Rachel Garb

Current

• Product Manager at Google

Past

• Senior User Experience Designer at Google
• UI Design Lead at TiVo
• Executive Producer, User Experience at Ten Square

• Consultant at various
• Producer at AOL
• Information Developer at IBM

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Education

• Harvard University
• Carnegie Mellon University

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Rachel Garb’s Summary

Over 16 years in Silicon Valley, focused on the user experience of technology. Strong track record in working with world-class engineering teams to create consumer products that bring value and joy to millions of people every day.

Rachel Garb’s Specialties:

interaction design, project management, product requirements, UI specs, demos and prototypes, user research, technical writing, data analysis

Rachel Garb’s Experience

• Product Manager

  Google

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

• Senior User Experience Designer

  Google

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  November 2005 — July 2007 (1 year 9 months)

  Led all UI design efforts for iGoogle, helping to establish it as a major player in the personalized homepage space.

• UI Design Lead

  TiVo

  (Public Company; Consumer Electronics industry)

  August 2001 — November 2005 (4 years 4 months)

  Architected (or in some cases rearchitected from scratch) key components of the TiVo user experience. Led product definition and interaction design for the Comcast TiVo service, Pioneer's DVD recorder with TiVo service, Guided Setup, Now Playing List, Multi-Room Viewing, Parental Controls, and Copy Protection. Also developed the format for how UI specs are written at TiVo and wrote thousands of pages of UI specs.

• Executive Producer, User Experience

  Ten Square

  (Consumer Electronics industry)

  May 1999 — August 2001 (2 years 4 months)

  Responsible for providing creative direction and building the user experience organization at a new startup. As an early employee (#9), helped raise $30MM in funding by developing and presenting demo applications to venture capitalists and strategic investors.

• Consultant

  various

  (Internet industry)

  January 1997 — May 1999 (2 years 5 months)

  In the months preceding and following graduate school, consulted on short-term projects requiring on-site project/people management, user interface design, writing/editing, and web content production. Clients included Netscape, Intel, and Sun.

• Producer

  AOL

  (Public Company; TWX; Internet industry)

  May 1994 — November 1996 (2 years 7 months)

  Led the development of interactive properties for high-profile clients (Apple, FedEx, Nike) at a multimedia startup called Medior that AOL acquired in May 1995 for its creative talent. After the acquisition, managed large-scale redesigns of AOL's properties (Entertainment, Travel, and Reference) and other key components of the service for version 3.0.

• Information Developer

  IBM

  (Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1991 — April 1994 (2 years 10 months)

  Created instructional and marketing materials for database products and technologies. Deliverables included books, online help, multimedia presentations, and videos.

Rachel Garb’s Education

• Harvard University

  Ed.M. , Technology, Innovation, & Education , 1997 — 1998

  Joint coursework at the MIT Media Lab.

• Carnegie Mellon University

  B.S. , Technical Writing , 1987 — 1991