Global Commodity Trading Portal

Design leadership for a complex intranet-based suite of services for this global commodities firm. Focus on trading and fulfillment, risk management, strategic planning, reporting, customer assistance. Reported directly to CIO on usability and portal design issues.

Business Portal Design

Provided a clickable site model that conformed to the workflow, allowed stakeholders to sign-off on the experience, and served as design guide for the development team.

The primary goal was to provide a usable, manageable, efficient "portaled" working environment across the major business task areas:

Commodities Trading
Execution & Settlement

Facilities Management
Shipping & Storage

Planning & Projections
Risk Management & Reporting

Positions Management
Trade Records & Reporting

Infrastructure

Identify and map the taxonomy of the Business Processes.

Provide HTML page templates, CSS stylesheets and interaction models to guide code development.

Advised on content management issues

Training / Reporting / Support

Designed materials to assist in global rollout initiative (training & user acceptance materials).

Created print & electronic marketing materials for use with both internal and external clients.

Information Architecture, Demo Site, Wireframes, CSS Style Guide (Core Data Entities), User Assistance, Design Workshop, Best Practices, Design Specifications

The biggest challenges: Rework legacy interface to focus on user experience, define best practices, clarify business requirements, integrate across a range of diverse applications. Design user assistance & marketing collateral.

“I recommend John highly. We worked together on a project and his contribution (on all levels) was outstanding.”

Goran Vukobratovic, Project Manager, Bunge

"John is a visionary who knows how to get things done. At Bunge Global Markets, John took control over a fragmented and immature UI design process and in short order provided realistic structure and standards that could be readily applied across all applications to produce a single unified user experience that was functional, intuitive and easy to use. He took the initiative to produce the support materials needed to deploy it - including a revised style guide, fully functional prototype wire-frames, and a set of standards for UI Behaviour.He made a major contribution to the overall UI effort at BGM." Top Qualities: Great Results, Expert, Creative

Duff Bailey, Program Manager, Bunge

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Complex Commodity Trading Business Application & Portal, high-fidelity website, page design & wireframes, model, "application-oriented" sites, CSS, templates, reports, portal environment, graphics, documentation, content management, requirements gathering, Powerpoint, online help, print marketing collateral, use case analysis, branding, style guidelines, best practices, Javascript