Christine Salib Keryakes

Current

• Manager of User Interface Design at Art Technology Group
• Owner at Pixelante

Past

• Senior Consultant, Architectural Specialist at Computer Sciences Corporation
• Senior Web Developer/Team Lead at Onward Technologies

Education

• Boston University

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Industry

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Christine Salib Keryakes’s Summary

User Interface Group Manager, UI Designer and Information Architect and Web Developer across various industries, specializing in web application design and development and team management.

Christine Salib Keryakes’s Experience

• Manager of User Interface Design

  Art Technology Group

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

  June 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)

  Manage twelve, multidiscipline, user experience professionals on multiple ongoing projects. Contribute to company roadmap planning and project prioritization. Set the tone and evangelize user centered design across the company. Responsible for the look and feel, usability and consistency of the user experience of all ATG applications. Manage contractor relationships and supervise contractor resources as members of the UI Design team. Work with management team to schedule design resources on projects and fill unexpected needs. Developed UI Design team from the ground up, responsible for all hiring, developed division's process flow and integrated design process into the overall development cycle, internal standards development, push for web accessibility and internationalization & localization. Ensure design team is in line with company goals.

• Owner

  Pixelante

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 1997 — Present (12 years 7 months)

  Sole proprietor of small, full service, web and print publishing company. Manage projects from beginning to end, drawing upon a pool of subcontractors to complete assignments. Design databases, create application flow charts, technical specifications, negotiate client & resource contracts, develop project plans and resource allocation, execute development, design user interfaces and develop usability approaches.

• Senior Consultant, Architectural Specialist

  Computer Sciences Corporation

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSC; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 1998 — May 2004 (6 years 2 months)

  * Managed visual design & usability of all projects, managed the day-to-day workflow for a up to ten person teams
  * Worked with the business analysis teams for requirement identification and definition, vendor selection, development of application prototypes and to ensure that the UI could support proposed requirements. Consulted on functional specification discovery and reviews with the team leads, organized and ran functional specification reviews for the combined user experience and technical teams
  * Worked with vendors to modify their core product look and feel as well as to suggest and implement usability modifications to existing application
  * Created web page mock-ups representing business to create front-end web standards for usability and visual design. Implemented presentation level VB.net and ASP.net code
  * Coached application developers in the use of and adherence to user interface standards
  * Clients: Baker & Taylor, U.S. DoD, Fidelity, NEHEN, Cypress, Aeroquip, NECX

• Senior Web Developer/Team Lead

  Onward Technologies

  (Internet industry)

  1998 — 1999 (1 year)

  * Continuous Improvement Team :: Managed the eight person web development group responsible for the maintenance of client sites to ensure they continued to be current and relevant. Directed usability engineer and visual designer involvement on a per project basis and supplied Art Direction as needed. Managed each project by delegating tasks and ensuring quality control. Served as mentor for all web development team members. Responsible for policies and procedures for time management, productivity and trend analyses.
  * Miscellaneous Project/Team Manager :: Wells Fargo (3 members), Mount Sinai School of Medicine (3 members), Concord Communications (5 members), and Onward Technologies Intranet (8 members).

Christine Salib Keryakes’s Education

• Boston University

  BS , engineering , 1993 — 1997