Russell Wilson

Current

Business Initiative Leader at IxDA
Vice President, Product Design at NetQoS, Inc.
Austin Ambassador at UXnet

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Past

Austin Local Leader at IxDA
Vice President, Engineering at HyPerformix, Inc.
Chief Technology Officer at ALVE Technology Corp.

Software Design Lead at IBM

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Education

UT Austin
UT Austin

Recommended

6 people have recommended Russell

Connections

347 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

Russell Wilson’s Summary

As VP Product Design at NetQoS, Russell Wilson provides the creative leadership and guiding principles to deliver best of class products that set the industry standard for software usability.

Wilson joined NetQoS as director of product design in May 2005 and has since led the user interface design of the company’s NetQoS Performance Center suite of products, with an emphasis on interaction design, usability, and the user experience. Working closely with sales, product management, and software engineering, he has implemented leading edge processes and tools that have enhanced the design of existing and upcoming NetQoS products. His design expertise and industry knowledge have helped NetQoS maintain its exceptional customer satisfaction ratings and ensure that ease of use remains a focal point of the company’s product development strategy.

With more than 18 years of experience, Wilson has been involved in the design and development of eight successful commercial products and more than 15 enterprise software applications for the Fortune 500. Prior to joining NetQoS, he served as the vice president of engineering for HyPerformix, a predictive IT management vendor, and president and chief executive officer of ALVE Technology, a call center management software company. Wilson began his career with IBM, where he held development manager and design lead positions.

Wilson is the Austin ambassador for the User Experience Network (UXnet), as well as the Austin representative for the Interaction Designers Association (IxDA). In addition, he is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and the Usability Professionals’ Association, as well as a requested reviewer and contributor to many design conferences. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and a Master of Science degree in software engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Russell Wilson’s Specialties:

usability, user interface, gui, website design, prototyping, application design, incremental design, design leadership, design management, user centered design, css, html, wordpress, information architecture, design patterns, user research, user experience design, information design, seo, flash, flex

Russell Wilson’s Experience

Business Initiative Leader

IxDA

(Computer Software industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)
Vice President, Product Design

NetQoS, Inc.

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

May 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)

Network traffic analysis and end-to-end application response time measurement.
Austin Ambassador

UXnet

(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

2005 — Present (4 years )
Austin Local Leader

IxDA

(Design industry)

2005 — 2009 (4 years )
Vice President, Engineering

HyPerformix, Inc.

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

2003 — April 2005 (2 years )

Predictive modeling and simulation applied to application performance.
Chief Technology Officer

ALVE Technology Corp.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

1993 — 2002 (9 years )
Software Design Lead

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

1990 — 1992 (2 years )

Russell Wilson’s Education

UT Austin

MS , Software Engineering
UT Austin

BS , Computer Science

Additional Information

Russell Wilson’s Websites:

Russell Wilson’s Interests:

Product Design, User Experience, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Design Patterns, New Technology

Russell Wilson’s Groups:

ACM-SIGCHI, IEEE, AIGA, UPA, Austin Ambassador for UXnet, IxDA, An Event Apart, Refresh Austin, Westminster, Catalyze

Usability Professionals' Association International (UPA-I)
Executive Suite
User Experience Network
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
Texas Exes/University of Texas at Austin
Catalyze Community
Austin High-Tech
Interaction Design Association
Boxes and Arrows
Refresh Austin
UsabilityMatters.Org
UX Professionals
Geek Austin
Information Architecture Institute (IAI)
Web Standards
WSG
Austin Top Guns
South By Southwest (SXSW)
Refresh - Promoting design, technology,and usability.
Social Media Software Group
User Experience
User Experience Group
Design Research
web standards development/ xhtml / css / seo
Measuring Behavior
Usability Professionals Association
Web Standards Design + Development
Designers Talk
CSS Linked
Prototype Community
USID - Bringing HCI & Design Community Together
User Experience Professionals Network
Flash Developers & Designers
CSS Designers & Developers
UIDG - User Interface Designers Group
Future Trends
Usability Practitioners
Austin UX
User Experience Jobs
Network & Application Monitoring
User Experience Practitioners - We Live & Design for you
Emerging Technology Leaders' Network
NetQoS Community
Social Relationship Management