Objective

Continue designing and developing usable, useful, award winning user-computer interfaces.

Summary

                 Portfolio

Over 20 years as a highly committed User Interface Information Architect/Designer, Usability Specialist, Requirements Analyst; specializing in healthcare information.

Ten years designing commercial desktop and PDA applications; over 10 years designing intranet and internet web sites; managing UI design teams, profiling users, analyzing tasks; designed, developed, tested systems using UCD methods to meet user needs. Creator of award-winning UI model. Implemented government, commercial and web user interfaces, produced design standards, specifications, UI training modules. Defined user interaction models, configured networks, systems and software. Designed, prototyped, tested user interfaces based on Windows95, Macintosh and Palm OS styles, web-based models. Trained software designers in UI design principles & methods, usability testing, and using prototyping tools.

Professional Biography

Operating Systems, Applications, Languages: major browsers, Windows, PalmOS, Unix; Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, MS Office Suite, Visio, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Visual Basic.

Products: Healthcare web and PDA-based software for professionals and consumers, networking tools, real-time command & control systems, web and PC-based award-winning medical information management UI model, OS simulation, networking utilities, human performance research studies for the Space Shuttle, web-based personal finance, PC-based education assessment, user interface design & usability testing lesson modules.

Strengths: Passionate about user interface design. Highly creative, innovative, adaptive and an exceptional problem solver. Keen organization, oral and written skills. Thrives in dynamic, challenging, bleeding edge environments. Excellent instructor, trainer. In-depth understanding of the entire software development process including engineering constraints and trade-offs. Extraordinary design, analytical and usability testing skills with the ability to recognize aesthetic and usability requirements (beyond application of standards). Ability to identify alternative design strategies, assess design viability and rapidly transform business requirements into a user interface design. Proven ability to work well within a team environment or independently.

Education: Accumulated 12 credit hours toward Master's degree in Applied Psychology at San Jose State University, CA. Earned Bachelor's degree in Neurosciences from the University of Vermont. Additionals: Web Interface Design, Graphic Design, Informational Design & Display, C Programming, Interface Design, Macintosh OS and Unix System Administration.

Awards: Produced UI interaction model that won the Industry Solution Award for Healthcare at the Microsoft Healthcare Users Conference.