MICHAEL KEVIN SMITH

I am a Technology Product and Design Manager with over 12 years of direct experience and proven expertise in User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) Design. My career has allowed me to lead countless product design and enhancements while developing and advocating advanced strategies to across Business Units and Executives.

I serve as SME in graphic and interface design building UI kits, wireframes, low/high-fidelity prototypes, and pixel perfect comps in Sketch and Adobe XD. I am also an expert in building within web development languages and frameworks also doing a good deal of design work and WordPress theme and plugin development for congressional candidates in the USA.

Worked with Bob Glazer's team to redesign book landing pages for latest 3 books. View one of the books.

New EO Brand

Designed new UI component library, mobile UI, and page layouts for implementation on various enterprise systems at Entreneurs' Organization (EO). View Brand Website

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EO 24/7 - Virtual Learning Conference

Built EO 24/7 live virtual learning conference for entrepreneurs; this year it attracted 48,400 visitors during the 5 day conference and produced 822 potential member leads for the organization. View Website

Betsy Dirksen Londrigan

Designed and developed custom WordPress website for Betsy’s team including custom post types and an API integration to the campaign’s donation management system and CRM. View Website

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EO Network App - Landing Page

Built a simple landing page to showcase the new Entrepreneurs' Organization App. View Website

EO Network App Interfaces

Worked in collaboration with Flatstudio to craft 200 interfaces for iOS and Android versions of the EO Network App. The app is for 12,000+ entrepreneurs that make up the Entrepreneurs' Organization.

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NATIVE EXOTICS

Built and designed the entire online experience for this carnivorous plant nursery. Took their existing website from a few disjointed static pages with a PDF order form, to a CMS managed and profitable e-commerce platform on WordPress and WooCommerce. View Website

TERRACOTTA SUMMER

An experimental project to showcase some of my new music. Experimented with full width/height responsive video and a music player that degrades nicely on mobile. Built from scratch utilizing WordPress as a backend to manage tracks/templates and SoundCloud’s API to pull music. View Website

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Entrepreneurs' Organization - EO App

The EO Global App will allow members of the Entrepreneurs' Organization to connect with each other and engaged in new ways ultimately leading to increased member retention and communication. For this project I created the mobile app prototype and user-flow for this project underway.

Entrepreneurs' Organization - Octane Blog

Custom WordPress theme for the official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO). For this project custom post types, custom fields, and templates were constructed to allow the greatest flexibility for administering and maintaing thousand of post, magazine articles, and video content. View Website

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Entrepreneurs' Organization - MyEO

MyEO is a web platform allowing entrepreneurs to create groups and forums around their own interests and passions. For this project I wrote specification, built all front-end interfaces, built all email templates, and managed development of new platform from start to finish. View Work

Entrepreneurs' Organization - IQL

Built two custom platforms for supporting member leadership at the Entrepreneurs' Organization. Both platforms using WordPress with custom directories, member-only content, video training libraries, and a streamlined applications process. Members are authenticated against the main transaction MS CRM database via a custom built WordPress plugin and via EO API.

DIGITAL GROWLIST

An experimental project to create a digital version of my grow list. The backend consists of fields to capture genus, species, germination date, altiudinal distributions, vendor ids, etc. The front-end serves up all plants in the database allowing users to search the db, modify display, and view higher resolution images for each plant.

Entrepreneurs' Organization - WP Theme

A flexible WordPress and email template to allow creation and administation of all EO global event websites. Themes settings allow for localization of language, modification of elements throughout, and custom post types to support sessions, speakers, and event committee members.

Entrepreneurs' Organization - EO24

Built live chat and video streaming platform for organization’s live 24-hour event. Platform increased user participation by 437% from pervious year and achieved over 4,600 participants with an average view time of over 25 minutes.

Entrepreneurs' Organization - Styleguide

This web style guide is a comprehensive overview of all web elements and patterns used for creating web pages and web application at the Entrepreneurs' Organization. It is based on the style and reusable components I built for construting front ends for EO.