Jon-Paul Levins
Mount Pleasant
Summary
An experienced UX leader who is skilled at managing teams on multiple projects using best practices. Has a strong background in collaborating with project management, development teams, and business owners. Focuses on user-centered design, user research, data analytics, and business requirements as important aspects of the process. Also responsible for managing the growth and development of UX talent.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
UX Manager
Elsevier Inc
Mount Pleasant, SC (Home Based)
09.2016 - Current
- Building and leading successful teams through career development by mentoring, coaching, and elevating others.
- Guiding team members in strategy, research, alignment, analysis, design critiques, and design execution tasks.
- Advocating for the customer through human-centered design methods, including: discovery, research, design and user testing.
- Collaborating with technology, product, and business teams to uncover customer and business needs, then translating them into engaging, simple, and intuitive design solutions and understandable concepts that evolve and enhance the product interface and experience.
- Supporting early product definition by working with partners to facilitate discovery sessions that uncover customer pain points and opportunities.
- Engaging in portfolio prioritization to help set the strategy and product road map for the team.
- Working with partners and teams across various geographies.
Senior UX Architect & Designer
Wolters Kluwer
Philadelphia, PA
11.2013 - 09.2016
- Worked closely with Stakeholders, Product Owners and Development Teams. I provided strategic direction for product vision, product design, and user testing. I also mentored Jr. UX Architects and Designers, providing leadership and knowledge for products, projects and best practices in UX & design.
- Gathered requirements from our Stakeholders and Product Owners to create the vision for our mobile and web products.
- Created low fidelity wireframes to high fidelity designs based off of research and business needs.
- Presented all UX artifacts to a variety of people from internal teams to external executive teams.
- Led user testing sessions and focus groups with customers that utilize our products.
- Established UX guidelines, usability testing and a library of global artifacts for the UX Team.
Senior UX Architect
Ferrara & Company
Princeton, NJ
03.2013 - 11.2013
Senior UX Architect
Perficient, Inc
Exton, PA
06.2011 - 02.2013
Executive Web Producer
SDI
Plymouth Meeting, PA
01.2005 - 07.2011
Education
Associate of Arts - Music
The Art Institute of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA04.1995
Skills
- Team Leadership
- Project Management
- Time Management
- Verbal and written communication
- Complex Problem-Solving
- User Research & Strategy
- User Testing
- UX Design
Timeline
UX Manager
Elsevier Inc
09.2016 - Current
Senior UX Architect & Designer
Wolters Kluwer
11.2013 - 09.2016
Senior UX Architect
Ferrara & Company
03.2013 - 11.2013
Senior UX Architect
Perficient, Inc
06.2011 - 02.2013
Executive Web Producer
SDI
01.2005 - 07.2011
Associate of Arts - Music
The Art Institute of Philadelphia