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| Senior Design Consultant, Cooper, San Francisco, CA Interaction design consulting for Fortune 500 companies as well as early stage startups. Conducted ethnographic user research to understand the user's goals. Developed research-based personas to aid the design process and facilitate communication with the client stakeholders. Identified opportunities and risks of the client's planned path and, where appropriate, made strategic recommendations to alter the plan. Created design solutions to satisfy the persona's goals, while respecting the business, technical and political limitations of the client organizations. Worked with visual design colleagues to create the final, refined design. When possible worked directly with the client's developers to ensure the accurate implementation of the design. Responsible for all client presentations throughout the design process. |
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| Lead User Interface Designer, Vignette (acquired Epicentric in January of 2003), San Francisco, CA Responsible for the design of Vignette Application Portal (VAP) 4.0 - 7.0 (formerly Epicentric Foundation Server) and supporting applications. VAP is an enterprise-class, web-based application for developing and deploying custom portals. Worked as part of a team of software architects, engineers and product management to define the transition from a single site department-level product to a multi-site, enterprise wide platform. Responsibilities include: Information architecture development, look-and-feel definition, HTML mockup construction, icon system development and feature definition. |
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| Freelance design, Velocity11, San Francisco, CA Design of Velocity11's website and all collateral print materials (product catalog, mailers, manual covers and trade show booth graphics). |
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| Partner, Guyot Designs, San Francisco, CA Responsible for design of collateral materials, packaging and website for a family-owned product development company. |
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| Senior User Interface Designer, KIWI Consulting, San Francisco, CA First full-time employee of an e-commerce consulting startup, responsible for the design of over 12 database powered, e-commerce focused web sites in less than one year. Tasks included: information architecture and navigation model development, look-and-feel definition, HTML template construction, graphic production, identity development, and client management. Also worked with software engineers to ensure that the deployment of the web sites met the client's expectations. Clients: Wood Associates, LiveSoccer, CyberRebate, MRO Supplies, Battery Biz, CompUSA and StarCite. |
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| Interface Designer, MAYA Design Group, Pittsburgh, PA Responsibilities included user interface design, information design, industrial design, and project management. Worked as part of multi-disciplinary teams of designers, software engineers and human factors specialists to develop easy to use, high technology products including web sites, set top boxes, embedded systems, consumer products, call center systems and military logistical analysis tools. Clients: Ameritech, Kodak, AAA, US Army, DEC, Solotec, Dunsgate, CGI, DXI, IDSA, MAYAViz. |
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| Adjunct Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Taught Industrial Design Fundamentals class for non-design majors that explored the fundamental design issues of Form, Materials and Use. Developed a lesson plan based on an existing curriculum, lectured, lead critiques and graded students. |
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| 1993-99 | Freelance design, QED Imaging Inc. Pittsburgh, PA Designed all of QED's collateral print materials, user interfaces and website. Interface Design included an automated batch slide scanning system for the genetic industry and an insurance claim processing system. |
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| 1993-94 | Interface Designer, Visual Symphony Inc. Pittsburgh, PA Responsible for creating the look and feel of Authorware based training applications. Worked with client to determine and organize information requirements for the project while designing an easy to use interface. |
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| Fall 1993 | Teacher, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA Taught Design Computing for Industrial Design, a half-semester, sophomore class for the Department of Design. Responsible for organizing lessons and evaluating students while teaching the use of Vellum, Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark XPress and Stratavision 3D. |
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| BFA, Industrial Design, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Graduated with university honors, college honors, and a minor in Architecture. |
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| Escuela Michoacana de Diseño, Morelia, Mexico Studied 2D and 3D design while a Rotary Exchange Student in Mexico. |
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