Matthew McVickar

Current

• Principal and Lead Usability Designer at Sakuzaku, LLC

Past

• Head of Design and Client Accounts at Community Internet

Education

• University of Massachusetts at Amherst
• Kansai Gaikokugo Daigaku

Connections

67 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Radio Show
• My Photos

Matthew McVickar’s Experience

• Principal and Lead Usability Designer

  Sakuzaku, LLC

  (Computer Software industry)

  June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  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 am 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 provide 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

• University of Massachusetts at Amherst

  BA Cum Laude , English Literature, Japanese Language and Literature , 2003 — 2008

• Kansai Gaikokugo Daigaku

  Japanese Post-war Fiction, Japanese Culture 2005 — 2006

Additional Information

Matthew McVickar’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Radio Show
• My Photos

Matthew McVickar’s Interests:

music, the internet, bicycling, walking, dancing, singing, thinking, creativity, design, usability, rhythm, echo, repetition, Japanese language and culture, photography, video, animals, journaling, patterns

Matthew McVickar’s Groups:

•    Web Standards Design + Development

Matthew McVickar’s Contact Settings

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