Miranda Capra

Current

• Manager and Senior Human Factors Specialist at HumanCentric Technologies

Past

• Senior Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs
• Unix System Administrator at Washington University in St. Louis

Education

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Washington University in St. Louis
• Hunter College High School

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Industry

Design

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Resume

Miranda Capra’s Summary

Human Factors Engineer with experience in product design consulting and telecommunications. Focus on usability testing, heuristic evaluation and user interface design.

Miranda Capra’s Specialties:

Server management software (tower/rack/blade), server hardware, input devices (touchpad, pointstick, keyboard), cellphone speech/music quality, web design, consumer product design, experimental design and statistical analysis (parametric/nonparametric), cognition, anthropometry, workstation ergonomics, auditory/visual perception/displays, system analysis.

Miranda Capra’s Experience

• Manager and Senior Human Factors Specialist

  HumanCentric Technologies

  (Privately Held; Design industry)

  May 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)

  HumanCentric is an integrated product design firm headquartered in Cary, NC employing a staff of 40 professionals trained and educated in human factors, research, design and engineering.
  
  Primary responsibilities include designing and conducting usability studies, proposal writing, and oversight of a small team of human factors and user experience specialists. Additional responsibilities include oversight of the usability lab facilities and recruiting, and statistical analysis of complex studies.

• Senior Member of Technical Staff

  AT&T Labs

  (Telecommunications industry)

  1995 — 1999 (4 years )

  Assessment of new internet technologies, electronic commerce, internet advertising. Worked with the HumanFactors team to conduct usability testing of corporate websites and web services. Significant projects: vendor selection for electronic yellow pages, creation of online wireless accessory store, webmaster for SBCTRI. At the time, this organization was called SBC Technology Resources, Inc.

• Unix System Administrator

  Washington University in St. Louis

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  1994 — 1995 (1 year )

  Managed unix workstations (SunOS/Solaris) in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Computer Science Department, including OS installation, backups, software maintenance and technical support, webmaster.

Miranda Capra’s Education

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

  PhD , Industrial and Systems Engineering - Human Factors , 1999 — 2006

  Alexander E. Walter Fellowship, 2001-2004
  MS, ISE/HF - 2001
  United Parcel Services (UPS) Fellowship, 2000-2001

• Washington University in St. Louis

  BS , Computer Science , 1990 — 1995

  BA, Spanish, 1990 - 1995

  Activities and Societies:

  ACM President

• Hunter College High School

  1983 — 1990

Additional Information

Miranda Capra’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Resume

Miranda Capra’s Groups:

•    The Official Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Group
•    ACM SIGCHI
•    Hunter College High School
•    Virginia Tech Alumni Group
•    WUSTL Alumni Association
•    Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
•    Product Design
•    HFES Internet Technical Group (ITG)