Project Manager Design

Andrew M. Dahley

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www.media.mit.edu/~andyd

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EDUCATION

M ASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF T ECHNOLOGY; Media Laboratory

Master of Science, Media Arts and Sciences, May 1998

Concentrations: system design, user experience, user interaction, electronics, and Java

Interval Research Corporation Fellowship

UNIVERSITY OF M ICHIGAN

Bachelor of Fine Arts, May 1995

Concentrations: Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering, User Interface Design

EXPERIENCE

RUBY NETWORKS, INC. San Francisco, CA

2000

Founder and Chief Product Officer

Founded a wireless networking startup, with a team of 3 others

Product Definition and Architecture, Acting VP of Engineering managed the development team

Windows UI design, Palm UI design

Developed company product line based on both user, technology, and business needs

CASIO U.S. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER San Jose, CA

2000

C onsultant

Defined product requirements and researched sensor technologies based on those requirements

Designed and Developed reference platform for a sensor based toy, six week project

SIEMENS T ECHNOLOGY T O BUSINESS CENTER, LLC Berkeley, CA

1999 2000

I nnovator

M anaged cross-disciplinary Research and Development and Business teams to create new

technology products

Conceptualized new applications for advanced technologies, Implement system prototypes and

developed business models for potential spin-out companies

Product Definition, User Experience, and UI design for web based applications

PHILIPS ELECTRONICS Palo Alto, CA

1998 1999

Interaction Designer, Philips Design

Conceptualized, designed, and developed smart products for the digital home network, fully

integrating physical and digital aspects

User Experience Design, Graphical UI design, Human Factors

Technology transfer: facilitated the flow of technology research innovations from research labs into

product development

MIT M EDIA LABORATORY Cambridge, MA

1996 1998

Research Assistant, Tangible Media Group

Principal researcher and designer of the Ambient Fixtures and Expressive Kinetic Objects Projects.

These projects aimed to distribute more natural information displays within our physical environment

M anaged a cross disciplinary team of researchers

Concept and physical design for the inTouch project; communication through touch across distance

FRY M ULTIMEDIA Ann Arbor, MI

1996

Project Manager and Designer

Directed multiple teams in the development of web projects

Designed and developed applications for the internet using HTML and Macromedia Director

SUNDBERG-FERAR, INC. Detroit, MI

1995 1996

Industrial Designer

Designed consumer products and user-interfaces

Built models and prototypes and conducted research focus groups

HERMAN M ILLER INC. Holland, MI

1994 1998

C onsultant

Advised on the integration of technology into office systems and evaluated several R&D projects

Conducted user-studies and designed research studies for prototype furniture products

Research Intern

1993 1994

designed and led research projects dealing with ergonomics, anthropometrics, and biomechanics

developed concepts for future work environments based upon proprietary research

ACTIVITIES AND HONORS

Interval Research Corporation fellowship 1996

I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review, Design Distinction Award 1995

Cycling, Hiking, Sculpture, and Furniture Design, Sculpture

PUBLICATIONS

Brave, S., Ishii, H., Dahley, A. Tangible interfaces for remote collaboration and communication .

r Supported Cooperative Work, ACM Press, 1998.

Dahley, A. Designing Kinetic Objects for Digital Information Display . Thesis: Masters of Science in

Media Arts and Sciences at Thesis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 1998

Dahley, A., Wisneski, C., and Ishii, H. "Water Lamp and Pinwheels: Ambient Projection of Digital

Information into Architectural Space". Extended Abstracts of CHI'98: Conference on Human Factors in

Computing Systems. ACM Press, 1998.

Ishii, H., Wisneski, C., Brave, S., Dahley, A., Gorbet, M., Ullmer, B., and Yarin, P. (1998).

"ambientROOM: Integrating Ambient Media with Architectural Space (video)". Extended Abstracts of

CHI'98: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM Press, 1998.

Wisneski, C, Ishii, H., Dahley, A., Gorbet, M., Brave, S., Ullmer, B., Yarin, P. "Ambient displays:

Turning Architectural Space into an Interface Between People and Digital Information". Proceedings of

CoBuild'98: First International Workshop on Cooperative Buildings. GMD, Darmstadt, Germany,

February 1998.

Brave, Scott and Dahley, Andrew. "MiLOs". Artist Statement. FleshFactor: Informationsmacschine

mensch: 1997 Ars Electronica Festival Catalog, Linz, Austria, Springer, Wein New York, September

1997. 278-279.

Brave, Scott and Dahley, Andrew. "inTouch: A Medium for Haptic Interpersonal Communication".

Extended Abstracts of CHI'97: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM Press, 1997.

363-364.

Dahley, Andrew. Cooperative Learning Classroom. Annual Design Review, Design Distinction Award,

I.D. Magazine July 1995.

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