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Senior User Interface Designer 2008-Present | Cisco/WebEx | Burlington, MA

• Contributing as a full member of cross-functional teams to create innovative user experiences for existing and new product offerings

• Creating task analyses, use cases, mock-ups, wire frames and prototypes in support of the design process

• Working to employ user-centered design methodologies to influence product teams and achieve the proper solution for customers

• Writing detailed UI specifications and working with local and international engineering teams towards implementation

• Mentoring junior members of the design team

Corporate Design Lead
2007 - 2008  |  Avid Technology  | Tewksbury, MA

As main creative lead reporting directly to the Cheif Technology Officer:

• Guided the development of a common user experience for all of Avid Technology's divisions including Softimage, Digidesign and M-Audio.

• Introduced a customer-oriented design process to a historically engineering-led environment.

• Reshaped communication channels to strengthen collaboration between various creative teams within the organization.

• Utilized potent brainstorming skills to convert abstract concepts and sparse wireframes into dynamic, powerful visualizations.

Visual/User Interface Designer
2005 - 2007  |  Avid Technology  | Tewksbury, MA

• Conceptualized visual design and interaction notes for the next generation of Avid Media Composer.

• Introduced a formal design process in a historically engineering-led environment.

• Pioneered a progressive mood-boarding session to explore and identify the initial visual direction of Media Composer.

• Reshaped communication channels to strengthen collaboration between various creative teams within the organization.

• Utilized potent brainstorming skills to convert abstract concepts and sparse wireframes into dynamic, powerful visualizations that effectively communicate the mission, intent and experience of products in development.

Senior Visual/User Interface Designer
1998 - 2005 |  IBM Corporation  | Westford, MA

• Innovated solid visual and interactive solutions for diverse IBM software products such as Lotus Notes, Sametime and Workplace.

• Improved IBM's software offerings through striking and innovative iconography, welcome pages, splash pages and other graphical elements.

• Authored detailed user interface specifications that emphasize web and operating system standards, Section 508 compatibility, effective strategy, consistent branding and visual appeal.

• Collaborated with other UI Designers and Usability Specialists to design and assure consistent visual design and interaction metaphors of IBM-branded software products.

Designer/UI Consultant
1990 - Present | antimatter

Cultivated user interface solutions, corporate identity, and illustration for university, publishing, and technology-based clients.

Web Designer
1997 - 1998 |  bx.com  | Needham, MA

Guided diverse client base to establish and maintain a powerful Internet presence, utilizing leading edge graphic and web site design.

Graphic Designer
1995 - 1997 |  Paul K. Guillow, Inc.  | Wakefield, MA

Oversaw the development and creation of advertising specialty products, packaging and P.O.P. displays. Secured new marketing strategies and more cost-effective methods of production.

Publications

Co-Author/Designer, "Usability Express, A Condensed Guide to Designing Usable and Appealing Software”, 2004 (Publication Pending)

Author, “R5 Template Graphics: The High Resolution Revolution”,1999
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-R5_Template_Graphics