Teresa Torres

Current

President & CEO at Affinity Circles

Past

Vice President, Product and Operations at Affinity Circles
Senior Director, Product Management at Affinity Circles
Product Manager / UI Designer at Become, Inc.

Interaction Designer at HighWire Press

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Stanford University

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Teresa Torres’s Experience

President & CEO

Affinity Circles

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

April 2009 — Present (8 months)
Vice President, Product and Operations

Affinity Circles

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

September 2008 — April 2009 (8 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.