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Expertise

Leadership in Web and GUI User Interface Design, Interaction Design, User Experience, User Centered Design, Icon Design, Information Architecture for transactional web applications, Product Management, Software Development Methodologies, Project Management, Design Patterns, Internationalization, Accessibility, HTML, XHTML, CSS, JSP, Eclipse, Aptana, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Axialis IconWorkshop

Experience

Oracle - Boulder, Colorado

Functioning as UI designer for a Fusion Apps Product team refining feature specifications between development and Product Management team members. Currently updating the Visio based Fusion Apps prototyping framework to align with the latest ADF component set. The work also incorporates usability enhancements to increase user productivity and pixel fidelity with production code.

Oracle - Boulder, Colorado

Functioned as Technical UX resource supporting JDev ADF Component Library and Fusion App UX Design Pattern implementation compliance. Managed the UI design for a Fusion Apps Patching tool project and managing the Information Architecture design work for an internal content driven learning site.

Oracle - Boulder, Colorado

Provided design services for several Oracle products. The services include: GUI design, icon development, installer billboards, product icon design and .ICO file creation.

BEA Systems, Inc. - Boulder, Colorado

• Served as User Experience champion focusing on areas of cross product consistency and compliance with corporate marketing brand standards & guidelines.
• Design lead focused on branding aspects for GUI & Web user interface and icon development for Eclipse based tooling groups.
• Functioned as Eclipse framework expert, provided branding guidance to external teams and advised Technical Documentation teams about leveraging and extending existing Eclipse Help framework to maximize productivity.
• Managed functional requirements for IDE Performance testing initiative. Established target measurement goals for common iterative development testing scenarios. Created a weighted equation to better manage performance progress across multiple product releases. Was awarded a patent for the methodology and equation.

• Off site customer focus group sessions to validate product roadmap and get a better pulse about framework trends and product usage. The sessions provided invaluable customer data about common obstacles and their day to day pain points experienced. Actionable requirements were generated by the customer interaction.
• Relationship with Corporate Marketing that provided a development branding perspective as it relates to framework limitations and their impact on the creation of a comprehensive BEA Corporate Product Branding Style guide.

• BEA WorkSpace^TM Studio, BEA Workshop^TM Product Family, AquaLogic^® Data Services Platform (ALDSP), AquaLogic Enterprise Repository (ALER), AquaLogic Enterprise Security (ALES), AquaLogic Service Assembly Modeler (ALSAM), AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB), WebLogic Server Console, Liquid Operations Console (LOC), JRockit Mission Control, Tuxedo, WebLogic Event Server (WLEvS) IDE Tooling, WLEvS Virtualization Console, WebLogic Portal (WLP) and WebLogic Integration (WLI)

S1 Corporation - Littleton, Massachusetts

Managed User Interface design teams for the development of web based full service insurance and financial service related applications.

• Served as Technical UI Resource providing direction and support for UI and development teams.
• Served in an active role ensuring all S1 applications met internal and external client UI standards/guidelines. Enforced consistencies across application screens and information design; adhered to HTML, CSS, and JSP/Struts coding standards; and anticipated cross-platform browser rendering behaviors.
• Oversaw and coordinated the hiring/training of UI teams in India and Littleton, Ma.

• Co-Chaired UI Best Practices Group whose charter was to set corporate positions/standards on accessibility, code/browser validation and general human factors/user experience design patterns.
• Designed identity and style guide for S1 Enterprise applications.
• Researched industry trends: proposed, prototyped and documented.
• Maintained UI development code review checklist and conducted internal development code/design reviews.

• Interfaced with internal and client SME's to establish software requirements.
• Utilized initial requirement documentation to create high-level flow diagrams.
• Developed dynamic JSP application prototypes.
• Attended application usability testing sessions.
• Established coding patterns and programmed dynamic driven screen templates.
• Worked with Development and QA teams to test software.

• S1 Enterprise Consumer Insurance application suite (J2EE/JSP) Co-development relationship between S1 and SÌtatÌe FarÌm, S1 Enterprise SDK InfoCenter (Eclipse Help framework), SÌtatÌe FarÌm's EA-FS Agent Desktop Mutual Fund Application (IAA/Meta Driven), S1 Enterprise Self Service Banking (SSB): Personal, Business and Corporate

Digital Glue - Atlanta, Georgia

Provided design, project management consulting, production, and sub-contracting services.

• Created and executed project management planning, including schedules, budgets, and contracts.
• Established and maintained virtual web-based relationships with national and international clients.
• Maintained and monitored sites based on target markets, competitive analysis, and client feedback.
• Key projects include: Saudi Arabian Airlines, Philips Electronic Manufacturing Technology, MindSpring Internet Services, Americas Mart, California Gift Show and Hayes Electronics

Sage Design & Interactive - Ketchum, Idaho

Solicited, developed, and maintained multiple client relations and internet projects. Identified target markets and implemented client internet marketing strategies and solutions.

• Developed and executed project development planning: including schedules; budgets; contracts; and outsourcing tasks to sub-contractors.
• Managed and coordinated concepting, production and testing stages of client sites.
• Key projects include: Primis.com, Smith Sport Optics, Inc., Appellation Magazine and Emersoft Corporation (20+ Technical Recruiter Sites)

CheckFree Corporation - Norcross, Georgia

Designed innovative user interfaces.

• Implemented custom client branding and icon development for traditional financial software and bill presentment applications.
• Worked in a collaborative team environment, interfacing with the different facets of CheckFree's marketing department to create internal interactive marketing material, that incorporated video, audio, Macromedia Director based floppy brochures, and 2-D & 3-D animation.
• Key projects include: CheckFree.com, 1997 CheckFree Corporation Interactive Annual Report

Interactives, Inc. - Atlanta, Georgia

New media graphics specialist for small multimedia company.

• Designed, produced, and programmed full electronic media packages: kiosks, interactive floppy brochures, websites, and CD projects.
• Worked with sales/technical staff to produce over 100 fully interactive corporate advertisements for the 1997 Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau's Convention Planning CD, which was created with Macromedia Director.
• Key projects include: 1997 ACVB Convention Planning CD

Education

Graduate Studies in Graphic Design

BFA in Graphic Design

Achievements

Business Process Patent - USPTO Application #:20090138856

System and Method for Software Performance Testing and Determining a Frustration Index.

References available upon request

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