Summary
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Trend Micro: Senior Manager, Volume and Services User Experience Group
NorthStar: UI Architect, usability engineer, UI engineer
Intuit: Senior UI Designer
Ariba: UI designer, UI Architect, usability engineer, usability lab architect and manager
Oracle Corp: usability engineer, designer

Core Skills Summary

Management
*Proven ability to execute all phases of the User Centered design process to create outstanding, highly usable applications ranging from consumer experiences to enterprise administrator tools.
*Proven ability to manage large teams of usability and design professionals
*Proven ability to manage inter-disciplinary teams of engineers, product management and marketing professionals
*Proven track record of establishing a User Experience team within small to medium sized companies
*Ability to advocate and promote the importance of User Experience as an integral component of the Product Development process

Team Experience
*Demonstrated ability to establish high-functioning, collaborative partnerships with cross functional teams within companies to produce easy to use, customer-focused applications.
*Ability to function as a single user experience specialist on a multi-disciplinary team working within both Agile and traditional waterwall development models

Interface Design
*Ability to take a product from early customer requirements/product definition phase through to a functioning, usable, deployed application
*Proven ability to create the UI architecture for new or existing products and services
*Ability to produce the specifications/patterns, final working UI code for the entire user interface

Usability/User Research
*Ability to coordinate, execute and analyze customer requirement gathering activities that range from single user testing to large scale, multi-country research activities
*Ability to craft highly detailed user personas and use case scenarios for end to end customer experience

Specialties
User Experience Group Management; UI and Interaction Design for Software, SaaS, Mobile and App; User Experience and Interaction Design Architecture; Usability; Project Management; Web 2.0 design; Business process development; Usability Lab Architect