Andrew Schechterman PhD

Current

• Lead Architect and Designer at TandemSeven

Past

• Principal Integration Architect, Cognitive and Medical Psychologist at AMHC-MCPN
• Principal, Architecture and Design at Schechterman and Associates
• Principal Architect, Design Strategy, Research and Design Planning at Symmetry Sciences

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Education

• Ongoing
• Ball State University
• University of Kansas

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Design

Websites

• Design Management Institute
• AndrewSchechterman.com

Andrew Schechterman PhD’s Summary

I define, design and deliver products and services that are easy and pleasurable to use, that inspire customers and the bottom line. This includes insight into your product strategy and your customers, and the development of concrete, actionable plans.

My expertise is solving difficult product design problems, from broadly targeted services to complex business applications. This helps build your brand, customer base, revenue, shorten your development cycles, trim training and support costs.

I deliver blueprints for innovative, well-behaved products and services that developers can build, sales can sell, and customers actually like to use. This also includes discovery of new opportunities and translation of unmet needs. This is the translation of "what we see" to "what it means" to "why it matters."

Throughout, I provide strategy and direction, designing superior, relevant offerings that are usable and profitable. As my form and frameworks are agnostic and centered on human experience, my work is cross-industry.

I'm a seasoned Architect-Designer. My skills and practice include defining strategy from context and culture, then designing for human-centered needs (tacit or realized), based on behavioral, emotional and experiential elements, interdependent and interactive. I'm also a Cognitive-Medical Psychologist with advanced clinical expertise and board certification.

I seek balanced consideration of user needs, business models and technical feasibility. I work with executive stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams; I have delivered on multi-year project investments up to 9M.

More than 50 internal-external clients including:

Black & Decker (CA)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (MD)
Intel Corp (OR)
Intermountain Healthcare (UT)
Mercy St. John's Healthcare (MO)
Sybase Corp (CA)
Transworld Systems (MO)
Washington Mutual (WA)

Andrew Schechterman PhD’s Specialties:

Internal-external leadership; Interaction and Product Design, User Experience Design, Information Architecture, Design-Planning and Strategy; User Studies, Personas, Use Case Flows, Wireframes, Models and Prototypes . . . Observe, learn, think, create, fail fast. Assure that new and existing products and services are relevant, desirable, successful. Expertise for organizing and accomplishing human-centered methods, such that every design built works.

Additional Information

Andrew Schechterman PhD’s Websites:

• Design Management Institute
• AndrewSchechterman.com

Andrew Schechterman PhD’s Interests:

Design-planning and Design: Concept Models, Research, Persona, Prototypes, Site Maps, Storyboards, Task Analysis, Task Flows, User Scenarios, Wireframes. KEYWORDS: Articulate, business case, card sort, clarity, client facing, collaboration, competitive analyses, conceptual modeling, content organization, context, convergent, design planning, differentiate, diplomacy, discovery, divergent, ethnography, flowchart, framework, goal directed, healthcare, heuristics, imaginative, informatics, information architect, iterative, interaction designer, interface, leadership, meaningful, medicine, mock up, navigation, participatory, patience, patterns, practical, presentation skills, project management, prototype, relevant, requirements, research, safety, scenarios of use, simplicity, site maps, specifications, storyboards, strategy, task analysis, trust, usable, use cases, useful, user centered, user experience designer, visualization, web applications, win-win, wireframes, workflow . . .

Andrew Schechterman PhD’s Groups:

IxDA, UPA, DMI, RMIUG, ACM SIGCHI

•    Interaction Design Association
•    Boxes and Arrows
•    ACM SIGCHI
•    Sybase Alumni
•    User Experience
•    User Experience Group
•    Kansas Alumni
•    Design Research
•    Usability Professionals Association
•    DMI Design Management Institute
•    Euro RSCG Worldwide employees and alumni
•    Colorado User Experience Professionals
•    Boulder Digital Works

Andrew Schechterman PhD’s Honors:

Dean's List, Nunemaker Scholar, University of Kansas (KS)
Summa Cum Laude, Dean's List, University of W. Kansas (KS)
Summa Cum Laude, Dean's List, Ball State University (IN), University of Utah (UT)
Board Certification: Medical Psychology
New Service Innovation and Development Award, Holy Cross St. Benedict’s Hospital (UT)

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