Josh Cothran, Senior UX Designer Portfolio: www.joshcothran.com contact@joshcothran.com 404-507-2384 2240 Cheshire Bridge Rd #203 Atlanta, GA 30324 OBJECTIVE A position as Senior UX Designer where I can apply my passion for creating well-crafted products and services that are good experiences for the people who use them and good business for the ​organizations that build them. ___________________________________________________ EXPERTISE Process & Methods: Agile (Scrum, XP), Interviews, Workshops, Usability Testing, Surveys, Analytics, Card Sorting, Research Synthesis Deliverables: Wireframes, Prototypes, Personas, Journey Maps, Requirements, Design Systems, Affinity Mapping, client/executive-ready Presentations & Reports Tools: Whiteboard, Sticky Notes, Mind Mapping, Sketch, Axure, InVision, Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat...), Microsoft Office, VS Code Web Standards: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES5/ES6), Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Libraries & Frameworks: jQuery, Bootstrap, Lodash (expert), D3.js, Angular, React (working knowledge) ___________________________________________________ SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE The Home Depot | Atlanta, GA | Oct 2017 - May 2018 Senior Enterprise UX Designer (Contract) Conducted research, design and testing supporting The Home Depot's associates with a close-knit Agile team of UX, Product Management, and Software Developers. Pipeline Engineering team: Conducted exploratory interviews, synthesized research, and developed roadmap for a tool to provide a traceable, holistic view of Home Depot's internal software development and deployment workflow. Home Services Measure team: Supported iOS and Android mobile applications (phone, tablet) to gather detailed specifications for renovations. Conducted user research, design, and produced high fidelity mockups in Sketch for implementation by development team. Bastille | Atlanta, GA | Feb 2016 - Sep 2017 Senior User Experience Engineer Designed and developed interactive dashboards, reports, visualisations, and configuration tools for Bastille's Internet of Things (IoT) security console. Reported directly to Bastille's VP of Product to translate customer requirements and use cases into new features and enhancements. Held primary responsibility for maintaining modular front-end codebase using HTML5, CSS/SASS, and modern JavaScript (TypeScript/ES6) technologies leveraging Angular and React frameworks. Worked in a distributed, Agile environment in collaboration with back-end colleagues based in Bastille's San Francisco office. GTRI | Atlanta, GA | Jun 2009 - Feb 2016 UX Designer/Research Scientist II Primary UX designer for FalconView aeronautical mission planning software: supported design and user testing of an iPad prototype; a re-build of the application's help system; migration to JIRA issue tracking and project management system; and analysis and visualization of software architecture. UX Lead for multiple Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH) initiatives, including user research on health IT adoption and applications of Medicaid claims data to improve patient care. Conducted user research (interviews, web/search analytics, card sorting) and developed information architecture for findability/usability-oriented redesigns of GTRI's corporate website and intranet. Rapid iterative design and prototyping of a web-based interactive data visualization suite for DoD acquisitions decision support. Other initiatives included a content management system (CMS) for exploring legislative trends; a web/mobile application for improved vaccination planning; and a resource coordination tool for intelligence analysts. Razorfish | Atlanta, GA | Mar 2008 - Apr 2009 Information Architect Social marketing (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter) user experience design, research, analysis, and strategy for H&R Block's 2009 tax season. Website internationalization road map to support translation and regional content needs for Travelport, a B2B travel services provider; deliverables included site map, wireframes, and content matrices. Personas, scenarios, site maps, and rich internet application design for the online business center of an international direct sales organization. ___________________________________________________ EDUCATION Georgia Institute of Technology MS, Human-Computer Interaction, 2002-2004 BS, Computer Science, 1997-2002 ___________________________________________________ UX LEADERSHIP IxDA Atlanta Local Leader (2008-2014), Founding Member CHI Atlanta GTRI Sponsorship Coordinator (2011-2014), Technology Chair (2010), Media Chair (2009), Member (2005-2014) Atlanta UX Book Club Founding Member (2009-2012)