
User Experience Designer at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area

User Experience Designer at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area
I have been designing and developing web applications for over 12 years for enterprise, academia, and start ups. I am now primarily working in the user experience (interaction and usability) field of mobile applications.
I am also a Certified Usability Analyst (Human Factors International)
Interaction design, visual design, wireframe design, prototyping, usability testing, user interviewing, survey design.
Proficient in web technologies: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript.
Dabble in Cocoa Touch (obj-c), Ruby (Rails), PHP.
Software: Camtasia, Fireworks, InDesign, SPSS, Visio, Illustrator, OmniGraffle, Photoshop, Websort.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Designer for LinkedIn mobile products including the native applications for iPhone, Palm Pre, BlackBerry.
Create and design applications for the LinkedIn application platform, such as the twitter research application, Company Buzz.
Research, design, and deploy design patterns.
Community organizer/outreach for LinkedIn mobile products.
(Public Company; JPM; Banking industry)
August 2005 — April 2008 (2 years 9 months)
Led project management for user experience design projects.
Created user interfaces for internal portal web applications used globally by bankers.
Evaluated web application prototypes to ensure ease of use.
Usability tested user interface designs and interaction methods of portal web applications.
Conducted user research studies with target user audiences.
Determined standards for user interface elements, information architecture, and interaction methods across the portal applications.
(Internet industry)
February 2002 — April 2008 (6 years 3 months)
(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.
BS , 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