Digital product designer; I recently graduated 30 Weeks, supported by Google in partnership with SVA, Parsons, Pratt, and The Cooper Union, which selected 25 designers around the world to be mentored by world-class designers. I was later selected as 1 of 5 designers to attend for an additional 15 weeks. My hobbies including running, guitar, drumming, and creating side projects (like Hosty Club, a product line for Airbnb hosts).
Experience
LEAD PRODUCT DESIGNER (CONTRACT), APPLICO — MAY 2016 - JULY 2016 (NEW YORK, NY)
Led UX and UI for two consumer facing applications: InMatch Sports and BuzzCap. Successfully worked with clients to agree on overall user interface design and full user-flows. Ideated from scratch, leading both user experience and interface design. Worked with Sketch and Zeplin alongside front-end developers to build and ship to the App Store (in submission process).
PRODUCT DESIGNER (CONTRACT), SYPARTNERS — MAY 23 - 27 (NEW YORK, NY)
Designed combination of presentations, a live work session experience, and interactive working exercises for integrated marketingand technology IBM workshop. Successfully prepared materials with team to present to global IBM executives in office.
Designed combination of presentations, a live work session experience, and interactive working exercises for integrated marketingand technology IBM workshop. Successfully prepared materials with team to present to global IBM executives in office.
30 WEEKS DESIGN PROGRAM, GOOGLE — SEPT 2015 - MARCH 2016 (NEW YORK, NY)
Chosen out of over 500 applicants from around the world to be 1 of 25 students in the design school by Google. Later selected as one of last remaining 5 to continue in an additional 15 weeks of schooling. Mentored by the best designers in tech, with classes taught by firms including IDEO, Frog, Working Not Working, Oscar Health, Behance, and more.
SUMMER: SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER, CITRUSBYTE — JUNE 2015 - JULY 2016 (NEW YORK, NY)
Served as senior product designer before attending 30 Weeks. Led re-design for EWM, a financial-tech client. Engineered and designed landing pages for IoT client.
Served as senior product designer before attending 30 Weeks. Led re-design for EWM, a financial-tech client. Engineered and designed landing pages for IoT client.
SUMMER: PRODUCT DESIGNER, FLATWORLD KNOWLEDGE - MAY 2014 - JUNE 2014 (WASHINGTON, D.C.)
At FlatWorld knowledge I served as product-design consultant, and designed their iPad educational platforms used throughout schools as part of their B2B sales initiative to institutions.
At FlatWorld knowledge I served as product-design consultant, and designed their iPad educational platforms used throughout schools as part of their B2B sales initiative to institutions.
PRODUCT DESIGNER, NOODLE EDUCATION - SEPT 2013 - APRIL 2014 (NEW YORK, NY)
At Noodle Education I worked as a product designer and front-end developer, where I ideated, wireframed, designed, and engineered the internal company dashboard from scratch. I also designed other marketing and press materials. (http://connor.ly/ projects/noodledash.pdf). Worked with O-Auth API’s, JSON, and PHP.
SUMMER: PRODUCT DESIGNER, FAN-FOOTAGE — JULY 2013 - AUGUST 2013 (DUBLIN, IRELAND)
At Fan Footage, I designed all pitch-decks used to brief music agencies and partners, and worked on overall brand design collateral. Rebranded music-tech company and was placed in charge of all visual communication for the brand. Worked with staff at special music events back-stage and for event promotion.
PRODUCT DESIGN & FRONT-END DEVELOPMENT INTERN, BETTERMENT — SEPT 2012 - JULY 2013 (NEW YORK, NY)
At Betterment, I started as a front-end developer, installed the company blog, and designed and built various dashboards around the office. These dashboards included total assets under management (AUM), net deposits, recent signups by location (displayed in a train-board arrival/departure style), unique and converted visitors and more. Worked with JSON and PHP.
Education
30 Weeks, Google’s design school, supported by SVA, Parsons, Pratt; (1 of 25 students), September 2015 - March 2016
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor — Art & Design, 2014-2015.
Skills
Visual Design, UX/UI, HTML5 and CSS3, Git, Photoshop, Sketch, Zepplin, javascript, front-end development, user flows, wireframes, high fidelity prototypes, user-centered designs, iterating rapidly, collaborating with engineers, shipping code, wordpress, pulling + pushing to git repositories, experience planning and executing both redesign and new-concept design projects from start to finish, communication skills.
clee@anchorpillar.com