Designer / User Experience Professional / Musician
Greater Boston Area
- Current
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- Designer and User Experience Professional at Rhythmspice.com Media (Self-employed)
- Past
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- 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
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- Northern Arizona University
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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Resume: http://www.rhythmspice.com/resume.cfm (a bit outdated, but hey, I'm busy!)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
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Designer and User Experience Professional
Rhythmspice.com Media (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)
January 1999 — Present (9 years 7 months)
Rhythmspice is my company and the name under which I offer my design and user experience expertise.
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User experience consultant
MyHappyPlanet.com
(Internet industry)
2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
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Director of Design and User Experience
Eons, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
February 2006 — February 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
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Experience Design Lead
BrownCo (Jp Morgan Chase)
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; JPMC; Financial Services industry)
January 2005 — November 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)
2003 — 2004 (1 year)
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Designer
Lycos
(Public Company; Internet industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years)
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Designer
Smartplanet
(Internet industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
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Designer
ZDU
(Internet industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
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Designer
ZDNet
(Public Company; Internet industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
Brian O'Neill’s Education
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Northern Arizona University
Bachelor of Music, Percussion Studies / Instrumental Performance, August 1995 — May 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
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Web Standards Design + Development member
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