Andi Lewis

Current

• Senior Interaction Designer at Sun Microsystems

Past

• Sr. User Experience Designer at Roundbox Global
• Sr. Interaction Designer - Consultant at Verisign
• Sr. Interaction Designer - Consultant at Riverside Publishing

• Contractor - Interaction Designer at Adaptive Path
• UI Consultant at Studio Holladay
• Sr. Interaction Designer at CTB / McGraw-Hill
• Interaction Designer - Contractor at Independent Consultant (Self-employed)
• Information Architect at KPMG Consulting/Metrius
• Use Case Developer - Interaction design - QA - Tech Support at eGreetings network

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Andi Lewis’s Summary

Proven capable information architect and interaction designer with more than 10 years of experience in designing enterprise software, mobile device applications, Netcentric applications and web sites in a variety of industries including Government and Non-Government agencies, Academic Publishing, High Tech, Education and Information Media Services. Her experience across a variety of industries, interaction modalities and applications ranging from reporting systems to media consumption offer her the insight and confidence to offer world-class solutions to the most complex interaction design challenges.

Andi Lewis’s Experience

• Senior Interaction Designer

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  • Responsible for merging all four Identity Management products into one comprehensive suite of products that share the same look and feel.
  • Redesigned workflows within the IDM suite of products to reflect a task-based approach as opposed to the less than intuitive, object-based approach. With the added focus of building simple and effective solutions that can handle repetitive tasks accurately, efficiently, and seamlessly.
  • Conducted usability testing as well as submitting the wireframe documents to the Sales Engineers to assess validity of the newly proposed designs.
  • Designed the award winning Fedlet application for Federated Access Management.
  • Designed the interaction for new features within OpenSSO, Role Manager, Identity Manager and Access Manager.

• Sr. User Experience Designer

  Roundbox Global

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; E-Learning industry)

  June 2007 — February 2008 (9 months)

  •Responsible for assessing and validating clients’ business requirements and communication goals; translating them into efficient interaction processes and successful user experiences. Created the wireframes for intuitive navigation systems and interaction strategies, for our rich internet applications, web sites and desktop software applications.
  •Collaboratively worked with the Engineering team to Develop the FAM8 wireframes for Sun Microsystems’ Federated Access Management Tool.
  •Responsible for all interaction enhancements for the Boston University Team Learning Assistant.
  •Created and performed a client review of my process flows & wirefames for the IQity Learning suite.

• Sr. Interaction Designer - Consultant

  Verisign

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  February 2007 — May 2007 (4 months)

  • Developed the interaction diagrams for AT&T’s and Motorola’s wireless image share applications.
  • Worked directly with customers and with VeriSign’s Program and Project Management organizations to gather, understand and refine requirements.
  • Worked with Engineering to evaluate the feasibility of proposed solutions.
  • Performed design reviews and discount usability tests of developing and existing projects.

• Sr. Interaction Designer - Consultant

  Riverside Publishing

  (E-Learning industry)

  August 2006 — November 2006 (4 months)

  • Assessed and validated Riverside’s business goals and objectives to guide and develop the organization’s overall Internet strategy and implementation plan supporting both traditional lines of business and emerging market opportunities requiring a mature web presence.
  • Created the wireframes for an online self-serve web application which enables the school administrators to order all of their assessment materials.

• Contractor - Interaction Designer

  Adaptive Path

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

  March 2006 — July 2006 (5 months)

  Recruited to work on two social networking applications with the AP Team.
  •Collaborated with the Adaptive Path and Turner Network teams to flesh out their concept for an online video platform. The result of that collaboration launched as Super Deluxe™, Turner’s site for short-format comedy creators and consumers.
  •Assessed business requirements and developed interface specifications.
  Collaborated with engineers, business analysts, and customers to determine desirable features and optimal usability for the Super Deluxe and MyThings.com websites.

• UI Consultant

  Studio Holladay

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)

  June 2005 — September 2005 (4 months)

  • Met with stakeholders, designers and engineers to determine the best approach for the SHOP.COM rebranding initiative.
  • Created the interface documents for the redesigned browse, shopping and my account sections of the website.

• Sr. Interaction Designer

  CTB / McGraw-Hill

  (Public Company; MHP; Publishing industry)

  April 2003 — August 2005 (2 years 5 months)

  •Interacted with Product Managers, Clients, UI Designers, Developers, and Project Managers throughout the development lifecycle to achieve business stakeholders’ objectives and meet target audience needs and expectations.
  •Directed UI Designers in planning and conducting usability studies.
  •Created wireframes, sitemaps and design concepts as well as conducting usability testing of the proposed designs for CTB’s proprietary products and website.
  •Managed, evaluated and scheduled the activities for our diverse multidisciplinary UCD Team.
  •Recruited and managed FTE and contract Interaction designers, Information Architects and usability resources.
  •Identified and implemented appropriate data gathering and analysis methodologies and techniques.

• Interaction Designer - Contractor

  Independent Consultant (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Design industry)

  January 2002 — April 2003 (1 year 4 months)

  •Provided interaction design, information architecture and HTML development of NASA’s Exobiology Conference Website.
  •Created the design and interaction of the Blueprints for the Web website.
  •Developed the interactive flow, graphic design and HTML code for the ASIS&T 2003 Conference website

• Information Architect

  KPMG Consulting/Metrius

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 1999 — August 2001 (2 years 4 months)

  Responsible for merging brand strategy, business architecture and content into a framework based on, and geared towards, the user experience. Recommendations were based on industry best practices, user needs and competitive analysis. Created site architectures, page requirements, wire frame prototypes, and user flows for KPMG, Motorola and Verizon's corporate web sites.

• Use Case Developer - Interaction design - QA - Tech Support

  eGreetings network

  (Consumer Services industry)

  August 1998 — May 2000 (1 year 10 months)

  Interaction Designer - Jan 00 - May 00
  Responsible for interaction design and re-architecture of the Egreetings website and subsequent projects. Gathered requirements from business proponents for designing user interaction. Worked with usability engineers to understand interface flaws & improve interaction design. Designed user experience for re-architecture of site with emphasis on personalization and customization based on user state. Developed use cases, wireframes & blueprints for re-architecture of site.
  
  User Interface Designer - June 99 - Jan 00
  Coded HTML pages to work with Egreetings' proprietary CGI system. Created and maintained the homepage and additional webpages.
  Quality Assurance Engineer – R&D Administrator Jan 99 - June 99
  Developed testing plans, created a testing suite consisting of user-representative browsers and platforms.
  
  Technical Help Desk Administrator - Aug 98 - Jan 99
  Responsible for resolving 300 consumer problems a day by phone and email.

Additional Information

Andi Lewis’s Groups:

•    Interaction Design Association
•    UX Professionals
•    Identity Management Specialists Group
•    OpenSSO Community
•    Identity & Access Management
•    Identity and Access Management (IAM)
•    User Experience
•    Youthenticate Identity Services 2.0
•    Technology in Education
•    Web Standards Design + Development
•    Sun Microsystems, Inc.
•    Innovative Learning & Education Innovators
•    Sun IDM
•    Santa Cruz New Tech MeetUp
•    McGraw-Hill Companies - networking for current and former employees

Andi Lewis’s Honors:

Sun Microsystems All hands award 08/08:
"Andi Lewis is a new hire that joined Sun in Jan 2008 as an Information Architect for the Identity Management marketing group. Her role has been critical for us to achieve one of our market driven requirements which is to simplify usability of our Identity solutions. Her contribution has had an immediate impact and in Q4, the OpenSSO project and product have been given rave reviews by Gartner, Forrester and Burton, and will immediately push us further into the leader quadrants for FY09. Not only will the products be easier for customers to use, but will reduce support costs, improve referenceability and analyst perception."

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