# Rick McDaniel

> Senior UX Designer | DesignedByRick.com

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rickmcdaniel

I'm a UX/UI Designer with over four years of experience in helping businesses share their stories through design and visual media. I am passionately interested in helping individuals, businesses, and brands develop enjoyable product user experiences through digital design.

Today, I'm designing and creating media content for clients under my own digital media brand, Rick Scotch Media. I also operate a media platform called ScotchParlor.com that shares stories around inspiring creators. 

My specialties include UX Research, Information Architecture, UI Design, front-end web development, and video production.

Skills: Wireframing, Interaction Design, Sketch, Adobe XD, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut, UX Research, Information Architecture, Usability Testing, User Interviews, Prototyping, UI Design, HTML & CSS

I am a big believer in self-teaching, learning, and adapting. As a UX Designer, I am passionately interested in helping individuals, businesses, and brands develop enjoyable product user experiences through digital design.  

When I'm not on the job, I'm taking photos, making videos, reading a book, or spending time with my family.

If you're interested in grabbing coffee and talking, please send an email my way. I love meeting new people. 

UX Portfolio: DesignedByRick.com

## Work Experience
### Senior User Experience Designer @ PNC
Jan 2022 – Present | United States

### User Experience Designer @ DBR - DesignedByRick.com
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Product Designer @ Stash
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, NY

### User Experience Designer @ FIN Compliance (Platform)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Walnut Creek, California, United States
Identified critical issues users were having with their software compliance platform. Worked with the stakeholders to understand their users, conducted a competitive analysis, heuristic analysis, surveys, user interviews, user flow diagrams, and solution recommendations.

### Multimedia Designer @ RS Media
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Launched a storytelling creative service platform (ScotchParlor.com) where I interview and share the stories of founders, creatives, and other inspiring individuals through podcasting, videography, photography, graphics, and website design. Balanced visual design and functionality for users to easily and quickly understand the type of media content they were about to experience. Strategize with clients’ business websites and their marketing needs to create, develop, and execute digital media solutions utilizing user flows, information architecture, UI design, and storytelling elements.

### Financial Advisor @ JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Los Angeles
Built and managed $10.5+ million dollars in investment assets. Built and established two new books of business for two new offices where I brought in $3.5+ million in assets. Developed a team environment in each of my offices to create a foundation for offering Private Client Services to high net-worth individuals. Created custom investment solutions, plans, and models based on my clients’ individual financial goals. Proactively called customers to inform them about a wide variety of financial service solutions that met their needs and deepened their customer experience.  Maintained great relations with current clients to become their financial advisor of choice.

### Financial Advisor @ Merrill Lynch
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area
Assessed new and existing clients’ goals through financial opportunity meetings. Recommended the appropriate financial plan solutions in order to meet mass affluent clients’ needs. Consistently acquired, referred and managed over $1,000,000 in investments and banking assets every month. Created, organized and conducted financial seminars for prospective and current clients. Built a strategic partnership within three banking centers as a valued team member and referred clients to the appropriate partnership channels within Bank of America. Pro-actively built relationships by engaging in daily outbound calling to pre-selected Bank of America or Merrill Lynch customers to meet business objectives.

### Investment Consultant @ Wells Fargo
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010
Actively managed clients’ personal banking and investment portfolios by addressing all of their current and future financial needs. Referred and sold over $2,700,000 in investments in 2009. Consistently profiled clients and prospects in order to provide the perfect product and services and/or referring customers to senior financial partners. 2009 recipient of the Frederick Lipman Award. Motivated other team members to increase productivity to accomplish department daily goals by coaching and providing positive feedback which increased productivity for the branch.


## Education
### Springboard UI/UX Design Career Track in Certification
Springboard

### Bachelor's degree in Finance
San Francisco State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ricksmcdaniel
- Portfolio: https://DesignedbyRick.com
- Portfolio: https://ScotchParlor.com
- Portfolio: https://RickScotch.com

---
Source: https://flows.cv/rickmcdaniel
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rickmcdaniel/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-13