Hello!

I’m Adam

Customer Experience Designer
UI Designer
Graphic Designer
Front-end Developer
Project Manager

UX Designer

About me

Working remotely in Atlanta, Georgia

A UX Designer who enjoys solving customer experience problems

A collaborative professional with over two decades of diverse digital experience in both full-time and contract roles. Someone who works with cross-functional teams and all types of end users. Always curious on how to leverage emerging technology and tools put also mindful of utilizing the tools available.

Experience

Senior UX Designer

ADP

10/2020 – 07/2024

Served as the Senior UX Designer for multiple scrum teams. Led design efforts for a highly regulated and
A11y-compliant suite of enterprise-level financial technology tools and features.

  • Led Complex Design Projects: Guided multiple stakeholders, including legal, development, and clients, through the designs of three global design iterations built to enhance user experience for tax-related features.
  • Pushed Continuous Improvement and Integration: Implemented continuous updates for US and Canadian tax forms, ensured mobile responsiveness, and integrated third-party services like TurboTax to streamline user experience.
  • Implemented User-Centric Enhancements: Conducted extensive research and user testing to improve form mechanics, reduce cognitive overload, and make tools more conversational and less jargon-heavy, ensuring high usability and accessibility standards.
  • Championed Accessibility-Driven Design: Prioritized accessibility (A11y) standards in all projects, including conducting regular design reviews and incorporating feedback to ensure our tools were inclusive and met the highest accessibility requirements for all users.
  • Advanced Global Collaboration: Partnered closely with teams across multiple countries and time zones, including England, France, Spain, and Italy, ensuring compliance with EU regulations and integration with US-based systems.

UX Designer

Revel Systems

01/2019 – 04/2020

Oversaw the strategy, planning and design of Revel’s enterprise products and features with the Design, Product
and Engineering teams.

  • Acted as the Primary Product Designer on four different teams all working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
  • Partnered with other Product Designers to deliver consistent, compelling, solution-oriented designs.
  • Researched industry trends, competitors, and comparable experiences to perform gap analysis.
  • Managed global projects with teams from Atlanta, San Francisco, London, Lithuania, and Russia.
  • Utilized Material UI, defined and maintained a design library and system for our line of products to promote consistency.
  • Defined roadmap to convert legacy design throughout Management Console to new Material UI design components.

UX Designer, Digital Art Director

One & All
Formally Grizzard

07/2015 – 09/2018

Played key roles in many digital facets, working alongside cross-discipline teams. Report directly to the VP, Chief Creative Officer.

  • Built client websites and supporting digital assets across multiple industry verticals, including mission groups, animal care, food banks, and more.
  • Partnered with the Account Team, Project Managers, and Strategists to craft scopes of work.
  • Led recommendations for UX Strategy that tie client donation KPIs to site layout and design.
  • Partnered with Designers and Strategists to create customized assets for client region and donation goals.
  • Made technical details easy to understand to foster effective communication between backend developers and designers.
  • Incorporated analytics and tracking via Google Tag Manager to track donations, email clicks, and more.
  • Translated designs from studio into lightboxes for multiple clients via Google Tag Manager.
  • Hosted training sessions for new clients on using and navigating their newly built website.

Project Manager

Southern Web

08/2014 – 07/2015

Managed 300+ active web accounts and guided work from client vision to delivery. Reported directly to the
President.

  • Assigned Designers, Developers, and Internet Marketers to complete projects on time and on budget.
  • Accountable for setting clear expectations and goals with clients and internal teams and ensuring commitments are met.
  • Tracked progress against timelines, key milestones, and budget, and managed any revisions in real time.
  • Oversaw projects using the waterfall design process.
  • Overhauled the file sharing process to improve efficiency by minimizing file overlap and incorrect usage.

Additional Relevant Experiences

Managed 300+ active web accounts and guided work from client vision to delivery. Reported directly to the
President.

  • LOGICBLOCK, Web Designer/Developer, Atlanta, GA
  • AT&T, Web Designer, Atlanta, GA
  • DOLPHINI NETWORKS, Lead Web Designer/Developer, Nashville, TN
  • FREELANCE (Web Design, Development & Project Management)

Education! 👨‍🎓📝

Skills

N

UX/UI Design

N

Product Strategy

N

Rapid Prototyping

N

Usability Testing

N

Information Architecture

Associates of ARt

Visual Communications

North Metro Technical College

Youtube School or ARt & Design

BA Googling

References

Rahul Alexander

Adam has been my partner in arms working within the payroll tax space at ADP. He is an incredible colleague to work alongside and excels at bringing together our product, design, and development teams to identify problems and opportunities within the complex technical and business considerations of our products. Adam’s early explorations with the Pi team fundamentally changed the direction of design patterns used within our tax withholding processes, potentially integrating with future AI initiatives. A serial collaborator and excellent pair designer, I would highly recommend Adam to any team as a valuable asset.

Gaile Poska

I’ve been working with Adam for more than a year and he’s not only a wonderful designer but also an amazing individual. He’s the person that’ll bring in great ideas, neat design solutions, interesting conversations, and will brighten your day with a good sense of humor. Adam is a quick learner with the right questions at the right time. He’s not afraid to fail and hear feedback, which I believe is essential not only for one’s personal development but also for the improvement of the product worked on. It was an absolute pleasure to have him as a colleague and I couldn’t recommend him more!

Todd Bemis

I’ve known Adam for seven years, and had the pleasure of working with him for over three. I will give you one take-away statement: Adam can figure ANYTHING out that you ask. And, he does it with a sense of joy and curiosity that is so very rare, and incredibly refreshing. This is a guy that gets excited about problem solving. He thrives in a team environment, lending his energy and positivity to the people around him. He coaches youth sports, and you can see that in the way he interacts at the shop. So, if you’re wanting a bright brain in the realms of: strategy, search tech, front end dev, UI, hockey, and just whatever the heck might be next, give Adam a buzz.

Daniel Snider

Adam is a skilled and qualified designer/developer, but most importantly he has the ability to effectively communicate digital strategy to clients. He is helpful and patient, always willing to make time to build improvements, train users and troubleshoot any number of issues. I worked with him on the build of multiple websites, and Adam is innovative, constantly searching for solutions for the client and features to improve the user experience. He is one of the few back-end developers who also has the skills for client service.

Janay Boyer

Adam is a skilled and qualified developer, but most importantly he has the ability to effectively communicate website strategy to clients. He is helpful and patient with clients, always willing to make time to build improvements, train users and troubleshoot any number of issues. I worked with him on the build of multiple client websites. He is innovative, constantly searching for solutions for the client and features to improve the user experience. As an account manager, he is one of the few back-end developers who in my opinion truly also has the skills for client service.

Vartan Antonian

Adam is the type of person you want on your team–a proactive self-starter, intuitive, and cares for the projects overall goals. Working with Adam has been a pleasure. Well-versed in UX and interface, graphic design, front-end development, and strategy, Adam is the full package. I admire his unconventional ideation, which always has generated a better design and a better product at the end of the day. You won’t meet anyone more pleasant and friendlier than Adam, too. He’s one of the good guys and I’ve learned a great deal from him

Meredith Reagan

It was a pleasure working with Adam to build and launch our website. He is courteous, professional and always had options and solutions at the ready to ensure that the final product looked exactly as we envisioned. He was also available to answer questions and to provide consultation throughout the process, which facilitated open-ended and smooth communication. It would be my pleasure to recommend him to any of my friends or colleagues.