Principal User Experience Designer at Iron Mountain
Greater Boston Area
Principal User Experience Designer at Iron Mountain
Greater Boston Area
An artist at heart, I've been designing web interfaces for over a decade. I have a broad background designing for various vertical industries (financial, government, life sciences, etc.) social networking and enterprise RIAs (Rich Internet Applications). I'm a purist who codes using web standards and great consideration for accessibility.
user experience design, interaction design, management, art direction, XHTML, CSS, Photoshop, rapid prototyping, storyboarding, usability testing, task analysis, requirements gathering, user flow diagraming, SEO and print design skills.
(Public Company; Internet industry)
2007 — Present (1 year)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
April 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 3 months)
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Market Research industry)
December 2002 — April 2006 (3 years 5 months)
Responsible for all design components of idc.com, intranets, extranets and web based software. Provide worldwide design leadership to 57 country offices. Lead a team of creative individuals and delegate design projects. Responsible for creative direction, usability, accessibility and branding. Identify and rectify design deficiencies and make recommendations on all aspects of user interface. Successful launch of redesigned idc.com in March of 2004, addressing download times, navigation, and information architecture. Produced a comprehensive style guided for consistency of the IDC brand on and offline.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
May 1996 — December 2002 (6 years 8 months)
Primary designer/developer for http://www.networkworld.com, http://www.nwfusionpartners.com, http://www.nwfusion.com, http://www.idgexecforums.com, and company intranet. Designed and produced pages for deployment in jsp and asp environments. Knowledge of SSL and e-commerce. Expert use of HTML, JavaScript, Flash and ActionScript. Familiar with technologies such as VisualBasic, Java, SQL and Weblogic. Direct interaction/integration of design and structure. Work in tandem with software engineers to develop fully functional creative products. Taught in-house tutorials on the functionality of Dreamweaver, Photoshop and ImageReady as well as all graphic file formats. Responsible for usability, user interface format and design. Conducted user testing for all new site designs. Strong project management skills developing multiple projects simultaneously in a deadline oriented environment.
1988 — 1994
My family, interaction design, visual design, basketball, new technology, learning, big hair 80s rock