STEFFAN ANTONAS

29 Monument Square, Charlestown, MA 02129
(858) 361 7485
steffanantonas@gmail.com
Portfolio: steffanantonas.com
STEFFAN ANTONAS
USER EXPERIENCE (UX) DESIGNER
PROFILE
SKILLS
User Experience Designer with strong research, prototyping and visual design skills focused on creating digital products
and services. Extensive experience as a project manager/business analyst working with product and development teams in
Fortune 500 companies designing solutions to complex business, social and technical challenges.
UX METHODS
EDUCATION
USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN IMMERSIVE PROGRAM, General Assembly; Boston MA
Sept 2014 - Nov 2014
Completed a 10 Week (400-500 hour), project-based training program focusing on user research, interaction design (IxD),
user interface (UI) design, prototyping, testing and client management.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, Washington DC
2003-2005
Masters of Arts, Communications Culture & Technology (CCT Program)
Awarded Masters Thesis Honors Award for research on Human Interaction In Virtual Environments; Held three
graduate-level teaching assistantships; Georgetown Men’s Varsity Waterpolo Team Captain ‘05.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, Boston MA
1998-2002
B.S.B.A, Management Information Systems (MIS).
Cum Laude, Lock Honorary Society
Card Sorting
Competitive Analysis
Contextual Inquiry
Diagramming
Ethnography
Heuristic Evaluation
Hi/Low-Fi Prototyping
Information Architecture
Interviewing
Persona Creation
Scenarios
Sitemapping
Sketching
Specifications
Strategy Development
Surveys
Task Flows
Usability Testing
Wireframing
WORK HISTORY
UX TOOLS
SAPIENTNITRO; Boston MA
Axure
Balsamic
Invision
Omnigraffle
Experience Designer
Nov 2014 - Current
SapientNitro, part of Sapient, is an integrated marketing and technology services agency. SapientNitro services global brands such as
Citi, The Coca-Cola Company and Target with operations in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Annual revenues >$800M.
Responsible for the navigation, organization, interaction design, and business/ user process engineering for web solutions,
mobile, and other interactive devices. Work with Senior level creative staff to apply user-centered design methods to
translate user needs, business objectives, and technology capabilities into innovative user experiences.
STATE STREET CORPORATION; Boston MA
Engagement Manager / AVP, Applications Team, Corporate Audit
Mar 2011 - Sept 2014
State Street is a global financial services firm servicing large institutional clients with $28 trillion USD of assets under custody. World’s
largest servicer of pension plans and investment manager of institutional assets. Annual revenues >$10B.
Managed business, application and infrastructure teams in the US, EU and Asia Pacific regions conducting integrated audits
of State Street’s Global Markets, Global Advisors and Global Exchange business lines; audit work included evaluations of
development and QA practices, as well as technical assessments of internally developed and vended platforms and
applications supporting the businesses; presented findings and design solutions to senior leadership and stakeholders.
RAHVALOR INTERACTIVE; Holmdel, NJ
Front-end Developer (Contractor)
Sept 2010 - Mar 2011
Rahvalor interactive is a creative services agency specializing in branding, web development, content management and SEO.
Annual revenues < $1M.
Led front-end web and Wordpress development activities for several Rahvalor corporate client projects. Responsibilities
included visual design, as well conversion of designs using HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and Wordpress.
DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
Agile Methodologies
Adobe Creative Suite
HTML5, CSS3 & Javascript
Search Engine Optimization
Sketch 3
Wordpress
Waterfall Methodologies
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Budgeting & Project Planning
Change Management Best
Practices
Enterprise Risk Management
Issues Management &
Resolution
Status Reporting
Systems Development Life
Cycle (SDLC)
CALLAWAY GOLF COMPANY; San Diego, CA
Manager, Internal Control & IT Compliance
Jul 2008 - Sept 2010
Callaway Golf is a sporting goods company specializing in golf. Industry technological leader in club and golf ball manufacturing.
Revenues up to $900M.
Reduced annual audit costs by $40,000 in 2008 and 2009 as manager responsible for the design and performance of
Callaway Golf's integrated audits programs; Key stakeholder in enterprise application development, risk management and IT
compliance initiatives; Led a cross-functional team that designed and implemented the Numara Footprints change
management workflow system for Callaway's US Software Development and IT Infrastructure teams (used by over 80
employees globally).
KPMG LLP; Boston MA & San Diego, CA
Senior Associate, IT Advisory Services
Jun 2005 - Jul 2008
KPMG LLP is one of the world’s largest professional services firms. Sales up to $22B, 145K employees.
Supervised and coordinated client engagement teams in an in-charge role – Served as a fieldwork leader by directing the
daily progress of fieldwork, informing client and internal management of engagement status and audit findings, and
managing staff performance.
INTERESTS
Active member in both the
design and startup
communities. Speaker at
Connected Marketing Week
& Search Engine Strategies
(SES) Conference in San
Francisco (Aug, 2010) and
guest host (twice) on Internet
Talk Radio, WSRadio in San
Diego, CA (January & March,
2010).