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2. JOHN DE LA TORRE-UGARTE: UX WEB APP DESIGNER | UI ENGINEER | FRONT-END ARCHITECT
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OVERVIEW: I am a UX Designer and UI Front-End Web App Developer/Software Engineer & Architect.
I consider myself a Creative Technologist. I have a passion for absorbing and learning new trending
technologies, such as Angular, Data Visualization with D3 or High Charts. My in-depth technical side makes
me a better designer because I can design specifically for the technologies and frameworks being used. My
UX creative side makes me a better UI Developer because I keep a balance between implementing the
function/UI architecture and the Visual Design Aesthetics. I bridge the gap that often exists between
design and development. I am able to absorb the business rules, technical requirements to visually tell a
story with strategic UX Design and think of new innovative technical solutions to solve a UI problem.
My goal is to be part of a collaborative, creative environment, which will allow me to push the limits
in strategic UX Design and innovative technology UI solutions.
Skillset: I am 30% UX & Visual Design | 70% UI Development & Technical
Industries I have done work for:
• Tech Start Ups
• Ecommerce
• Retail
• Financial Services & Banking Institutions
• Digital Agency Branded Client Projects
• Online News Media Sites
• Pharma Enterprise Platform Applications
VISUAL WEB DESIGN: Adobe CC (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat) [10+ Years]; Style Guides, Design Specs
UX DESIGN & PROTOTYPING: Develop Use Cases, UX Personas, Wire Frames (lo & hi fidelity), Clickable Prototypes
Tools: Axure XP, Balsamiq, Sketch, Omnigraffle [10+ Years]
UI WEB DEVELOPMENT: Front-End Web App Development:
• HTML5, CSS3, SASS/LESS, Mobile Responsive Design [10 out of 10 Rating]
• Twitter Bootstrap, Foundation UI [10 out of 10 Rating]
• JQuery/JQuery UI/JQuery Mobile [10 out of 10 Rating]
• JavaScript, JSON, AJAX, REST API (AJAX) [7 out of 10 Rating]
• Data Visualization: D3, High Charts [8 out of 10 Rating]
Rapid Front-End Prototyping Development:
• Yeoman.io, Grunt.js, Bower.io, Home Brew, Gulp.js [10 out of 10 Rating]
• Node, NPM Packaging Install Management [10 out of 10 Rating]
• Git and SVN Version Control [10 out of 10 Rating]
• Command Line Savvy: SHELL, BASH, VIM, Nano, GREP, SSH, ZSH, Curl [10 out of 10 Rating]
• Firefox FireBug, Chrome & IE Developer Tools, Charles Proxy, Y-Slow [10 out of 10 Rating]
• Sublime Text 3, Atom, Eclipse [10 out of 10 Rating]
• JIRA, Asana, BaseCamp, Microsoft Office [10 out of 10 Rating]
MVC/MVVM:
• I Understand MVC (Model, View, Controller) as a Concept and have been able to absorb most MVC
Frameworks (Ruby on Rails, Groovy on Grails, PHP, .NET) in order to implement my Front-End Code into the
View Layer
MVVM:
• Angular.js with Angular UI Router, REST Angular [Beginner 5-6 Months]
CMS:
• WordPress Theming, Content Architecture and Development [8 out of 10 Rating]
Concepts:
• I understand Object-Oriented concepts as a whole and have a good grasp on how JS Design Patterns work, in
particular, Singleton and Factories because I have come across them using Angular in my recent work [2015]
• Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall and Software Development Life Cycle Methodologies

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EXPERIENCE: LEAD UX/UI ENGINEER | GREY JEAN NEW YORK TECHNOLOGIES – NY | UX, UI, MOBILE, RESPONSIVE, BOOTSTRAP, ANGULAR
[CONTRACT ROLE] November 2014 – Present | INDUSTRY: Technology Start-Up Grey Jean Technologies,
which provides a class leading enterprise Mobile Marketing Automation Platform – Genie, an app that gets
the right offer to the right customer at the right place and time.
 UX Design & Lead UI Engineer/Architect:
o Lead the UX Design: Absorbed and translated business requirements, API technical scopes and specifications
into sleek UX designs and front-end technical solutions and frameworks
o Designed UX Wireframes, Photoshop Comps for Desktop and Mobile Web-Apps
o Stewarded the Front-End Architecture of a desktop/SPA Mobile Web-app using the latest front-end
application technologies:
 Angularjs, Angular Bootstrap Responsive Design, LESS, Restangular for API consumption, Node,
Angular Locker & UI Router; ES6/Babel
 Bootstrap Glyphicons, Font-Awesome
o Developed Framework using Angularjs, Angular UI-Router, Angular Locker (for storage sessions),
Restangular for API consumption, Angular Material and Animate
o Built custom tables and charts with Angular Xeditable Dynamic Tables and High Charts
o Developed CSV File Upload using Angular File-Upload Module
o Used Angular UI-Router to configure views and templates and Controllers for page behaviors as well as
Factories to set up Restangular API calls
o Performance Enhancement: Angular Locker for client side session storage and caching, Angular OCLazy-
Load, SVG images and image sprites
o Tasks: Used Node along with Grunt to minify and compile all package.json and bower.json modules, plug-ins
o Set Up NF Start Node Package and Browser-Sync to run app
o Debug using Chrome Developer Tools, Firefox Firebug, YSlow
o Set up apache servers for Development, Staging and Prod
o Managed Merges to Develop and Master Git Branches
o Develop extensive Code Technical Documentation (Readme’s), Developer Guides
o Tools: Grunt, Git, Node, Bower; Adobe CS; Omni-Graffle (Wireframing)
LEAD UX/UI ENGINEER | THESTREET.COM – NY | UX, UI, MOBILE, RESPONSIVE, BOOTSTRAP
[CONTRACT ROLE] March 2014 – November 2014 | INDUSTRY: Online News Media Company
 Launch: Demo.mainstreet.com – A high traffic online news media site within the financial services industry.
o Lead the UX Design and Front-End Architecture within a rapid prototyping, agile environment for an Online
News Media Company
o Design Mockups, wireframes, style guides, design and front-end tech requirements by aligning with Product
Owners to understand business requirements
o Designs based on Bootstrap, SASS/Compass Framework for Mobile First Responsive
o Architect Front-End Framework and Integrate into Groovy on Grails Application
o Absorbed some Groovy on Grails in order to better architect my front-end and be able to design to its
requirements
o Scope: Responsive, Mobile, Desktop/Back-End: Groovy on Grails CMS
o Technologies:
 HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Bootstrap, SASS, Compass, Handlebars, Require.js
 Use Greensock.js framework with HighCharts.js for data visualization animation effects
 Responsive.js Media Queries for Mobile iPhone, Ipad, Desktop built around Angular.js and
Bootstrap framework
 Built Multi-Page application form using RESTful Web Services
 Integrate UX Front-End into Groovy on Grails Platform Stack
o Tools: BASH, Grunt, Node, Bower, Homebrew, Adobe CS, Git, Sublime Text
SENIOR TECH LEAD, UX UI | INTELLIPAYMENT – NY | UX FRONT-END, MOBILE, RESPONSIVE, HTML5
[FULLTIME ROLE] February 2012 – April 2014 | INDUSTRY: FINANCIAL SERVICES
Accomplishments:
 Launch: www.intellipayment.com - An online software app for borrowers of auto/school/mortgage loans to manage
loan payments to financial institutions. Tool used as a Point of Sale for prospective loan borrowers
o Platform: MVC .NET 4.0 with Razor Syntax
o UX: Responsive, Mobile, Desktop
Responsibilities:
 Provide hands-on technical UI development support on all products. 50% UX Design /50% Architecting and Coding (UX,
Mobile, Responsive & HTML Web Apps)

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UX UI FREELANCE: SENIOR UX DESIGNER UI DEVELOPER, BANK OF NY MELLON – NY – 2015
Redesign of Bank Of NY Mellon Customer Portal for New Loan Products
• Collaborate with Business Analyst and Product Managers to understand rules and requirements for Use Cases
• Partner with Lead Back-End Engineer to absorb high level functional requirements
• Develop Use Cases, UX Personas and Wireframes
• Create Clickable Prototypes and Design Photoshop Comps for new portal
• Technologies: Custom 960, 1120, 1200 Grid Layout, High Charts for Data Visualization
• Convert PSD to HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JQuery Front-End Code
SENIOR UX DESIGNER UI DEVELOPER, MORNINGSIDE ANALYTICS – NY – 2014 [3 MONTHS]
Design, Develop & Architect UX UI for Desktop Web App Dashboard to be used as a Data Visualization
and Analytics Tool.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to understand rules and requirements for Use Cases
• Partner with Lead Back-End Engineer to absorb high level functional requirements
• Develop Use Cases, UX Personas and Wireframes
• Create Clickable Prototypes and Design Photoshop Comps for new portal
• Technologies: Custom 960, 1120, 1200 Grid Layout, High Charts for Data Visualization
• Convert PSD to HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JQuery Front-End Code
• Integrate into a Ruby on Rails, React js Framework
SENIOR UX DESIGN UI FRONT-END, MRM WORLDWIDE – NY – 2012 [4 MONTHS]
Redesign of: www.csc.com - Content rich and highly trafficked site. Scope: Redesign of site using
responsive for mobile/desktop CMS site built on RubyonRails Framework
 Collaborated with design leads to develop Front-End HTML5 Prototypes
 Architect Front-End UX Framework using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery
 Develop functional features, i.e., Mega DropDown Menus, JQuery Slide out widgets, Responsive Mobile and Desktop
Scalable Framework and integrate into RubyonRails custom CMS
UX DESIGN UI DEVELOPER, CHANEL – NY – 2011 [5 MONTHS]
Redesign of: http://www.chanel.com - Chanel Fragrance and Beauty Ecommerce site
 Collaborated with design leads to develop Front-End HTML5 Prototypes
 Architect Front-End UX Framework using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery
 Integrate Front-End Code into PHP CodeIgniter Framework/Magento Enterprise Platform
UX DESIGNER / UI FRONT-END DEVELOPER, ONDECKCAPITAL – NY – 2010 [4 MONTHS]
Redesign of: http://www.ondeckcapital.com
 Technologies: WordPress CMS, HTML5, CSS3, JQuery and JavaScript
 Design new theme for WordPress Based Site
 Integrate UX into WordPress CMS Framework
EDUCATION: PRATT UNIVERSITY OF CONTINUING EDUCATION, NY - 1998 – 2002
Web Design, HTML4, CSS
Advanced Photoshop effects for the Web
Advanced Flash Design and Development
Editorial Design for the Web
STONYBROOK, SUNY - 1991 – 1994
[106 CREDITS ACHIEVED] | MAJOR: LIBERAL ARTS & THEATER ARTS

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UX UI FREELANCE: SENIOR UX DESIGNER UI DEVELOPER, BANK OF NY MELLON – NY – 2015
Redesign of Bank Of NY Mellon Customer Portal for New Loan Products
• Collaborate with Business Analyst and Product Managers to understand rules and requirements for Use Cases
• Partner with Lead Back-End Engineer to absorb high level functional requirements
• Develop Use Cases, UX Personas and Wireframes
• Create Clickable Prototypes and Design Photoshop Comps for new portal
• Technologies: Custom 960, 1120, 1200 Grid Layout, High Charts for Data Visualization
• Convert PSD to HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JQuery Front-End Code
SENIOR UX DESIGNER UI DEVELOPER, MORNINGSIDE ANALYTICS – NY – 2014 [3 MONTHS]
Design, Develop & Architect UX UI for Desktop Web App Dashboard to be used as a Data Visualization
and Analytics Tool.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to understand rules and requirements for Use Cases
• Partner with Lead Back-End Engineer to absorb high level functional requirements
• Develop Use Cases, UX Personas and Wireframes
• Create Clickable Prototypes and Design Photoshop Comps for new portal
• Technologies: Custom 960, 1120, 1200 Grid Layout, High Charts for Data Visualization
• Convert PSD to HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JQuery Front-End Code
• Integrate into a Ruby on Rails, React js Framework
SENIOR UX DESIGN UI FRONT-END, MRM WORLDWIDE – NY – 2012 [4 MONTHS]
Redesign of: www.csc.com - Content rich and highly trafficked site. Scope: Redesign of site using
responsive for mobile/desktop CMS site built on RubyonRails Framework
 Collaborated with design leads to develop Front-End HTML5 Prototypes
 Architect Front-End UX Framework using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery
 Develop functional features, i.e., Mega DropDown Menus, JQuery Slide out widgets, Responsive Mobile and Desktop
Scalable Framework and integrate into RubyonRails custom CMS
UX DESIGN UI DEVELOPER, CHANEL – NY – 2011 [5 MONTHS]
Redesign of: http://www.chanel.com - Chanel Fragrance and Beauty Ecommerce site
 Collaborated with design leads to develop Front-End HTML5 Prototypes
 Architect Front-End UX Framework using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery
 Integrate Front-End Code into PHP CodeIgniter Framework/Magento Enterprise Platform
UX DESIGNER / UI FRONT-END DEVELOPER, ONDECKCAPITAL – NY – 2010 [4 MONTHS]
Redesign of: http://www.ondeckcapital.com
 Technologies: WordPress CMS, HTML5, CSS3, JQuery and JavaScript
 Design new theme for WordPress Based Site
 Integrate UX into WordPress CMS Framework
EDUCATION: PRATT UNIVERSITY OF CONTINUING EDUCATION, NY - 1998 – 2002
Web Design, HTML4, CSS
Advanced Photoshop effects for the Web
Advanced Flash Design and Development
Editorial Design for the Web
STONYBROOK, SUNY - 1991 – 1994
[106 CREDITS ACHIEVED] | MAJOR: LIBERAL ARTS & THEATER ARTS