Ben McCoy


Summary


Multidisciplinary Senior Designer with 17+ years of experience spanning brand expression, motion graphics, UX design, and illustration. Proven track record designing and developing for Fortune 500 clients, government agencies, and national broadcast media. Adept at leading end-to-end creative processes—from strategic ideation and stakeholder alignment to execution across digital, product, and storytelling mediums.



Program Proficiency


-Adobe Creative Suite

-Illustrator

-Photoshop

-After Effects

-Adobe XD

-In Design

-Premier Pro

-Final Cut

-Cinema 4D

-Powerpoint


Key Skills


-Facilitation

-Animation

-Illustration

-Video Editing

-Wire-framing

-Rapid Prototyping

-Writing User Stories

-Managing a Kanban board

-Stakeholder Management

-Collaboration with Subject Matter Experts



Experience


Senior Visual/UX Designer, IBM Consulting, United States | 11/2021-Present


Clients:

  • -New Jersey Department of Community Affairs
  • -Air Force Civil Engineers (AFCE)
  • -Pfizer
  • -US Department of Defense
  • -Legal Aid British Columbia
  • -IBM Learning and Knowledge Division
  • -IBM Hybrid Cloud Services


Contribution:

-Designed web portal to protect new homeowners in New Jersey

-Promoted the importance of the AFCE mission by creating content to highlight their readiness and engineering capabilities

-Researched how users interact with Sherlock Digital Tools

-Designed new user interface for a legal aid lawyer portal

-Created animations for a video introducing new security software to the National Science Foundation

-Provided static and animated graphic support to the production of IBM education and training programs

-Animated and edited recognition videos for IBM's Hybrid Cloud Services



UX Design Fellow, General Assembly, New York, NY | 1/2020 – 4/2020


  • Built a Google Calendar iOS feature, a responsive pet adoption website, a childcare networking mobile application, and a food service web application.


Contribution:

-Project managed all aspects of the UX design process

-Elicited insights from 26 user interviews

-Conducted 16 rounds of ideation sketching

-Created 24 wireframes and 4 interactive prototypes



Animator/Motion Graphics Artist, NBC Universal | New York, NY | May 2018 – Dec 2021


  • Created motion graphics for the Today show.


Contribution:

  • -Designed studio monitors
  • -Animated full screens
  • -Constructed digital walls
  • -Created lower thirds



Illustrator/Storyboard Artist, Hogarth Worldwide/The Madison Group | New York, NY | Feb 2006 – Feb 2024


  • Created pre-production art for WPP advertising group.


Contribution:

-Digitally drew and painted storyboards for TV commercials

-Created finished art for print

-Produced animatic art for focus-group testing



Designer – Contract, CBS Sports Network | New York, NY | Nov 2016 – Apr 2017


Created graphics for NFL and NCAA programming.


Contribution:

-Designed statistic info-graphics

-Retouched player photos

-Created caricatures of on-air talent



Animator, Fox News Channel | New York, NY | June 2015 –June 2016


  • Created short-form animation for Fox and Friends.


Contribution:

-Created on-air graphic packages and animations for broadcast

-Designed and animated network IDs, logos, transitions, backgrounds, commercial bumps, and promos



Education


Associate Degree, Illustration, Pratt Institute | New York, NY


Certificate of Completion, User Experience Design Immersive Course, General Assembly |

New York, NY


Certificate of Completion, Salesforce UX Designer |

New Orleans, LA