Alexis Antonelli

Current

User Experience Consultant at (self employed)

Past

Senior Information Architect at Sapient
Senior User Experience Consultant at Proxicom, Inc.
Usability Consultant at Verizon Labs

eBusiness Communications Specialist (Web Master) at Cabot Corporation

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Education

Santa Monica College
Bentley College - Elkin B. McCallum Graduate School of Business
Bentley College

Boston Latin School

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Alexis Antonelli’s Summary

As an independent user experience consultant, I help create desirable, useful, easy to use, and innovative products that support strategic objectives.

With 10 years of experience in user interface design, I've created information architecture solutions and deliverables for clients including Honda, Acura, NBC, Yahoo! and others. I am passionate about true user-centered design and have conducted usability testing and other research studies to guide conceptual modeling and inform critical design decisions for clients including Toyota and Verizon.

My academic and independent training in both business and human factors has helped me develop the right balance of advocating for user needs while staying focused on business goals. Lately, I’ve been working on rich internet applications, Flash, and Ajax interfaces for clients in the entertainment and automotive industries.

You may contact me at aa@uxconsultant.com

Alexis Antonelli’s Specialties:

Usability Testing, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, AJAX, Flash, and RIA, User Interviews, User Requirements, Competitive Analysis, Heuristic Evaluation/Expert Review, Card Sorting, Nomenclature and Web Site Content, Ethnographic Research and Contextual Inquiry, Survey Design and Analysis, Prototyping, User Profile and Scenario Development

Alexis Antonelli’s Experience

User Experience Consultant

(self employed)

(Internet industry)

April 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

Providing Information Architecture and Usability/User Experience services to clients including Honda, Acura, NBC, and T-Mobile.
Senior Information Architect

Sapient

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SAPE; Internet industry)

December 2006 — March 2007 (4 months)

- Designed user experience solutions and deliverables for clients including Yahoo!, Logitech, McKesson, and Fandango
- Conducted requirements gathering and design collaboration workshops with clients
- Contributed information architecture deliverables and estimates to new proposals
Senior User Experience Consultant

Proxicom, Inc.

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

January 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 11 months)

- During entire tenure, acted as lead user experience consultant on the Toyota account including Toyota.com, Toyota's Certified Used Vehicles site and various mini-sites and initiatives.
- Grew the user experience service offering by developing research methodologies, building test labs, training research facilitators, conducting workshops, seeking new consultants, etc.
- Conducted all aspects of usability research including planning, recruiting, moderating, analyzing, reporting, and presenting results catered to executives, designers, developers, or other audiences.
- Conducted heuristic evaluations, competitive analyses, and surveys.
- Sought and analyzed appropriate web site metrics and 3rd party research. Translated findings into actionable user experience recommendations.
- Created site flows, wire frames, user profiles/personas, scenarios, and other deliverables for the design and development of web sites and applications.
Usability Consultant

Verizon Labs

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

April 2004 — December 2004 (9 months)

Conducted usability testing, ethnographic research/contextual inquiries, competitive analyses and heuristic evaluations of web, hardware, software, and CD-ROM products. Products included Superpages.com, Verizon.com, DSL in-home installation, home networking in-home installation and home networking on-line education.
eBusiness Communications Specialist (Web Master)

Cabot Corporation

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CBT; Chemicals industry)

September 1999 — September 2003 (4 years 1 month)

Managed and redesigned global intranet reaching 23 countries (editor-in-chief, information architect, designer, strategist, usability specialist, etc.).

Alexis Antonelli’s Education

Santa Monica College

Computer Science 2007 — 2007

Undergrad level XHTML and CSS course
Bentley College - Elkin B. McCallum Graduate School of Business

Human Factors in Information Design 2002 — 2004

Graduate-level courses in Human Factors, Usability Testing, and Information Visualization.

Activities and Societies:

Elected Vice President of Technology of the Graduate Student Association
Bentley College

B.S. Business Communication, (Graphic and Web Design, Marketing and Management), 1993 — 1997
Boston Latin School

High School, Classic Languages, College Prep, 1987 — 1993

Additional Information

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Alexis Antonelli’s Interests:

Meditation, Cycling, National and State Parks/Hiking/Camping, Charity Work, Making Sushi, Baking Cupcakes, Nutrition

Alexis Antonelli’s Groups:

- Los Angeles Information Architects/UX Meetup Group
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Special Interest Groups: Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), Los Angeles Chapter; Accessible Computing
- Usability Professionals Association (UPA): Attended 2005 and 2006 conferences; Reviewed submissions for the 2007 and 2008 conferences.
- Information Architecture Institute (IAI)
- Interaction Design Association (IxDA)
- Braille Institute
- Bentley College Alumni Association