Director of Firefox at Mozilla Corporation
Toronto, Canada Area
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- Director of Firefox at Mozilla Corporation
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- User Experience Lead at Mozilla Corporation
- User Experience Designer at IBM Canada
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- Queen's University
- Queen's University
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Mike Beltzner’s Summary
Product manager, user experience advocate, cat herder and people amplifier. It is my goal to make things better both for the people I work with and the people for whom we're building products and services.
Mike Beltzner’s Specialties:
Human computer interaction, software design, product management, project organization, community co-ordination.
Mike Beltzner’s Experience
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Director of Firefox
Mozilla Corporation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Directing the efforts of a team of Mozilla employees and contributors to deliver the best web browser in the world. Part product manager, part project manager, part user experience advocate, part cat herder and all communicator and people amplifier.
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User Experience Lead
Mozilla Corporation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2005 — July 2008 (3 years 1 month)
Provide guidance to product managers and development teams to ensure that Mozilla projects offer the best user experience possible. My duties include gathering user feedback, distilling feedback into priorities and designs, and advocating usability within the design process.
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User Experience Designer
IBM Canada
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
June 2000 — June 2005 (5 years 1 month)
Provided input to development and project management teams based on user experience research to enhance and improve the usability of IBM middleware application development tools.
Mike Beltzner’s Education
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Queen's University
BEd , Computers, Math , September 1995 — April 2000
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- Taught at: Winston Churcill Public School, LaSalle Secondary School
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Queen's University
BScH , Cognitive Science , September 1995 — April 1999
- Activities and Societies:
- Main Campus Residence Council (MCRC), Brockington House, Golden Words, Alma Mater Society, Who's Where What's Next
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