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IA & UX WRITER (FREELANCE)
Profile
User Experience Writer and IA/UX Designer of intuitive human-centered multi-platform digital products for Fortune 500 companies. I work with design executives, stakeholders, developers, and product owners, to create elegant streamlined UX solutions that users enjoy interacting with as easy to integrate, life-enhancing effective, seamless tools that help manage their lives.  
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petermessina1  
 
Key Skills
  • Excellent writing & communication skills
  • UX/IA lead in multi-disciplinary global teams
  • Heuristic site evaluations & competitor analysis
  •  UX writing
  • User-centered design
  • Agile process
  • Certified UX & UI for mobile
  • Metadata & Taxonomy
  • gile methods
  • Agile methods
Tools
Adobe CS, Illustrator, InDesign, InVision, Confluence, UXPin, JIRA, Visio, Axure RP, Balsamiq, Principle, Keynote, HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP. 
 
DELIVERABLES: UX writing copydecks, competitive analysis, user research, stakeholder interviews, sketches (pen & paper, digital), user flow diagrams, personas, journey maps, information architecture content maps, content audits, content strategy, static and clickable wireframes, rapid prototypes, content management systems (process, strategy and curation), functional specifications documents.
Clients
Work produced for: Bank of America, IBM, ibm.com, IBM-w3, IBM-Watson Labs, IBM-STG, ITT, Museum of Modern Art, Motorola, Verizon, Unilever, AARP, United Healthcare, Cubix labs, Berlex, Knopf Random House, Forest Labs (Lexapro)
Professional Experience
03/2010 to Current
IA & UX Writer (Freelance)Company Name － City, State
Delivery of intuitive user-centered design and information architecture of mission critical multi-platform internet services. Current clients: MariaVenegas.com, Life Target (redesign).
09/2008 to 01/2010
Sr. Information ArchitectCompany Name － City, State
Creation of standards compliant information architecture and UX solutions, labeling for IBM branded web initiatives and applications, on ibm.com and the IBM Intranet (w3).
09/2006 to 09/2007
UX DesignerCompany Name － City, StateUX Design, IA, labeling, user instructions, content strategy of consumer-targeted pharmaceutical websites. Clients: Forest Labs (Lexapro), Berlex, Cubicin.
01/2005 to 09/2006
Information ArchitectCompany Name － City, State
Produced information architecture and UX, content at this agency for Fortune 500 companies Verizon, Unilever, Bank of America. Redesign of Draft intranet.
04/2003 to 12/2004
Information Architect & UX WriterCompany Name － City, StateLed initiative to restructure and rewrite IBM information architecture standards. Created a flexible and dynamic content classification system for IBM stakeholders. UX writing, content copy/technical writing.
12/2002 to 04/2003
Information Architect & UX WriterCompany Name － City, StateExtrapolated and revised copy for 1638 ibm.com web standards and implementing a new UX design and flexible and scalable classification scheme for IBM Intranet.
05/2000 to 12/2002
Information ArchitectCompany Name － City, State
Created information architecture design deliverables for corporate e-commerce clients including Motorola, Advantstar and Museum of Modern Art.

Education
2015
Master of Arts: Non-fiction WritingHunter College － City, State
Bachelor of Arts: PhilosophySUNY New Paltz － City, State
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School Attended

  • Hunter College
  • SUNY New Paltz

Job Titles Held:

  • IA & UX Writer (Freelance)
  • Sr. Information Architect
  • UX Designer
  • Information Architect
  • Information Architect & UX Writer

Degrees

  • Master of Arts : Non-fiction Writing
    Bachelor of Arts : Philosophy