Brian O'Neill

Designer / User Experience Professional / Musician

Greater Boston Area

Current
  • Designer and User Experience Professional at Rhythmspice.com Media (Self-employed)
Past
  • User experience consultant at MyHappyPlanet.com
  • Director of Design and User Experience at Eons, Inc.
  • Experience Design Lead at BrownCo (Jp Morgan Chase)
  • Design lead / Information Architect at Fidelity Investments
  • Designer at Lycos
  • Designer at Smartplanet
  • Designer at ZDU
  • Designer at ZDNet
Education
  • Northern Arizona University
Connections
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Industry
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Brian O'Neill’s Summary

I am a skilled user-experience professional with a strong design, development, and business background. Before I began consulting and playing music full time in 2007, I directed the design group for Eons.com, a new "boomer-generation" startup led by Monster.com's Jeff Taylor. Some of my current projects include:

* Consulting at TheUpDown.com (social networking for investors), http://theupdown.com
* Consulting at My Happy Planet (connecting language learners across the globe) http://myhappyplanet.com
* Recent work: planetrewardsinc.com, MITRE corp, frenchlib.org redesign

What do consult on?

I provide design and user experience guidance/management to my clients and execute on projects as needed at various places in the product development cycle. Sometimes this is broad level strategy work; other times, I am seeing projects through from concept through code.

My goals as a designer:

* Design useful, usable and, beautiful software
* Help businesses with their online strategy and the balance of buisness goals with user experience
* Combine agile / rapid development methods with user-centered design
* Act as a bridge between product people and software engineers
* Apply XHTML/CSS (Web Standards) and encourage accessibility awareness
* Get stuff done fast. Execution matters more than Ideas.
* Use open source when possible. Contribute back.
* Hire smart, diverse, well-rounded people over Experts

Resume: http://www.rhythmspice.com/resume.cfm (a bit outdated, but hey, I'm busy!)

Brian O'Neill’s Specialties:

User Experience Lead, Information Architect, Design Management, Web Designer & Developer. Usability testing. Personas. HTML, XHTML, CSS, PHP/MYSQL, ASP, dHTML, Cold Fusion (CFML). SQL. Photoshop. Javascript & ECMA Script. MS Access. UNIX. Some XML, XSLT, AJAX, Ruby on Rails, JSP, STRUTS, JSTL, RSS. Microformats, ICS/ICAL. Web Standards. Wireless. 508, WCAG, Accessibility. Financial services, brokerage, travel, startups, designing for boomers and seniors. Agile development.


Brian O'Neill’s Experience

  • Designer and User Experience Professional

    Rhythmspice.com Media (Self-employed)

    (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

    January 1999Present (9 years 7 months)

    Rhythmspice is my company and the name under which I offer my design and user experience expertise.

  • User experience consultant

    MyHappyPlanet.com

    (Internet industry)

    20082008 (less than a year)

  • Director of Design and User Experience

    Eons, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

    February 2006February 2007 (1 year 1 month)

    * Lead the information architecture, interaction, and visual design of the original Eons.com site (August 2006 launch)
    * As the original designer, I built and managed a team of designers and user experience specialists
    * Helped integrate Agile and User Experience methodologies
    * Conducted and began a usability / user validation program
    * Architected and coded much of the original front-end XHTML/CSS for the site, employing Web Standards methodologies
    * Designed several of the core applications and some of the database models

  • Experience Design Lead

    BrownCo (Jp Morgan Chase)

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; JPMC; Financial Services industry)

    January 2005November 2006 (1 year 11 months)

    I help design the information, interfaces and experiences of our active traders. I use the user-centered design (UCD) methodology and am responsible for everything from goal/task exploration through usability testing and final markup/CSS creation. Early on, I helped BrownCo’s Product Management team learn how to analyze and build visual models of customer goals to help steer design.

    On a daily basis, I am the Design Lead for the new Accounts and Online Application areas of the site. I am also leading and teaching the cost-effective, and accessible use of Web Standards methodologies (structured XHTML, CSS, and ECMA Script) and manage the creation of CSS and markup at BrownCo. Coworkers see me as a bridge between the UI Development and design groups. I also help propagate usage of Web Standards in other JPMC business. Finally, I act as a primary consultant for web accessibility issues and am a member of JPMC’s Access Ability networking group.

  • Design lead / Information Architect

    Fidelity Investments

    (Internet industry)

    20032004 (1 year)

  • Designer

    Lycos

    (Public Company; Internet industry)

    20002003 (3 years)

  • Designer

    Smartplanet

    (Internet industry)

    19992000 (1 year)

  • Designer

    ZDU

    (Internet industry)

    19992000 (1 year)

  • Designer

    ZDNet

    (Public Company; Internet industry)

    19992000 (1 year)


Brian O'Neill’s Education

  • Northern Arizona University

    Bachelor of Music, Percussion Studies / Instrumental Performance, August 1995May 1999

    Graduated summa cum laude.


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Brian O'Neill’s Groups:

WAITIKI Orchestrotica,
Fraternal Order of Moai,
Boston Musicians Association,
Percussive Arts Society

  •    Design World member
  •    Web Standards Design + Development member

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