ECS is seeking a User Interaction / User Experience Designer Senior to work in our Winchester, VA office. Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.
Conducts stakeholder interviews, user requirements analysis, task analysis, conceptual modeling, information architecture, interaction design, and usability testing. Designs and specifies user interfaces and information architecture. Leads participatory and iterative design activities, including observational studies, customer interviews, usability testing, and other forms of requirement discovery. Produces user requirements specifications & experience goals, personas, storyboards, scenarios, flowcharts, design prototypes, and design specifications. Effectively communicates research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale and goals both verbally and visually. Plans and facilitates collaborative critiques and analysis & synthesis working sessions. Works closely with visual designers and development teams to ensure that customer goals are met, and design specifications are delivered upon. Designs and develops primarily internet/web pages and applications. Develops proof-of-concepts and prototypes of easy-to-navigate user interfaces (UIs) that consists of web pages with graphics, icons, and color schemes that are visually appealing. Research user needs as well as potential system enhancements. Has familiarity to, or may actually: code, test, debug documents, and implement web applications using a variety of platforms. Plans, recruits, and facilitates the usability testing of a system. Analyzes and synthesizing the results of usability testing in order to provide recommendations for change to a system.
ECS gained market share in 2011 in the Department of Defense and Federal spaces through both organic and acquisition growth. In May, ECS completed its first strategic acquisition with the purchase of OAK Management, Inc., a leading provider of marine environmental services, ship systems engineering, maritime consulting and platform acquisition management. The OAK acquisition kicked off ECS’ intention to add tactical acquisitions as a part of its long term strategy to supplement and expand upon organic growth and to build enterprise value. ECS closed out 2011 with the acquisition of Paradigm Technologies, Inc. The Paradigm transaction added approximately 200 employees to ECS’ existing 900+ employees. Paradigm also added new Defense clients for ECS, including the Missile Defense Agency, the Navy’s Program Executive Officer for Integrated Warfare Systems, the United States Marine Corps, and the U.S. Marshals Service.
In 2012, ECS completed the acquisition of iLuMinA Solutions, Inc. iLuMinA brings large-scale Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software implementation and infrastructure design and development to ECS’ expanding capabilities.
ECS will continue to invest in corporate infrastructure and quality processes as we grow and enhance our ability to offer professional excellence to both our customers and our employees.