Interaction Designer at ACID
Melbourne Area, Australia
Interaction Designer at ACID
Melbourne Area, Australia
(Privately Held; Research industry)
March 2009 — Present (5 months)
Contracted to conduct user research and interaction design for the ABC's collaborative arts network, Pool.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2008 — January 2009 (9 months)
User testing, heuristic evaluations, wireframing and prototyping for a wide range of clients.
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
February 2007 — January 2008 (1 year)
Based in Tokyo.
Job included: Market & user research, wireframing and implementation of a social network and online magazine.
(Information Services industry)
2005 — 2007 (2 years)
Managed and completed a variety of projects whilst in Japan.
Projects involved: Project management, requirements analysis, heuristic evaluations, interaction design, wireframing, prototyping and full implementation
(Internet industry)
September 2003 — August 2007 (4 years)
Co-founded and operated an online retailer of collectible goods and DVDs.
(Education Management industry)
September 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 3 months)
Went to Japan on a working holiday visa and worked part time for 14 months, whilst freelancing.
Job involved: Lesson planning, group classes, group conversation, kids classes and sales. Taught students ranging from 2 to 80 years old.
(Information Services industry)
2003 — 2005 (2 years)
User interface design & implementation in Flex and Actionscript, Java programming.
SZCSCS , Cognitive Science/Computer Science , 2001 — 2005
Australian Psychological Society accredited.
Final year Computer Science project involved the planning, design and implementation of a routing and mapping application for Lonely Planet.
Final year Psychology project involved the modeling of the human visual system through a combination of neural networks.