Michael Pullen

Current

Principal User Interface Designer at ITG (Investment Technology Group)

Past

User Experience Product Manager at Application Security Inc
Senior Interaction Designer and Product Management for Workforce Central at Kronos
Senior Interaction Designer at Gomez

UI Designer at Symmetrix/ Nextera
Human Factors Engineer at Charles River Analytics

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Education

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Industry

Computer Software

Michael Pullen’s Summary

Detailed Designs
Create UI specification documents
Communicate design across cross functional groups
Translate the business analyst and product manager requirements into designs for user interface developers

High & Midlevel Designs
Document product requirements
Design user-centric interaction
Prototype user experience
Document and communicate design of complex design applications

User Research & Analysis
Perform knowledge elicitation & engineering of complex businesses systems
Create use case scenarios
Identify business and user requirements
Identify and verify personas

Architecture
Define vision and design direction
Design information architecture
Diagram application interaction models
Document and enforce user interface guidelines across the suite
Design of user interface components for reuse and consistency

User Acceptance
Perform user acceptance tests in 2-week iterations with high and low fidelity prototypes
Conduct usability tests and analysis

Michael Pullen’s Specialties:

frictionless design, interaction design, human factors, enterprise application design, web applications, information architecture, knowledge acquisition, user experience, information architecture, interaction architecture, innovative design techniques, understanding how users work and what they need

Michael Pullen’s Experience

Principal User Interface Designer

ITG (Investment Technology Group)

(Public Company; ITG; Financial Services industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years)

Lead designer on the next generation trading application.
Designing a frictionless experience for traders and portfolio managers throughout the day.
Presenting IOIs and advertised trades to help make trading decisions.
Automating menial tasks and providing algorithm UIs to trade programmatically while focusing on the difficult trades.
User Experience Product Manager

Application Security Inc

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 2 months)

Rebranded individual products into a suite release
Managed the suite release of DbProtect
Created marketing materials for brochures and sales presentations
Defined the repackaging of the suite
Redesigned the wesite to meet the new suite requirements
Designed product interactions for new releases
Senior Interaction Designer and Product Management for Workforce Central

Kronos

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; KRON; Computer Software industry)

February 2001 — June 2006 (5 years 5 months)

Led rebranding effort of the application suite
Identified requirements and assisted in UI architectural decisions
Provided vision for future product design initiatives
Created and maintained consistency of user experience across suite
Integrated design of purchased code into the suite for HR and Payroll
Led product and screen design on 40+ projects
User Tested application
Maintained and Updated Personas and Use Case development
Integrated design into an "agile" development methodology
Senior Interaction Designer

Gomez

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

August 1999 — February 2001 (1 year 7 months)

Performed consulting services to review, critique and consult on Web architecture, interaction design and content development and delivery to leading online financial services and retail internet companies
Designed GomezPro.com as well as subsites to Gomez.com and other internal sales applications.
UI Designer

Symmetrix/ Nextera

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Management Consulting industry)

June 1996 — August 1999 (3 years 3 months)

Led an 8-person analysis and design team to collaboratively create a new health benefit management system for a 6 million-member national health insurer
Led a 6-person analysis and design team to create a customer service system for a national home health care company
Human Factors Engineer

Charles River Analytics

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Defense & Space industry)

May 1995 — June 1996 (1 year 2 months)

Performed knowledge elicitation tasks on MOUT operations in the army. Designed an intelligent tutoring system for an unencumbered virtual reality system.