Local Business Design Manager at Google
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
- Past
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- UI Engineer at Constellar
- UI Engineer at Intraspect
- UI Engineer at Aspect Telecommunications
- Software Engineer at Oracle
- Software Engineer at Bell Communications Research
- Intern Programmer and Artist at Computer Magic
- Education
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- Cornell University
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Dorothy Nelson’s Summary
Started out as User Interface Developer in the 80s at Bell Communications Research, and through Oracle, Aspect Telecommunications, Intraspect, Webvan, eBay, and finally Google, I've become nearly exclusively a User Interface Designer with some prototyping expertise. Recently, I am leading people and initiatives at Google, including team education and design pattern standardization.
My goal is to positively affect the lives of as many people as I can with the work that I do, making life easier, more fun, and more satisfying.
Dorothy Nelson’s Specialties:
Task Analysis, UI Design, HTML/Javascript prototyping, Product Management, negotiation training
Dorothy Nelson’s Experience
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Local Business Design Manager
Google
(Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)
August 2009 — Present (4 months)
Building solutions for local businesses, be they the corner salon to the national home improvement franchise.
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Design Manager, Ads
Google
(Public Company; goog; Internet industry)
March 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)
User Experience design of advertising applications.
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Standards Design Manager
Google
(Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)
November 2008 — August 2009 (10 months)
Coordinate across all of User Experience at Google, driving projects that build standards, specifications, and components for designers and engineers.
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UI Designer
eBay
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ebay; Internet industry)
June 2001 — July 2004 (3 years 2 months)
User Experience design of the selling interface (online and Turbo Lister).
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UI Designer
Webvan
(Public Company; Internet industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year )
User experience design of home grocery shopping.
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UI Engineer
Constellar
(Internet industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years )
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UI Engineer
Intraspect
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1996 — January 1998 (1 year 7 months)
Designed and implemented user interfaces for the collaboration product. Company was acquired by Vignette.
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UI Engineer
Aspect Telecommunications
(Public Company; ASPT; Telecommunications industry)
October 1990 — September 1996 (6 years )
Designed and created CustomView Editor: a reporting system for the Aspect CallCenter built using Informix' Wingz, SQL, FTP, and MS Windows SDK.
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Software Engineer
Oracle
(Public Company; ORCL; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 1989 — September 1990 (1 year 6 months)
Designed and built composite objects (including a linked-text help object) and demo applications for two Oracle multi-platform (X Window, Macintosh, Presentation Manager, Character mode) toolkits.
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Software Engineer
Bell Communications Research
(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)
September 1986 — September 1989 (3 years 1 month)
Coded and helped to design DynaMICE (visual call management) in X Windows and Suntools. Helped to implement Cruiser, a video tool for facilitating unplanned interactions between distanced co-workers.
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Intern Programmer and Artist
Computer Magic
(Computer Games industry)
June 1983 — January 1984 (8 months)
Designed and coded graphics for computer games on Atari systems.
Dorothy Nelson’s Education
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Cornell University
Computer Science 1980 — 1984
