Scott M. McDaniel **** Crabapple Lane
Gaithersburg, MD 20879
User Interface Design, Development, and Management
www.scottmcd.net
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Experience www.scottmcd.net/resume.html#experience
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Lockheed Martin 2004 to Present
See a full description of each writing
Interaction Designer Designed products for the National Center for Biotechnology Information position.
(NCBI), part of the National Library of Medicine. I introduced User Centered Design practices
to NCBI. I managed user interface design projects for biotechnology databases and tools, includ-
ing PubMed. I introduced standards and practices such as user analysis, user requirements, and
wireframe page mock-ups.
Cognetics Corporation 2000 to 2004
Senior Interaction Designer Consulted on a wide variety of user interface projects. I established
product concepts, analyzed user tasks and needs, designed and speci ed user interfaces, and
performed detailed usability evaluations. I also trained clients in these areas and managed many
of the projects on which I worked. Clients included Reed-Elsevier, Freddie Mac, ADP, Library
of Congress, and StorageTek.
Technical Writing and Usability 1994 to 2000
Technical Writer Worked for Garcia Consulting, Inc., MIL 3, Inc. (now OPNET Technolo-
gies), and SAIC. I managed documentation projects and developed print and online tutorials,
manuals, and other documentation. I applied User Centered Design to documentation for clients
including the U.S. Patent and Trademark Of ce and the Environmental Protection Agency. See
my web site for more details on each position.
Education
BS in Psychology, James Madison University, 1992
MA in Experimental Psychology, University of Rochester, 1994
Skills & Tools www.scottmcd.net/resume.html#skills
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User Interface Design Project Management HTML, CSS, JavaScript See more about each skill.
User Analysis Project Team Facilitation XML, XSLT
Usability Testing Training MS Visio
Expert Usability Review DHTML Adobe Photoshop
Graphic Design Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Acrobat
Selected Publications www.scottmcd.net/resume.html#pubs
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McDaniel, S. (2007) Academic Manuscript Submission: A Case Study in Interaction Design.
See a full list and read the papers.
User-Centered Design Stories: Real-World UCD Case Studies. Morgan Kaufmann. 289-316.
McDaniel, S and Snyder, L. (2004) Planning Usability Tests for Maximum Impact. Proceed-
ings of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Technical Communication. 345-349.
McDaniel, S. (2004) Designing Search Pages. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Soci-
ety for Technical Communication. 296-300.