User Experience Manager at Covenant Eyes
Lansing, Michigan Area
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- User Experience Manager at Covenant Eyes
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- Web designer at Covenant Eyes
- Web Design Team Leader at Michigan State University
- IT Professional at Michigan State University
- Consultant/Founder at Envision Internet Consulting, LLC
- Web Coordinator at Michigan State University
- Education
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- Michigan State University
- Michigan State University
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Davin Granroth’s Summary
I've been producing websites since 1994-95—full-time since 1998.
The longer I work in this field, the more I realize how often and how deeply our work reaches into so many other areas of business: customer service, marketing, product development, executive strategy.
These days I focus on learning and doing design research, designing whole-cycle user experiences, and turning that work into applications that innovate the customer's experience well past our current status quo.
Davin Granroth’s Specialties:
* Interaction design, information architecture
* Usability work, such as planning and moderating user-tests, coordinating heuristic evaluations, interviewing users
* Interface design, XHTML, CSS
* Accessibility for the Web
* Writing for the Web
* Managing creative teams
Davin Granroth’s Experience
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User Experience Manager
Covenant Eyes
(Internet industry)
May 2009 — Present (3 months)
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Web designer
Covenant Eyes
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2008 — May 2009 (1 year)
Web design, development, information architecture, and usability work
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Web Design Team Leader
Michigan State University
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; MSU; Higher Education industry)
August 2007 — June 2008 (11 months)
* Lead, manage, and develop a team of web designers
* Collaborate with other teams on various projects, and for programming and hosting support -
IT Professional
Michigan State University
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; MSU; Higher Education industry)
June 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 3 months)
* Develop and lead seminars and workshops for faculty and staff at Michigan State University on topics like visual design, web design, XHTML, information architecture, and writing for the web
* Produce websites, inserting user research when possible, in collaboration with graphic designers and writers -
Consultant/Founder
Envision Internet Consulting, LLC
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
September 2002 — June 2005 (2 years 10 months)
* Advise and consult with public, private and non-profit clients on website design and development, online marketing, information architecture, and website usability
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Web Coordinator
Michigan State University
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; MSU; Higher Education industry)
July 1999 — September 2002 (3 years 3 months)
* Collaborate with a creative team of writers, editors, videographers, photographers, graphic designers, programmers, and project managers to lead the production of dozens of websites for Michigan State University, some simple and some highly complex.
* Manage client relationships, projects, and people.
Davin Granroth’s Education
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Michigan State University
BA , English , 2008 — 2008
Returned to complete undergraduate degree.
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Michigan State University
1994 — 1999
Majored in English, focusing on writing creative non-fiction. Also studied Philosophy, biochemistry, and human physiology.
While working at the MSU Writing Center, assisted faculty and students as they transitioned writing assignments from traditional print to the web. In line with these challenges, collaborated with a handful of colleagues to establish the Internet Writing Consultancy (now called the Digital Writing Consultancy) at the Writing Center.
Stopped schooling before graduating in order to accept a full-time job offer.
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ACM SIGCHI
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