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Mark Reilly

Summary

I am a User Experience Designer with over eighteen years in interactive media. My career spans the breadth of digital production, from production art to web design and front-end development. As a User Experience Designer, my in-depth understanding of the design process allows me to meet user goals while balancing aesthetics and technical constraints.

Professional Experience

KBS (kirshenbaum bond senecal)

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Associate Director, User Experience KBS (kirshenbaum bond senecal) –

  • Create a design system, user flows, and a prototype for Stanley Black & Decker's Lista product configurator
  • Design a skills matrix for the UX team to visualize strengths and gaps within the team. The skills matrix helps with allocations, skills training, and career development.
  • Create a Sketch and InVision based workflow to streamline work between departments; Wireframes are created by UX designers, visualized by UI designers, and then prepared for handoff to developers

Senior User Experience Designer Spies & Assassins | KBS (kirshenbaum bond senecal) –

  • Create a modular design system, wireframes, user flows, and prototypes for the responsive redesign of the BMW USA website
  • Create wireframes, user flows, and prototypes for the redesign of the My BMW website
  • Conduct user interviews and create content types and wireframes for the Hershey's digital marketing learning site

New York University

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User Experience Specialist Digital Communications Group, Information Technology Services –

  • Create a new responsive user interface for Sakai, an Open Source Learning Management System
  • Commit back the user experience work from NYU Classes to Sakai
  • Design a new user interface for NYU’s Email Direct — a bulk email communication tool for NYU administrators

User Experience Designer Academic Technology Services, Information Technology Services –

  • Design a new user interface for NYU Classes — the Learning Management System (LMS) based on extensive usability testing
  • Create a ‘Mobile First’ prototype for our redesign of MediaCommons — a digital network for professors and post-graduate students of film and media studies

Interactive Designer and Developer Faculty Technology Services, Information Technology Services –

Columbia University

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Senior Web Designer and Developer Columbia University Digital Knowledge Ventures (a small ‘digital agency’ within Columbia University) –

  • Create educational course content and departmental websites for Columbia University and affiliated non-profits
  • Design and develop websites using open source content management systems and static html

Web Designer and Developer Columbia University Digital Knowledge Ventures –

  • Work with Columbia Faculty to design and develop interactive e-seminars and courses
  • Design and develop interactive maps, audio slideshows, podcasts, and basic video production and post-production for streaming video and DVD

Scholastic

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Web Designer e-Scholastic

  • Design educational, commercial, and promotional websites for Scholastic
  • Design daily site graphics, flash based interactive quizzes and educational activities

Education

  • – Ph.D. Media & Communication, European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland
  • – Certificate in Film Production, The New School, New York, NY
  • – M.Phil. Medieval History, Trinity College, Dublin University, Ireland
  • – B.A. History and Philosophy, University College Dublin, Ireland

Additional Information

Teaching

The New School, – Adjunct faculty member, Media Studies

  • Courses: Foundations of Media Design and Digital Video Effects

Columbia University, – Instructor, High School Program

  • Course: Digital Filmmaking

Organizations

  • Co-Founder: NYU UX Group & NYU Web Designers and Developers Group
  • Co-Organizer: DrupalCamp NYC 9 & 10 NYC Drupal Users Group
  • Member: IxDA • NYC UXPA • Gotham Sass Meetup • NYC Drupal Users Group • Agile Experience Design Meetup • Type Directors Club

Selected Presentations, Event Organization, and Trainings

Presentations

Event Organization

  • UX Networking Breakfast Co-Organizer TorchTech & NYU UX group —
  • UX @ NYU Co-Organizer NYU UX group —
  • Usability @ NYU Co-Organizer NYU UX group —
  • DrupalCamp NYC 9 & 10 Co-Organizer & Designer NYC Drupal Users Group — &

Trainings