FJ van Wingerde

Current

• Mobile User Experience Architect at AKQA

Past

• Contractor at Weaverluke
• Webslinger at Brandwidth
• UE Consultant at Vodafone

• UE Consultant at Empathise Ltd (www.empathise.net)
• Technology Analyst Research & Creative Development at Disney Mobile
• Senior Research Engineer at Nokia Inc.
• Senior Software Engineer at Nokia Inc.
• Application Specialist at Childrens Hospital Boston

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Education

• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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Industry

Telecommunications

Websites

• My Blog

FJ van Wingerde’s Summary

I make User Interfaces, and have been working over a decade in every aspect of it. From concepting, specifying, user-centered design, to implementing and delivering, in any technology that made sense, for mobile, web, TV, or desktop applications. From the first interactive web medical records to advanced mobile service concepts, from start to finish, with paper & pen, Excel & Word, usability labs with one-way mirrors or just observing over a shoulder, JAVA / Swing, HTML / CSS / JavaScript / AJAX, Python / Plone, J2ME, FlashLite, I make it work and usable.

FJ van Wingerde’s Specialties:

(mobile) interaction design, (mobile) ui R&D, prototype creation, concept exploration, software engineering, visualization, electronic social networking, reality check, making systems work

FJ van Wingerde’s Experience

• Mobile User Experience Architect

  AKQA

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

• Contractor

  Weaverluke

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2009 — October 2009 (10 months)

  User testing, Focus groups, UX concepting, UX prototyping, HTML / CSS / JavaScript implementation of Betavine.net , a Vodafone web portal for mobile development.

• Webslinger

  Brandwidth

  (Media Production industry)

  December 2008 — December 2008 (1 month)

  HTML & CSS creation for a campaign, including low-bandwidth pages.

• UE Consultant

  Vodafone

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOD; Telecommunications industry)

  April 2008 — July 2008 (4 months)

  Competitor analysis, task decomposition, IA, sketches, further ideation for Living Room project.

• UE Consultant

  Empathise Ltd (www.empathise.net)

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2008 — March 2008 (1 month)

• Technology Analyst Research & Creative Development

  Disney Mobile

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

  April 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 6 months)

  Working at Disney Mobile MVNO helping create the next level of services on both the handset and the Web, focussing on selecting enabling technologies and credible user interaction scenarios.

• Senior Research Engineer

  Nokia Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

  August 2003 — April 2006 (2 years 9 months)

  Research new WWW technologies and buzzwords for creating advanced data services (SOAP, XML) on smartphones. Create demos based on research. Write snippy reports on how difficult the tools were to use and how useless the buzzwords were.
  
  Created http://research.nokia.com and http://opensource.nokia.com, from selecting the CMS to graphic design, custom programming for profiles and templates, and handing off maintenance on exiting the company.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Nokia Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

  June 1999 — August 2003 (4 years 3 months)

  Create User Interface for Nokia Mobile Internet Toolkit, a toolkit for creating Mobile Internet sites with simulated phones.. Help decide feature set for new releases, design UI for new features and consult in other UI areas, guide graphic design and documentation design, code JAVA/Swing classes to implement parts of the UI. Promoted to team leader in the last 8 months before switch to new position.

• Application Specialist

  Childrens Hospital Boston

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  June 1995 — May 1999 (4 years )

  Created systems for research projects centred around collecting, combining, and presenting medical patient records from multiple live hospital patient databases, guidelines, and alarms for use in various hospital wards. Published articles in international peer-reviewed conferences and journals.

FJ van Wingerde’s Education

• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  drs , Software Engineering, focus on UI/Psychology , 1988 — 1994

  Internship & Master's Thesis at the Center for Math & Computer Science under Steven Pemberton

  Activities and Societies:

  Student Volunteer InterCHI 1993
  Student Volunteer IJCAI 1994
  SSR Amsterdam: Parliament representative and Yearbook editor/lay-out/technical lead (2 years)

Additional Information

FJ van Wingerde’s Websites:

• My Blog

FJ van Wingerde’s Groups:

ACM, SIGCHI

•    MobilOpen :: the mobile business group
•    UX Professionals
•    Nokia Alumni
•    Mobile User Experience

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