Tariq Cilione

Career History

Empathetic UX Researcher and Designer. Bringing my unique perspective and pedagogical philosophy to UX. Touting youth education, through a multi-faceted approach of world history and digital literacy. Experience in individualizing learning to support growth. Focusing on education as well as social and emotional well-being. I am a driven advocate for all users with a focus on User Centric Design methodologies.

Freelance Experience Designer

August 2019 - Current

• Consulted for small to medium sized businesses with the goal to improve their work experience for their personalized software and hardware requirements

• Improved excavating company's digital experience and service design which driven sales in new large-scale developments and new customers

• Provided heuristic evaluations to improve Information Architecture for a professional portfolio website for a custom woodworker to improve customer's user experience Designed business cards to drive communication between customers and businesses

• Applying UCD principles for redesigning a website by applying knowledge in UX along with reorganizing content to improve customer's user experience when accessing a design portfolio

• Applied hardware and software critical thinking skills to solve hardware and software issues to improve client's work experience with increasing efficiency by 80%

• Provided recommendations, fixing, installing, and implementing client's technical needs in their home office

• Implemented LAN for client's home office to increase service and work experience to drive more sales and ease of use

UX Specialist - Work Study, Touro University

July 2021 - May 2022

• Collaborated with the Deans and Program Chairs to define and create program Web sites that represent the vision and accomplishments of the department

• Defined, delivered, and managed new program web sites to generate interest from prospective students to enroll, increased enrollment by 20% over the past year

• Increased usability and accessibility for an international audience by ensuring all language is in a standard English format along with creating a design that meets W3C AA standards

• Created an agile build process with the local development team to ensure that new features are designed, tested, and launched in a timely manner

• Event coordinator and program manager for guest speakers to share expert knowledge as subject matter experts in their respective fields

Touro University: Graduate School of Technology

• Concentrated studies in User Experience Design and Research 

• Built a strong technical and design knowledge using current heuristics

• Built skills in learning how to use current design programs

• Built an intermediate knowledge of responsive web design using HTML/ SCSS

June 2019 - June 2022