Greg Kucharo
Phone# 650-703-7139
Email telecaster@mac.com
Portfolio: http://kucharo.com
Experienced UI/UX designer for Web, iOS and Android application design and development at startups and mid-sized companies, including leadership of design teams, design systems, website and asset creation. Creation of design work seen by millions of users at PayPal, and large corporate user base at Nike.
My goals are to improve my skills in all aspects of UI design, with a focus on prototyping while increasing my knowledge of front-end development.
Professional Skills
Visual design
User experience design
User research independently and with user research team
User research through personas, design sprints, and moderated/unmoderated tests
Design team leadership
HTML/CSS/React.js experience
Figma, Sketch, Framer, Invision experience
Jira, Confluence, Miro
Agile process experience
Collaboration with Product Management and Development
Experience in Hardware/Software QA
Professional Experience
Nike
December 2021 - December 2022 | Creative Technologist
Worked as a contractor for Nike on Project Gemini, an internal tool for BOM management. Responsible for producing high fidelity prototypes and other design work. Acted as liaison between design team and development. Maintained design system for the project and updated it with new patterns and documentation as project progressed.
Design System creation and maintenance
Prototype development in Framer and Figma
Jira and Confluence ticketing and documentation
User research with synthesis of findings into design work
Some work on React.js codebase to improve design/development parity
Design component assets for development
Relocation
Oct 2020 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos
I took time off from work to move from California to Portland, Oregon.
Paypal
October 2016 - December 2020 | Senior UX Designer
Lead the Onboarding design team, and worked closely with SW development, product management and engineering architecture teams. Responsible for Onboarding design from mockup to prototype and release updates. Collaborated with the Paypal design system team to standardize the UI and increase visual consistency. Helped create a learning plan and interview script for Identity UI user testing.
Developed a portable component system for Onboarding UI with the Lead Engineering Architect to unify the on-boarding experience across all Paypal for web and native UI. This reduced time to market and development time for all engineering teams.
Prototyped various design projects using Invision and Framer, including:
UI flow prototype to allow new users to sign up through Facebook
Paypal’s GDPR UI and UX flows for European users, with separate user testing GDPR flows for the UK and Germany
All Onboarding prototypes
Onboarding flow for Russian users to onboard using their government ID system, including Russian translation for user testing.
Designed User Interfaces for:
Mobile phone Onboarding adaptable across multiple phone carriers
Onboarding interface to use Google address lookup to simplify and shorten the onboarding process
Exploratory Motion designs for Paypal login screens
Cloud Parity, Inc.
October 2013 - May 2016 | Lead UI/UX Designer
At this <10 person startup I led the product design teams for two iOS and Android mobile applications, including oversight of the management web portal. I was responsible for all UI development project phases from concept to initial release and feature upgrades, including:
Visual Design assets: buttons, icons, menus, typography, color palette, screen layouts, user interactions, banners
UX Research: user surveys, beta testing, performed user research and gathered demographic analysis using Calq.io
Other Assets: tutorial screens, initial marketing material, web content, poll copywriting, advertising material
Software Design Contributions: handled prototyping and some of the production code development
Software Testing: UI bug tracking in JIRA, use of HTML/CSS code, worked with an outside testing firm, Applause, to identify and characterize bugs in the UI. I wrote test scripts for Applause testers to follow and worked with the development team to address issues that were found.
Project Management: Led front end software design engineers to meet project and feature release timelines
Additional: design of TV display adverts for a casino, design of hockey rink board advertisements, business card layout and design
Apperson Labs
May 2013 – October 2013 | UI Consultant
Provided wire frame layout and visual guidance on mobile application to read odometers for the auto insurance industry.
Avistar Communications
January 2012 - May 2013 | UI Designer
Designed UI elements for a mobile videoconferencing application. Worked with program managers on UI requirements and with developers on implementation. Developed designs from wireframe stage, to full mockups in Photoshop, to generation of assets in various sizes for delivery to development. Designed for iOS and Android platforms.
Damage Studios
September 2011 - January 2012 | UI Designer/QA Engineer
Designed icons and other UI elements for 3 iPhone applications in conjunction with QA on applications. QA on three iPhone applications. Familiarity with TestFlight, and JIRA for bug tracking. QA on UI for all three applications.
June 2010 - September 2011 | Freelance Web/Graphic Designer
Redesigned the websites of Peter Koch Printers and The Codex Foundation, bringing them up to date to the latest HTML/CSS standards and improving navigation and content. Incorporated webfonts from Typekit to better reflect the clients letterpress printing/book arts focus. Designed Oven Lovin Catering website, shot all product photography and setup menu with PayPal ordering.
Peter Koch Printers: http://peterkochprinters.com/
Codex Foundation: http://codexfoundation.org/
Oven Lovin Catering: http://ovenlovincatering.com/
Education
Academy of Art University 2007 - 2010 | Graphic Design
University of Iowa 1988 - 1992 | Computer Science
Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregkucharo