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Tangible UX

2008 - present
Partner, Tangible User Experience

Partner and principal designer with the 3 person user experience consulting firm for Fortune 500, mid-market and start-up companies. Company website

Yahoo!

2007 - 2008
Senior Director, Yahoo! Developer Network

Lead redesign of YDN site, define requirements for new functionality and features, coordinate visual redesign and information/interaction design, capture internal stakeholder requirements, and help define and understand external audiences. Develop and implement content strategy as part of YDN redesign. Write and edit content on site. Manage UED and Technical Documentation teams.
2004 - 2007
Senior Director, Platform Design
User Experience Design Group

Manage team responsible for developing platform and network services for the Platform Products Group and in support of larger UED design teams. Includes development and documentation of interactive components and widgets, design standards and best practices, brand guidelines, and toolkit development for social media applications, community and personalization best practices and membersip projects.

America Online

2002 - 2004
Product Design Director
AOL Studio
Manage team of UI designers responsible for design and development of applications and services within the AOL flagship service. Products include: Radio@AOL, AOL Media player, You've Got Pictures, Wallet, Groups, Homepages, Blogs, Polls, Calender, AIM.com, and other related products. Work closely with studio producers, other UI and design directors, product managers, engineers and others in collaborative team environment.

2001 - 2002
Product Design Director
AOL Web Properties
Manage team of UI designers responsible for multi-brand (AOL service, Compuserve, Netscape, Time Warner properties and AOL international brands) design and development of clients, communications and community products. Products include: AIM, WinAmp, Spinner, Radio@Netscape, Compuserve, Netscape WebMail, Public Groups, Message Boards, Polls, and other related products. Work closely with Product Managers, engineers and others in collaborative team environment.

AltaVista

1999 - 2001
Director Experience Design (IA/Visde) / Creative Director
Manage team of designers, information architects, technical designers and copywriters. Lead the site architecture, structure and interaction design. Develop processes and functionality diagrams and page layouts. Work closely with content producers, software engineers, program managers, usability and other teams to ensure the successful launching of content areas and software features for the AltaVista Network - including AltaVista Search and Search tools, AV Tools Center, AV Channels, My AltaVista, AltaVista Community and various other projects.

1999
Chief Information Architect

Design web based products as part of the product development team. Lead the site architecture and structure design, interface design, oversee production designers, interface designers, and other site architects. Lead site architect for AltaVista Live! Develop team processes and usability testing. Interface with producers, business development and engineering teams.

Zip2 Corporation
1997 - 1999
Senior Graphic Designer
Design web based products as part of the product development team. Site structure design, interface design, graphic design.
Hire freelance designers and oversee production designers

Selected Projects:
Zip2 Yellow pages
Information architect, UI designer, lead graphic designer, art director
Zip2 CityGuide products
Information architect, UI designer, lead graphic designer, art director
NYTimes NewYork Today
Information architect,
UI designer
Knight Ridder Just Go
Seattle Times Datebook and others

Information architect

WebTV/Microsoft
1999
Senior Interface Designer
Design user interface for WebTV proprietary areas: Search, Shopping and other areas. Architect userflow and design UI for Help system.

Freelance Web Design
Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture
San Jose Repertory Theatre
NBCi
San Francisco Foundation
Webgrrls - San Francisco Chapter
Complete Fitness Training
Information architecture and design, concept and produce web sites and sections of web sites for various freelance clients.

Adobe Systems, Inc.
1995 - 1997
Design graphics and pages for adobe.com (web site). Collateral design, package design and CD-ROM interface design

Project management for all web projects within Creative Services department.

America Online
Greenhouse Division
HouseNet

1995 - 1997
Design first generation web site
Screen designs for HouseNet on America Online

WorldPulse
1995 - 1996
Screen designs for The Health Zone on America Online

Design graphics and structure for SweatNet and Nutribytes, a fitness information and Daily Activity Log web site and a nutrition information and food log web site

Eastman Kodak
1994 - 1995
Interactive Symbol Database Design
Kiosk and User Interface Design
Software Package Design
Camera Label Graphics

Design Interactive
1994 - 1998
Multimedia project prototype design
Identity & Letterhead Design
Software Design and Research

School of Photographic Arts and Sciences
Photo Gallery / RIT

1993 - 1995
Design of exhibition posters

School of Art and Design
Bevier Gallery / RIT

1993 -1994
Design of gallery graphics, gallery schedule and exhibition posters

Mouncey Ferguson & Associates
1989 - 1992

Director of Design
1990 - 1992
Concept and design all collateral. Ad design, story board and art direct television commercials, comping, staff, freelancers, location and studio photo shoots.

Art Director / Designer
1989 - 1990

Comping, design of collateral, art direct freelancers and photoshoots.
Studio manager

Selected Clients:
Potomac Mills Outlet Mall
Springwood Psychiatric Institute
Reston Hospital Center
Winchester Medical Center
Farmers & Merchants National Bank
World Classics Cola
Virginia Commonwealth Enterprises

The Holt Group,Inc.
1986 - 1988
Art Director
Concept and design collateral, art direct location and studio photo shoots,buy illustration, printing and color separations.

Selected Clients:
Hanes Activewear
No nonsense Pantyhose
Waldensian Bakeries
Sears
L'eggs

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