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Professional Experience

Salesforce.com; San Francisco, CA

Senior User Interface Designer, 12/2008 - current

CollabNet, Inc.; New York, NY, Brisbane, CA

Key member of the user experience team. Primarily worked on the company’s two flagship applications - “CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise” and “CollabNet Enterprise Edition” - both webbased suites for software development, lifecycle management, and collaboration.

Senior User Experience Designer, 04/2007 - 12/2008
User Experience Designer, 01/2005 – 04/2007

• Designed new features such as project content editor, user management, and site registration based on requirements from sources such as product management, customer feedback and business needs.
• Re-designed the look and feel of CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise.
• Contributed to enhancing user experience by continuously evaluating product, initiating and managing projects for improvements.
• Advocated user-centered approaches and best practices within the engineering team and provided design feedback.
• Developed and maintained product user interface standards.
• Worked with the engineering team through agile and waterfall processes.
• Collaborated with marketing, support and sales teams to collect customer, user and stakeholder feedback.
• Mentored team member to expand his responsibilities.

Production designer, 02/2001 - 01/2005

• Increased CollabNet Enterprise Edition’s performance by implementing current and reliable standards, such as XHTML, Section 508 and Web Accessibility.
• Simplified customer web site interfaces, reducing branding times from 2-3 weeks to less than half a day.
• Created various sales demonstrations, worked with customers and customer representatives to enhance and implement these designs on customer sites.

Cybersites, Inc.; New York, NY

Web Developer, 03/2000 - 02/2001

• Designed, developed and maintained 14 theme-based online communities.
• Redesigned and implemented existing interfaces for tools such as email, online chat and welcome page to improve product usability, speed and performance.
• Led weekly meetings between developers and content managers discussing design and development strategies.

Content Editor, 07/1999 - 03/2000

• Managed two online communities.
• Supervised remote employees and recruited talent as guest hosts for the sites.

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture; New York, NY

Teaching Assistant, Graduate Design Studio

• Assisted Students in finding new ways to approach architectural design, using digital media.
• Led daily tutorials on authoring Maya 2.0. Form Z and other graphics software.

Teaching Assistant, Course on Web Design Theory and Practice

• Teaching assistant for graduate level curriculum.
• Conducted tutorial sessions and in-class demonstrations in authoring HTML, JavaScript, Flash and DreamWeaver.
• Performed web and interface design lectures.
• Demonstrated different approaches to web design and multimedia integration.

Summary of Skills

Professional

• Low and high fidelity prototyping, user flow diagrams, site maps, specifications, use cases and user stories, task flow analysis, heuristic evaluations, user surveys and interviews, persona development, style guides
• Web accessibility initiative, Section 508, web standards, internationalization

Software

• Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, InDesign, Omnigraffle
• Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, BBEdit
• Unix command line tools

Programming

• XHTML, HTML, CSS
• Javascript, Velocity, Programming concepts