
User Experience Designer and Information Architect
Greater Detroit Area

User Experience Designer and Information Architect
Greater Detroit Area
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.
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
(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.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)
started serving as Pres. in Aug 2008
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2004 — June 2008 (3 years 10 months)
(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.
(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.
(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.
MSI , Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) , September 1998 — April 2000
BS , Philosophy & English , 1994 — 1997
MOCHI, UXNet, University of Michigan School of Information Alumni Society Board, Information Architecture Institute, UPA, ACM SIGCHI, A2B3