Usability Consultant. Iterative Design, January 2002 - Current
Develop strategic research plans
for mobile and game companies. Conduct traditional and innovative
research, including paper prototyping, remote testing and field
research for Fortune 1000 companies.
Director of Research. Big Fish Games, November 2007 - March 2010
Build research lab and team of qualitative and quantitative experts. Lead social game and ecommerce research research for PC, MAC, and the iPhone.
Senior Information Architect. Molecular, Inc. January 2001 - January 2002
Provide thought leadership and
web usability consulting and strategic user experience planning
for clients including Fidelity Investments, and FMTC, FeB,
Boston.com, Yankee Candle, Brown & Company and conduct
training on usability testing.
Senior Usability Specialist. The MathWorks, Inc 1996 - January 2001
Design, develop and evaluate
graphical user interfaces for MATLAB products, financial toolboxes
and global e-commerce web sites for private software company.
Three Year Term Appointment. Sandia National Laboratories, 1993-94
Design and evaluate graphical
user interfaces and instructional multimedia for the engineering
community, perform usability testing, design web sites, research
human factors guidelines for on-line electronic textbook and
engineering curriculum using SUN SPARCstation, PC, MAC in
Statistics and Human Factors Department.
Graduate Intern. Sandia
National Laboratories, 1994-96
Conduct research on engineering
learning styles, develop engineering multimedia web presentations
using Mosaic browser; deliver classes in HTML in Computational
Mechanics and Scientific Visualization Department.
Automation Specialist. School of American Research, Indian Arts Research Center,
1992
Conduct a full scale inventory
of collections with a team of two assistants, design database
and train staff on how to input data, and present report on
procedures to improve automated collection management of over
10,000 museum quality pieces.
Supervisory Staff Curator. US Dept of Interior, National Park Service, Division of Cultural
Resources,1987-1992
Instruct regional staff on automated
data management system and registration methods, write cataloging
documentation, collection management plans, provide curatorial
assistance throughout region for the Collections Accountability
Project.
Research Assistant. Research
Institute for Educational Problems, 1985-1987
Evaluated educational software,
completed literature reviews, bibliographies, code data collected
from children in schools.