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With over 14-years of UX/IA/front-end web development experience (11-years on high-traffic sites), I am a seasoned professional. Throughout my career, I've discovered that clear communication, the ability sell concepts, and a sense of humor are as important as expert technical knowledge. These have been, and continue to be my goals in every work opportunity I've been given. The UX field is a great passion for me, and I am driven, ultimately, by the best interest of the user. I am a natural leader, as well as great team player, blending exceptional communication skills with solid technical skills.

User Interface Supervisor @ From April 2014 to Present (1 year 9 months) Columbia, South Carolina AreaUsability Designer, UX Team Lead @ BCBSSC has one of the largest claims processing systems in the world, and with over 12,000 employees is one of the largest employers in South Carolina. As part of the Presentation Application Systems team, my primary responsibilities included usability oversight, designing and building prototypes and wireframes, HTML and CSS, and close integration with the Business Analysts and JSF Developers. As UX Team Lead, I managed a small group of Visual Designers, Interaction Developers and Usability Engineers. Prior to my coming to BCBSSC, Systems Analysts were still using Visio and Powerpoint to build mockups to pass to the development team. This process created a huge delta between the application designed and the end product. Under my leadership, the newly formed UX Team designed and coded a custom prototyping platform based on tools and technology already in place and approved. This new process, implemented alongside good usability practices and semantic HTML/CSS, allowed for rapid, accurate, and browser-based prototyping, which greatly increased the quality and efficiency of both the design and development teams. Skills utilized: Team Management, Project Management, HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Dojo Toolkit, jQuery From January 2010 to April 2014 (4 years 4 months) Columbia, South Carolina AreaDirector of Media & Communications @ Manage and provide creative and technical oversight over all aspects of design (branding, promotion, and multimedia) and technology (web development, communications, and hardware) From December 2012 to August 2013 (9 months) UI/UX Pro @ As a Mobile User Experience Consultant, I designed and developed rich mobile web applications for corporations, primarily in the printing industry. In most cases, these corporations strongly desired to enter the mobile space, but had no one internally that specialized in user experience or information architecture, particularly in a mobile context. I provided guidance throughout the entire life-cycle of a project; beginning with high-level concepts and diagrams, through the wireframing and prototyping stages, design, development, and implementation. Skills: User Experience Consultant, Mobile Web App Development, HTML, CSS, JavaScript From August 2010 to October 2010 (3 months) Lead Designer @ A division of Morris Communications Company LLC, Morris Visitor Publications (MVP) creates, publishes, and distributes travel publications in more than 500,000 hotel rooms around the world with a combined annual circulation of more than 53 million. The eMedia Team is responsible for all MVP internet endeavors. As Lead Designer, I design or approve the creative and user experience aspects of our products and solutions. My responsibilities also include on-site consulting with many of MVP's partners around the world. I've had the opportunity to travel to London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, and Barbados to name a few. Morris is, first and foremost, a publishing company and I am comfortable working in an environment that deals with hard deadlines, quick decisions and a small margin for error. Whatever my duties at a particular time, I am primarily concerned with serving content to our users and am constantly pushing myself to find better and more efficient ways of presenting information. Skills utilized: HTML, CSS, jQuery, Google Maps API, Adobe CS From May 2008 to January 2010 (1 year 9 months) Web Designer @ A division of Morris Communications Company LLC, Morris DigitalWorks (MDW) provides tools, technologies, consulting and Web development services to any of the 27 daily Morris newspapers, non-daily newspapers, magazines, and radio stations. My primary functions included creating wireframes, site design concepts, and HTML/CSS execution of the designs. I also created and designed the presentation layer (HTML/CSS/Javascript) for the various CMS's used at MDW (for example: Joomla!, Drupal, and other proprietary template systems). Many of the sites maintained and supported by MDW serve over a million pageviews per month. I was also on the Usability Team whose responsibility is to plan and execute usability studies as well as evaluate, report the findings and suggest solutions. Skills: Template Design, Front-End Development, HTML, CSS, JavaScript From October 2006 to May 2008 (1 year 8 months) Web Designer @ Front-End Development, HTML, CSS, JavaScript From January 2003 to October 2006 (3 years 10 months) Designer, Co-owner @ Starting with two PowerBooks on my brother's back porch, we established a design company that provided identity development, Web design, and video production services to small and medium-sized businesses. In the immortal words of Dr. Henry Jones Jr., "I don't know, I'm making this up as I go." From October 1998 to January 2003 (4 years 4 months)

Music @ University of South Carolina-Aiken From 1994 to 1997 Joshua Mace is skilled in: CSS, Web Development, User Experience, jQuery, Web Design, JavaScript, User Interface Design, CMS, Usability, Content Management, Information Architecture, Dreamweaver, HTML, XHTML, HTML 5