Mario Pereira

About Mario Pereira

I am a professional designer and strategic creative thinker, with over 24 years of design experience in print, user experience and interactive design. I am highly functional in corporate cultures and have used my design and communication skills to facilitate common understanding of complex projects and corporate strategies.I am an experienced creative leader, motivator, and design and usability advocate.Specialties: Team leadership; strategic visualization; public speaking; User Centered Design.Skills: Illustration, animation, Photography, video editing, Front end coding (HTML, CSS, Responsive Design), User research facilitation/moderation.Software: Photoshop, Premiere, After-Effects, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Sketch, Figma and all MS Office suite.

Experience

1. Senior Digital Designer

   MassMutual

   Feb 2015 — Present · Springfield, MA, US

   Senior Design leader with the MassMutual digital communications team.• Focus on company intranet, and new ways to communicate with employee population.• Champion the employee user experience by: • Planning and running usability sessions with employees. • Aggregating usability research. • Visualizing and communicating data to senior leadership so it is easily understood and so project goals and direction can be set and agreed upon. • Turning those business goals into actionable designs and communications. • Championing diversity and inclusion and continually assuring content meets ADA requirements and is inclusive in its content and structure.• Enabling employee interactions to be easy and intuitive to allow employees to understand and self service their needs.• Mentor and lead junior designers and vendors on the team.

Education

• Yale University

  BFA Art, Art/Art Studies, General

  1988 — 1992

Skills

• Html
• Creative Direction
• Flash
• Logo Design
• E-Commerce
• Multimedia
• Art Direction
• Newsletters
• User Interface Design
• Css
• Photoshop
• Graphics
• Cms
• Animation
• Packaging
• User Experience
• Catalogs
• Brochures
• Indesign
• Logos
• Information Design
• Web Design
• Advertising
• Information Architecture
• Website Development
• Experience Design
• Marketing Materials
• Email Marketing
• Quarkxpress
• Actionscript
• User-Centered Design
• Graphic Design
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Layout
• Corporate Branding
• Mobile Design
• Web Development
• SEO
• Jquery
• Usability