CV ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Juan Manuel Cornejo — GUI Designer Quito, Ecuador | hola@juanmnl.com | (+593) 996-354-078 Experience ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Design Engineer & Consultant | Self-employed | Aug 2025 - Present • Partnering with local businesses and international clients on brand strategy, visual identity, and digital product design • Designing and building high-fidelity web experiences using Framer, React, and modern frameworks • Bridging design and development—prototyping interactive components and shipping production-ready UI • Advising teams on design systems architecture, component libraries, and scalable UI workflows Lead Product Designer | Huridocs | Oct 2021 - Aug 2025 • Led modernization of Uwazi, a documentation platform serving 4,000+ users across 150+ HR organizations • Designed AI-assisted workflows that reduced data extraction time by 60% for non-technical users • Created Preserve, a browser extension for secure, tamper-proof evidence collection • Built a 70+ component design system that cut UI development time by 35% • Partnered with PMs, engineers, and researchers in cross-functional squads of 5-10 Senior Product Designer | Lumentalta (Clevertech) | Jan 2018 - Oct 2021 • Designed enterprise B2B platforms for clients in fintech, healthcare, and logistics • Led UX for Katoen Natie's industrial automation platform, digitizing operations handling 500+ railcars daily • Delivered consistent multi-platform experiences across web, mobile, and desktop • Collaborated directly with C-level stakeholders to align design strategy with business objectives Senior Experience Designer | ThoughtWorks | Mar 2016 - Dec 2017 • Led UX initiatives for digital transformation projects in retail, banking, and aviation • Facilitated 20+ design sprints and discovery workshops for cross-disciplinary teams • Established user research and design thinking practices across client organizations Freelance Designer | Independent | 2013 - 2016 • Delivered end-to-end creative solutions for international clients • Designed responsive websites and immersive web experiences using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript • Crafted brand identities and editorial layouts for magazines and print collateral UI/UX Designer | Azendoo | Jan 2011 - Apr 2013 • Spearheaded complete interface redesign for the collaborative productivity platform • Crafted cohesive brand identity and visual language across all touchpoints • Designed high-impact marketing collateral that drove user acquisition Art Director | Cycloboost | Sept 2010 - Feb 2012 • Directed video production and photography for e-commerce and brand storytelling • Designed print brochures and managed social media campaigns Freelance Designer | Independent | 2005 - 2010 • Pioneered multimedia experiences during the Flash era, building interactive websites and CD-ROMs • Produced commercial video and sound design for advertising campaigns • Developed brand identities for diverse clients across industries Skills ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Design: Product Design, UX Research, Design Systems, Information Architecture, Prototyping Technical: Figma, Framer, HTML/CSS/JS, React, Claude Code, OpenCode, Adobe CS Specialties: Enterprise, Industrial, AI/ML, Human Rights Tech Process: Design Thinking, Agile/Scrum, Workshop Facilitation, Usability Testing Education ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HCI Research Certificate | Université de Bordeaux (2011-2012) Sound Engineering | SAE Institute, Madrid (2002-2005) Linguistics | Universidad Católica del Ecuador (2002) Languages ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Spanish (Native), English (Fluent), French (Fluent), Portuguese (Conversational) Download PDF: docs/Juan_Manuel_Cornejo_CV_2026.pdf