Joel Wilke

Experience

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  The Genesis Group

  Dec 2000 - Nov 2004

  Art Director/Senior Graphic Designer

  My role was to take projects from concept to completion. Responsibilities included client contact, estimating, vendor coordination, press proofing and supervising interns. Projects included advertising, marketing, identities, direct mail, collateral pieces, packaging, and signage.Clients included: Central Vermont Medical Center, March of Dimes-Vermont Chapter, Champlain National Bank, Climb High and LakeChamplain.com.

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  Masters Gallery Foods

  Feb 2005 - May 2006

  Creative Services Manager

  Part of an initiative to enable the offering of creative design as a value-added service.

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  Champlain College - Marketing Department

  Oct 2008 - May 2011

  Website Production Specialist

  Responsible for the support of the college’s undergrad and graduate sites, building new pages and edit existing department and program sites.• Instrumental in making cost-effective site-wide design updates to coordinate with a new print branding and before a complete site-wide redesign.

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  Kforce

  Sept 2012 - Jun 2013

  UI/UX Designer & Front-End Developer - U.S. Bank, IT Operations

  Designed the user interface for a suite of applications to improve network and application monitoring response rates during critical incidents through tracking, reporting and messaging.

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  Apex Systems

  Sept 2013 - Jul 2014

  UI/UX Designer & Front-End Web Developer - Wells Fargo Mortgage Co.

  I designed the department’s user interface and template system based on corporate brand standards for Web and Windows applications. Also front-end development to ensure “pixel perfect” implementation.

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  ICF International

  Aug 2014 - Jan 2016

  Analyst (UI/UX Designer & Front-End Developer)

  Acted as lead/sole front-end developer and/or UI/UX designer depending upon a project needs. I collaborated remotely with customers, subject matter experts and division partners.Clients included: Environmental Protection Agency, National Cancer Institute, Dept. of Health & Human Services and the California Dept. of Social Services.

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  Modis

  Apr 2018 - May 2019

  UI/UX Developer - Optum State Government Solutions (UnitedHealth Group)

  Collaborated with a diverse international team to modernize a legacy mainframe-based system using Angular. Designed a build tool that generated HTML from client-provided spreadsheets, significantly accelerating development workflows. Developed reusable, configurable Angular Bootstrap components to improve UI consistency and developer efficiency. Actively participated in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, pointing, reviews, and daily stand-ups.Customer: The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. Show less

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  Paradigm

  Feb 2020 - Jul 2021

  Front End Software Developer

  I worked on a multi-functional team to build and support customer-specific ERP built on a SaaS foundation. Responsibilities included reviewing releases, lower-lifecycle deploys, peer code review, communicating with offshore QA and working with SMEs on solutioning customizations. I also contributed UI/UX improvements, custom concepts and branding enhancements.Customers included the The Home Depot, Lowe’s, Marvin and Andersen.

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  Fortra

  Nov 2021 - Feb 2023

  UX Engineer III

  My focus was to work with an internationally distributed product team to build a Cloud version of their successful desktop-based enterprise-level IT workload automation tool. I worked with the team to discuss user problem areas, project goals, requirements and timelines to provide design guidance and complete user flow mockups with development specifications.I created a product specific UI component library based on the company branding, fledgling design system and MUI pattern library. I created a template and used a style guide to define common workflows and patterns to improve usability and wayfinding. Show less

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  GovCIO

  Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

  UX/UI Designer

  GovCIO is partnering with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) Veteran Readiness & Employment (VR&E) Service to develop and support a modern case management system that leverages automation to enable VR&E to deliver comprehensive benefits and allow VR&E staff to support Veterans to successfully prepare for, find, and maintain gainful employment.Applying an Agile DevSecOps approach, GovCIO has partnered with Appian, an industry leading case management platform, to create and maintain a system that will continuously deliver value across the VR&E product line, increasing user visibility and improving system capabilities, information security, and accessibility. Show less

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  Infor

  Aug 2023 - now

  • Product Manager, Infor OS Experience

    Aug 2024 - now

  • UX Delivery Lead

    Aug 2023 - Aug 2024