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Objective
I have extensive experience designing and
guiding products through initial concept to deployment,
with focus on user interface and user-oriented functional
design. For many years I have been the person who gets called
to save failing or floundering efforts. While this has been
fullfilling and lucrative (yet hectic), I feel I am missing
my opportunity to prevent problems from happening in the
first place. I miss the continuity of fulltime involvement.
My ideal position would be as part of a
workgroup of diversely skilled professionals assigned to
bring a new product or iteration to market. I have an extremely
broad set of skills which focus on product design, interface
design, and taking innovative approaches to simplifying
the difficult. My skills span disciplines, combining art
production with development.
My ideal company is committed to shipping
quality product, has an established product development
methodology, and has a tradition of quality. I am seeking
more long-term relationships, but for the right position,
I am willing to consider relocation and full-time employment.
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Skills
I use a lot of software; whatever is appropriate for the
task, including:
| Web |
Dreamweaver |
Flash |
MySQL |
PHP |
| Video |
Final Cut |
Premiere |
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| Documentation |
InDesign |
Quark |
Framemaker |
Acrobat |
| Illustration
(pixels) |
PhotoShop |
Fireworks |
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| Illustration
(vectors) |
FreeHand |
Illustrator |
ConceptDraw |
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Platforms |
MacOS |
Windows |
Unix |
Custom |
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| Consulting
 Since
1992 I have worked as a consultant and designer under the
trade name Metamedia.
Responsibilities include:
- Usability-oriented interface design, development, and
media asset creation, especially for embedded systems.
- Functional requirement and interface specifications.
- Creation and demonstration of prototypes and simulations.
- Presentation of solutions to design teams, senior management,
and investors.
- Information design, product and technical design.
- Electronic pre-press and workflow consulting.
- Web application, publishing, and site development.
Services have been performed for many companies as an independent
contractor; most noteworthy:
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IdleAire
Technologies Corporation
Knoxville, TN, 5/01 to 4/02
Interaction Designer
Designed all aspects of interaction, and performed
all tasks from user analysis to media asset creation,
for an embedded point of sale system used by truckers
on rest breaks at truck stops. System was designed
to be used to purchase HVAC, cable TV, web browsing,
email access, IM, VOIP, pay per view, and other features
used by semi-literate users. 
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Med
Images, Inc.
Knoxville, TN, 3/00 to 12/01
Product Design Lead, IDS v3
Led the re-design of their IDS software from initial
feature bullet-list, through functional specification,
user definitions, interface design drafts, media asset
creation, and worked with development staff to through
to product release.
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Philips
Consumer Electronics,
Deane Hill New Business Center
Knoxville, TN, 5/96 to 2/98
Senior User Interface Specialist
Member of a user interface team for a large multinational
consumer electronic products manufacturer and distributor.
Worked to design the means by which computers are
integrated into the living room. I developed and specified
user interfaces for a variety of consumer-targetted
custom hardware platforms in large focus-driven teams.
Received Philips Quality Award for the 90s, 12/96. |
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 Since
1997 I have provided Macintosh systems troubleshooting, network
infrastructure and server administration for a steady group
of small business clients under the trade name HappyMac.
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Publishing Specialist
1/89 to 12/92
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL),
Oak Ridge, TN
Assisted development of the Airlift Deployment and Analysis
System (ADANS)
for the US Air Force Military Ailrlift Command for an internationally
reknowned, US Government research laboratory. ADANS flight
scheduling and payload management software was used to enable
the largest airlift in history during the Desert Storm war.
Applied my visual and logic skills to information design
and software structures, and worked as team member within
a large project. From the deployment of the software during
Desert Storm, I also learned the importance of choosing where
to place your creative energy; that military projects have
real consequences in the world and that project choice is,
in many circumstances, an ethical choice as well.
- Developed the "look and feel" of ADANS software and on-screen
presentation of data.
- Produced, wrote, and edited project documentation requiring
technical knowledge of operating systems, software structures,
or database design.
- Responsible for design and production of illustrations
and presentation materials.
- Trained technical writers in use of desktop publishing
software for Macintosh and Sun platforms.
- Maintained all documentation in electronic form.
- Designed and implemented a context-sensitive, hypertexting
on-line help system.
- Recipient of ORNL Excellence in Research and Development
Award, June 1992.
- Co-author of Hyper-Help: Uniting Humans And Machines,
Laura L. Bresko, Christopher Gray, Jon Grubb (presented
at 38th International Technical Communication Conference,
New York City, April 1991).
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| College
 University
of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
BA, College Scholars, High Honors
9/84-5/88
Participated in an honors degree program. During college,
I published an independent student newspaper, started 3 (unsuccessful)
businesses, and gained extensive experience in fine arts photograhy,
theatrical lighting, television, and print publishing. More
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Training and Affiliations
- Member, ACM/SIGCHI,
and Atlanta local chapter (CHIA)
- Envisioning Information seminar. Edward Tufte.
Washington, DC. 3/19/97.
- MacWorld San Francisco '99; MacWorld Boston '97;
MacWorld DC '89.
- Electronic Entertainment Exposition (E3). Atlanta,
GA. 6/87.
- Advanced Cinematography. David Leitner, John
Butler, Denise Brassard. Tested different 16mm motion picture
film stocks by filming indoor, outdoor, and nightime scenes
at different exposures and lighting conditions. Southeastern
Media Institute, Columbia, SC. 6/93.
- Location and Production Sound. John Butler.
Tested a variety of professional microphone and recording
devices. Southeastern Media Institute, Columbia, SC. 6/93
- PADI Advanced Recreational Diver certified
- Tennessee Mountain Rescue. Certified for vertical
mountain rescue in the state of Tennessee, Coursework included
training in mountaineering equipment, knots, rappelling
techniques, basic medical skills, one-on-one rescue, stretcher
evacuation. East Tennessee State University. 11/89.
- St. Louis Comic Exposition, 1995. A guided tour
of the comic and gaming industry by a friend who also owns
a retail comics store.
- Document Fraud Seminar. FrankW. Abignale, Jr. Knoxville,
TN. 10/7/96.
- Athens Paper School, 1990. Learned about paper
manufacturing and specification.
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| References
Available upon request.
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Philips
first 16:9 format broadcast digital television.
Unique features include the ability for future
3rd party Windows CE applications or other devices
to use the television for their on-screen displays.
