Chris Collingridge

Current

Usability Specialist at Sage

Past

Information development and usability at Waters Corporation
Contract Technical Author at Macro 4 (Mainframe products)
User interface designer at Macro 4 (Document Management Solutions)

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Education

The Open University
The University of Manchester

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Industry

Computer Software

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Chris Collingridge’s Summary

I contribute positively to people's interactions with technology, enabling their tasks to be simplified and their lives to be enriched. I enjoy responsibility for producing great applications, interfaces, and content that make a real difference to the way people work and live. I hope to continually expand my experience of different situations and challenges to understand better how people work, and how advancing technology can serve them better.

Chris Collingridge’s Experience

Usability Specialist

Sage

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SGE; Computer Software industry)

October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

Responsible for leading user interface design and usability efforts across the Accountants in Practice product suite.
Information development and usability

Waters Corporation

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; WAT; Pharmaceuticals industry)

April 2005 — October 2007 (2 years 7 months)

Leading usability for user assistance across large, complex software/hardware scientific analysis business. Involved in information design, content creation for novice to expert level technical audiences, the creation of cross-functional wikis for collaborative working, requirements gathering, contextual enquiry, user interviewing, user profiling, task analysis, and development of a thin-client enterprise-wide networked and filtered user assistance solution.
Pro-actively scoping and managing the development of process improvements: developing a system for requesting and tracking information enhancements, designing and implementing a testing structure for quality assurance, and rationalising scheduling data to improve efficiency.
Contract Technical Author

Macro 4 (Mainframe products)

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; MAO; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — April 2005 (4 months)

Re-designing application user documentation to meet requirements of a global IT solutions provider. Focussed on simplification, implementing a document architecture, and improving access points to existing information.
User interface designer

Macro 4 (Document Management Solutions)

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; MA0; Computer Software industry)

July 1999 — June 2003 (4 years )

Designing desktop and browser-based applications for an enterprise document management solution with many thousands of users. Included both improving existing interfaces and developing new applications and application paradigms.
Specifically: requirements gathering, conceptual design, interface design, evaluation and re-design, prototyping, visual and colour design, management of all interface and user assistance text.
In 2004 I was part of the small group that won Macro 4’s global Team of the Year.