Manager Design

Christopher A. Lamb

Education:

• Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)

• M.A., Cognitive Psychology (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)

• B.S., Psychology (Florida State University)

• B.S., Statistics (Florida State University)

Security Clearance:

Full Secret Clearance through SA Technologies.

Professional experience:

*** – 2004 to present

*** is a Human Factors/Design firm that works mostly on government and military command and control systems. They use an advanced knowledge solicitation tool known as Goal Directed Task Analysis to define user requirements for a system and design user interfaces that support the situational awareness needs of military personnel in high stress situations.

2010 to present – Program Manager.

I am currently the Program manager of a complete UI redesign project for the US Navy. We are reworking the UI to integrate multiple pieces of software into a single system. As PM of this project I am in charge of all scheduling and budget concerns for multiple design teams as well as integrating our schedule into the Navy program schedule. I have headed the efforts to define both design and software requirements based on detailed task analyses of the users, maintain and communicate a design philosophy to the design teams and ensure that the end product meets that concept, and create and implement usability testing to gather various levels of user feedback.

2008/2010 – Deputy Program Manager/Senior Research Associate.

As Deputy Program Manager, I collaborated with software engineers to balance user requirements with software realities to ensure the best user experience possible; maintain, create, and jury an interface design standard used by the entire project to maintain a consistent look and feel; and participate in multidisciplinary working groups to ensure the overall information architecture of the FCS Program. I was also responsible for creating and adhering to a design delivery schedule for 25 designers and 100 products a year. I was also instrumental in the design and analysis of our usability testing efforts.

2006/2007 – Design Team Manager.

As a Design Team Manager, I supervised multiple teams as well as performing design duties. My additional duties included increased interaction with software engineers to ensure software functionality matches the UI design based on the user derived needs, scheduling long term design team activities and deliveries. I also mentored and developed team members.

2004/2006 – Research Associate.

As a Research Associate, I was the team lead. My duties included performing task analyses with subject matter experts, translating the task analyses into design requirements, designing early UI prototypes, and document the user interaction logic.

Litigation Research and Consulting

2002/2003 – Consultant.

Duties included jury selection, planning and analysis of mock trials, witness preparation, argument construction and planning courtroom presentations. I worked directly with lawyers both in the identification of the key issues of the cases and the presentation of the results of research about those issues.

Professional and personal references submitted upon request.

Research experience:

1997/2004 – Graduate research focused on properties of human categorization, face perception, and exemplar priming.

Teaching Experience:

• Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

• Cognition and Consciousness

• General Psychology

Publications and Presentations::

Lamb, C.A. A distinctiveness based explanation of the cross-race deficit in face recognition. Dissertation

Hunt, R.R. & Lamb, C.A. (2006). What Does It Take to Implicitly Prime Low-Frequency Category exemplars? Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory & cognition, 32, 249-258.

Wisniewski, E.J., Lamb, C.A. & Middleton, E. (2003). On the conceptual basis for the count and mass noun distinction. Language and Cognitive Processes.

Hunt, R.R. & Lamb, C.A. (2002). What causes the isolation effect?

Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory & cognition, 27, 1359-1366.

Lamb, C.A & Hunt, R.R. (2001, February). Priming low typicality exemplars during category production. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Cognition Group, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Lamb, C.A & Hunt, R.R. (2001). Priming implicit memory. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, Ga.

Lamb, C.A & Hunt, R.R. (2000, March). Disappearing uniqueness: similarity is as important as difference in measuring distinctiveness. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, La.

Dunlosky, J., Matvey, G., Lamb, C.A., & Thiede, K. (2000). Does self-pacing study require resource capacity? Poster presented at the 41st annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

Lamb, C.A & Hunt, R.R. (1999, March). Isolating the isolation effect. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Savannah, Ga.

Lamb, C.A & Hunt, R.R. (1999, February). The necessity of perceptual salience for the isolation effect. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Cognition Group, Raleigh, N.C.

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