David Lumerman

23 Nautilus Avenue, Plainview, New York 11803 | 516.931.0596 | dave@lumerman.com

LinkedIN: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlumerman

Personal Site: http://www.lumerman.com

Accomplishments

  • Developed user experience program and testing laboratory
  • Reduced complexity by 40% of benefits enrollment application in collaboration with IBM.
  • Designed and developed an award winning pre-k educational website (www.lil-fingers.com)
  • Developed interactive anti-bullying application for Governor's Prevention Partnership (State of NJ)
  • Co-Author of "Usability in Distance Education"

Skill Set

  • People Management
  • Focus Group Facilitation
  • Design Thinking Facilitation
  • Design Facilitation
  • Moderated Usability Testing
  • Group Presentations
  • Usability Testing
  • Mentoring
  • Process Modeling
  • Visioneering
  • User Research
  • Lean UX
  • A/B Testing
  • Wireframe Development
  • Graphic Design
  • Interaction Design
  • HTML/CSS prototyping
  • JavaScript/jQuery protoyping
  • Information Architecture
  • Creative Brief Development
  • Video Development
  • Agile Development
  • Axure prototyping

Employment History

Adjunct Professor

Brandeis University | June 2017 — current

  • Graduate professor of User Interface Design

Corporate Vice President: User Experience

New York Life | March 2015 — current

  • Responsible for setting UX strategy and methodology
  • Lead and Mentor usability designers
  • Develop Usability/ User Experience documents for senior management, development & business stakeholders
  • Craft easily understood business flows based on complicated processes for development and stakeholders
  • Develop wireframes, UI specifications and visual experiences to meet project needs

Lead User Experience/Usability Designer

New York Life | April 2001 — March 2015

  • Established a user experience team and process
  • Performed heuristic evaluations resulting in improvement and productivity cost savings
  • Organized, facilitated and developed creative briefs on for 50+ internal applications
  • Reduced time to delivery by 60% through site visits, heuristic evaluation and UX redesign of policy process

Game Developer/Senior Art Director

Uproar.com | March 1998 — November 2000

  • Developed television property "To Tell the Truth" for online market to coincide with the TV launch
  • Designed and developed massive multiplayer game “Family Feud”, increasing revenue by 40%
  • Increased revenue 20% by analyzing and aligning game development and customer usage patterns

Electronic Publishing Specialist

Collier's Encyclopedia | June 1995— March 1998

Art Director

Baldi Bloom Whelan Advertising | October 1992 — June 1995

Education

Masters in Human Computer Interaction

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 2004 — 2007

Bachelors of Fine Arts in Illustration

School of Visual Arts | 1986 — 1990

David Lumerman | 23 Nautilus Avenue, Plainview, NY 11803

516-655-8669 | dave@lumerman.com | LinkedIn