Johnny Mango

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Johnny Mango
UX Product Lead
Dedicated and accomplished UX Product Lead with a proven track record of delivering cohesive and innovative user experiences across diverse product applications. Adept at leading cross-functional teams, I bring experience in workshop facilitation, user interviews, and iterative design using industry-leading tools such as Figma, FigJam, and Miro and seeking a challenging role to leverage my strategic visioning, program strategy, and hands-on design skills to drive impactful results in user-centric product development.
Portfolio:  manganade.com
Email:  johnnymango@me.com

Design Skills

  • Workshop Facilitation
  • User Interviews
  • Persona Development
  • Storyboarding User Flows
  • Information Architecture
  • Card Sorting
  • Low-Fidelity Wireframes
  • Interactive Mockups
  • Usability Testing
  • Visual Design
  • Illustration
  • Accessibility

Proficient with

Figma
85%
FigJam
90%
Miro
90%
Illustrator
80%
Photoshop
80%
Sketch
90%
InVision
85%


Frameworks

Bootstrap
90%
Material Design
80%
Fluent UI
75%
Angular
70%


Languages

HTML
85%
CSS
90%
PHP
70%
JAVASCRIPT
60%


Experience

January 2023 - February 2024 (Contract)

UX Product Lead

ThermoFisher Scientific

Facilitated workshops and collaborated with a cross-functional team for projects, ensuring a consistent and strong creative execution.

June 2021 - January 2023 (Contract)

UX Product Designer

In my role within the Genetic Sciences Division, I played a crucial role in ensuring the delivery of cohesive user experiences across a range of product applications. As an integral member of the UX team, I actively contributed to program strategy, visioning, and the definition of requirements. Employing design tools such as Sketch, Figma, FigJam, and Miro, I engaged in iterative design processes to develop and refine user interfaces. Furthermore, I took the initiative to expand the existing design system guidelines, incorporating innovative ideas to enhance the overall user interface and user experience across various platforms.

August 2018 - February 2019 (Contract)

Senior UX/UI Designer

RSA (DELL/EMC)

Performed ongoing usability testing to proactively identify user interface-related roadblocks, focusing on improving the product's overall experience (s). Gathered client requirements through customer interviews and led the Product team through ideation sessions in an Agile UX environment. Storyboarded and diagramed potential problems with the interface and conducted information architecture workshops and user-focused design sessions. Developed interactive prototypes and user flows according to the end users’ requirements.

October 2017 - February 2018 (Contract)

Senior UX/UI Designer

Millipore Sigma

Ensured the design concepts were appropriate for the targeted audience and marketing goals set by the client while also meeting WCAG 2.0 compliance. Gathered design requirements from clients and presented concepts, wireframes, and mockups. Created UI mockups and documentation for the developers to take to production. Produced HTML, CSS templates, and other code necessary for interface appearance and functionality.

March 2017 - May 2017 (Contract)

UX/UI Designer

Boston College

Created journey maps, user flows, and UI mockups according to user personas. Optimized UX/UI designs through review and analysis of user needs and provided technical assistance and guidance to designers, developers, and QA. Recommend new and emerging assistive technology solutions to increase accessibility by WCAG 2.0.

May 2016 - February 2017 (Contract)

UX/UI Designer

ERT

Defined and prepared UI features within the product, both new and updates to the existing software. Designed and created annotated screen mockups, wireframes, and interactive prototypes demonstrating the end-user experience. Participated in engineering scrum meetings to promote best Agile UX practices and interacted with the engineering team during the build process.

January 2016 - May 2016 (Contract)

UX Designer & Front-End Developer

UMASS Boston

Designed, architected, developed, tested, and deployed EE (Expression Engine) based solutions. Served as a design lead for the Product Development team.

July 2015 - November 2015

UX Designer & Front-End Developer

Imprivata

Maintained and updated corporate websites built with Drupal.

July 2014 - May 2015

UX Designer & Front-End Developer

VE Interactive

Led team through new Beta Application launch.

October 2012 - April 2014

UX Designer & Applications Developer

NASDAQ OMX

Designed User-Friendly Interfaces and Developed ColdFusion, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript Websites.

April 2012 - Aug 2012 (Intern)

User Experience Designer

DailyFeats

Design Intern for a Social Media Start Up.


Education


New England Institute of Art

Bachelor of Science

Interactive Media and Web Design

Naval Aviation School

Certificate Electrical Engineering

Avionics Technician AE Level Class

Montserrat College of Art

Fine Arts


Other Experience


November 2004 - February 2010

Senior Field Service Engineer

Medtronic Cardiovascular

Provided efficient service and installation support to client accounts.

June 1999 - June 2004 (Honorably Discharged)

Avionics Technician AV8B Harrier

USMC

Worked as the Lead Flight Line Troubleshooter and Avionics Shop Staff NCO


Work


ThermoFisher Case Study

ThermoFisher

ThermoFisher Case Study

Citrix Log In - RSA

RSA

While at RSA I was tasked as the Product Manager and UX Designer for the Citrix StoreFront login, it utilized RSA Secure ID two factor autentication.

Boston College Eagle App

Boston College

I breifly joined the Boston College Eagle App production team, I like to think that I left an impact on the way they designed future interfaces.

Study Designer App - ERT

ERT

The ERT Study Designer Application has been one of my most favorite projects. I joined a very talented Development team that was just learning to embrace Agile Methodologies.

Admissions WCAG2.0 Template - Umass Boston

Umass Boston

The UMASS project was a great study into the world of Accessibility. I worked with the project development team to design and develop many templates that were also WCAG2.0 complient.

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Design System - NASDAQ OMX

NASDAQ OMX

As a side project to perfoming my daily activities, I developed the Design Process for onboarding new clients. In the process I created a Design System for the whole team.