Chol Yoo User Experience Portfolio

 

SUMMARY                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Chol Yoo has over 10 years of professional design experience delivering emerging technologies, user-experience and interface design, business process improvement, and collaboration solutions spanning both the commercial and public sectors.

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WORK EXPERIENCE                                                                                                                                                                                            

STARTUP COMPANY                                                                                                                                                                  Los Angeles, CA

Partner/User Experience Designer                                                                                                                                September 2015 – Current

• Managed project scope and timeline of design and development iterations

• Designed wire-frames and visual designs for social mobile application on the iOS platform

• Researched and interviewed iOS developers for successful cost-effective development

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SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT                                                                                                                                           Culver City, CA

Senior User Experience Designer                                                                                                                          December 2014 – August 2015

• Collaborated in an agile environment across cross-functional teams of product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to implement new and improved designs.

• Partnered with business owners to gather requirements, including use cases, and worked to translate them into design specifications.

• Conducted design reviews and evaluations to improve existing internal application designs.

• Applied user research and usability testing to derive customer insight and test the effectiveness of current designs, and then work to improve UX and integrate new, innovative features.

• Delivered completed design concepts for multiple client-facing projects and provided design support as needed.

• Performed heuristic evaluations on various applications and provided notes and wireframes to convey improvements to the navigation, taxonomy, and functionality of the application.

• Mentored and provided project input to Junior User Interface Designers.

• Produced wireframes, mock-ups, task flows, and design specifications as needed to assist with business socialization and approval, as well as implementation and testing.

• Designed prototypes based on user experience and success criteria to validate end-state design such as style guides, customized graphics, color palettes, and user persona creation.

 

DELOITTE DIGITAL                                                                                                                                                                     Los Angeles, CA

User Experience Designer                                                                                                                                    December 2010 – October 2014

• Led teams of user-interface specialists and developers to gather requirements, develop, brand, test, and implement various solutions on different platforms from desktop to mobile.

• Designed high-impact, user-centered web sites with strong presence, sophisticated production values and intuitive navigation to maximize user engagement and cement powerful brand identities.

• Developed UX methodology, conducting user research with an international audience (interviews/workshops), and creating application wireframes through a user-centric design process.

• Performed an engagement for a top US movie studio assessing the client’s content management system.  The recommendations from the initial assessment led to a role in prototyping, designing, testing, and implementing the enterprise solution. To date the Client has implemented the application in over 90 countries seamlessly with minimal downtime and zero impact.

• Applied in-depth understanding of project system development lifecycle to enhance communication between technical and non-technical teams and to ensure technology solutions fulfill the client’s business needs.

• Strategized and launched UX improvements and front-end design to work with back-end systems for client-facing portals and consumer-facing sites that increased efficiency in productivity.

• Gathered functional requirements and translated requirements into annotated design documents to explain application functionality and expected interface behaviors for client end-users and application developers.

• Served as development team support to clarify interface functionality questions, and ensure all expected features were accurately incorporated into development. 

• Optimized a state government’s healthcare site into a mobile-friendly interface design with minimal user-experience disturbance.

• Designed prototypes based on user-experience and success criteria to validate end-state design such as style guides, customized graphics, color palettes, and user persona creation.

 

HPADV LLC                                                                                                                                                                                           Vienna, VA

Web Developer                                                                                                                                                           July 2009 – December 2010

• Partnered with Business Director to secure additional sales and opportunities in web development demands.

• Responsible for programming and managing professional and user-friendly sites for growing portfolio of clients.

• Customized graphics and layout for various sites utilizing Adobe software programs to improve business marketing and strategy.

 

Development Design Group                                                                                                                                                              Baltimore, MD Project Designer                                                                                                                                                        June 2010 – December 2010

 

Cubellis Inc.                                                                                                                                                                                      Baltimore, MD

Project Designer                                                                                                                                                September 2008 – February 2009

 

Marks Thomas Architects                                                                                                                                                                  Baltimore, MD

Project Designer                                                                                                                                                                 June 2005 – June 2008

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS                                                                                                                                                                                                

Software/Products/Tools:

• Adobe Create Suite 6 – Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, InDesign

• Axure RP7, Balsamiq, Keynote, Sketch

• Proficient in HTML, PHP, XML, SQL, Visual Basic, C++, JavaScript, JQuery (project experience)

• Oracle, Salesforce, Microsoft SharePoint (project experience)

• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), MS Windows (98, NT, XP, Vista, 7), Linux OS, Mac OS

 

EDUCATION                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

Bachelor of Architecture, May 2005

• Europe Study & Travel Abroad Program, Fall 2003