Douglas Potts

Current

Owner at D Potts Consulting, Inc.

Past

D Potts Consulting, Inc. - Usability Consultant at EDS
D Potts Consulting - Usability Consultant at Travelocity
Director of Experience Archtecture at imc2

Performance Technology Competency Lead at Cambridge Technology Partners
Senior Principal Engineer at Raytheon
Senior Multimedia Engineer at BusinessWorks, Inc.
Technical Project Manager - CBT and EPSS at ElectroCom Automation

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Education

The University of Texas at Dallas
University of Miami
University of Missouri-Columbia

Graceland University

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Douglas Potts’s Summary

End-user advocate with 20+ years experience analyzing, designing and testing user interfaces for all types of applications and Web sites.

Douglas Potts’s Specialties:

Usability, information architecture, human factors, end-user advocacy, Section 508 Accessibility Compliance.

Douglas Potts’s Experience

Owner

D Potts Consulting, Inc.

(Internet industry)

April 2002 — Present (7 years 4 months)

Usability analysis and testing of Web sites and software applications.
Section 508 Accessibility Consulting.

Clients include EDS, Travelocity, Verizon, Samsung, Hotlink
D Potts Consulting, Inc. - Usability Consultant

EDS

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 1 month)

Provided usability consulting for various large and small-scale Web sites and applications.
D Potts Consulting - Usability Consultant

Travelocity

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TSG; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

March 2005 — August 2005 (6 months)

Usability consultant for development of American Express Travel Web booking site.
Director of Experience Archtecture

imc2

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 2001 — April 2002 (1 year 4 months)

Develop methodologies and processes for usability.
End-user Advocate
Performance Technology Competency Lead

Cambridge Technology Partners

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CATP; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 9 months)

Implemented Performance Technology for various clients, including Publix, Radio Shack, MCI, Honda, Mediaplex, and HP.
Senior Principal Engineer

Raytheon

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RTN; Defense & Space industry)

March 1996 — May 1999 (3 years 3 months)

Worked with the former Electrospace group in Richardson, and on the SIVAM program in Garland.
Senior Multimedia Engineer

BusinessWorks, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year)
Technical Project Manager - CBT and EPSS

ElectroCom Automation

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Industrial Automation industry)

1990 — 1995 (5 years)

Douglas Potts’s Education

The University of Texas at Dallas

M.S. , Applied Cognition and Neuroscience , 1995 — 1999

Area of Interest: Human Perception and Human Computer Interaction
University of Miami

Bachelors of Music , Music Engineering , 1977 — 1980
University of Missouri-Columbia

Electrical Engineering 1975 — 1977
Graceland University

Engineering 1974 — 1975

Additional Information

Douglas Potts’s Websites:

Douglas Potts’s Interests:

Usability analysis, Usability testing, User Interface Design, Web Analytics, Web Design, Human Factors, Video/Online Gaming, Handheld Device Interfaces

Douglas Potts’s Groups:

American Psychological Association, Usability Professionals Association, Association for Computing Machinery (SIGCHI), Heimlich and the Maneuvers, Codger