Software User Experience Designer
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Sr. User Experience Designer at Wells Fargo
- Past
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- Sr Web Producer at CRC Health Group
- Interaction Designer at Customer-Centered Interactive
- Web Designer at Aquent (staffing agency)
- Project Manager at AtreNet
- Web Producer at VirtualMotors
- Instructor, Web Interface Design at Silicon Valley College
- Project Coordinator at Seagate Technology Inc.
- Web Designer at Valley Design Group
- Education
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- University of California at Santa Cruz, Extension
- Platt College
- San Francisco City College
- University of Maryland University College
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Michael Cummings’s Summary
Planning, designing, producing and humanizing interactive applications, in national agency and multinational corporate environments, since 1995.
Certified Usability Analyst (CUA), Human-Factors International
Michael Cummings’s Specialties:
User-Centered Interaction Design
Rich Internet Application (RIA) Design
AJAX-based User Interface Design
Information Architecture - IA
User Experience Research & Design
Content Management Systems - CMS/eCommerce Solutions
Usability Testing - Web Quality Assurance
Search Engine Optimization - SEO
Michael Cummings’s Experience
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Sr. User Experience Designer
Wells Fargo
(Public Company; WFC; Financial Services industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
• Develop application maps, process flows, wire frames and mockups with accompanying interaction rules (UI specification) based on a synthesis of user needs, technical restrictions, requirements and business goals
• Collaboration with business analysis teams to develop interaction scenarios for business goals achievement
• Information architecture
• User experience best practices
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Sr Web Producer
CRC Health Group
(Internet industry)
January 2007 — April 2008 (1 year 4 months)
* Ongoing development and management of XHTML, CSS and JavaScript implementations
* Work within various CMS frameworks
* Create compelling Web site designs and online marketing campaigns
* Develop coding specifications based on latest web standards
* Utilize the most effective SEO techniques
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Interaction Designer
Customer-Centered Interactive
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)
July 2000 — February 2007 (6 years 8 months)
Customer-Centered Interactive can support your initiative as an individual contractor, or as an agency, working with additional resources as needed to meet your goals and expectations.
Customer-Centered Interactive has worked with a wide range of companies in creative, technical and project management capacities, including Valley Design Group (Silicon Valley Group, ThermaWave, ), Franklin Templeton Investments Inc., Seagate Technology Inc., Elemental Interactive (IBM, Coca Cola Co., Adaptec Inc.), VirtualMotors, KrushMedia/SolutionSet (Stanford Univ., Poker Mountain, Aruba Networks), AtreNet (Borland, Mercury Interactive, Cenzic, AcceptSoftware, EnterpriseDB), Momentum Design Lab (SelectLeaders, Space2Meet) and many others.
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Web Designer
Aquent (staffing agency)
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Human Resources industry)
April 1998 — January 2007 (8 years 10 months)
My relationship with Aquent, a Marketing and Creative Services staffing firm, is positive and ongoing. Through Aquent I have served such companies as Franklin Templeton Investments, Seagate Technology, Patrick Mountain Advertising, Scree Interactive, KrushMedia and others. In each position I strove to continually improve project planning, information organization and comprehension, usability, coding to WC3 standards. Contact Susan Alvarez at salvarez@aquent.com for client feedback.
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Project Manager
AtreNet
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
September 2005 — February 2006 (6 months)
Project oversight, coordination and documentation responsibilities for top clients such as Borland, EnterpriseDB, AcceptSoftware, Cenzic and others. Letf to pursue original desired career path in graphics and interaction design.
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Web Producer
VirtualMotors
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2004 — February 2006 (2 years)
Complete start to finish strategic planning, branding, design (IA, UI, graphics, Flash), technology execution and QA for VirtualMotors public website. Implemented project TWiki, facilitated all project related communication and content development. Integration of server-side technologies for content management and form contact routing. Domain/DNS management. Email marketing design.
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Instructor, Web Interface Design
Silicon Valley College
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; E-Learning industry)
March 2001 — July 2003 (2 years 5 months)
I led and updated the curriculum for Web Interface Design, Web Development and Multimedia courses. Using instruction methods to facilitate dialog, doubt regression and humor, I led students through comprehensive web/multimedia planning, design and production processes. Lectures and exercises included information labeling and organization problem solving, content and functionality mapping, UI conventions, interface prototyping, color psychology, computer generated color issues, image optimization, usability testing and web development process maturity. I also instructed students in various web markup languages, web graphic performance vs. display issues, A/V capture issues, video post-production applications and streaming media delivery. I emphasized the distinctions between art and design, project context development benefits and quality assurance concepts. I developed the online Web Interface Design course, as well, using WebCT.
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Project Coordinator
Seagate Technology Inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)
January 1999 — December 1999 (1 year)
For Seagate's Web Group I strove to improve efficiency by continually improving web project scheduling, tracking, documentation, asset management and stakeholder project awareness. As the graphics approval authority for Seagate.com, I ensured graphics and layout consistency across thousands of screens to support user confidence. I made continual improvements to an intranet-based project tracking system. I advocated for internal web quality assurance standards for browser compatibility and usability, and helped establish an "in-house" test lab.
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Web Designer
Valley Design Group
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
October 1996 — December 1997 (1 year 3 months)
Valley Design Group, one of the valley's long-standing traditional graphic design and marketing communications firms, brought me onboard to support their new interactive media department. I was quickly entrusted with closer client interaction responsibilities, and interface design improvements. I produced web and kiosk-based projects on schedule for top-tier Silicon Valley corporate clients: Thermawave, Silicon Valley Group (SVG), KLA Tencor and others. By year's end I eagerly sought greater challenges in an environment with more experience with interactive media.
Michael Cummings’s Education
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University of California at Santa Cruz, Extension
Multimedia Production Management 1997 — 1997
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Platt College
Diploma , Graphic Design , 1992 — 1996
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San Francisco City College
Art History 1993 — 1994
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University of Maryland University College
Business Administration and Economics coursework 1986 — 1987
Attended UofM courses while serving on active duty in the US Navy (OTA3).
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Michael Cummings’s Interests:
Travel, latin music (samba, salsa, jazz) / languages (spanish, portuguese). Surfing, sailing, windsurfing, downhill mountain biking, documentaries. A/V production. Percussion (various types/styles). Writing.
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