enables authoring, management, publishing, searching, and presentation of product detail pages. Led design reviews on multi designer team. Business Application Interfaces (2003-2007) Designed end-to-end planning and management software for Microsoft Learning product development teams. This application provides easy and accessible views and implements business rule alert systems. Information Architecture, Microsoft Press (1999-2000) Responsible for design of electronic and print content models DTDs/XSDs/XSLT, UX and interaction of eBooks, and print layout templates used for content material transformation between form factors including OEB and Custom-form eBooks, Pagemaker/Framemaker and InDesign print materials, e-Mails, and databases. Work included pulling together a team of area specialist to aid in the creation of commen and specialized DTD/XSDs, creating custom processing tools, and creating static and interactive eBook content types, print content types, and software based content interactivities such as visual dictionaries, content navigation UX. Mindbytes GAC Designer/Developer/Owner (1992 - 2000) Ran small graphic design business providing services such as print and web design, corporate identity, and graphic artwork production. Contracted with companies such as Microsoft, Active Voice, and other businesses within the Puget Sound area. Everett Community College Lab Manager (1992 - 1994) Provided computer operations support for design and engineering computer labs (PC and Mac labs). Tasks included network configuration, backups, repair, software installation. Everett Herald Distribution Manager (1990-1992) Skills/Years HTML5 (recent) > 1 year Flash, 2 years jQuery (recent) > 8 months XNA > 2 years PHP > 1 year AJAX > 1 year Javascript, > 10 years ASP.NET > 2 years HTML > 10 VB, 2-3 years XML, > 10 years Visual Studio, > 10 years Web Services, > 4 years VSTS 2010 Test & Lab Manager, 1 year SQL Server, 4 yr, mySQL, 6 months Office, > 10 years Microsoft Expression, 3 years Photoshop (up to CS5), > 10 years WPF > 2 years Illustrator (up to CS5)> 5 years Premiere, 1 year InDesign 2 years, Framemaker/Pagemaker > 5 years After Effects, 6 months 3D Modeling (3DS/Blender), 4-5 years Silverlight > 3 years Unity3D (recent) > 2 year C++, 2-3 years Windows Server, Minor Linux, Window/Mac Java, 1 year C# .NET, 9-10 years Hobbies Music recording, Guitarist Game development and Gaming. See Unity, Winterblue, or Dark Matter Engine. Fine Art. See Level Design, Photography, or Illustration. Reading Science Fiction, History, and Astronomy Education and Awards Everett Community College, Associate of Fine Arts Degree, Graphic Design 1992 Awards: 7 STC publishing awards, 6 Microsoft ship awards Certifications: Microsoft Office/Powerpoint, Autodesk 3D Studio & Animator Pro, Adobe Products
