Benjamin Bennett

profile

Experienced design professional with expertise creating compelling user interfaces through the integration of innovative technology, business need and aesthetic design. Multidisciplinary background enhances creative leadership and maximizes contributions from the entire team.

• Over nine years experience as a user experience designer / information architect
• Technical aptitude combined with creative ability
• Quick, high-level thinker with acute attention to detail

• Director, Team Leader, Senior Consultant, or Manager of User Experience Design, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, and/or User Interface Design

• Adobe Acrobat, Illustrator, Photoshop; Inspiration Professional; Macromedia Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash; Microsoft Visio; Rational Rose; UML and others

• AJAX, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, JHTML, Java, JSP, XHTML, XML, SQL, Lotus Notes, CGI/Perl and C/C++

experience

• Performed a strategic assessment of the firm's existing web-based offerings though interviews with senior executives, external users and internal stakeholders
• Presented a three year roadmap to evolve the client's web-assets into a flexible and fully integrated service delivery platform that would sustain long term growth
• Led the design effort to reimplement the firm's website using an iterative, user-centric process that involved multiple information architects, visual designers and web developers (redesign not yet live)

• Responsible for the user experience (UX) of large-scale web-based applications designed for the colleagues and clients of the world's leading risk and insurance services firm
• Managed and led a team of up to six UX Designers and UX Developers, including dedicated off-shore resources, to successfully deliver user interface designs and functioning HTML prototypes for several complex global business applications
• Helped to further develop the firm's UI standards and worked to better integrate user-centric design into the firm's evolving, RUP-based software development process

• Redesigned the agency's website as part of an initiative to increase efficiency, reduce redundancy, improve interagency coordination and improve customer service

• Implemented redesign of Tracker, “America’s 1 Selling Dealer Management System,” effectively transitioning the windows-based application to a web-based application

• Performed usability assessment and heuristic evaluation for an Amarta-based life insurance system designed to be the core system for the entire Asia Region

• Created information architecture including site maps and wire frames for Internet site redesign based on content analysis and user group segmentation (personas)

Benjamin Bennett

• Developed site maps, schematics and page templates to implement a unified, customer-centric architecture for the over 1600 unique pages that make up the U.S. Bancorp site

• Contributed to redesigning the Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management site and designed an extranet to allow quick access to hundreds of project documents

• Led a team of five information architects to design an integrated project-based work environment (specialized intranet) for use by employees at all levels within the member companies of the Omnicom Group

• Streamlined the multi-award winning Sprint ION site by integrating the marketing and sales processes in an effort to improve upon the already high conversion rate

• Created a highly innovative B2E (Business-to-Employee) site architecture for Unifi, a subsidiary of PricewaterhouseCoopers, that utilizes human resource data to create a personalized lifestyle portal

• Managed all activities related to the production of the existing web site including establishing procedures and workflows and managing a team of designers and developers
• Designed and developed the information architecture, including site maps, page layouts, navigation and search methodologies, for a new Vignette StoryServer based site

• Created the user interface for an international financial services system using HTML and Java (JHTML) which interfaced with a C/C++, Tuxedo, Sybase and Oracle based system

• Programmed a Java Native Interface (JNI) layer to enable communication between a new multithreaded Java based system and legacy C/C++ components

• Implemented a custom electronic work environment that blended Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook and web components into one cohesive graphical user interface

• Developed an imaging and workflow system built with PowerBuilder, FileNet and Sybase

• Designed and implemented the information architecture and brand identity for this environmental engineering firm's Internet and Intranet sites

education

• Mechanical Engineering — major
• Multidisciplinary Design — minor
• Design — degree concentration
• GPA 3.8 — Magna Cum Laude