Allen Smith

Current

• Senior Product Manager | User Experience at Qualcomm / MediaFLO USA

Past

• Creative Director at Digital Orchid
• Project Manager, Wireless Applications at Xsilogy
• Product Designer at CollegeClub.com

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Education

• Indiana University Bloomington

Recommended

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Connections

82 connections

Industry

Wireless

Websites

• My Portfolio

Allen Smith’s Summary

In-demand creative professional with expert level knowledge of wireless product development and a proven ability to transform concepts into award-winning, commercially successful products.

Allen Smith’s Specialties:

Combine creative, artistic talent with entrepreneurial mindset to deliver revenue-enhancing, market-oriented wireless products.

Allen Smith’s Experience

• Senior Product Manager | User Experience

  Qualcomm / MediaFLO USA

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; QCOM; Telecommunications industry)

  October 2007 — Present (1 year)

  Defining and creating next generation user experiences for MediaFLO's broadcast network for mobile TV.

• Creative Director

  Digital Orchid

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)

  January 2003 — September 2007 (4 years 9 months)

  Directed the design (IX and visual) of award-winning and commercially successful products for: NASCAR, NHL, MLB, ESPN, IRL, Champ Car, AMA, Reef, Quiksilver, Hawaiian Tropic, and many, many others. Application design experience covers every major mobile product category and all major carriers in North, Central, and South America, with additional coverage in Europe: BREW, J2ME, PocketPC, WAP.

• Project Manager, Wireless Applications

  Xsilogy

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)

  December 2001 — August 2002 (9 months)

  * Functional specification documents for web-based wireless networking monitoring tools.
  
  * Prototyping of new web-based applications and designing the user interface.

• Product Designer

  CollegeClub.com

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 1998 — April 2001 (3 years)

  * Functional specification documents for all communication tools.
  
  * WAP integration
  
  * Communication tools product manager.
  
  * Editor.

Allen Smith’s Education

• Indiana University Bloomington

  B.A., Telecommunications

Additional Information

Allen Smith’s Websites:

• My Portfolio

Allen Smith’s Interests:

Music, documentaries, video, interactive products, creative consulting, games, travelling, writing, big ideas.

Allen Smith’s Groups:

•    Interaction Design Association
•    Mobile Product Management
•    User Experience
•    Qualcomm Inc.
•    Mobile Media Networking

Allen Smith’s Honors:

* Recognized by KGTV Channel 10 in San Diego for contributions to fostering electronic communication in 1999.

* Functional Specification Tutorial has been adopted into a Project Management class taught by Paul Turley at Creative Solutions. Additionally, it has been profiled in Digital Web Magazine, WebWord, Elegant Hack, and many other publications (online and off). Type "Functional Spec" into Google and select the first result item.

* Grand prize winner of the 2003 Qualcomm/Verizon CMX animated ringtone contest.

* Finalist for 2006 BREW "Best Mobile Entertainment Application" of the year award.

Allen Smith’s Contact Settings

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