Interaction Designer & Information Architect working within the world of User Experience & digital products. Currently focused on a native iOS application that acts as a companion to a suite of SaaS products. Formerly focused on apps and responsive experiences for ecommerce. MN Nice. › Learning & Teaching - push and pull. Whether that's coworkers, the community, or stakeholders who need to know "why?"​ @hildman Career to Do List: Analyze and solve for a solution that impacts users globally Work trip abroad for several weeks within another culture. Some Things I've Participated In: IA Summit - 2014 Thoughtworks Workshop Intensive - 2015 UXPA 2015 - Simplicity www.brianhildman.com

Sr. Interaction Designer—UX @ User Experience (IA, IXD, Research) for Ticketmaster's B2B iOS mobile app, Ticker. - Works within a high profile project that involves frequent in-person collaboration with the President of the company, Tech/ UX/ Marketing VP's, vertical leads. - Partnered with Program and Product consultants from Thoughtworks to redefine a leaner and quicker approach to how the team collaborates on, and releases, digital products within Ticketmaster. Feature development and release went from taking month(s), to week(s) - Plans and conducts user research sessions and proxy interviews for a B2B mobile iOS product: identifying, prioritizing and meeting with various end users physically and remotely. (it's awesome to meet Venue Execs, Marketers, Box Office folks, and Artist Promoters to collaborate on our features, they love to work with us and we love to work with them!) - Analyze findings to collaboratively prioritize and execute on our continuously evolving feature roadmap. - Produce Wireframes, Prototypes, and Visual Designs to drive the product towards it's release. - Evolves research around the Entertainment personas that use our Ticketmaster One platform for their job - Regularly work with product and tech leads to plan, sketch, analyze, and test the mobile app within iterative releases. - Kicking ass within the entertainment industry by revolutionizing the way venues, artists, and promoters evaluate and triage their real-time sell-through data, personalize and manage their workload, and share to collaborate with their peers via a connected ecosystem of mobile & web SaaS solutions. From November 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) Freelance/ Contractor @ IA & IXD assignments that require user centered design to solve problems within agile or lean teams. From September 2005 to Present (10 years 4 months) Mgr. User Experience/ Digital Experiences & Mobile | IA & IXD @ *Lead UX end to end for mobile and in-store channels at Best Buy, resulting in double digits growth in revenue across 2013, at a time when stores have been reporting lower margins than expected. *UX that spanned shaping Native Applications (iOS, Android, Windows 8) and Responsive Web Design for devices and screens ranging from small ( 320 px phones), medium, to large (1200px +) *Comfortable leading Strategy and Exploration to evolve vague objectives into concrete goals & timelines *Strategy, IXD, and IA deliverables: Wireframes, Flows, Sitemaps, Specifications, Requirements, Personas, Usability, Findability, & Visual Design. *Presents to senior stakeholders, evaluates existing experiences and optimizes or redesigns for users and business. *Managed an external designer when timelines got tight. *Prototype and assist Usability Testing, critically evaluate test results. *Advocates for end users; clarifies complex, technical, and corporate jargon for real people, not just business stakeholders and shareholders. From September 2012 to August 2014 (2 years) User Experience Designer @ UX: Information Architecture, Site Maps, Wireframes, Usability, Userflows Clients: Best Buy: Geek Squad, Jamba Juice, Medtronic From June 2012 to September 2012 (4 months) User Experience Designer @ - Met the Interaction Design & Information Architecture needs for the North American Saatchi X network. - Explore and execute the Shopper Marketing and E-Commerce experiences for Fortune 50 clients. - Took complex digital experiences and made them digital, simple, and tangible. - Led UX for the projects I was brought in on, consulting within dedicated client teams. - User Personas, Wireframes, Site Maps & Userflows -The Unofficial Ping Pong Ball Retriever. Clients: Procter & Gamble. Walmart. Pepsico. TracFone. From August 2011 to June 2012 (11 months) Interactive Contractor @ My responsibilities included Development, Creative Tech & User Experience for M|W's interactive advertising campaigns. Clients included: Cargill, Finnegans, Integrity, Marvin Windows, Supervalu (FAME), Syngenta, New Business. From October 2010 to March 2011 (6 months) Designer @ Awarded 1st Place Nationally for Best Academic Conference for Students & Professionals within our division. - Assisted with branding, fundraising, to execute a conference that bridged hundreds of students with advertising professionals. From September 2010 to March 2011 (7 months) Designer @ I got to represent dreams, memories, far away places, and global cultures for WE's potential clients. Design & Digital Asset Management. Client liason. From August 2009 to January 2010 (6 months) Assistant Designer @ - Designer for UW-Stout's marketing initiatives - Worked with my clients from project conception to completion. Brainstorming, Designing, Printing, Delivery. From September 2007 to May 2009 (1 year 9 months)

BFA Multimedia Design, Business Administration, 3.7 @ University of Wisconsin-Stout From 2006 to 2010 None, Graphic Design @ Century College From 2005 to 2006 Brian Hildman is skilled in: Typography, Adobe Creative Suite, Graphic Design, Art Direction, Interaction Design, Creative Direction, InDesign, User Experience, Illustrator, Logo Design, Web Design, Layout, Advertising, User Interface Design, Illustration