Usability Musician
Hawaiian Islands
- Past
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- Principal and Lead Usability Designer at Sakuzaku, LLC
- Head of Design and Client Accounts at Community Internet
- Education
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- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Kansai Gaidai University
- Connections
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Matthew McVickar’s Experience
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Principal and Lead Usability Designer
Sakuzaku, LLC
(Computer Software industry)
June 2007 — June 2009 (2 years 1 month)
Sakuzaku provides software engineering and systems architecture consulting services, with a focus on fast, sleek, and eminently usable Ruby on Rails and Web 2.0 applications and services, for clients in Honolulu, Tokyo, and around the world.
I was lead usability designer at Sakuzaku, in charge of developing and consulting for effective and elegant human-computer interaction concepts for web applications and other software. I also provided creative and promotional schematics and act as a primary communicative presence with customers and users alike. -
Head of Design and Client Accounts
Community Internet
(Internet industry)
2001 — 2007 (6 years )
Community Internet specializes in design, development, and marketing of affordable and customizable e-commerce and advertising solutions for high-end retail, restaurant, real estate, and travel lifestyle companies.
Matthew McVickar’s Education
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst
BA Cum Laude , English Literature, Japanese Language and Literature , 2003 — 2008
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Kansai Gaidai University
Japanese Post-war Fiction, Japanese Culture 2005 — 2006
Additional Information
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Matthew McVickar’s Interests:
music, internet, bicycling, walking, collecting, photography, animals, Japanese literature, usability, rhythm, repetition
Matthew McVickar’s Contact Settings
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