Dan Cooney

Current

Owner at Cooney Information Group, LLC
President at U-M SI Alumni Society Board
Ann Arbor Local Ambassador at UXnet

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Past

Vice Chair for Program at MOCHI
Consultant at West Pole, Inc.
Research Staff at University of Michigan

User Needs/Business Analyst at Commerce One

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Education

University of Michigan
Eastern Michigan University

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

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Dan Cooney’s Summary

Dan is a user experience expert practicing information architecture and interaction design.

Strengths include designing effective user-centered solutions and strong interpersonal skills for collaboration between users, clients, visual designers, and development teams.

Dan Cooney’s Specialties:

business analysis, user needs assessment, requirements gathering, requirements documentation, competitive evaluation, workflow analysis, ethnographic field research, persona & scenario creation, information architecture, interaction design, interface design, iterative prototype development, usability evaluation, development support

Dan Cooney’s Experience

Owner

Cooney Information Group, LLC

(Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

Website and application information architecture and user experience consulting services provided to companies in the following domains: real estate, automobile review, online retail office supply, automotive service, auto industry supply chain, beauty care, pharmaceuticals, mountain ski resort, national franchises (cleaning, repair & maintenance), print industry, chemistry labs, and commercial fabric.
President

U-M SI Alumni Society Board

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

started serving as Pres. in Aug 2008
Ann Arbor Local Ambassador

UXnet

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Design industry)

May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
Vice Chair for Program

MOCHI

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2004 — June 2008 (3 years 10 months)
Consultant

West Pole, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 4 months)

For a multinational pharmaceutical company:

Gathered and documented requirements, designed prototypes (in Axure) and final user interface for a faceted internal search and browse tool. Evaluated and iteratively improved search tool behavior and results design. Adapted taxonomies for indexing, browsing and searching.

Gathered requirements for personal and community profiles, and created scenarios and mockups articulating the user experience vision for a suite of knowledge management applications incorporating profiles.

Created role-dependent interaction models & interfaces for a user-configurable news and article alert system.

Designed a greatly improved user experience for a published material acquisition system. Created alternate success flows and tolerance for faults from content vendor systems.

Led a usability evaluation of internal portal environment, and developed interface design guidelines based on UI patterns.
Research Staff

University of Michigan

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

June 2001 — October 2004 (3 years 5 months)

Designed and managed the ongoing development of online collaboratory data collection and reporting tool. Contributed to data collection, interviews, research, and analysis of the technical and social factors leading to the success of collaboratories, including articulation of attributes and data through taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, object design, and visualizations.

Designed event management web application enabling efficient organization of project workshops and remote access to participant info, mailing lists, agendas, files, supporting facilities, services, and resource information.

Co-orchestrated four workshops for a National Science Foundation (NSF) Information Technology Research grant and two workshops for the NSF Cyberinfrastructure Initiative.
User Needs/Business Analyst

Commerce One

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

July 2000 — April 2001 (10 months)

Interface design of a pipeline inventory information tracking system for a global energy corp.

Conducted exploration for a redesign of the web and client applications used to manage patients at an organ transplant clinic at a major university medical facility.

Dan Cooney’s Education

University of Michigan

MSI , Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) , September 1998 — April 2000

Activities and Societies:

VP of School of Information Student Association
Eastern Michigan University

BS , Philosophy & English , 1994 — 1997