Resume
Lex Ferguson
Resume and experience overview for Lex Ferguson across design engineering, product, branding, and digital work.
Open to full-time Product Design roles starting May 2027.
Email: afergyy@gmail.com
Experience Summary
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May 2026 - Oct 2026
Lead Design Intern @ Alfa Art Gallery
Led visual and experience design for interactive virtual exhibitions, publications, and promotional work at a New Jersey arts organization.
- Promoted to Lead Intern within three weeks, providing creative direction, design critique, and project coordination across exhibition and publication initiatives.
- Led UX and visual design for interactive virtual exhibitions, improving navigation, information hierarchy, spatial organization, and content presentation.
- Collaborated with design and curatorial teams to deliver digital exhibitions, catalogs, promotional assets, and presentations from concept through production.
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2026 - Present
Founder & Product Designer @ Verity Protect | Secure Screen Calling
Designed and launched an iOS call-screening product from concept to production, protecting older adults and their caregivers from scam calls.
- Owned the product from strategy through launch, including the call-screening model, caregiver workflows, and production release.
- Defined product strategy and designed UI flows for onboarding, alerts, transcripts, fraud scoring, caregiver access, and call screening.
- Built and maintained a reusable design system and production React Native interfaces.
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Jan 2026 - Apr 2026
Web Designer & Developer @ Wayne NJ Real Estate
Redesigned and developed a custom real estate website from scratch, replacing a Squarespace site with a CMS-backed build.
- Owned the redesign from discovery through deployment, translating the business's sales and content needs into a new site structure.
- Led UX research, wireframing, visual design, React development, CMS-backed blog implementation, hosting migration, and deployment.
- Established navigation, calls to action, SEO, analytics, photography, and brand patterns across the responsive website.
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2022 - 2024
Photo Editor & Layout Intern @ RSP Media
Produced jewelry photography, editorial layouts, and print-ready catalogs for luxury jewelry brands and magazine work.
- Photographed and prepared product imagery for brands including Gumuchian and Martin Flyer, carrying assets through retouching and delivery.
- Applied visual hierarchy, typography, composition, retouching, and color correction across catalogs, editorial features, marketing materials, and digital content.
- Collaborated with creative teams to deliver polished, detail-focused assets that strengthened consistency across editorial and promotional touchpoints.
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Mar 2025 - Aug 2025
Web Designer & Developer @ Packanack Golf Club
Redesigned and rebuilt a non-responsive golf club website, organizing memberships, lessons, events, restaurant services, and catering into dedicated paths.
- Reframed the site's information architecture around memberships, lessons, events, restaurant services, and catering before rebuilding it responsively.
- Managed the full project lifecycle across UX strategy, UI design, responsive HTML/CSS/JavaScript development, SEO, content structure, deployment, and maintenance.
- Increased monthly website traffic from approximately 500 to more than 1,500 views and introduced membership inquiry forms that supported new membership and catering interest.
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2021 - 2024
Digital Manager & UI Designer @ SageAIO
Founded and managed a retail technology startup while coordinating a distributed team of developers and designers.
- Set product direction and coordinated developers and designers across multiple countries while taking the startup from concept into operation.
- Designed user interfaces for digital products and websites, improving usability, visual consistency, information hierarchy, and conversion flows.
- Led social media strategy, content operations, and brand communications, growing the audience to more than 10,000 followers.
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2023 - Present
BFA, Design & Animation @ Monmouth University
Studying Design & Animation with a concentration in Graphic and Interactive Design, a minor in Photography, and a 3.8 GPA.
- Focus academic work on graphic and interactive design, web, motion, and digital product design.
- Collaborate with computer science students to move UX and UI ideas into interactive prototypes, apps, and websites.
- Published work in Monmouth Review Vol. 67, 68, and 69.