Tony Montemorano

Las Vegas, Nevada
(518) 222-7631
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[email protected]

Profile

Experienced designer, front-end developer, user experience consultant, and team manager with over 10 years of professional experience. Strong collaborator that strives to create a positive work environment. Constantly seeking efficiencies and ways to enhance or expand design and development capabilities.

Professional Highlights

  • Established and supervised a multicultural team of 30+ designers, UX Researchers, and Front-end Developers.
  • Development and implementation of organizational delivery standards and best practices for UX research, creative design, front-end development, and accessibility testing.
  • Promoted career and personal growth with regular planning and goal setting.
  • Planned, oversaw, and collaborated on organizational brand logo refresh. Established branding guidelines, and reusable document and social assets for internal communication and marketing campaigns.
  • Facilitated cross-functional collaboration with project leads and managers to develop organizational standards documentation for handoff processes.
  • Collaborated with account executives, project managers, and technical architects, to deliver accurate level-of-effort estimations and resource allocations for Requests for Proposals and Statements of Work, enabling effective scoping and budgeting of client engagements.

Skills

  • Team management, mentoring, and training
  • Figma, Sketch
  • Design standards and front-end best practices evangelization and adoption
  • HTML/CSS Preprocessors (Sass, Pug, Nunjucks)
  • Design implementation strategy, front-end framework and design system development
  • Markup semantics, WCAG conformance and 508 compliance

Work History

  1. 2023
  2. May 2022 - Current

    Director of Design

    BrainGu
    Grand Rapids, Michigan (Remote)
    BrainGu logo
    • 2018
    • Oct 2018 - May 2022

      Vice President of User Experience

      MTX Group, Inc.
      Albany, New York (Remote)
      MTX Group, Inc. logo
      • Recruited and assembled a diverse, multinational team of over 30 professionals including UX researchers, designers, front-end developers, and accessibility testers to bolster design, and product engineering to support delivery growth.
      • Established and enforced platform-specific process and deliverable standards enhance design and front-end development quality and improve delivery timelines.
      • Worked closely with both direct and indirect reports to set and accomplish regular objectives and fostepink ongoing professional and personal development.
      • Assisted sales and vertical teams with design, development, and delivery of client presentations and demonstrations.
    • 2013
    • Mar 2013 - Oct 2018

      Senior UX Consultant

      Appirio, Inc.
      Indianapolis, Indiana (Remote)
      Appirio, Inc. logo
      • Built a custom front-end framework and design system for rapid theming and brand customization for products built on the Salesforce platform.
      • Established front-end delivery standards and best practices for the UX team in the US and India.
      • Designed and developed Salesforce Classic pages with Lightning Applications using reusable themes and Lightning Components.
      • Introduced and implemented rapid front-end prototype processes for Salesforce application demos using Lightning Design System, Pug, and Sass.
      • Delivered over 50 successful projects as a designer/front-end developer for enterprise clients, including Sony Music, Georgetown University, General Atlantic, Delta Airlines, AstraZeneca, and more.
    • 2011
    • Apr 2011 - Mar 2013

      UI Designer

      InfoEd Global
      Albany, New York
      InfoEd Global logo
      • Improved user interface, updated branding, and expanded project platform features for on-premise .NET applications.
      • Communicated with product managers and owners to translate project requirements and business objectives into actionable design tasks.
      • Contributed to brainstorming and strategy meetings to build roadmaps for user and product goals.
      • Tested websites at different design and production stages to assess conformance with designs on multiple devices and platforms.
      • Researched and proposed new marketing techniques to elevate brand and product awareness
    • 2002
    • Jan 2002 - Current

      Independent Consultant

      Allusis
      Las Vegas, Nevada
      Allusis logo
      • Custom website design, development, and content management system configuration (with Statamic).
      • Website hosting setup and deployment configuration.
      • Branding and design services (logos, web and print style guidelines, and front-end design systems).
      • 508/ADA compliance testing and issue remediation.