Interaction Designer at Yahoo!
San Francisco Bay Area
Interaction Designer at Yahoo!
San Francisco Bay Area
Five years of experience designing consumer products including My Yahoo!, the Yahoo! Front Page, Amazon Gold Box and Amazon recommendations. Skilled in creating high fidelity prototypes and comprehensive interaction design specifications. Passionate about building innovative visual interfaces.
User Interface Design, Human-Computer Interaction methods, AJAX/DHTML/JavaScript prototyping
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
July 2006 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Designing mock-ups and developing prototypes to demonstrate new feature ideas, interaction and animation sequences for Yahoo! home page, My Yahoo! and Yahoo! Messenger Insider; Using JavaScript based Yahoo User Interface libraries for rapid prototyping.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMZN; Internet industry)
May 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 3 months)
Redesigned Amazon GoldBox and recommendations e-mail; developed web applications for analyzing website usage statistics and customer behavior; designed Amazon Delivers e-mail subscription management features; evaluated website usability issues.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SI; Computer Software industry)
September 2002 — April 2005 (2 years 8 months)
Prototyped industrial, commercial and medical software; Defined requirements for web and desktop applications by working on-site with teams throughout the U.S., Austria, Germany and Slovakia; Contributed to research activities by publishing conference papers.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MACR; Internet industry)
January 2001 — April 2001 (4 months)
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
June 2000 — August 2000 (3 months)
Master's, Human-Computer Interaction, 2001 — 2002
Master’s capstone with industry client: “Improving the Texas Instruments Graphing Calculator User Experience”
Applied HCI methods to find usability problems and analyze task flows on different TI graphing calculators. TI incorporated results and standards, defined in the form of a capstone paper and calculator prototype, into their graphing calculator line.
B.A., Computer Science, 1999 — 2001
Carnegie Mellon University