PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
eBay Inc, San Jose, Ca
UI Designer, September 2005– Present
Lead designer for My eBay and shopping tools. Define
use cases and user requirements. Collaborate with
team to conduct research including competitive analysis,
contextual inquiry and usability testing. Create
wireframes and mockups.
HCI Capstone Project, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Project Manager/Design Lead, January 2005
-August 2005
Collaborated a multi-disciplinary team with the City of Pittsburgh on their
CitiStat initiative to develop a new backend and reporting interface to aid city
workers
in entering data and visualizing statistical information.
PocketPath, Pittsburgh, PA
User Testing Analyst, October 2004 – August
2005
Worked with a research team to design and test a PDA application currently
in development, helping lung transplant recipients manage their health at home.
Smith College, Northampton, MA
Advancement Web Specialist, August
2001 – August 2004
Designed a fundraising
campaign site for Smith College, visually consistent
with its print
publications. Created site maps, wire frames and
navigational flows. Developed and maintained departmental
intranet. Won Silver Medal for Best Specialty Site
2004 CASE Awards
Modem Media, Norwalk, CT
Assistant Producer, July 2000 – May
2001
Managed project schedules,
resources and budgets. Created site maps, storyboards
and wireframes. Performed risk and issue assessments
and produced weekly status reports. facilitated
communication between both internal and external
parties.
EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
Master of Human-Computer Interaction, August 2005
Syracuse University, Syracuse,
New York
B.F.A Computer Graphics, Minor in Music Industry, May 2000
CONFERENCES/TRAINING
- CHI 2006 - Montreal 4/06
- CHI 2005 - Portland, OR 4/05
- Macromedia DevCon 2002 – Orlando,
FL 10/02
- Neilsen Norman Group Flash Usability Tutorial – Orlando,
FL 10/02
- Edward Tufte: Presenting Data and Information – Boston,
MA 3/02
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TECHNICAL SKILLS
Applications
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Premiere
Macromedia Director
Macromedia Dreamweaver
Macromedia Flash
Macromedia Fireworks
Macromedia FreeHand
Macromedia Homesite
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Visual Basic Programming Languages
HTML
CSS
Javascript
Actionscript
Visual Basic.NET Familiar with:
PHP/ MySQL
Perl
C (OpenGL) Platforms
Macintosh OS 9.x, OS X.x
Windows 98, 2000, XP, NT
Unix/SGI Workstations
Research Methods
Contextual Design
Contextual Inquiry
Heuristic Evaluation
Think Aloud Protocol
Cognitive Walkthrough
Focus Groups
Conjoint Analysis
GOMS/KLM
Task Analysis
Guided Storytelling
Interviewing
Affinity Diagramming
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