Etienne MAUJEAN

5/74 Macleay St

2612 Turner,

ACT

0401488167

+33 6 72 54 44 39

Summary

Digital consultant with over 6 years experiencein project management anduser experience design.

I designed my first website at the age of 15 and have been passionate about digital design ever since. For the previous 6 years, I have provided consultancy, led design teams and managed projects on convergent media and devices including desktop, mobile phone, tablet and interactive TV.

During my career I have taken part in many national and international projects in Paris and overseas designing responsive design websites, apps and intranets fora range of industries such as banking, insurance, finance, retail, classifieds, government andnews media.

My goal is to secure a role in an ambitious web design team, in which I will continue to innovate and create delightful user experiences (whilst also having fun and making people smile).

Skills

Strategy consulting

  • Stakeholder interviewing
  • Data analysis, web analytics, defining KPIs
  • Evaluating competitors, benchmarking
  • Early concept sketchingand multichannel design strategy
  • Mental model design, business modelling
  • Ability to generate new ideas, to transform them into services and develop business around them
  • Sensitive to the balance between user requirements and key business objectives
  • Provide creative leadership with emphasis on establishing a clear, consistent vision without losing sight of the details

Project management / change management

  • Managing multiple projects simultaneously whilst keeping to tight deadlines
  • Planning complex multi-disciplinary projects, including reporting and budgeting
  • Oral and written presentations, including client-facingmeetings and pitching new business
  • Experience working with different methodologies including agile project environment (SCRUM)
  • Team coordination (team and individual management - experience with teams of 5 to 10 people)
  • Experience working with WCAG 2.0 accessibility guidelines
  • Work closely with visual designers and IT teamsto maintain consistency of design throughout different screens and interfaces

User Experience designer

  • Strong knowledge of current trends and best practices
  • Ability to conceptualise and implement design principles from the feature list to final layout
  • Content sorting, sitemap, structure and navigation systems
  • User research (end-user interviewing, focus-groups, card-sorting, personas, user journeys, etc.)
  • Information architecture (from low-fidelity sketches to high-definition annotated wireframes)
  • Interaction design (expert in Axure RP Pro)
  • Strong ability to design and prototype on the go
  • Conducting thorough usability reviews
  • UI functional specification

Although this experience is quite broad, please note that I don't do any visual design or coding.

Professional Experience

2011Freelance contractor – Digital design consultant

2+ yearsSample of projects and assignments:

  • Working for most of the greatest agencies in France, I have provided UX consultancy services for clients such as Chanel, L’Oréal, Habitat, BforBank, Crédit Coopératif, Casino, Norauto, Leclerc Drive, Adrexo, Carrefour, Photocité, UGC-Pro, LeChouChou, Les-Horaires, Réunica, Saint-Maclou,etc.
  • During this time, I also lectured in UX design courses to 3rd and 4th year students at HETICschool in Paris, for three years. I have also taught mobile design courses to students at Nomades.Ateliers in Geneva, Switzerland. I have been selected as a Jury member by both these management TIC schools.
  • In 2011 I was invited to give a lecture about UX design in agile projects at the 2011 UX Masterclass in Copenhagen, Denmark.

2008-2011Axance (French leading UX design agency) -User Experience Designer

3 yearsSample of projects and assignments:

  • For over a year, I was the leadingUX designer on this project, creating an entirely new web presence for Univadis / Merck Medicus, including new responsively designed website, iPhone and iPad apps. This portal of services provided by MSD (French branch of Merk Sharp & Dohme) is designed to enhance the world’s top GPs and health specialists practices. I took part and animated several brainstorming sessions, workshops and meetings with marketing board, product leaders, and top-executives. I designed along with the Axance team an innovative, user-centered, and highly reliable solution is meant to deployed in +15 countries in the world including USA, UK, FR, JPN, GER, SW, etc. Early in my career, this multimillion dollars project gave me a unique experience of complex transversal project planning, brand redesign, content management and high-level user experience design.
  • Working for Axance, I also was the project manager and leading UX designer of several TV/VOD services for Alcatel-Lucent. These projects led to the delivery of several interfaces fordesktopcomputers, interactive TV, tabletsand mobile devices. These UIs and services are now distributed as a white label to top European VOD providers like Vodafone, Telefonica, Orange, and so on. I planned the 2-3 transversal projects, handledthe functional requirements and high technical constraints, manageda team of more than 5 people including user researchers, visual designers and IT team based in France, Spain and Romania.
  • Later, I was the leading UX designerof the new Apec.frwebsite and iPhone app for the premier recruitment agency for French managers.In 2010, after a new Euopean policy stated that l’Apec would be soon stripped of its public funding, the company had to reinvent itself to find independent revenue streams. I helped to conceptualised a new global web strategy to meet company’s highly ambitious new business requirements. For over a year,I worked closely with Internet executive board, product managers, and other contractors likeSteriaone of the top IT consultancy firm in Europe.
  • During this time, I also led UX design and/ or manage 20+ web and mobile projects for national and global companies in different industries such as e-commerce (BUT, Chateau-Online), new media (TF1, Orange), banking (GE Money Bank, Natixis, AEPM), etc.

"Mixing curiosity and prospective expertise within the projects we have worked on, Etienne has always looking for interactive tips, going beyond simple good practices. This approach gives him the opportunity to tackle the issues of interaction not only on a functional design approach but also on business issues. It is strengthen by the fact that his "youth" allows him to immediately integrate the new trends in web design and mobile applications."

— Xavier Castan, Executive associate, managed Etienne directly at Axance

2005-2008Freelance contractor -Web project manager–aka the dawn of my professional career.

3 yearsI started my career designing small websites for artists and local companies during my student time. That was my first but very enlightening experience facing clients. I also did some visual design and front-end development back at this time.

Internships

2007Nurun, a Quebecor Media Company. Web project manager

6 monthsI worked closely with Sam WOODMAN (was head of information architecture, now Adobe experience architect) and Jean-Pascal MATHIEU (was vice president in charge of strategy, now chief innovation officer) on million-users websites like France Télévision (france2.fr, france3.fr, france4.fr), J.M. Weston or the Luxembourg Museum in Paris. My assignments were toplan the projects, answer the client and operational teams on day-to-day basis, bring new ideas of features during client’s workshops, improving their services by benchmarking competitors, following-up the websites production, managing the visual design team and front-end developers.

Education

2006-2009Master’s degree, majors in web project management and Internet sciences.

HETIC – ECTEI Group, is a young but already leading elite French school of Internet sciences and technologies. I studied project management, user-experience design, web technologies, SEO/SEM, analytics, HR management, entrepreneurship, business intelligence, innovative marketing... I came first in 2009’s year.

2006-2007Bachelor’s degree,majors in copywriting and community management.

I studied Internet history, content strategy, user online behaviour, copywriting, blogging, social media and community management at the Paris V Descartes University.

2004-2006Associate’s degree in digital communication and Internet services or I.U.T. Services et réseaux de communication.

Studied front-end development (HTML, CSS, JS, Action script 2), back-end development (PHP5 object, Zend framework), content management systems, visual design and brand identity, 3D...

2004 High School Baccalaureate with specialization in Sciences.

Languages and Computer skills

Languages French: Native

English: Fluent

German: Notions

Latin:Notions

ComputerStrong expertise in design and prototyping tools like Axure RP Pro, Omnigraffle, Balsamiq

Mockup, MS Visio, etc.

Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite software like Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator

Personal Interests

Real appeal for almost every kind of sport with a preference for team sports. Practised rugby, soccer, climbing, fencing (3 years), gymnastic (2 years), rifle shooting, flag ball, judo (8 years), diving, horse riding, surfing, canyoning, kart racing, sailing (3 years), sand yachting... On a regular basis, I practice basketball (15+ years, in competition), motorcycle racing and swimming.

I’ve been travelling a lot these last three years, including most European major cities and countries (last one was Scotland, last month), several trips to southwest USA, Asia, North Africa and Oceania.

I took an active part as a volunteer in the “UX Paris” organization and their monthly meetings, free conferences and Book Club.

Referees

Hélène LEGER-COSENZA: Lead Mobile UX design at Axance()

Stéphane PARADES: CEO and founder at Napoleon()

Nicolas LIMARE: Director of online customer experience at Merck Europe()

Mai Khanh PHAM TO : Digital strategic planner at Altima ()