VICKY TRAN
EDUCATION
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University of Washington
B.S. in Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) & Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Seattle, WA
WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior UX Designer at Stellar Cyber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct. 2020 - present
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Designed intuitive dashboards for our customers to reduce enterprise security risk against threats and improve the economics of their security operations
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Conducted user research, customer interviews, background research, competitive analysis, user surveys and user studies
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Collaborate on Figma to build a design system
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Designed the Open XDR kill chain loop to be patented for the company
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Designed SaaS pages for the new release
UX Designer II at F5
San Jose, CA
Jan. 2019 - Oct. 2020
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Created components, mockups, wireframes, visual designs, and interactive prototypes for dashboards and forms
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Conducted user testing on preferences pages and new dashboards
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Suggested solutions to improve the user experience
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Implemented new features on BIG IP & BIG IQ
UX Designer at Cisco Systems
San Jose, CA
July 2015 - January 2019
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Lead UX Designer creating UI flows, prototypes for new web pages, mobile applications, and smart watch applications
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Created UX designs and interaction for an application utilizing natural processing language translate questions into queries to return dynamic data visualizations in an instant.
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Redesigned the layout, increased responsiveness, and reduced the number of clicks per action for Commerce, a $50 billion platform with over 100,000 accounts
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Designed dashboards that compiled, analyzed, and displayed the company’s spending and earnings which increased efficiency for business processes and provides a safe place for historical data.
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Conducted and created usability tests, analyzed feedback from users using the Cisco Commerce Workspace, created user stories, and created personas to redesign the web application
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Worked on Helios which helped managers with resource, financial planning, and kept teams accountable for their cost.
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Improved the user experience of a tool called Insight which measured the health of an organization with data
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Planned, interviewed, recorded, and edited internal videos for Cisco conferences with over 1500 people in the live audience
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Led and managed summer interns for my organization.
Applications Engineer at Impinj
Summer 2014
Seattle, Washington
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Developed a touch screen kiosk demo that enhanced the shopping experience for both customers and employees by utilizing RFID technology. The demo was presented to our customer and the designs are still in use today
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Brainstormed ideas, conducted user research, created mockups and wireframes, created high-fidelity designs with user interactions, implemented the designs with HTML and CSS, and performed user testing and field studies
Web Designer & Marketing Manager at CONNX Solutions
Summer 2013
Redmond, Washington
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Re-designed, wire framed, developed and implemented web pages to update a corporate website
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Drove executive overviews and weekly status meetings throughout the development phase
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Updated and developed marketing collateral such as documentation, case studies, and white papers
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Designed new marketing templates, icons and graphics to be leveraged in future documentation and presentations
SKILLS & TECHNOLOGY
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Wireframes, Mockups, Whiteboarding, Prototyping
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User Research & Testing
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User Stories & Scenarios
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Affinity Diagraming
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Card Sorting
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Javascript, HTML & CSS
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Grid Systems & Layouts
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Responsive Design
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Interaction Models
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Storyboarding & Personas
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Visual Design
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Data Analysis
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HCI, Human Computer Interaction
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Graphic Design, Web Design, Motion Design
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Figma
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Photoshop
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Illustrator
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Premiere Pro
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After Effects
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Axure
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Balsamiq
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Sketch
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Invision
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Tableau
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iRise