The Pixel Home: Enrique Sallent Resume

Enrique Sallent

OBJECTIVES:
A position where I can use my talent as User Experience and Interface Designer, as well as my technical skills to develop software with a great user experience.

PROFILE:
As my resume and web site illustrates, I have the design experience, technical knowledge, and expertise to effectively:

Produce the foundation of User Experience Design that include the creation of site maps, process flows, wireframes, and navigation paradigms based on the principles of User Centered Design, Information Architecture, Usability, and Human Factors design.
Create graphical and HTML prototypes for clients' web applications.
Create wireframes for web pages templates.
Write test scripts for User Testing.
Balance the targeted user needs with business requirements and technical considerations.
Provide design leadership and the ability to effectively communicate the resulting plans to the development team and business owners.
Develop user interfaces with a working knowledge of client-side web technologies such as HTML, DHTML, XHTML, JavaScript, Flash, and CSS within several different web server application environments.
Debug HTML, JavaScript and DHTML for different platforms (PC and Macs) and browsers.
Translate client's offline corporate image and marketing campaign to online campaigns and web sites.
Ten years of successfully designing, developing and deployment of award winning web sites for companies such as: Bacardi, Panasonic Consumer Electronics, Panasonic Personal Computers, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Bear Stearns.
Two years lecturing about Basic and Advanced PhotoShop techniques; HTML development; and, Introduction to Flash at the New York University.

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:
Deloitte & Touche Inc
Senior User Experience Designer (Senior Systems Analyst)
Princeton, New Jersey
December 2007 – May 2009
Created and revised information architecture documents including but not limited to; site maps, user profiles, user scenarios, wireframes, content matrices, flow diagrams/process maps, and detailed functional requirements/specifications.

Part of the team designing The Deloitte Audit desktop application.
Responsible for designing usability for the "Engagement Portfolio", "Connectivity", "Synchronization", "Backup and Restore", "File Check" and "Create Reports" interfaces.
Responsible for designing the UI for the System Administration, web based application.
Worked with Product Planning team and users to identify and document the users workflow.
Work with product managers and engineers to implement the optimum workflow into the application.
Designed wire frames, site maps, process flows diagrams and personas for new and existing features.
Analyzed users feedback in order to translate work flows into digital experiences.
Defined reusable user-interaction models/patterns.
Defined style guides and style sheets for the desktop application.
Produced pixel-perfect screen mock-ups.
Developed low-fidelity prototypes to test user interactions.
Validated designs through usability testing.
Designed and created the icons library for the ribbons toolbar and desktop application.

Bear Stearns
Senior Information Architect (Vice-President)
Parsippany, New Jersey
May 2005 – Dec 2007
Created and revised information architecture documents including but not limited to; site maps, user profiles, user scenarios, wireframes, content matrices, flow diagrams/process maps, and detailed functional requirements/specifications.

Worked closely with internal and external clients to translate business requirements for large and small, media-rich, web-based projects into intuitive UI designs.
Took the business requirements and applying them to design state of the art front end systems used by external clients of GCS Prime Brokerage.
Worked independently with business users to help reach consensus on overall design strategies.
Worked with technical leads and developers to communicate the requirements and apply project management skills to ensure projects are completed on time.
Architected the information flow to come up with detailed wire frames and screen designs using Visio.
Built interactive prototypes using dHTML and Tibco GI to demonstrate the new functionality.
Performed heuristic site evaluations and competitive site analysis.
Created and revised information architecture documents including but not limited to; site maps, user profiles, user scenarios, use cases, wireframes, content matrices, flow diagrams/process maps, and detailed functional requirements/specifications.
Captured and created style guides and standards for the BearPrime portal.

Consulting:
The Pixel Home
Freelance/Consultant (Incorporated/Owner)
New York/New Jersey
June 2001 – May 2005
Freelance/web designer consulting between 2001 and 2005. All projects were conducted on a corp-to-corp basis through this my old corporation, Andante Media Interactive. In this period, I was involved in the projects listed below. Please visit http://www.thepixelhome.com/ for a portfolio review. Skills used: information architecture, web design, flash, photography, html, CSS, Javascript, MySQL & PHP coding and implementation.

Financial Portals/Corporate:
Harrisdirect
Senior Web Designer
New Jersey
January 2005 – May 2005

Developed and implemented screens based on corporate standards. These screens were used to demonstrate navigation flow, functionality, look and feel, interactivity; and, web usability.
Assisted web producers developing the Information Architecture, navigation flow and usability.
Prepared groundwork for developers.

Skills Used: Created jsp files, using, HTML, dHTML, Javascript, CSS, XML, Unix
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Citigroup
Art Director/Information Architect
New York
June 2004 – January 2005

Designed Global Equities Online (GEO) and Global Equities Revenue Information (GERI), web portal interfaces.

Skills Used: Photoshop, Illustrator, Visio. Developed HTML prototypes, CSS, JavaScript and templates for BEA Weblogic system.
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Goldman Sachs
Art Director/Senior Web Designer
New York, NY
October 2002 – April 2003

Designed look and feel for: Global Cash Portal, SMARTPlus web application and TradeFlow web application.

Skills used: Photoshop, Illustrator. Created HTML prototypes. Assisted management developing the Information Architecture and navigation flow. Wireframes, layout and HTML templates for JSP. Private login

NSC Technologies
Web Designer
New Jersey
July 2003 – October 2003

Developed HTML templates for AT&T Support site.
Related URL: http://support.attwireless.com/awswls/support/index.jsp.

Skills used: HTML formatting, JavaScript, and CSS.

Brochure Type Web Sites:
http://www.quonset.net/, web design, Information Architecture, HTML and PHP coding.
http://www.americandurobeam.com/, http://www.americandurospan.com/ web design, Information Architecture, HTML and CGI coding.
http://www.steelbuildingscom.com/: web design, Information Architecture, HTML and CGI coding. Spanish version of the American Duro Span web site.

Flash/Multimedia:
http://www.lindebladpiano.com/restoration.htm, designed and created multimedia presentation.
http://www.toqueprofundo.com, developed web site using a combination of HTML, CSS, QuickTime, Flash and PHP.
Dept. of Education of the Commonwealth of Bahamas: created educational modules/interactive games using Flash. Was involved in the project from the creation of the storyboards, interacting with illustrators, animators and back-end programmers.
http://www.noggin.com/shows/tweenies.php: developed web site using a combination of HTML, d-HTML, CSS, Flash and PHP.

Non-Profit Organizations:
http://www.theirc.org/: web design, HTML templates and CSS coding.
http://www.womenscommission.org/: web design, HTML templates, CSS and JavaScript.
http://www.rhrc.org/: web design, HTML templates, CSS and JavaScript.
http://www.bergenhudsonredcross.org/, web design, Information Architecture, HTML coding.

Webmaster:
http://www.diversitycareers.com/
http://www.thepixelhome.com/

New York University (NYU)
Teacher Assistant
New York, NY
January 2001 – June 2003

Traction Interactive
Senior Web Designer/UI Engineer
New York, NY
November 1999 – June 2001
Merrill Lynch, Reserve Share Program (RSP intranet), developed HTML prototypes, templates and screens for ASP environment. (Private login) Ignite Learning web site intro: Ignite Learning, art direction and storyboards. Purepac product catalog: wrote CGI using Perl, and implemented HTML.

Renegade Marketing Group
Senior Web Design, Webmaster
New York, NY
May 1997 – November 1999 Designed, coded and conceptualized the look and feel, Information Architecture and successful implementation for Panasonic Personal Computers and Consumer Electronics web site sections. (1997 - 2000)

EDUCATION:
Pratt Institute Manhattan, NY, NY 08/1994 – 05/1996
AOS in Graphic Design

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Mini-Masters in Human Computer Interaction (2009)

School of Continued Education New York University, NY

Usability Testing (2007)
Designing Web Usability (2004)
Multimedia Content for the Internet (advanced) (2001)
Webmaster: Advanced Internet Technologies (2000)

Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña, Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep. (1983 -87) Marketing

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AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS:
Citigroup: recognition for the Design work done for the "Global Equities Online" web portal

Digital Image Café:

November 2004, Photo of the Week Award
February 2005, Photo of the Month Award
January 2006, Second place Photo of the Month Award

View awarded photos

Digital Photo Contest:

November 2004, Award for the "Best in Category" for the Digital Art Category
January 2005, Awards for the "Best in Category" for the Action/Journalism and Still Life categories

Kodak:

January 2006, Award for the "Best in Category" for the Travel category

Languages: Fluent writing, reading and speaking Spanish