Lyle Kantrovich

Current

Board of Directors, Director of Membership & Member Benefits at Usability Professionals' Association
Director at Human Factors International

Past

Board of Directors, Director of Marketing & Branding at Usability Professionals' Association
President at Usability Professionals' Association - Minnesota Chapter
User Experience Director at Cargill

Board of Directors at Usability Professionals' Association - Minnesota Chapter
Project Manager, Web Designer, Sr. IT Business Analyst at Cargill
Product Designer at Rooster.com
Owner at High End Entertainment

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Lyle Kantrovich’s Summary

Have worked on design of many web applications and web sites since Netscape 1.1 was the market leading browser. Have also designed applications for traditional GUI and handheld devices.

Very active in Usability Professionals' Association. Currently serving on the Board of Directors, and have served on the local Chapter board of directors for over five years.

I've written articles for interactions magazine (ACM SIG-CHI), Boxes and Arrows, and my blog "Croc O' Lyle" (http://crocolyle.blogspot.com), and speak regularly at conferences and other events.

Lyle Kantrovich’s Specialties:

usability, user-centered design, ucd, usability testing, prototyping, innovation, user experience design, web design, user interface design, information technology, customer satisfaction, new product development, npd, project management, consulting, marketing, branding, sales, association management, facilitation, training, speaking

Lyle Kantrovich’s Experience

Board of Directors, Director of Membership & Member Benefits

Usability Professionals' Association

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — Present (7 months)

UPA is THE professional association for people that want to make more usable products and services. UPA provides a great community for practitioners who want to share their experiences in order to create better user experiences..
Director

Human Factors International

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2006 — Present (2 years 7 months)

I lead user-centered design projects for Fortune 500 companies. This includes user research, market research, new product ideation, UI concepting, UI design, usability testing, and user experience strategy consulting.

I've had the opportunity to work on many exiciting projects and products, including top Internet destinations, complex GUI visualization software, life-saving medical devices, clinical systems.
Board of Directors, Director of Marketing & Branding

Usability Professionals' Association

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2006 — December 2007 (2 years)

UPA is THE professional association for people that want to make more usable products and services. UPA provides a great community for practitioners who want to share their experiences in order to create better user experiences..
President

Usability Professionals' Association - Minnesota Chapter

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2005 — December 2006 (2 years)

The Minnesota Chapter of UPA is a lively community of professionals in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area. In my tenure as President, I recruited volunteers and board members, plan and run monthly events. Membership nearly doubled in this timeframe.
User Experience Director

Cargill

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2001 — January 2006 (5 years 1 month)

Lead an internal usability and user-centered design consulting group at Cargill, a diverse global company (over 150,000 employees in over 60 countries).

• Established Web UI Standards
• Researched new technologies and evaluated their usability, including blogs and wikis
• Worked on corporate Innovation efforts
• Evangelist of UCD working to institutionalize usability and good design practices
Board of Directors

Usability Professionals' Association - Minnesota Chapter

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2002 — December 2004 (2 years 10 months)

Helped lead and manage operations of The Minnesota Chapter of UPA. As Program Director, I planned monthly events - recruiting speakers, organizing vendors, and working out programming budgets, while helped to nuture a maturing organization run by volunteers.
Project Manager, Web Designer, Sr. IT Business Analyst

Cargill

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Food & Beverages industry)

January 1996 — December 2000 (5 years)

• Designed the company's first intranet
• Lead the development of key web-based financial systems
• Lead first corporate portal design (Plumtree)
• Managed many web site projects
• Developed web sites in HTML, CSS, Java, Perl, and other technologies
Product Designer

Rooster.com

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

June 1999 — June 2000 (1 year 1 month)

Rooster.com was an Internet startup started by Cargill. I acted as Project Manager for a 1.5 million dollar proof of concept project, then transitioned into a Lead designer for their public web site and key product offerings. I was responsible for concepting of key products and services, web UI design, and vendor management on several initiatives. I was still a Cargill employee at this time - seconded into the Rooster.com business for about a year.

• Developed the company's pre-launch web site
• Designed the company's initial portal with news, weather and market quotes updated constantly
• Created concepts for Palm handheld based informational products
• Functioned as interim CTO for a short time while the company was in early startup phase
Owner

High End Entertainment

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)

1992 — 1995 (3 years)

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Lyle Kantrovich’s Interests:

Usability, User Experience, Web design, User-Centered Design (UCD), Information Architecture, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), marketing, branding, new product development, project management