Coral Gables, FL · +1 512 743 7018 · miguel@sciaudone.com · www.sciaudone.com
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Senior UI/UX Designer with 20+ years bridging design craft and front-end development across enterprise SaaS, fintech, healthcare, and global risk management platforms. Beyond design, brings hands-on front-end coding ability in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery — enabling direct collaboration with engineering teams, faster design-to-development handoff, and the ability to prototype and validate interactions in real development environments. Experienced as both solo design lead and embedded team designer, owning platforms from initial concept through QA — working fluidly within Agile/Scrum teams alongside engineers, product managers, and business analysts to deliver polished, accessible, and scalable digital experiences.
CORE COMPETENCIES
UX/Design: User-centered design · Wireframing · High-fidelity prototyping · Task flow analysis · User personas · Design systems · Iconography · Brand identity · WCAG 2.2 accessibility
Tools: Figma · Adobe Creative Suite (XD · Photoshop · Illustrator · After Effects · Audition) · Visual Studio Code · Sublime Text · Jira · Azure DevOps · MS Teams
Front-End: HTML5 · CSS · JavaScript · jQuery · Bootstrap · Sencha ExtJS
Dev Environments: ASP.NET · PHP · JSP · MySQL · Django/Python · Apache · Git · Subversion · Eclipse · AWS
Methodology: Design Thinking · Agile · Scrum · Design QA · Stakeholder reviews · Design documentation
Languages: English (native) · Spanish · French · Portuguese
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior UI/UX Designer
GardaWorld Crisis24
April 2021 – July 2025 · Remote
Crisis24 (a GardaWorld company) is the world’s leading integrated risk management firm, trusted by 50%+ of Fortune 500 companies and operating across 116 countries — delivering real-time threat intelligence from 200,000+ sources to protect executives, travelers, and assets globally.
Co-led design of Crisis24 Horizon from the ground up over 4+ years — the company’s flagship risk intelligence and crisis management platform used by Fortune 500 security teams worldwide. Defined the full visual language, interaction patterns, and component architecture as one of two designers on the product.
Built and maintained a shared Ant Design component library of hundreds of custom modules serving as the authoritative design system across both enterprise platforms — enabling faster feature delivery for 6+ engineers and 9+ product managers while establishing a single source of truth for implementation.
Drove the UI/UX design track of the WorldAware platform migration — an ongoing initiative to modernize the legacy enterprise interface and bring it to design parity with the Horizon system, ensuring continuity for existing enterprise clients through the transition.
Developed user personas, company profiles, and org structures that were formally adopted by product, engineering, and business strategy teams — directly shaping roadmap priorities and cross-functional design decisions.
Designed responsive desktop and mobile experiences in Figma using Mapbox for geospatial UI; operated within a structured Agile/Scrum environment across distributed teams.
UI/UX Designer Consultant (Solo Lead, concurrent engagement)
Teachers’ Retirement System of Illinois
October 2019 – June 2022 · Remote
TRSIL is one of the largest public pension systems in the United States, serving 462,000+ members — including 165,500+ active teachers — across Illinois public schools.
Served as sole UI/UX designer on a full-scale Pension Administration System redesign that successfully launched to members and administrators — a mission-critical platform handling benefits, enrollment, financial operations, and member records for nearly half a million people.
Designed end-to-end workflows and high-fidelity mockups across the full scope of pension administration — member enrollment, benefit calculation, reporting, and administrative management — within a Vuetify/Material Design system in Figma.
Closed the loop between design and production by reviewing coded implementations directly against design specs, filing detailed bug reports, and iterating with engineering through QA — reducing rework cycles and ensuring the shipped product matched design intent.
Established the project style guide and component pattern library, conducted design requirements meetings and reviews, and maintained design continuity across a multi-year Agile/Scrum engagement.
Senior UI/UX Designer · Front-End Developer
Aquent Cloud · RoboHead
December 2012 – April 2021 · Remote – multiple engagements over several years
RoboHead is an enterprise project management platform for mid- to large-sized marketing and creative teams, supporting high-volume clients with 20,000+ projects annually and 10,000+ active users.
Served as sole UI/UX designer for nearly a decade — responsible for all new module design, platform-wide redesigns, and desktop and mobile UX across the full product lifecycle, from wireframes and interaction design through shipped features.
Coded front-end implementations of my own designs in HTML, CSS, jQuery, and JavaScript within an ExtJS MVC framework — ensuring production output matched original design specifications without relying on engineering interpretation.
Drove the platform’s visual and UX evolution over 8+ years: shipping new feature modules, leading a platform-wide visual redesign, and expanding the product into responsive mobile experiences.
Designed and developed the RoboHead and MajorTom corporate websites and all marketing creative, owning the full brand expression alongside the product work.
Digital Art Director
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. | Austin, TX
July 2014 – November 2014
Charles Schwab is one of the largest financial services firms in the United States, managing $10+ trillion in client assets across brokerage, wealth management, and financial advisory services.
Embedded within the in-house Charles Schwab Design Agency as part of a geographically dispersed cross-functional team — producing digital and print creative across websites, microsites, landing pages, campaign collateral, and video content at enterprise scale.
Managed multiple concurrent projects under tight deadlines, interfacing directly with internal clients, project managers, and developers to maintain quality and delivery across a high-volume production environment.
UI/UX Designer / Front-End Developer
Cengage Learning, Inc. | Boston, MA
September 2011 – December 2012
Cengage Learning is a major educational content and technology company serving millions of college students and instructors across North America through digital learning platforms and course materials.
Designed and developed UI/UX for CengageBrain.com — a large-scale e-commerce platform for college educational products — contributing across the full spectrum of the engagement: new feature modules, platform redesigns, and accessibility compliance as a core deliverable.
Delivered WCAG 2.0-compliant front-end implementations in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery — accessible, standards-compliant code built to meet a formal accessibility requirement, not as an afterthought.
Presented high-fidelity mockups and wireframes to stakeholders; conducted code review, debugging, and QA to close the gap between design intent and production output.
Senior UI/UX Designer/Developer
Curata | Cambridge, MA
May 2010 – September 2011
Curata is a content curation and marketing software company serving B2B marketers, helping organizations discover, organize, and publish curated content at scale.
Designed and developed UI/UX for Curata’s web-based content curation platform (desktop and tablet) — from user flows and wireframes through functional prototypes and production front-end code in a jQuery/Django/Python/Git stack — contributing to a product that shipped and acquired paying customers during the engagement.
Operated as the sole creative resource across both product and marketing — owning all marketing design in parallel with platform UX: corporate website, email campaigns, eBooks, web banners, blog portal, interactive product demos, tradeshow collateral, and video.
UI/UX Designer / Front-End Developer
Recombinant Healthcare Data (later ConvergeHEALTH, acquired by Deloitte) | Newton, MA
September 2008 – April 2010
Recombinant Healthcare Data — later rebranded as ConvergeHEALTH and acquired by Deloitte — was a healthcare data and analytics company building clinical decision support, patient data, and analytics platforms for healthcare providers and institutions.
Designed and developed UI/UX for healthcare web portals spanning clinical decision support, patient data, and analytics — collaborating directly with physician informaticists, product managers, and engineers to translate complex clinical requirements into functional, accessible interfaces using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, in a .NET environment.
Prototyped iPad/tablet UI/UX and built functional demos in jQuery at a time when tablet interfaces in healthcare were nascent — demonstrating early fluency in emerging platform paradigms ahead of widespread adoption.
Owned all corporate website, email campaign, and marketing collateral design in parallel with product work, operating as the complete creative resource across both product and brand.
Early Career
NEC Solutions (Niteo Partners) · IdentityTruth · ScanScout · Carbonite · Neoscape
Senior UI/UX and front-end development roles at NEC Solutions (Niteo Partners), IdentityTruth, ScanScout, Carbonite, and Neoscape — spanning enterprise tech, identity security, adtech/video, cloud software, and 3D architectural visualization. Delivered web design and production front-end work in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and rich interactive front-end development, across a range of product types, platforms, and industries.
INDEPENDENT WORK
Owner/Product Designer & Developer
vacursos.com (Independent)
July 2025 – Present · Remote
vacursos.com is a Spanish-language online training platform for real estate agents and agencies across Mexico and LATAM — teaching professional smartphone photography and videography for property listings, with course content developed and delivered by a professional real estate photographer.
Conceived, designed, built, and operated the entire product and business independently — sole owner of platform UI/UX and front-end development, course architecture, conversion funnel design, video production direction, and copywriting — demonstrating end-to-end product ownership from zero to a live, revenue-generating platform.
Designed and launched two distinct conversion funnels — a self-paced individual course and a B2B corporate training program — each with dedicated landing pages and optimized copywriting.
Grew to 1,100+ enrolled students across Mexico and LATAM through a combination of organic content strategy and paid Meta (Instagram/Facebook) campaign management with full-funnel Meta CAPI tracking via PixelFlow.
EDUCATION
Film Scoring & Professional Music
Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA
A background in composition and music theory informs the sense of timing, rhythm, and pacing that runs through my interaction design work.