GIMENA BLANCO

work EXPERIENCE

Lightspeed B. V/ Senior Product Designer

August 2020 - present, NL

Collaborating with agile-multidisciplinary teams
Leading UX initiatives to define and explore merchant problems, content mapping, wire-framing, low and high fidelity prototyping, and leading stakeholder reviews
UX strategy
Growing team productivity

ZIVVER B.V/ Senior UX Designer

January 2019 - July 2020, NL

Collaborating with agile-multidisciplinary teams
Wireframes, prototypes, design development
Growing UX maturity by fostering design thinking and improving UX capacity to create business value
Design direction and mentoring

HCL/Aegon/ UX and Interaction Designer

September 2016 - October 2018 The Hague, NL

Designed self-services for insurance company Aegon
Aligned designs with product and business strategy
Collaborated with agile, multi-disciplinary teams to evaluate the feasibility of
proposed features and created phased approaches to development
Developed, collaborated on and maintained a design patterns library
70% Interaction Designer
User testing, metric definition
Sketches, wireframes, interactive prototypes

RAD Property Management/ UX and UI Designer

January 2016 - May 2016 Limerick IE

Conducted competitive analysis and user research, helped define an MVP and
clarify the product's potential in the market
Personas, user tasks and flows, sitemap, wireframes and prototypes
Interface design
Customer journeys, flow diagrams and task flows

Reg Point of Sale / UX and UI Designer

June 2014 - August 2015 Limerick, IE

Developed personas, wrote user stories, liaised with customers to document use
cases
Created wireframes, prototypes and performed usability testing
Worked with the development team to ensure interface could be iterated quickly

Creative Multimedia Programming

First Class Honours H.Dip.
LIT, Ireland
2013 - 2014

Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art

First Class Honours B.A.
LIT, Ireland
2009 - 2012

English, Spanish. I have started Dutch lessons.