Teresa Torres

Current

Vice President, Product and Operations at Affinity Circles

Past

Senior Director, Product Management at Affinity Circles
Product Manager / UI Designer at Become, Inc.
Interaction Designer at HighWire Press

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Education

Stanford University

Recommended

9 people have recommended Teresa

Connections

121 connections

Industry

Internet

Teresa Torres’s Summary

Well versed in user-centered design and product management practices with 9 years of experience. Designed large-scale sites, including search engines, ecommerce sites, community and personalization features and content management tools. Interested in information visualization, social networks, collaborative interfaces and information retrieval. Avid technologist, always interested in leveraging new technologies and pushing the limits of what is possible.

Teresa Torres’s Specialties:

Product strategy, user research, user interface design, information architecture, task analysis, wireframes, personae, navigation models, usability testing, HTML/CSS/Javascript, XML/XSLT, Flash, AJAX.

Teresa Torres’s Experience

Vice President, Product and Operations

Affinity Circles

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

September 2008 — Present (5 months)
Senior Director, Product Management

Affinity Circles

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

November 2006 — September 2008 (1 year 11 months)
Product Manager / UI Designer

Become, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

June 2004 — November 2006 (2 years 6 months)

I was responsible for the overall user experience at Become.com. I introduced user-centered design principles including persona development, rapid prototypijng with wireframes and usability testing. I created high-fidelity mockups in html/css/js, including building funtional AJAX prototypes. Notable features that I initiated, designed and developed include: the "suggest as you type" search suggestions, the "My Favorites" feature, shop filters, the interactive shop grid view and the community-based shopping lists.
Interaction Designer

HighWire Press

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

June 1999 — November 2003 (4 years 6 months)

I was responsible for the front-end design and development for a number of large-scale science portals and medical journals. I led design projects; walked clients through design requirements, created design deliverables such as user-interface specifications, wireframes, mockups and styleguides; coded in html, CSS, javascript, an in-house template language, and occasionally Perl.