Erich Schmidt

About Erich Schmidt

Imaginative lead designer with more than 15 years of hands-on experience in various…

Experience

1. Lead Product Designer

   Cvent

   Jul 2017 — Present

   Expert-level contributor, managing large projects for CrowdCompass with high customer impact and independence. Leading by example, shaping the UX team and process with ideas and influence. Pulling together designers, developers, writers, researchers, product managers, and other stakeholders to gain buy-in and ensure alignment throughout complex, long-term projects. • Closely involved with all project plans and UX briefs within CrowdCompass, at every step, guiding other Product Designers toward a common vision and raising the bar. • Create and utilize personas and customer journey maps. • A knowledge expert in the Cvent platform and CrowdCompass, building consistency and designing cross-product features. • Actively involved in definition and improvement of Cvent UX tenets, processes, best practices, and UX standards with other UX leaders. • A driver for strategic design solutions and an innovator for platform offerings. • Acts as part-time embedded designer, supporting a sprint team executing multiplatform (iOS, Android, html5) designs through to release.

Skills

• Wireframes
• Web Design
• 3d Visualization
• Vector Illustration
• Multimedia
• Rapid Prototyping
• Logo Design
• After Effects
• Marketing Communications
• Video
• User Interface
• Creative Direction
• Digital Illustration
• Digital Media
• User-Centered Design
• Graphic Design
• Interaction Design
• Keynote
• Art
• Css
• Video Conferencing
• Indesign
• Art Direction
• User Experience
• Graphics
• Wireframing
• Photography
• Visual Design
• Photoshop
• Actionscript
• Film
• Illustration
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Advertising
• Illustrator
• Television
• User Interface Design
• Brand Development
• Video Production
• Cinematography