Gary Davis

Current

• Human Factors Engineer at Eastman Kodak

Past

• User Interaction Designer at Xerox
• Freelance Designer at Marietta
• Senior Industrial Designer at Smith Corona

• Designer at Cleary Graphics

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Education

• Syracuse University

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Design

Websites

• My Portfolio
• My Website
• My Website

Gary Davis’s Summary

Led or participated in interdisciplinary teams for the design of major features and services. Provided User Interaction Design support including competitive benchmarking, workflow analysis, architecture, graphics and nomenclature, usability test planning and reporting, wire-frames, storyboards, style guides and detailed specifications.

* Designed print drivers that improved success rates over 200% on key tasks and were adopted as the company-wide design standard.
* Increased reseller interest in Xerox equipment over competitors by devising a complete end-to-end system to direct sales of supplies to the original reseller.
* Enhanced usability and customer satisfaction by unifying several divergent authentication, accounting and access schemes into a single coherent design.
* Led an interdisciplinary team in the creation of a ground-breaking new walk-up network email service that was adopted throughout the product line.
* Improved usability and simplified the workflow for the Build Job feature on Xerox products, improving success rates in excess of 50% and productivity more than 20%.
* Provided a simple solution to accommodate both novice and advanced users for the Color Balance feature UI.
* Increased the collection of revenue over $1M per year through redesign of the billing meters UI and establishment of coherent nomenclature across devices.
* Successfully scaled UI architecture across various display sizes and resolutions while maintaining a common look and feel.

Gary Davis’s Specialties:

* Scope of talent encompasses conceptual, logical and physical design
* Expertise using Photoshop, Illustrator and Freehand
* Professional experience with Flash, Director, Dreamweaver and others
* Working knowledge of web technologies including Apache, XHTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, XML, Ajax, XSL and SOAP

Gary Davis’s Experience

• Human Factors Engineer

  Eastman Kodak

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EK; Consumer Goods industry)

  2007 — Present (1 year)

  Led and coordinated interaction design projects. Analyzed and simplified workflows. Proposed designs and planned usability tests. Created or updated complex specifications.

• User Interaction Designer

  Xerox

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

  March 1996 — December 2006 (10 years 10 months)

  Led or participated in interdisciplinary teams for the design of major features and services. Provided User Interaction Design support including competitive benchmarking, workflow analysis, architecture, graphics and nomenclature, usability test planning and reporting, wire-frames, storyboards, style guides and detailed specifications.

• Freelance Designer

  Marietta

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Packaging and Containers industry)

  1995 — 1996 (1 year)

  Designed custom amenities labeling and carton graphics for several national hotel chains. Developed contract packaging for national manufacturers.

• Senior Industrial Designer

  Smith Corona

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SCO; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  1994 — 1995 (1 year)

  Explored new product concepts and modified existing products. Developed graphical user interface designs. Established workflow procedures for the team. Coordinated internal and external services.

• Designer

  Cleary Graphics

  (Design industry)

  1990 — 1993 (3 years)

Gary Davis’s Education

• Syracuse University

  1980 — 1985

Additional Information

Gary Davis’s Websites:

• My Portfolio
• My Website
• My Website

Gary Davis’s Interests:

Design, User Interaction, User Experience, homeschool

Gary Davis’s Groups:

WNYHFES, FIRST Lego League, PCC, PCC LEAH,

•    Xerox Extended

Gary Davis’s Honors:

Patents

Awarded: 6134019 Full-Text Help button service for a user interface in a digital printing scanning or facsimile system, 7,280,241 Print driver user interface, 7,154,628 Job secure overwrite failure notification

Pending: 20070188772 Recursive build job graphical user interface,

Gary Davis’s Contact Settings

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