Engineer Project Manager

I m a UX architect with over * years of experience creating intuitive web and mobile software solutions for many types of end users. I have a diverse background spanning areas including information architecture, business/functional analysis, product management, and project management. I have experience developing business cases, detailed business and functional specs, detailed low and high fidelity wireframes, user and system flows, and design patterns. I also have experience completing market research and competitive analysis to generate new product ideas. I thrive in settings where I m required to work efficiently and understand all the details of a project in order to design solutions that are highly usable, technically feasible, and financially successful.

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UX / Information Architect (Mobile + Web)

Seattle, WA

I m a UX architect with over 8 years of experience creating intuitive web and mobile software solutions for many types of end users. I have a diverse background spanning areas including information architecture, business/functional analysis, product management, and project management. I have experience developing business cases, detailed business and functional specs, detailed low and high fidelity wireframes, user and system flows, and design patterns. I also have experience completing market research and competitive analysis to generate new product ideas. I thrive in settings where I m required to work efficiently and understand all the details of a project in order to design solutions that are highly usable, technically feasible, and financially successful.

Experience

Virtual

Sep 2011 - Present

Freelance UX Architect - Web + Mobile

Fluent Medical

Work as the sole UX architect on a small start-up team, creating and improving medical charge capture and patient sign out software (iPatient) for physicians and residents working at hospitals and private practices.

Completed a web application redesign for the resident user experience. Determined and documented use cases, created mid-fidelity wireframes (Visio), and documented all UX findings and recommendations.

Designed from scratch an iPad mobile site for the physician user experience. Worked with VP Product to determine use cases/scope for first release, created detailed screen flow diagrams, and created high fidelity wireframes (Omnigraffle) for all screens and scenarios. Wireframes were also used for final visual design.

Seattle, WA

Jan 2011 - Sep 2011

Mobile Information Architect / Business Analyst

Reader's Digest Association / Allrecipes.com

Worked as one of six members of a small mobile apps team within Reader s Digest Corporation. Team included the VP of Product Management, a project manager, a graphic designer, and two developers.

Completed all analysis required for mobile app implementation on both Android and iOS platforms.

Drove consensus between project team and external stakeholders to insure that the mobile solution was technically feasible, met all business/revenue objectives, and provided an optimal user experience.

Responsible for the creation of all project documentation, to include: business objectives, use cases, business/functional specs, wireframes, user/screen flows, and high level mobile site maps.

Completed market/user research and competitive analysis to drive app concepts.

Worked with external vendors as needed to: kick off externally developed projects, guide development, create/observe UX studies, and summarize UX study results.

Created and execute all functional and user acceptance tests for mobile projects.

Filled in as product manager for website projects as needed.

Bothell, WA

Jul 2009 - Dec 2010

Information Architect - eCommerce + Online Account Management

AT&T Mobility - B2B e-Sales and Service

Worked with business and IT stakeholders to translate business and functional requirements into user flows and detailed wireframes that drove design, development, and content.

Developed complex interactive web solutions that pertained to multiple user types and roles.

Identified and documented design patterns for the design pattern library.

Assisted UX research team as needed to develop usability tests.

Worked collaboratively with developers to insure solutions were feasible.

Assisted designers and content writers as needed, and approved final design and content deliverables.

Reviewed and approved all business and functional documents.

Acted as the end user s advocate at all stages in the solution design.

Bothell, WA

Sep 2007 - Jul 2009

e-Commerce Business Analyst

AT&T Mobility - B2B e-Sales and Service

Authored business cases and estimated return on investment for web projects.

Worked with the business, product managers, project managers, and IT to define project scope.

Created user and system flow diagrams to determine use cases and system impacts.

Authored all business and functional requirements specifications for the project.

Drove stakeholder consensus by leading joint application design sessions with business stakeholders, product managers, IT architects, Information Architects, UI designers, UX researchers, and IT leads.

Wrote user acceptance test strategy and test scripts and completed all UAT scripts before product launch.

Reviewed and approved systems architecture document, wireframes, written content, design comps, QA functional test scripts, and final technical design.

Analyzed Webtrends data as required to justify projects and drive solutions.

Acted as Lead BA across all teams by driving process and deliverable consistency. Refined and documented the BA process, modified the BA deliverables, and communicated all to management and BA community.

Renton, WA

Jul 2006 - Sep 2007

Business/Functional Analyst

Boeing Commercial Aviation Services - Flight Ops Support and Training

Worked with 12 Flight Operations end-user groups to develop a common software solution and UI to deliver flight operations digital products to Boeing s airline customers via .

Authored business and functional requirements specifications for local and off-shore development teams.

Developed detailed training and work process flows and documentation for end-user groups.

Completed analysis and wrote functional requirements for large-scale data conversion project.

Created user acceptance testing strategy and scripts.

Everett, WA

Dec 2004 - Jul 2006

PM / Manufacturing Process Analyst

Boeing Commercial Airplanes - 787 Manufacturing Process Definition

Managed software change board. Managed all aspects of UAT for internal and external Boeing Partners.

Integrated new software with manufacturing process documentation and instructions for the 787 Program final assembly and delivery engineers.

Glendale, AZ

May 2001 - Dec 2004

Fly-By-Wire Systems Engineer III

Honeywell Aerospace Electronic Systems

SYSTEMS ENGINEER III / ON-SITE CUSTOMER SUPPORT ENGINEER: Worked on the Embraer 170 program as a flight controls systems engineer doing requirements development, and hardware/software testing for certification. Spent 1 year as an on-site customer support engineer at Embraer in Brazil (OEM) supporting all fly-by-wire testing and certification activities.

Sterling Heights, MI

Feb 1998 - May 2001

Applications and Simulations Engineer

DCT Inc.

APPLICATIONS AND SIMULATIONS ENGINEER: Created conceptual but functional mechanical designs of automated material handling systems for Automotive OEM s. Responsible for interfacing with Big-3 customers to define requirements, completing functional 2D AutoCAD design drawings, writing detailed scopes of work for quotation, completing 3D animated simulations (DELMIA), and holding design kick-off meeting for Management and Design team.

Education

Houghton, MI

Sep 1992 - Feb 1998

BS Mechanical Engineering

Michigan Tech

Seattle, WA

Jun 2009 - Jun 2009

University of Washington

IMT589 - Information Architecture Summer Institute Graduate Course

Bellevue, WA

Bellevue Community College

Credit Courses: Intro to 2D Design (5cr), and Color Theory (5cr)

Continuing Education: Fundamental Web Design Courses (XHTML, CSS, Photoshop)

Seattle, WA

School of Visual Concepts

Drawing, Intro to Graphic Design, Typography, Illustrator, Axure

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