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About Me

I'm a UX Designer with 10 years experience building apps and websites of all types. My work has garnered recognition from Gartner, the CODiE awards, and other industry leaders.

My Expertise

  • User experience design.
  • Web 2.0 and rich Internet application (RIA) development.
  • Human-computer interaction (HCI).
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, Photoshop.
  • Information architecture.
  • Usability and accessibility.
  • Requirements gathering and documentation.
  • Wireframing and functional prototyping.

My Career

Project Lead, Electronic Arts

2011-NOW
  • Led development of EASPORTS.com.
  • Provided guidance to other EA SPORTS teams.
  • Crafted key portions of EASPORTS.com's UI.
  • Managed the build and release process.
  • Used HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Symfony, PHP, Git.

Director of User Experience, Zen Point Design

2008-NOW
  • Founded and operated a boutique user experience design firm.
  • Contracted by Nokia to develop UI for the Ovi Store.
  • Contracted by Nokia to curate their JavaScript framework.
  • Contracted to IBM to prototype UI for an internal CMS.
  • Used HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Flex, Silverlight, PHP.

User Experience Designer, Vitrium Systems

2007-2008
  • Scoped and documented product requirements.
  • Developed functional prototypes.
  • Designed security tools used by Adobe and Texas Instruments.
  • CODiE Awards 2009 finalist.
  • Gartner "Cool Vendor" 2008 award.
  • CompTIA Software Innovation Awards 2008 finalist.
  • Used HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, ASP.NET, Silverlight.

Lead Software Engineer, Eloquent Systems

2004-2007
  • Led development of Web-based information architecture tools.
  • Designed UI for the State of California and Alliance Atlantis.
  • Used HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, Java, XML, XSL / XSLT.

Software Engineer, MINISIS

2002-2004
  • Built information architecture tools for museums and archives.
  • Redesigned M3, a world-renowned museum application.
  • Developed UI for the National Archives of Canada.
  • Received Canadian enhanced security clearance.
  • Used HTML, CSS, C++, C#, XML.

My Education

Honours B.Tech, British Columbia Institute of Technology

2003-2009
  • Degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), part-time studies.

Honours Dipl.T, British Columbia Institute of Technology

2000-2002
  • Diploma in Computer Systems Technology, full-time studies.