
User Experience Designer
San Francisco Bay Area

User Experience Designer
San Francisco Bay Area
I have been designing and developing web applications for over 11 years in both the commercial and non-profit sectors. I am now primarily working in the user experience (interaction and usability) field of web and mobile applications.
I am also a Certified Usability Analyst (Human Factors International)
Design & Research Methods
Card Sorting, Usability Testing, User Interviewing, Survey Design, Wireframe Design
Programming Languages
CSS, Ruby (Rails), SQL, JavaScript, XHTML, PHP
Software
Camtasia, InDesign, Remedy, Dreamweaver, Lotus Notes, SPSS, EditPlus, MS Office, Visio, Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, Websort
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Designer for mobile (iPhone, Palm Pre), application platform, and core components.
Research, design, and deploy design patterns.
(Internet industry)
February 2002 — April 2008 (6 years 3 months)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JPM; Financial Services industry)
August 2005 — April 2008 (2 years 9 months)
Lead project management for user experience design projects.
Create user interfaces for internal portal web applications used globally by bankers.
Evaluate web application prototypes to ensure ease of use.
Usability test user interface designs and interaction methods of portal web applications.
Conduct user research studies with target user audiences.
Determine standards for user interface elements, information architecture, and interaction methods across the portal applications.
(Educational Institution; Computer Software industry)
August 2004 — May 2005 (10 months)
Design and conduct usability experiments exploring new text entry methods on mobile devices.
Collaborate with professors and Ph.D. students in developing user interface prototypes.
Perform analysis on data collected from usability experiments.
Author research papers for submission to trade conferences and publications.
(Educational Institution; Internet industry)
June 2001 — May 2004 (3 years)
Developed web-based tools for clients using the PHP scripting language.
Acted as the liaison between clients and project development.
Led web application user interface development utilizing paper prototyping and wireframe methods.
Designed standardized user interface widgets implemented throughout all web-based tools.
(Educational Institution; Internet industry)
June 2002 — June 2002 (1 month)
Conducted usability evaluations of intranet interfaces.
Developed interface design recommendations for increased ease of use.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
June 1997 — June 2001 (4 years 1 month)
Developed and maintained the company website.
Designed web page system to display newspaper stories, photos, and interactive community pages using the PHP scripting language.
Information Science , Human Computer Interaction, Psychology , 2000 — 2005
1996 — 2000
Publications
A New Stylus-Based Text Entry Method for Small Devices, B. Haggerty, P. Tarasewich, Accepted for presentation at HCI International 2005, (2005)
An Enhanced Multitap Text Entry Method with Predictive Next-Letter Highlighting, J. Gong, B. Haggerty, P. Tarasewich, Extended Abstracts of CHI 2005, ACM Press (2005), 1399-1402