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HUMAN
INTERFACE DESIGN
AOL
Time-Warner/Netscape
Mountain View, CA – 2001-2004
Principle Interface Designer.
Principle designer on a group calendar system, to be part of a suite
of communication/collaboration products developed within iPlanet, a
short-lived joint Netscape/Sun venture. R&D for media sharing products, which involved
setting up and conducting field studies, Contextual Design analysis,
cross-team collaboration, story-boarding, design mockups, and usability
testing. Designed incremental
improvements to existing AOL software as they shifted to the Web and a
cross-product feature integration wave swept through town. Designed complete user interface
for new AOLTW/Netscape-wide bug tracking system. (employee)
GoTo, Incorporated
- Shopping Division
San Mateo, CA - 1999-2001
Senior Interface Designer at a comparison-shopping startup which databased
specifications for products found on the Web, allowed the user to search
for products by specific feature, then collected and presented the prices
offered by online merchants selling a selected product. I ran usability
studies and oversaw a complete revision of an early site design, after
which several companies came knocking to buy us. Once aquired by GoTo.com,
I oversaw three additional interface design revisions integrating our new
parent's look and feel, their unique bid-for-placement/marketplace revenue
model, and an expanded set of product categories. (employee)
Vian Design
Redwood City, CA - 1996-2001
Interface Design Consultant to AOL, Netscape, Institute for the Future,
Concentric Network Corporation, Knight-Ridder, LiveWorld Productions,
Packeteer, etc. Projects include: - porting AOL Mail to Palm &
WindowsCE - expert review and design proposal for Windows-based, remote
access software for the enterprise market - interface design for a
net-based web site building tool - interface design for web-delivered
bandwidth management software for the enterprise market - flexible template
design for extensible family of information products - expert review of web
sites. (consultant)
Design EQ
Menlo Park, CA - 1995
Senior Interface Designer Here I worked on design and engineering teams to
analyze and design primarily Web-based sites and product interfaces. This
included field studies for user input, template design and specification,
graphic design, HTML markup, and documentation. Clients include: Netscape,
Next, Knight-Ridder. (consultant)
Apple Computer /
Apple Online Services
Cupertino, CA - 1993-1995
Senior Human Interface Designer for eWorld, Apple's online service venture.
Developed metaphor, designed templates and interactive elements and
graphics, prototyped authoring tools, wrote HI guidelines and user testing
plans, etc. (employee)
Apple Computer /
Electronic Media Group
Cupertino, CA - 1989-1993
Interface Designer/Developer for Developer CD Series and for the electronic
version of Apple's Develop magazine. Designed, developed, and wrote user
manual for Customlink, a developers toolkit for building custom interfaces
to Apples's private online service, AppleLink. Designed and prototyped
online/electronic multimedia document concept (prior to appearance of
Mosaic). (employee)
MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT & PROGRAMMING
Consultant
San Francisco/Cupertino, CA - 1988-1989
Multimedia Development Consultant - Apple Human Interface Group Developed
cutting-edge interface design prototypes. - Apple Multimedia Lab Chief
programmer on portion of Visual Almanac, an educational, multimedia,
technolog-demonstration project using videodisc and HyperCard. -Apple
Online Services Group Prototyped and developed interface for remote
publishing on AOL/Apple internal online service. - Domino's Pizza
Distribution HyperCard/communications software development; redesigned and
repaired a client application for Domino's private-channel, online service
pilot. (consultant)
Chronicle Videotex,
Inc./ GTE Information Businesses
San Francisco, CA - 1984-1988
Graphic Designer of online "pages" for Bay Area Teleguide, a
public-access, online service venture. Also developed utilities using DEC
Command Language (DCL) to improve the authoring interface to their
public-access, videotex service. (employee)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
VISCOMM West '95 /
United Digital Artists
San Francisco, CA
Presented at a conference seminar entitled "Designing Online".
E D U C A T I O N
Degrees
B.A.degree in Art/Math/Computer Science from M.I.U. - 1983
Awards
Voted "most creative student" of graduating class.
Continuing Ed. Coursework:
- SGML training from Graphic Communication Association
- C Programming from Foothill College
- Assembler Programming and Perspective Drawing from Canada College
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