UX Lead at Accredible, UX Mentor at Springboard

I'm an experienced UI/UX designer with +15 years of experience across mobile and web. I have tremendous experience in a broad set of skills that allow me to find easy solutions for complex problems. I'm focused on creating designs that are easy to use while fulfilling business and user goals. Also, I am looking for challenges & opportunities where I can work intensely to understand users better, which will enhance my knowledge and skills. Skills: -User research to understand user needs and goals. -Define user needs and pain points and transform them into a tangible form (User personas, customer journey maps, empathy maps). - Ideate and brainstorm solutions using affinity maps, user wire-flows and, site maps. - Wireframing and sketching. - Rapid prototyping, interactive prototypes (Live prototyping using HTML&CSS). - Conducting usability testing and heuristics evaluation. - Designing user interface. - Hand coding HTML5, CSS3, Javascript