Design Assistant

Beril Guvendik

*** ******** ***. 510-***-****

Oakland, CA 94610 *************@*****.***

Profile

Creative and user-focused interaction designer with experience designing complex web-based

user interfaces. Solid knowledge of user interface best practices and user-centered design

principles. Excellent communication and presentation skills. Able to focus on details without losing

sight of the big picture.

Professional Experience

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February, 26 2001 Current

CollabNet, Inc.; New York, NY - Brisbane, CA

Key member of the user experience team. Primarily worked on the company s two flagship

applications - CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise and CollabNet Enterprise Edition - both web-

based suites for software development, lifecycle management, and collaboration.

Senior User Experience Designer, April 2007 Current

User Experience Designer, January 2005 April 2007

Designed new features such as project content editor, user management, and site

registration based on requirements from sources such as product management, customer

feedback and business needs.

Re-designed the look and feel of CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise.

Contributed to enhancing user experience by continuously evaluating product, initiating

and managing projects for improvements.

Advocated user-centered approaches and best practices within the engineering team and

provided design feedback.

Developed and maintained product user interface standards.

W orked with the engineering team through agile and waterfall processes.

Collaborated with marketing, support and sales teams to collect customer, user and

stakeholder feedback.

Mentored team member to expand his responsibilities.

Production Designer, February 2001 January 2005

Increased CollabNet Enterprise Edition s performance by implementing current and

reliable standards, such as XHTML, Section 508 and Web Accessibility.

Simplified customer web site interfaces, reducing branding times from 2-3 weeks to less

than half a day.

Created various sales demonstrations, worked with customers and customer

representatives to enhance and implement these designs on customer sites.

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July 12 1999 - February, 26 2001

Cybersites, Inc.; New York

Web Developer, March 2000- February 2001

Designed, developed and maintained 14 theme-based online communities.

Redesigned and implemented existing interfaces for tools such as email, online chat and

welcome page to improve product usability, speed and performance.

Led weekly meetings between developers and content managers discussing design and

development strategies.

Content Editor, July 1999 March 2000

Managed two online communities.

Supervised remote employees and recruited talent as guest hosts for the sites.

August 1998 September 1999

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture; New York

Teaching Assistant, Graduate Design Studio

Assisted students in finding new ways to approach architectural design, using digital

media.

Led daily tutorials on authoring Maya 2.0, Form Z and other graphics software.

Teaching Assistant, Course on Web Design Theory and Practice

Teaching assistant for graduate level curriculum.

Conducted tutorial sessions and in-class demonstrations in authoring HTML, JavaScript,

Flash and DreamWeaver.

Performed web and interface design lectures.

Demonstrated different approaches to web design and multimedia integration.

Summary of Skills

Professional

Low and high fidelity prototyping, user flow diagrams, site maps, specifications, use cases

and user stories, task flow analysis, heuristic evaluations, user surveys and interviews,

persona development, style guides

W eb accessibility initiative, Section 508, web standards, internationalization

Software

Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, InDesign, Omnigraffle

Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, BBEdit

Unix command line tools

Programming

XHTML, HTML, CSS

Javascript, Velocity, Programming concepts

Education & Affiliations

MS. in Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia University; New York, 1999

Bachelor of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University; Istanbul, Turkey, 1997

Coursework: Interaction Design Practicum, Cooper Interactive., Interaction Design, San

Francisco State University

Memberships: Interaction Designers Association (IxDA), BayCHI

References available on request.

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