Dave Curbow

Current

• Sr. User Experience Designer at Cisco Systems

Past

• Principle Engineer/Designer at Stealth Startup
• Principle Human Interface Designer at CSC / NASA
• Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems

2 more...

Education

• University of Southern Mississippi

Recommended

12 people have recommended Dave

Connections

272 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• Current Project
• My Portfolio

Dave Curbow’s Summary

Throughout my career, first as a software engineer, then as a user interface designer in product and advanced development, I’ve always focused on finding solutions to user problems. Often my solutions combine technologies in unexpected ways to produce creative and compelling solutions.

For more details see my website --
http://home.comcast.net/~dcurbow

Dave Curbow’s Specialties:

I'm a Senior User Experience Designer and have led software projects solving UI-related problems. I work on large, complex systems, devices and tools to support collaboration. I'm a "hands on" manager who likes to be involved in "lightweight" ethnographic research, designing UIs and software architectures and writing code.

Additional Information

Dave Curbow’s Websites:

• My Website
• Current Project
• My Portfolio

Dave Curbow’s Interests:

user centered design, user interface research / advanced development, tools for collaboration, awareness / presence information, Telematics, software architecture, Apple Macintosh, Xerox Star, film

Dave Curbow’s Groups:

ACM CHI, BayCHI, British Computer Society / HCI society

•    SUNAlumni member
•    BayCHI member
•    Human Computer Interaction (HCI) member
•    Apple Alumni member
•    OpenDoc Alumni member

Dave Curbow’s Honors:

6 patents issued, 4 applications pending, 13 additional disclosures

Including:
• US 5,835,919 Computer-human interface system which manipulates parts between a desktop and a document.
• US 5,812,862 Computer-human interface system for compound documents
• US 5,669,005 System for automatically embedding or incorporating contents
• US 6,636,801 Delivering location-dependent services to automobiles.
• US 6,694,259 System and Method for Delivering Parking Information To Motorists
7,076,043 System and method of using presence information to solve telephone tag problem

Dave Curbow’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch