
Interaction and Visual Designer
Greater Seattle Area

Interaction and Visual Designer
Greater Seattle Area
Interaction and visual designer experienced in web and software domains. Strong client-side web coder, competent in Java when I need to be. Photoshop adept who lives to skin apps. A respectful design communicator who unites diverse teams and gets along well with the engineers. Builder of prototypes in Flash, HTML, and paper. Designer and shepherd of big projects with successful conclusions.
Production art for application skins, standards-based webcraft, communications and technical writing, localization, prototyping, large-scale systems, web applications, software product suites, mobile device software, component interactions, interoperable communications
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)
Provide design services including product design, production art, symbol design, interaction design and evaluation, team facilitation, specifications, Flash and paper prototypes, and production interface development. Document our Java and C# SDKs in my spare time.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; expd; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)
October 2002 — January 2005 (2 years 4 months)
Designed large-scale web applications. Created icons, symbols, and production art. Created company-wide style guide and application components. In-house client-side development expert.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2001 — July 2002 (1 year)
Designed and constructed user interfaces for large-scale web systems. Created production art for private branding. The company provides web-based customer support services for clients internationally.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 5 months)
Designed and constructed user interface of line-of-business web-based telecom system. This little startup had a front row seat for the dot com crash.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1991 — February 2000 (8 years 8 months)
Worked variously as web developer, technical communications developer, and technical support engineer while at WRQ (now Attachmate). Joined when the company was still small enough for everyone to have lunch together.
UCD Certificate , User Centered Design , 2006 — 2007
Usability testing, user-centered design, and visual concepts coursework
Graphic design coursework 2003 — 2004
Graphic design, layout, toolwork, color theory, portfolio-building.
Java Programming 1998 — 1999
Java programming coursework.
BA , Music, Computer Studies , 1988
Music theory, composition, performance. Dance accompanist. Theatre training and technician. Computer studies in AI and automation ethics.
Visual and interaction design, icons and symbols, piano performance, longboard skateboards, anime and manga, exercise, and sunny weather.