User Interface Architect/Information Architect
Vancouver, Canada Area
- Past
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- User Interface Designer/Information Architect at IBM
- User Interface Designer/Information Architect at RIPE B2B
- Consultant at The Kendall Group
- User Interface Designer at Fidelity Investments
- User Interface Architect at Infinity Pharmaceuticals
- User Interface Architect at Frictionless Commerce
- VP of Product Content and Design at MyHelpDesk
- Technical Lead at MediaOne
- Technical Lead at Ziff Davis
- Education
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- The Walden School
- University of Cambridge
- University of Cincinnati
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David Drucker’s Summary
User Interface Architect, with over 15 years experience creating user interface prototypes for business, medical and scientific applications, general public, and financial organizations. Have consistently created best-of-industry designs for clients and employers. My goal is making any project work for users with the minimum of training or documentation. If they aren't thinking about the software, but instead the task at hand, I've succeeded.
I've relocated to Vancouver, BC from Boston, MA. After over 2 years working with a small software company here, I am now working with IBM on a large software project.
David Drucker’s Specialties:
User Interface Design, Software and Web Prototypes, Information Architecture, Information Design, Screen Design for software and Devices (Medical, Consumer, etc.), Usability Audits of existing designs and strategic consulting on improving or redesigning user interfaces for web applications.
David Drucker’s Experience
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User Interface Designer/Information Architect
IBM
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
July 2007 — May 2008 (11 months)
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User Interface Designer/Information Architect
RIPE B2B
(Computer Software industry)
December 2005 — July 2007 (1 year 8 months)
User Interface designer and Project Manager for a variety of projects, ranging from small business web sites for local companies, ongoing UI improvements for Webnames.ca, one of Canada's most prominent Domain Registrars, and web sites for a resort in Anguilla, the non-profit Ovarian Cancer of Canada and a database of B&Bs for British Columbia's Sunshine Coast. Also provided UI Consulting on RIPE's newest project (still under development).
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Consultant
The Kendall Group
(Computer Software industry)
1995 — 2005 (10 years)
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User Interface Designer
Fidelity Investments
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Banking industry)
September 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 4 months)
Working as a contractor, designed interface for 2 large and successful projects, Retirement Income Planner, a complex and comprehensive tool available for consumers to plan their retirement investments, budget, and other decision points, and Equity Research, a comprehensive online research library of stocks incorporating performance, analyst recommendations, news, analyst research reports, company fundamentals, and technical analysis (stock price movement and trading characteristics). Prepared and presented prototypes, user interface details, clickable HTML-based demonstrations and worked with developers to insure that HTML, JavaScript and Java implementations of designs worked as designed. Worked with on-site Usability Lab to determine feasibility and usefulness of new product features.
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User Interface Architect
Infinity Pharmaceuticals
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)
September 2002 — December 2003 (1 year 4 months)
Designed and produced User Interface for scientific and business applications for virtual compound enumeration and assay management and results analysis. Collaborated with informaticians, scientists, and software developers to create software user interfaces from requirements of each set of laboratory tasks as well as interviews and brainstorming sessions with subject-matter experts.
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User Interface Architect
Frictionless Commerce
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2001 — November 2002 (1 year 4 months)
Defined overall Look-and-Feel for all of the company’s software products maximized for greatest usability. Worked with product management to transform product requirements into new user interfaces.
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VP of Product Content and Design
MyHelpDesk
(Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
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Technical Lead
MediaOne
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year)
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Technical Lead
Ziff Davis
(Computer Software industry)
1993 — 1995 (2 years)
David Drucker’s Education
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The Walden School
1977 — 2005
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University of Cambridge
MPhil, Music Composition, 1983 — 1984
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University of Cincinnati
BM, Music Composition, September 1978 — June 1982
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David Drucker’s Interests:
I've recently relocated to Vancouver Canada for personal and political reasons. Was on the Board of Directors for The Walden School - a summer program for young musicians in New Hampshire, until this spring.
David Drucker’s Groups:
Society for Internet Professionals, ACM SIG-CHI, The Walden School. VanUE (Vancouver User Experience), Northern Voice, The Walden School, BCS, STC
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Mobile Applications 'n' Design
David Drucker’s Honors:
Tanglewood Fellowship, Scholarship for Cambridge University
David Drucker’s Contact Settings
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