I'M
Kia
Kyanne.
DIRECTOR, USER EXPERIENCE & DIGITAL STRATEGIST
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Kia Kyanne Horton is a Director, User Experience & Digital Strategist with over 15 years of design, architecture and implementation experience on complex digital platforms.
Current Experience highlights:
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Document the world of digital ecosystems
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Develop strategies behind successful business platforms
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Rethink business models to embrace new technologies
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Convert a product or service into a platform or app
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Think differently about emerging technologies
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Make bold, strategic choices along the phases of digital transformation
Personal highlights:
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Workout/Bootcamp Enthusiast
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Football, Wrestling, Volleyball, Basketball, Baseball Mom
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Traveler
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Foodie
01 PROFESSIONAL
MY KNOWLEDGE LEVEL IN SOFTWARE
BALSAMIC
AXURE
SKETCH
90%
70%
95%
PHOTOSHOP
85%
DRUPAL
80%
SHAREPOINT
85%
iOS & ANDRIOID
85%
INVISION
95%
02 PORTFOLIO
MY LATEST WORK. SEE MORE >
03 Experience
2014-2019
RIGHTPOINT
Lead (Manager) Experience Architect
Current client is The Chamberlain Group. Responsible for gathering requirement for the Emerging Business and Residential Access Management LOB’s to coordinate development efforts to support growth of the myQ mobile application. Other responsibilities include coordination of discovery and define phases of projects to implement digital solutions for large to small organizations. Other clients include AbbVie, AMITA Health, AON, Ascension Health, Astellas, BAI, Grant Thornton, Komatsu, Smiths Medical and others.
2019-PRESENT
FCB CHICAGO
Director, User Experience
Create strategic digital experiences for multiple client properties.
2012-2014
DIGITASLBI
Associate Director, Experience Design
Assigned to Emerson Process Management (Fortune 100) to work on projects that included a complete redesign of an engineering specifications tool and store used to configure products. Other clients included Miller Coors, KitchenAid, Jenn-Air, Maytag, Whirlpool and others.
2011-2012
SEARS HOLDINGS CORP.
Senior User Experience Architect
Establish brand loyalty for the Shop Your Way Rewards loyalty program. Integrate the loyalty program into an existing social platform (formerly http://social.sears.com). In this highly visible, Chairman sponsored project, improving the user experience by having a firm grasp of what being social means to retail was a primary objective.
2010-2011
CISION
Business Analyst
Complete redesign and re-architecture of search capabilities. Implementation of Apache Solr open source enterprise search platform with faceting. The purpose of this project was to improve usability and to increase the speed of the current application. Gathered business rules, created functional requirements document include use cases, workflow and process diagrams and sitemap.
CONTACT
Kia is seeking a strategic leadership position in an organization that has its’ pulse on emerging, forward-thinking technologies. The work should be fun, technically complex, yet innovative and challenging.
Tel: 1-312-545-4527