
UX Designer & Information Architect
Melbourne Area, Australia

UX Designer & Information Architect
Melbourne Area, Australia
I believe great design solutions should be usable and accessible without sacrificing aesthetics.
I am a hard working, committed worker with excellent leadership skills and excel when given a problem and a team of people to manage in solving it.
I don't take it home with me - I bring it to work.
Interaction design, user experience design, standards-compliant web design, user-centred design, user interface and information design, product design, usability testing, accessibility, semantics, microformats, CSS, XHTML, HTML, JS (libraries: jQuery, Prototype, etc).
Strategic planning, requirement gathering, project proposals and plans, information architecture, site mapping, wireframing, developing use-cases.
Empathy, imagination, determination.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
December 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2007 — July 2008 (9 months)
Strategic planning, requirement gathering, project proposals and plans, information architecture, site mapping, wireframing, developing use-cases.
Introduced 'scrum' agile development philosophies and encouraged adoption of issue tracking and product management software, such as JIRA, Confluence (a wiki) and activeCollab (a project management tool).
Planned and tracked marketing campaigns.
Liased with CEO, partners, potential partners, and other shareholders.
Managed team of eleven (developers, designers, marketing co-ordinators, release manager, etc), as well as team of 2-6 offshore developers.
Managed deadlines, feature development and implementation, user experience and quality assurance.
Wrote job specifications and advertised, interviewed and recommended new employees.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2007 — November 2007 (4 months)
Designed corporate identity (logo, stationery, website, etc) and style guide.
Designed UI for unique 360-degree rotating (virtual) desktop, including controls for panning/navigating the desktop, adding websites, widgets, and images to the desktop, and browsing for new (360-degree background) content via a remote API, along with several alternate/future user interfaces that should further address usability, accessibility and provide a more pleasing overall user experience.
Designed robust web widget version of 360desktop, for viral use on Facebook, MySpace and other social networks.
Liaised and collaborated with technical lead and other developers.
(Online Media industry)
July 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 6 months)
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
October 2001 — June 2005 (3 years 9 months)
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry)
December 1997 — July 1999 (1 year 8 months)
Certificate IV , Marketing , 2003 — 2004
Certificate IV , Microcomputer Technology , 2000 — 2001
DBVC , Illustration, Graphic Design , 1998 — 2000
SACE , Art, Biology, Design, Drama, English, Information Technology , 1990 — 1997
basketball, cooking, illustration, innovation, music, photography, pop culture, reading, science, skiing, snowboarding, technology, typography, writing, zoology