Lead UX Designer at SteelSeries

Reina O'Meara

Chicago, IL

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I have a diverse background and have been playfully referred to as the "Swiss Army Knife" of designers. I am very collaborative as well as self motivated, and have received special recognition for extra efforts several times. I can handle a large workload in a very fast paced environment and I love to learn and meet new people.

My most notable achievement this year was designing the redbox mobile apps, which have achieved over 18M downloads, with a 62% increase this year alone.

Some of my clients have included:

Redbox, McDonalds, Walgreens, Disney, Walmart, Tropicana, Nintendo, Anheiser-busch, Lifetime TV, Verizon, General Mills, Microsoft, Ticketmaster
Experience
- Lead UX Designer
  
  SteelSeries
  
  Mar 2013 - Present (13 years 3 months)
- Interactive Designer
  
  Redbox
  
  Oct 2008 - Mar 2013 (4 years 5 months)
  
  - Ensure quality implementation across mobile and kiosk
  - UI design for iPhone, Android and Kindle
  - UI design for kiosk screens
  - Rapid prototyping
  - Print design in various forms
  - Create and implement styleguides
  - Evolve Web, iPhone, Android, Kiosk Products through complete redesigns
  - Maintain and ensure quality design on web 1.0, early marketing efforts
  - Video/Audio engineering
  - Collaborates with IA/UX & Product Management teams
- Feelance Artist
  
  Club in the Chi
  
  2010 - 2012 (2 years)
- Graphic Designer
  
  Federal Signal Corporation
  
  Jul 2006 - Mar 2008 (1 year 8 months)
  
  - Web designs
  - Created E-training, webinars and E-vites using flash animations to augment designs
  - Designed various collateral in the form of brochures, flyers, catalogs and trade show booths
  - Project planning/management
- Graphic Artist/Illustrator
  
  Owens Corning
  
  Mar 2006 - Jun 2006 (3 months)
  
  - Created Graphic illustrations using vector art
  - Created engineering drawings
  - Conducted field research
  - Project planning/management
- Creative Lead
  
  Federal Signal Corporation
  
  May 2005 - Jan 2006 (8 months)
  
  - Structured departmental workflow
  - Managed a team and outside designers
  - Let out projects for quotation
  - Incorporated flash work into a proprietary program for E-learning
  - Audio track editing/engineering
  - Planned and coordinated photo shoots
Awards

Webby Award - 2012 Redbox Mobile App

Moxie Award - 2012 nomination for Best Corporate Innovation for Redbox iPhone and Android app

Davey Award - 2011 Gold winner for Redbox Mobile Apps

Ted Award - 2006 Nomination for Marketing materials
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