Senior Usability Analyst at iQcontent
Ireland
Senior Usability Analyst at iQcontent
Ireland
Experienced Interaction Designer (User Experience Designer) capable of managing large web projects from requirements through to delivery.
Passionate about modern web technologies, and delivering optimal user experience.
Interaction Design: Prototyping, Wireframing, Usability testing, Information Architecture, Persona Creation, Interface design
Programming-Web: XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python
Programming-Desktop: Java Swing
Academic: LaTeX, SPSS, Statistical Analysis.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2006 — Present (2 years)
Technologies XHTML/CSS/Javascript + XMLRPC/ MySQL / PHP
Designed and Implemented front end UI for Bigulo.com, a wildly popular social networking search engine. Whilst you would be correct in thinking that the front end is not pretty, it is deliberate as our target demographic (15-21 yr olds) do not appreciate clean design, as evidenced by the popularity of sites such as bebo, myspace etc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
April 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 3 months)
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)
September 2003 — April 2007 (3 years 8 months)
Whilst undertaking my PhD, I also lecture courses on Web Development, GUI Design with Java, Algorithms and Data Structures and CS1 ~ Introduction to Programming.
I work closely with other research groups in the CS Dept to guarantee a wide berth of knowledge about all areas of Computer Science, and perform contract based research occasionally.
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2002 — June 2002 (5 months)
As part of internal work placement I designed and developed a new front-end to the Java Compiler in an attempt to offer 1st year students an easier experience for their first compilation efforts. The compiler was written using Java + JSP and provided a web based front end to the IBM Jikes Compiler. This tool was used for 2 years before being replaced with a custom version of Gel, an educational IDE.
PhD, Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2003 — 2007
Bsc Hons, Computer Science and Software Engineering, 1999 — 2003
Computer Science Education, Programming, Web Development
ACM, IEEE, iXDA
IRCSET Scholarship Recipient 2003-2007
Intel Scholarship for Software Engineering 2003
1st Prize for Computer Science 2003