Resume of Wenzhu, a user experience designer

1. Wenzhu Zou User Experience Designer
jewelzou@hotmail.com
0031 645 119 285
www.wenzhuzou.com
Driving License: Dutch, class B
Nationality: Chinese (EU Permanent
Residence Permit. Labour freely
permitted.)
OBJECTIVE
An experienced and results-driven UX Designer. My passion lies in creating successful products and positive user experience
with using my Human-Computer Interaction expertise and design skills.
EXPERIENCE
User Experience Designer at NSPYRE, NL
High-Level Interaction Design
• Performed user research activities to help clients understand the industrial trends
and market’s needs;
• Gathered user insights and interpreted them into high-level interaction design
which is represented mainly through Axure prottoype;
• Created the sample visual design to present a direction for the future visual style.
Mobile/Web Application Design
• Acquired the client’s requirements and interpreted to initial design through sketches;
• Came up the optimized workflow and presented the interaction design via
wireframe;
• Created visual designs which reflected the client’s branding style;
• Supported development team to implement the application in HTML & CSS or XML
according to the project requirement.
To know details of projects, please see the portfolio http://wenzhuzou.com/portfolio
User Experience Researcher at Philips Research, NL
• Successfully led and collaborated with multidisciplinary teams around Europe to
design and develop high-tech Philips kitchen appliances in Cosumer Lifestyle field.
• Designed Smart Kitchen Assistant web application by performing User-Centered
Design process from sketching, prototyping to usability testing validating its
usability.
Usability Engineer in FEI Electron Microscopy Company, NL
• Specialized in improving the usability of the electron microscopes’ user interface
and defining the design guidelines for the subsequent project.
• Performed User-Centered Design methods to the overall iterative processes,
designed the new features of UI and validated the design through usability testing.
Technique skills
Persona & scenarios
Questionnaires/survey
A/B Testing
Usability testing
Contextual inquiry
Focus groups
Prototyping
HTML5 & CSS
Tools
Photoshop Illustrator
Dreamweaver InDesign
Premiere Axure
Languages
English (fluent)
Chinese (native)
Dutch (competent)
01/2010--09/2010 02/2011--04/2012 04/2013--Current

2. UI Designer in Helantong website, NL
• In charge of designing work of Helantong website (the predecessor of outpie.
com) at its preliminary phase, including site branding, creation of illustrations and
animations and defining style guides;
• Together with the developers built the website in HTML&CSS.
EDUCATION
Professional Doctorate in Engineering of User-System Interaction (USI)
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Publication: W. Zou, T. Scherini, P.Melo, T. van Craenendonck, M. Kaptein, Enhancing
the Sleeping Quality of Partners Living Apart, DIS10 Designing Interactive Systems
2010, Arhus, Denmark, August 2010.
• Awards: the Computer graphic work “Underwater City” obtained the silver award
of “Eindhoven in the Eyes 2010” Chinese Design Competion in the Netherlands,
2010
Master of Science in Computer Engineering
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Publication: W. Zou, M. Janic, R. Kooij, F. Kuipers, On the availability of networks,
In Proc. of the Broadband Europe 2007 Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, 3-6
December 2007
• Academic Honor: Philips Scholarship
Bachelor of Science
Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
2001--2005 09/2005--07/2007 10/2008--10/2010 01/2008--10/2008
Soft skills
Strong work ethic
Interpersonal skills
Problem solving
Time management
Presentation skills
Communication skills
Stakeholder management
Teamwork
Hobbies
Photography
Graphic design
Video editing
Diving (PADI certificate)
Fashion craftsmanship
Cosplay