
UX Designer/Engineer
Portland, Oregon Area

UX Designer/Engineer
Portland, Oregon Area
• 6 years focused on designing efficient and intuitive user experiences of web based products distilling objectives and user needs into compelling architectures, and measuring their usability.
• 13 years in information design, creating technical drawings and diagrams, and designing, marketing and managing websites.
• A decade managing and documenting technical projects and leading teams to turn vague concepts into user-centered valuable products that advance business goals.
• Extensive web software development experience including architecture of scalable platforms, object oriented programming, database design and agile methodologies.
• User-Centered Design, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Usability & Strategy
• User Research & Testing, Requirements Gathering, Contextual Inquiry, Task Analysis, Use Cases, Conceptual Models, Prototyping, Heuristic Evaluations, Brainstorming, Benchmarking, Competitive Research, Site Maps, Wireframes…
• XHTML (Certified), CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, PHP (Certified), MySQL, XML, svn, shell
• Omnigraffle, Visio, BBEdit/vi/etc, Photoshop, Fireworks, Office, Pen & Paper