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| Summary |
Graphic
User Interface and Web Usability Designer with over 10 years
experience in the Web, Software and Computer Graphic Design
industries. Strengths include creative visual, verbal,
and written communication. Portfolio available, or see
personal web page at: www.metworks.com/dan |
| Experience |
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2003 to Present
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Plimoth
Plantation Plymouth, MA
Interpreter
Educating and entertaining visitors through first person historical role playing
in the recreated 1627 village of Plimoth, MA. |
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2002 to 2003
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Dateshare.com
Billerica, MA
Partner, Designer
A web Calendar application allowing groups to share information,
dates,...etc.
- Responsible for all design and
usability of product.
- Designed and delivered all graphics.
- Worked with Engineering partner to
design product and establish functionality and marketing strategy.
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2000 to 2002
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SmartMouth
Technologies (SmartMouth.com) Watertown,
MA
Usability Design Lead
A one-stop nutrition information web site. Includes search and sortable database of 13,000 nutrition facts
labels
- Allows user to apply a nutrition goal to their past purchases (data gathered from Stop & Shop loyalty card sales) and get suggestions for incremental
changes.
- Site also includes nutritious recipes, current nutrition news, and weekly sale items.
- Designed interface to be easily used by target audience: 30-60 year old women. Conducted usability tests and iterated design accordingly.
- Responsible for application design, layout, graphics, and usability, including all HTML, Worked closely with ASP and JavaScript programmers.
- Expert in PhotoShop, FrontPage
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2000
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EMC2 Hopkinton,
MA
UI Design Consultant
- Design Enterprise Storage Network Planning Tool, including
Product and User Interface Design.
- Work with field technicians and Engineers to gather
requirements, and understand needs of end-users
- Extend existing Windows technology to device-independent Java
- Integrate tool into suite of Network administration tools
maintaining consistent look and feel and functionality
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S1999 to 2000
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Exchange Applications Boston,
MA
Web UI Design Consultant
- Design web user Interface
for Valex - marketing campaign management tool and build UI in
HTML/ASP.
- Authored Web UI guidelines to apply
across all product lines.
- Integrate separate applications into
suite of marketing tools.
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S1999 to 2000
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SpeechWorks Boston,
MA
GUI Design Consultant
- Design Graphic User Interface of
tools for developers to create speech-driven applications
- Created radically different paradigm
of user interactivity with phonemes to generate pronunciations of
unfamiliar words. Increased usability of existing product
significantly.
- Conduct user testing to determine
usability/learnability of different user interface options.
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S1995 to present
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Metworks Boston,
MA
User Experience/Interaction Designer
- Design and build web
sites for small businesses. Increase on-line visibility by making web sites easy and
entertaining to use
- Knowledge of
Frontpage, Pagemill, Photoshop, HTML 4.0, Java
and other sound, animation, graphics, video
applications/formats.
- Designed and
currently webmaster domains, including: Actonjazzcafe.com,
ElderChoice.com, Oaksquare.com.
- Online portfolio at Metworks.com/dan.
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S1997 to 1998
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Simon&Schuster, Learning
Technologies Group
Cambridge, MA
GUI Design Consultant
- Designed UI for
multimedia web authoring tool.
- Coordinated look and
feel across 14 individual Java components to
integrate into one product.
- Targeted UI to
educators and multimedia developers within the
Educational Software market.
- Created all original
graphics for product.
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S1996 to 1997
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Inso
Corporation Boston,
MA
GUI Designer
- Staff UI Designer for
all products, coordinating look and feel across
product line.
- Authored and
maintained UI specs – minutely detailed for
offshore development.
- Designed and
conducted usability testing.
- Designed Java applet
"FarStar", a linguistically enhanced
meta search engine to adhere to UI standards for
usability but incorporate Inso branding.
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S1995 to 1996
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Dun+Bradstreet Corporation,
Pilot Software
Cambridge, MA
GUI Design Consultant
- Designed LightShip
Model Builder 5.0 for Windows 95, a tool for
creating multidimensional OLAP databases.
- Redesigned existing
product line to conform to Windows 95 UI
specifications, including data visualization, and
analysis tools.
- Designed integrated
icon set, splash screens and related graphics for
entire 5.0 product line.
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S1995
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Aurora Systems Acton, MA
GUI Design Consultant
- Designed screens and
icons for Fastcall desktop telephony software.
- Created instantly
recognizable function icons for multilingual
customers.
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S1992 to1995
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ColorAge Inc. Billerica, MA
GUI Designer
- Functioned within the
product team as UI Designer to make the product
logical, intuitive and useable, and as Graphic
Designer to keep it organized, attractive, and
professional.
- Designed GUI for
Windows NT network color print server ColorQ
2000, SpotMatch and ColorQ Calibrator color
correction utilities, and Macintosh Client
Utility.
- Organized and
conducted usability testing using paper sketches
and multimedia prototypes.
- Designed and
illustrated national magazine advertising
campaign for Freedom of Press
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S1989 to 1992
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CGI Computer Graphic Images
Inc. Boston,
MA
Applications Specialist
- Integrated emerging
desktop publishing technologies with traditional
Scitex, Hell, and Crossfield prepress systems.
- Maintained extensive
knowledge of graphics software including:
expertise in Illustrator, PhotoShop, Director and
XPress.
- Authored Desktop
PrePress manual for training and customer
distribution.
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S1986 to 1988
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PM Designs Boston, MA
Senior Designer
- Designed business
imagery, graphics and custom exhibits, displays
and signage for corporate accounts.
- Designed trade show
booths for Digital Equipment, Thinking Machines,
and Bitstream.
- Designed lobby
exhibits and sales demo room for Maynard DEC
facility including multimedia exhibits, custom
furniture, and interior design
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| Education |
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1986-1988 |
Mass College of
Art,
Boston, MA, Graphic Design Program
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1978-1982 |
University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, Economics
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| Teaching |
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2003-Present |
Cambridge
Rindge and Latin High School,
Cambridge, MA
I Teach Music to the Special Education Class |
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1996 |
El Centro del
Cardinal High School, Boston, MA
Taught 12 week course "Introduction to Multimedia
Computers" to teaching staff. |
