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Work Experience
Sr. User Experience Designer – Motorola Good Technology Group – 01/2008 to present
- UX lead for Good Administration Center, the management UI for Good's product line
- Scope new features and define user interface flows
- Communicate conceptual mockups to cross-functional product teams
- Produce and maintain comprehensive user interface specifications
- Conduct usability evaluations and tests of low-fidelity paper prototypes
Interaction Designer – TGFI – 05/2007 to 12/2007
- Designed and implemented web-based information systems for company clients
- Defined page layout and interface flow for new deployments
- Conducted ad-hoc usability assessments of new and existing systems
Contractor – EDO Corporation – 11/2006 to 04/2007
- Designed internal systems and processes for a newly-created business unit
- Worked with stakeholders heads to design and prototype local intranet
- Developed interface standards and templates from corporate identity guidelines
Graduate Assistant – Indiana University – 09/2004 to 05/2006
- Led lab sections for 100+ students enrolled in a fourth-year Informatics course
- Taught introductory computer concepts to freshmen students
- Designed Flash-based tutorials for the Informatics Outreach summer program
- Led lab sections for 30+ students enrolled in a third-year computer science course
Consultant – Student Technology Centers – 04/2002 to 08/2004
- Provided computing support to users of University computer labs
- Provided assistance with specialty media equipment
- Provided application and general phone support
Education
M.S., Human-Computer Interaction Design
School of Informatics – Indiana University – June, 2007
B.S., Computer Science
Computer Science Dept. – Indiana University – December, 2004
Skills & Proficiencies
- Design – Interface Design, Information Architecture, Low-Fidelity (Paper) Prototyping
- Usability – Contextual Inquiry, Task Analysis, Usability Testing, Heuristic Analysis
- Web Development – XHTML+CSS, Javascript, AJAX, Perl, Actionscript
- Applications – Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Visio, Flash
Professional Affiliations
- Member – Interaction Design Association (IxDA)
- Member – BayCHI (San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of SIGCHI)
- Member – SIGCHI (ACM Special Interest Group for Computer-Human Interaction)
- Member – Indiana University Design Club
References
- Available upon request
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Introduction
Ryan is a user experience professional and freelance interaction designer in the San Francisco bay area. Get to know him on Facebook, Myspace, or LinkedIn.
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