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Hello,

My name is James Vreeken, and I am driven by polished interactions, delightful experiences, and really anything that pushes the limits of my creativity. I'm comfortable using emerging technologies and can do so in a timely manner, making sure goals are hit and deadlines are met.

I'm driven by seeing people enjoy the things I've created no matter how large or small.

I am passionate about taking rough ideas of a product, and then taking those ideas to the next level through research, usability testing, and iteration until even my grandmother could understand it immediately and use it with ease.

I am ready for a position that is able to utilize my expert-level interaction design skillset, and am extremely excited about the possibility of working at Underbelly.

Did I get your attention? AWESOME!

Check out my resume below  \/

JAMES

VREEKEN

I am passionate about optimizing and improving real people's experiences online through the use of clear content, simple navigation and dynamic, as well as aesthetically pleasing design.

One of my greatest skills is my ability to quickly anticipate end user & internal business needs without clear direction, as well as my ability to quickly and efficiently take and accept feedback from stakeholders and re-incorporate it into my designs.

I am a talented user experience architect with the proven know-how to combine creativity and cutting edge web technology; creating views and user flows that result in world-class web. desktop and mobile applications.

For a portfolio of my most recent work > mastermindesigns.com

(801) 400-5485

linkedin.com/
in/jamesvreeken

Created a style guide and design system to replace an antiquated hodgepodge of 'frankenstyles and guided a frontend team of five front-end react developers and ten Java Backend developers. Re-designed and developed tazworks.com and created a seamless integration with zendesk. Owned the end-to-end design function for new and existing features in a large data-driven application used by consumer reporting agencies in 1 out of every 10 background screening searches performed in the USA (~20 million searches / year). Worked with the product owner and CEO to implement the vision. Worked with both front-end and back-end engineers to realize the design. (Before and after screenshots, example wireframes, mockups, user research performed, co-worker references and so forth provided upon request)

Responsible for facilitating, generating and executing great user experiences for all clients and their end users. I coach, mentor and lead both internal teams as well as advocate for the clients' needs. Increased conversion rates on landing pages on average by over 500% and increased ROI for paid search on a wide variety of campaigns.

Designed and developed UX / UI concepts that solved how to visualize & interact with enormous volumes of content easily as well as designed beautifully functional and usable interfaces for the full range of enterprise level medical software products and services by amplifying its quality and value through solid user experience and user interface design.

Quickly adopted Adobe's internal standards and methods and worked diligently to hit tight deadlines. Improved relationships with the Japanese team by improving their design processes. Developed a unique system to improve the work efficiency of localizing landing pages.

Internet Technologies

Bachelor of Applied Science

I completed my education at Utah Valley University in 2011 with a 3.8 GPA. In a senior project I undertook a UX design project in which my partner and I took on the task of analyzing and formulating improvements to the in-car dashboard experiences of then current luxury vehicles.

Web & Graphic Design

Associates of Applied Science

Completed a two year associates degree in less than 1 year before serving a 2 year mission to Japan for the LDS church. I have always been interested in improving the user experience of computer programs and the Internet through aesthetically pleasing design and innately usable interface design.

Skills

  • UX/UI Design
  • HTML5/CSS3
  • SASS/LESS/SCSS
  • Agile Development
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Responsive Design
  • Usability Testing
  • Javascript / jQuery
  • React.js

Software

  • Adobe CS
  • Balsamiq Mockups
  • Sublimetext
  • Webflow
  • Microsoft Office
  • Sketch
  • OmniGraffle
  • Invision
  • Terminal & Git

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