Melina McLarty

Current

• User Experience Engineer at VMware

Past

• Interaction Designer at VMWare, Inc.
• User Centered Design Practitioner at IBM
• Operations Research Specialist at United Parcel Services

• Industrial Engineering Intern at Ford Motor Company
• Business Innovations at Ministry of Transportation of Ontario

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Education

• University of Waterloo

Connections

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Industry

Design

Melina McLarty’s Summary

Extensive past experience working with customers to gather user requirements to deliver innovative design recommendations.

Interest and experience in cross-disciplinary design: interface, information, product, industrial and experience.

Melina McLarty’s Experience

• User Experience Engineer

  VMware

  (Public Company; VMW; Computer Software industry)

  June 2009 — Present (6 months)

• Interaction Designer

  VMWare, Inc.

  (Design industry)

  May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)

• User Centered Design Practitioner

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2007 — December 2007 (1 year )

  Conducted face-to-face and remote usability sessions, heuristic evaluations, and customer surveys, to determine and deliver interaction design recommendations for beta software.

• Operations Research Specialist

  United Parcel Services

  (Public Company; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

  May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)

  Lead major project to determine and analyze various design alternatives of a package centre.
  
  Optimized physical design of sort station, extending maximum sort capacity of a facility by 2 years.

• Industrial Engineering Intern

  Ford Motor Company

  (Public Company; Automotive industry)

  September 2005 — December 2005 (4 months)

  Performed time and motion studies to assist with assembly line balancing and determine ergonomic constraints.
  
  Conducted labour and production studies to minimize losses within supply departments.

• Business Innovations

  Ministry of Transportation of Ontario

  (Government Administration industry)

  January 2005 — April 2005 (4 months)

  Participated in various team brainstorm sessions to improve business processes within the Ministry.
  
  Liaised with end-users and development to ensure user-requirements were being met in the development of a database reporting tool.
  
  Delivered information design and interface design recommendations to optimize and simplify business reporting software.

Melina McLarty’s Education

• University of Waterloo

  BASc , Systems Design Engineering , 2004 — 2009

  Design Projects
  
  Software Design: Iteratively researched and designed software for desktop, mobile and surface interfaces.
  
  - Blogging tool for OLPC laptop program.
  - Training tool for health and safety at RIM.
  - Wall/surface games for use in lineups Disney parks.
  - SocialTV: Remote/system for social interaction and television viewing (hardware design as well).
  - Pedometer iPhone application.
  
  Product Design: Designed, prototyped and user tested a hand washing prompting device to aid the elderly suffering from Alzheimer’s disease

Additional Information

Melina McLarty’s Groups:

•    Waterloo Alumni

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