Veronica Jericho

Brisbane, Australia veronicamaree@gmail.com

UI & UX Specialist - Designer & Developer

I am an experienced and accredited UI/UX Designer with a background in software engineering. I have worked on user interface design and development for Enterprise software products for over 20 years... and I'm still standing!


Experience

Frontend Engineer (Mobile/Web)

Savic Motorcycles

Savic Motorcycles aim to distrupt the industry by creating Australian designed and built electric motorcycles. My involvement in this award winning company started as a customer and progressed to joining the team as a software engineer working on their mobile application (React native, Expo, Typescript). This app provides insights for customers into their motorcycle, including proximity locking, trip and location information, and other statistics.

For more information, visit savicmotorcycles.com

May 2024 - Present

UX Designer & Director

For the User

While working for others has given me many years of experience, I wanted the freedom to do user-focused work on passion projects. I started my own consultancy company 'For the User' where I apply my skills as UX designer and developer. This works has been completed as ad-hoc contracts and voluteer work.

October 2021 - Present

Staff Engineer - Frontend

Emesent

Emesent provides autonomous collection and analysis of data from challenging environments such as underground mining using drone technology and LIDAR mapping.

As a Staff Engineer in the Front End team I have had all the usual senior software engineer responsibilities as well as being the interface between multiple teams to ensure seamless API and workflow design, and performing acting team lead and acting UX designer roles as required. I have worked on modernising the drone controller software for users to complete autonomous and manual missions (React native, Android, Typescript, and Angular).

October 2021 - Present

UI/UX Designer

Deswik

Deswik provides a large scale enterprise software product suite for mine modelling and scheduling.

As a UI/UX Designer, I was responsible for the design of new features and products, redesign and simplification of existing workflows, and basic UI design efforts across the product suite.

October 2017 - October 2021

Software Engineer

Megaport

Megaport provides a rapid, software-based provisioning system for connecting network locations all over the world.

As a software engineer, I worked on both the client portal and server as a full stack developer of the Megaport product. Task included both implementation of new features and maintenance of the existing product.

  • Web-based client portal: Vue2, Javascript, HTML5, SCSS
  • AWS-hosted server: Java, Scala, Docker, Maven
August 2016 - October 2017

UI/UX Specialist

Caterpillar of Australia

As a UI/UX Specialist I was responsible for user research and UX design of a range of Next Generation products for Caterpillar's MineStar product suite.

As a Senior Software Engineer and UI Team Lead, I was also responsible for implementation and delivery of Caterpillar's MineStar Office product.

  • Next Generation product: Java, Javascript, HTML5, CSS, Maven, Angular 2
  • Office product: Adobe Flex, Java
September 2011 - August 2016

Senior Software Engineer

Boeing Defence Australia

I was with Boeing for many years, with various roles. However, I was predominantly responsible for the full software lifecycle of both the Vigilare and High Frequency Modernisation Project (HFMP) user interfaces. This included liaising with Commonwealth of Australia military customers, UX design, software documentation, implementation, and testing of UIs.

  • Vigilare: Java
  • HFMP: C++, Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), Win32 API
March 2000 - August 2011

Portfolio

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Education

Foundation Certificate in User Experience

British Computer Society
January 2020
BCS Certification logo

UX Accelerator Program

PeakXD
September 2019 - January 2020

Graduate Certificate of Information Technology

Queensland University of Technology
2001

Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics) / Bachelor of Information Technology

Queensland University of Technology
January 1995 - December 1999

Skills

Programming Languages & Development Tools
  • Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, Eclipse, JBuilder
  • Git, Subversion
  • XML, SQL, UML
UX Design & Supporting Tools
  • Balsamiq
  • Adobe XD
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Optimal Workshop
  • Askable
  • Survey Monkey
  • MailChimp

Patents

My work as a UX Designer at Caterpillar resulted in three patents being filed, and one patent being granted for innovative work in mining applications. Pretty cool!

United States Patent #9052209 for Location Services in Mining Vehicle Operations. Short story version, it provides a timeline view and map view of current and planned locations of mining fleet machinery to support efficient mine operations.

Image from my patent
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Contact

If you'd like to get in touch to find out more, send me an email.