Dun & Bradstreet
User Research Project & Product Management
Supported vendors and internal staff through usability testing and contextual inquiry. I provided logistics, refined test prototypes, collected and analyzed data, and documented the results.
Ceon, Inc.
Product Management & Systems Analysis
Performed product design and detailed systems analysis for Ceon Product Control Center: Product Catalog management software formulated for the particular intricacies of the telecommunications market.
Applied user-focused design principles to prototypes and design overviews, allowing product stakeholders to reach consensus before investing development resources. Worked out detailed requirements to solve complex technical problems.
Purisma, Inc.
Program Management, IT Support,
User Documentation
Successfully navigated a 8000+ person-hour, Agile software development project to its on-schedule release.
Leveraged extensive product knowledge and user viewpoint to produce user documentation.
Business Objects, Acta Technology
Director of Program Management
Technical Publications Manager
Managed priorities and trade-offs between Engineering and Product Management to set and meet software development goals.
Managed decision making among the development, QA, documentation, and product management leaders to produce quality products on aggressive schedules.
Analysed business requirements to support development.
Accomplished development process changes to improve product quality through my analysis of process metrics.
Cooper University
Attended Cooper U Interaction Design Practicum in March 2008.
Rice University
Graduated with a bachelors degree in Applied Physics.
Other Companies
Many other companies in the valley benefitted from my skills:
- Xpedion
- UpShot Corporation (now Oracle)
- Palm, Inc.
- Visto Corporation
- Approach (Lotus Development Corporation and now IBM )
- Etak, Inc. (now Tele Atlas)
- Microtec Research, Inc. (now Mentor Graphics)
- Warthman Associates
- Hewlett-Packard (now Agilent Technologies)