Ron Akanowicz

About Ron Akanowicz

I bring user-centered design and critical thinking skills to high profile clients and projects. Talented and experienced with a Master’s degree in Information Science. Creative, empathic, and productive team player. Excellent client-facing, presentation, and listening abilities. Passionate voice of the end-user.Specialties: Interaction design; user experience design; information architecture; planning, facilitating, and reporting on usability studies; creating personas, user journeys, site maps, wireframes and prototypes; writing functional requirements and user stories; presenting and training. User Research • Personas • User Journeys • User stories • User Flows • Site Maps • Wireframes • Prototyping Usability Testing • Agile UX • Axure • Sketch • Balsamiq • Omnigraffle • Fireworks

Experience

1. Lead User Experience Architect

   Pegasystems

   Oct 2019 — Present · Cambridge, MA, US

Education

• General Assembly

  Certificate

  2018 — 2018

• Robert Morris University

  B.S.

  1988 — 1991

• University of Pittsburgh

  M.S.

  1992 — 1993

• University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information

  Master's degree

Skills

• User Interface
• Task Analysis
• Web Applications
• User Experience Design
• Sketch
• Information Architecture
• Agile Project Management
• Scrum
• Css
• Usability Testing
• Heuristic Evaluation
• Drupal
• User Interface Design
• Research
• Agile Methodologies
• Agile
• Axure Rp
• Usability
• Web Development
• Rapid Prototyping
• SEO
• Persona
• User Experience
• Wireframes
• Front-End
• Interaction Design
• Html