Interaction Designer
Cochin Area, India
- Current
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- Theme Developer at Independant Consultant (Self-employed)
- Past
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- Junior User Experience Designer at Ms. Deena Varshavskaya
- Independant Web Professional at Independant Consultant (Self-employed)
- Technical Support Executive at Sutherland Global Services
- Registration Operator at Dubai World Trade Centre
- Education
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- Skyline College Sharjah
- Connections
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
- Websites
Steve J. Bayer’s Summary
Primary Goal:
To improve the efficiency, intuitiveness and user experience of human interaction processes with appliances, embedded devices, local machine applications, intranet applications and web applications.
Previous experience related to Primary Goal:
-Illustrated, discussed and documented usability improvements for open source applications.
-Worked on e-commerce and marketing related website layouts for improving product purchase flows, information architecture and end-user experiences.
Current Occupation:
Part time occupation as an independent consultant for theme development while actively searching for employment or academic education as an industrial design oriented interaction designer who utilizes cognitive science theories, principles of human factors engineering and usability evaluation techniques for solving user flow issues.
Steve J. Bayer’s Specialties:
-Identifying issues in the current user flow of interactive systems using usability evaluation techniques.
-Wire framing improvements for user flows with products, applications, systems and services while taking into account cognitive science theories and principles of human factors engineering.
-Researching new technology while evaluating their capability for improving human interaction.
-Innovating new interaction techniques enabled by newly developed technology.
Steve J. Bayer’s Experience
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Theme Developer
Independant Consultant (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Part time occupation transforming client provided designs (Photoshop templates or Fireworks PNGs) into Drupal themes which utilize PHP, XHTML and CSS.
In addition to Drupal theme development, theme development services for Drupal extensions, Wordpress including its related extensions, static websites and web applications are provided.
Currently researching theme development and evaluating the usage of dual touch gestures for:
-Google Android Applications.
-Microsoft WPF Applications.
-Microsoft XNA Applications.
In addition to commercial services as an application theme developer, skills and expertise as an interaction designer are contributed to open source groups:
-Natural User Interface group (joined Jan 2009)
-Drupal's Usability group (joined Jan 2008) -
Junior User Experience Designer
Ms. Deena Varshavskaya
(Internet industry)
June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)
-Co-created wire frames for e-commerce websites, media portals and social networks:
--mydisneymovies.com
--fear.net
--primecut module for myspace.com
-- AAA.com
--bratzlilangelz.com
-Addressed issues in the navigational architecture of Websites for improved end-user navigation, product recognition and product purchase flows for the end-user. -
Independant Web Professional
Independant Consultant (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2007 — June 2007 (5 months)
-Provide consultation on web based applications that suit client goals.
-Provide web based application installation and server hosting support
-Install and configure web based applications (CMS) extensions such as plug ins/modules.
-Provide application theme editing services (XHTML/CSS.)
-Provide content entry services for web based applications. -
Technical Support Executive
Sutherland Global Services
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)
November 2006 — February 2007 (4 months)
-Provided printer hardware and software related trouble shooting services to customers through VOIP phones.
-Resolved complaints and referred grievances to designated departments for further investigation.
-Recorded client information, trouble shooting processes, inquiries and sales in web based databases.
-Provided additional product information to customers to create a better brand and product awareness.
-Generated above average sales (equivalent to senior technical support executives) of printers, printer accessories and printer warranties to customers through VOIP phones. -
Registration Operator
Dubai World Trade Centre
(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Events Services industry)
September 2005 — September 2005 (1 month)
Temporary/Part Time Work for GITEX 2005
-Entered hand written registration forms into a networked registration application system.
-Printed out exhibition badges using information extracted from registration applications and prior information stored in application databases.
-Recognized and reported user flow issues while entering registration details into a newly developed registration application system.
Steve J. Bayer’s Education
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Skyline College Sharjah
Associates , International Business Administration , 2001 — 2004
-Proven success as a task leader for multiple team related projects.
-Consistently scored highest for 'presentation quality' for team and solo projects
-Applied advanced knowledge of Microsoft Power Point slide presentation techniques to create visually impressive presentations.
-Applied innate understanding of information design to produce note worthy presentations.
-Sound strategic analysis provided reports which directly addressed the goals of assigned projects leading to winning projects or top tier placement.- Activities and Societies:
- Bi-Annual Newsline Layout Co-ordinator
Steve J. Bayer’s Contact Settings
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