Olivia Kay - Resume

A strategic, seasoned creative technologist and digital designer who solves business and user experience problems through design. Currently looking for positions that will allow me to grow as a UI/UX and Product Designer, ideally working on a single product or set of products.

Experience

Senior Designer

Evolve Systems
2022 - Present

  • Solve UX problems for clients to give users the most streamlined experience possible

  • Design and mockup UX/UI projects and lead hand-off to development

  • Perform design QA on in-development projects

  • Manage and improve our approach to design, including how we present UX strategy to clients, educating clients about UX design, and developing new products and services.

Advisory Board Member

Husson University
2022 - Present

  • Stay up to date on current trends in design to advise the Marketing Department on their Graphic Design and User Experience Design programs

Freelance Designer

2017 - 2022

  • Founded a freelance design studio that has worked with over 100 clients in the gaming/content creation space

  • Manage multiple client projects (5-7) at a time while keeping track of deadlines 

Graphic Designer

Wisdom Gaming
2022

  • Directed creative and executed design for Riot Games’ Teamfight Tactics broadcast, focusing on laying out complex information in an easily digestible format for nearly 200k viewers

Senior Designer

Luxury Optical Holdings
2018 - 2019

  • Designed email, web, and print graphics within strict brand guidelines for 9 luxury eyewear brands and their collaborators, like Jaquemas, Oscar de la Renta, Monse, and more

  • Led project to overhaul Morgenthal Frederics’ and Robert Marc NYC’s email marketing design through analytics and A/B testing, resulting in a 20% increase in opens and a 3% increase in clickthrough

Senior Designer

Arkatechture
2016 - 2018

  • Directed redesign of company website to be optimized for content marketing from wireframing to web development and user testing, leading to a 14% conversion rate increase

  • Managed UX and product design on Arkatechture’s proprietary data analytics platform, Arkalytics, to give clients easy access to their custom data dashboards

Education

BS / Marketing Communications

Husson University / New England School of Communications

AS / Computer Science

Cottey College

AA / Digital Art

Cottey College

Certifications

User Experience Professional

Skillcrush

Mobile UX Design (Top 10%)

Interaction Design Foundation

Game Design & Development

University of Michigan (In Progress)

Skills

  • Design Direction

  • User Interface Design

  • User Experience Design

  • Visual Design

  • Illustration / Vector Artwork

  • User Research

  • User Testing

  • Web Design

  • Accessibility Design

Tools

  • Figma

  • Adobe Illustrator

  • Adobe Photoshop

  • Adobe InDesign

  • Unity

  • Canva

  • HTML

  • CSS