User Experience Designer and Information Architect
Greater Detroit Area
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- Owner at Cooney Information Group, LLC
- President at U-M SI Alumni Society Board
- Ann Arbor Local Ambassador at UXnet
- Past
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- Vice Chair for Program at MOCHI
- Consultant at West Pole, Inc.
- Interaction Designer and Research Staff at University of Michigan
- User Needs/Business Analyst at Commerce One
- Education
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- University of Michigan
- Eastern Michigan University
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Dan Cooney’s Summary
User experience expert with an emphasis on 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
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Owner
Cooney Information Group, LLC
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
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President
U-M SI Alumni Society Board
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2006 — Present (2 years 4 months)
started serving as Pres. in Aug 2008
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Ann Arbor Local Ambassador
UXnet
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
May 2006 — Present (2 years 5 months)
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Vice Chair for Program
MOCHI
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2004 — June 2008 (3 years 10 months)
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Consultant
West Pole, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 4 months)
Designed information management systems for a large pharmaceutical company. Business process analysis and re-design, requirements gathering and documentation, interaction and interface design, information architecture [articulating taxonomies and their application to content and content sources, + navigation and labeling of online environments], as well as usability evaluation of existing and emerging systems.
Activities were focused on content management, personalized and community work environments, and search & retrieval projects. -
Interaction Designer and Research Staff
University of Michigan
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
June 2001 — October 2004 (3 years 5 months)
Research on the Science of Collaboratories project - www.scienceofcollaboratories.org - at University of Michigan's School of Information
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User Needs/Business Analyst
Commerce One
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2000 — April 2001 (10 months)
Dan Cooney’s Education
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University of Michigan
MSI, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), September 1998 — April 2000
- Activities and Societies:
- VP of School of Information Student Association
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Eastern Michigan University
BS, Philosophy & English, 1994 — 1997
Additional Information
Dan Cooney’s Websites:
Dan Cooney’s Groups:
MOCHI, UXNet, University of Michigan School of Information Alumni Society Board, Information Architecture Institute, UPA, ACM SIGCHI, A2B3
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a2b3 - Ann Arbor Bi Bim Bop -
Information Architecture Institute (IAI) -
Brickyard
Dan Cooney’s Contact Settings
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