Evan Travers

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Cover Letter

Bridging the gap between product design and product engineering through research and documentation.

I make tools and tell stories. That passion has always guided me into the liminal space between engineering and design. This led naturally to User Experience.

I love helping people grow and succeed through mentoring and collaboration. Watching colleagues thrive and customers win is what keeps me going.

I thrive in remote work and have been 100% remote for over five years. When away from my desk I love spending time with my family, hiking and photography. I enjoy tinkering with automation tools for my own productivity and writing about what I'm learning on my blog.

Work Experience

Lead User Experience Architect

ProctorU ➜ Meazure Learning
(Oct 2019 - Present)

Brought in to bring a late-stage startup design team to maturity. Mentored and spread Design Thinking across the organization. Applied our team resources to user-centric problems to constantly deliver value.

  • Trained up existing designers, hired new ones.
  • Redefined the role of UX at the company, writing role definitions and objectives.
  • Advocating and planting the seed of a Design System.

Lead User Experience Designer

GradesFirst ➜ EAB
(Nov 2013 - Oct 2019)

Hired to upgrade the front-end of a legacy edtech platform. I pivoted from full-stack to UX Design. Bridging and teaching the front-end and UX team about each other.

  • Rewrote the main application layout and navigation to be responsive and flexible
  • Responsive emails
  • Helped rearchitect the Information Architecture of the application's main tools, using OOUX principles to identify and reorganize the existing nouns and verbs.
  • Led an Accessibility Remediation of the student-facing User Interface:
  • Hiring, coaching, and mentoring an amazing team.
  • Conflict resolution, executive exposure, and high-pressure live demos for suspicious prospective clients.

Freelance Developer

Freelance
(Aug 2013 - Side Hustle today)

I found myself freelancing while looking for the right position. I was able to meet my targets from a financial perspective, but the real blessing was learning to sell and manage the process of delivery.

  • Built a lot of JAMstack Microsites
  • Quickly built Wordpress themes using JAMstack to generate the layouts
  • Built custom Wordpress CMS backends to handle related content-types.

Front End Developer

Luckie
(Oct 2011 - Aug 2013)

Attempting to trade my HTML skills for a full-stack position I discovered that my front-end skills were valuable. Fast-paced environment honed my skills through iteration.

  • Complex micro sites and email campaigns
  • JAMstack based automations for internal processes
  • Brought responsive design and accessibility to the forefront.
  • Developed and managed Rails applications.
  • Helped translate requirements between design and development.

Web Developer

Infomedia
(May 2007 - Oct 2011)

Talking to angry customers, designing front end UI, managing databases, and back-end development in a legacy system.

  • Built and maintained hundreds of e-commerce and marketing websites.
  • Developed new functionality using Visual Basic and SQL.
  • Tried to introduce source control and PHP frameworks, but the business wasn't ready yet.

Education

University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2011
Bachelors, Computer Science

Technical Skills