Steve Solomon

Experience

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  SapientRazorfish

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2006

  Senior Information Architect

  User Experience Lead engaged to develop a common technology platform for all Cendant Hotels, including Ramada, Days Inn, Howard Johnson’s, and others. Significantly improved usability of reservation interface and added innovative motel search capabilities. Produced wireframes and wrote technical specifications for several projects within an overall engagement with Condé Nast Publications, including interface design of site for Domino Magazine. Other clients included Bell South, Philip Morris USA, Garnier Fructis, Maybelline, and Pokemon. Show less

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  NTT DATA, Inc.

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2007

  Senior Principal Consultant

  Key member of the team tasked with the overhaul of Moodys.com Web site, we conducted an extensive discovery and definition effort, employing stakeholder and user interviews and other requirements gathering to build taxonomies and model relationships of complex financial entities, plus associated ratings and research. Developed wireframes and other documents to support complex Endeca-driven navigation model, then designed and conducted user testing with clickable paper prototype.

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  Story Worldwide

  Feb 2007 - Jan 2013

  Associate Creative Director, Audience Experience

  Promoted to Associate Creative Director in 2011, became integral member of ideation and implementation teams for clients including Google, Epica Wines, and the Blue Man Group. Successfully produced over 50 projects - from complex transactional sites to promotional/"activation" mini-sites to Facebook applications – for a broad range of clients. Responsible for providing user experience expertise and documentation for all of the company's U.S. projects (Web, social networking, and rich media banners), including production of all site maps, user flows, and wireframes. Show less

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  Infor

  Dec 2012 - Sept 2014

  Director, Product Experience Design

  Founding member of the "Hook & Loop" team within Infor, one of the world's largest enterprise software firms, where I established the Product Experience Design practice. Reporting to the Chief Creative Officer and working directly with the Infor Executive Team, I built and managed a team of 30+ interaction designers, information architects, developers and product managers. Our mission was to enable Infor and its customers to continue to leverage the sophisticated functionality of its legacy enterprise software offerings by re-imagining the UI, and to invent brand new UX paradigms for the Cloud-enabled, SaaS future. Show less

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  GE

  Sept 2014 - Feb 2018

  UX Studio Lead, GE Digital

  Reporting to Executive Director of the “High-Impact Innovation” team within GE Digital, provide strategic and operational leadership, plus guide team of interaction and visual designers to create software to support GE employees and products. Adapt methodologies including GE FastWorks and Scrum Agile to establish robust cross-disciplinary, cross-business processes for efficient, effective product development.

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  Oneworld Alliance

  Mar 2018 - now

  Digital Product Engineer / Product Manager

  Founding member of Agile product development team charged with implementing and maintaining an API platform enabling airlines to provide a seamless experience for their passengers when managing interline bookings