Engineer Manager

Designer, engineer, music lover

Kenneth J. Guzik

http://www.kenguzik.net

Summary

Human interface designer with over 20 years of usability and end user application design expertise. Personal emphasis is to produce environments and applications that make the user experience more natural and intuitive, and bring the widest range of technology within reach of the average person.

Engineering manager with 15 years of experience of project/engineering management and technical leadership with a demonstrated ability to handle all aspects of product development from concept to shipment.

Software architect and engineer with 20 years of experience in the design and development of application and system software on a wide range of operating environments including J2EE, Java Swing, HTML/DHTML/Javascript, Windows, CORBA, BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere, GO PenPoint, X.11, and Xerox Star/ViewPoint.

Professional Experience

- Palo Alto, CA, 2003 - present

VMware is the global leader in virtualization and virtual infrastructure software.

Founder, manager and creative lead of the VMware User Experience team, responsible for developing and implementing usability processes within engineering, evangelizing user experience concepts and benefits throughout the company, hiring, managing and mentoring team members. Currently serving as Usability Architect and lead interaction designer for all VMware enterprise products.

Principal UI designer and creative lead for ™ (formerly VMware™ VirtualCenter and VMware™ Infrastructure 3), VMware's award winning virtual infrastructure management application platform. VMware vSphere provides comprehensive management facilities for deployment, configuration, monitoring and reallocation of thousands of virtual machines across an enterprise network. Solely responsible for the complete VirtualCenter 1.0 user interface, and user experience design lead for all aspects of VMware Infrastructure 3 and VMware vSphere product suites.

User experience lead for VMware's SMB product initiatives, including small business variations of the VMware vSphere product, VMware Go™, and far reaching conceptual management products for small businesses.

Principal UI designer and user experience lead for ™, VMware's virtual desktop infrastructure application platform providing centralized management, provisioning, and control of virtual desktops across the enterprise. Led the user experience design for all versions of the product through VMware View 3.0

User experience lead for, VMware's flagship small business virtualization server product. Solely responsible for the client application UI design of GSX Server 3 and Workstation 4.5 products. GSX 3 was recently renamed to and is offered as a free product on Windows, Linux and Apple OS X platforms.

Accessibility and Section 508 compliance, including coordination of compliance testing,, engineering planning and general accessibility evangelism.

- San Mateo, CA, 2001 - 2003

Blue Martini Software is a leading provider of CRM and Business Intelligence applications and services.

UI designer and creative lead for all Blue Martini Data Mining products. Responsible for both management and development of all of data mining products, and contributing engineer on the ™, a Java based desktop application for creating, managing, and executing Data Mining analyses and investigations.

Conceived and developed the ™, the flagship Data Mining web application for the creation, delivery, and administration of Business Intelligence reports. Solely responsible for all aspects of the application concept, user interface design, and client implementation across 3 major releases.

Manager of the Applications Group, leading the activities of 10 engineers in the development of various products including the core Blue Martini CRM application server, customer Call Center, Data Mining and Reporting applications, and custom Clienteling solutions.

Founding member of the Blue Martini User Experience advisory board, responsible for the oversight of UI issues across all Blue Martini applications.

Platforms: BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere, Windows, Sun Solaris, Oracle, SQL Server

Languages: HTML, DHTML, XML, JavaScript, Java, Java Swing, J2EE

- Mountain View, CA, 1999 - 2001

Bridgespan was a full service online real estate title and escrow corporation, facilitating all aspects of real estate transaction management and disclosure.

User Interface architect and developer for the Bridgespan online service, a full service J2EE application for managing all aspects of the title and escrow process, serving real estate agents in 33 states. Solely responsible for the design and development of the overall UI architecture and object model, and led a team of 15 engineers in the development of the complete application.

Platforms: BEA Weblogic, Sun Solaris, Windows, Apple Macintosh, Oracle

Languages: HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Java, J2EE

- Cupertino, CA, 1998 - 1999

gForce Systems is a provider of learning and knowledge management systems, facilitating the creation, organization, planning, and secure delivery of learning media.

User Interface architect and lead developer for the ™ application, an interactive J2EE web application to create, manage, distribute learning and presentation materials.

Platforms: Windows, Sun Solaris, Oracle

Languages: HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Java, Java Swing, Java RMI

- Menlo Park, CA, 1996 - 1998

Technology Development/Broadcast Products Group

Sun participated in the NIST Advanced Technology Program (ATP) to develop the high risk, barrier breaking technologies required for the wide scale adoption of High Definition Television (HDTV) by the television industry.

Engineering Lead for the television studio project, a NIST funded collaborative effort of 8 companies responsible for the development of new HDTV technologies.

Co-author of the Digital Studio Command and Control (DS-CC)™ specification defining a CORBA based, object oriented, network distributed protocol for the control of all television studio operations, devices, and services.

System architect, creative lead, and UI engineer for the ATP (PTACW), a playout scheduling and control application that orchestrated all activities of a DS-CC compliant system. An implementation of the DS-CC controlled studio, including the PTACW was successfully demonstrated at the 1998 NAB convention and was key in gaining acceptance of DS-CC into the SMPTE standards process.

Representative to the SMPTE/EBU task force for harmonization of digital technologies, and the SMPTE P18.10 Working Group on Digital Control.

Platforms: Sun Solaris, Windows, Orbix, OrbixWeb

Languages: C, C++, Java, Java Swing, Java RMI, CORBA 2.0

Motorola Corporation (Lexicus division) - Palo Alto, CA, 1993 - 1996

Lexicus is a provider of handwriting and speech recognition products for desktop systems and embedded devices.

Project lead, system architect, and lead engineer for the ™ handwriting recognition and editing application for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, providing cursive handwriting input for all standard Windows applications.

Authored several patent applications for adaptive learning and ink transformation algorithms. These patents have been filed and are currently pending.

Platforms: Windows 3.1/95/NT, Windows for Pens 1.0/2.0

Languages: C, C++

GO Corporation - Foster City, CA, 1989 - 1993

™ is an object oriented, preemptive multitasking operating system and environment designed for mobile computing and communications.

User interface designer and developer of the GO Fax and GO Address Book applications. I was solely responsible for all aspects of design and development from concept to ship.

Designed and implemented toolkit components in support of Go and partner applications.

Developed a variety of sample and prototype applications to demonstrate the power and flexibility of the PenPoint operating system.

Platforms: MS-DOS, Windows 3.1

Languages: C, C++

- El Segundo, CA / Sunnyvale, CA, 1984 - 1989

™ was the first major revision of the operating system, the first fully integrated graphical desktop office environment.

Team lead for the X.11/Viewpoint window systems integration system that allowed the Viewpoint window system to interact and coexist seamlessly with X.11 applications.

Contributing engineer on the Xerox Viewpoint Basic Workstation team developing framework and toolkit components.

Contributing engineer for the Viewpoint Office Accessories, a suite of applications providing a variety of useful applications such as an online calendar, clock, and programmable calculator.

Platforms: Pilot, Tajo, ViewPoint

Languages: Mesa

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)

Publications User-Centered Design Stories, Real-World UCD Case Studies, by Carol Righi and Janice James, published by Morgan Kaufmann [ISBN: 978-0-12-370608-9]. Co-authored the case study User Centered Design for Middleware.

Architecture of the Virtual Broadcast Studio, by Ken Guzik, SMPTE Journal, November 1997, Vol. 106:881.

Controlling a High Definition Broadcast Television Studio Using Distributed Software Objects, by Ken Guzik and Christopher Ward -- Proceedings of the IBC Conference and Expo, September, 1997.

Design of a High Definition Television Broadcast Studio Using Distributed Software Objects, by Ken Guzik and Christopher Ward -- Proceedings of the Networld+Interop Engineering Conference, May, 1997.

Controlling the Virtual Broadcast Studio, by Ken Guzik -- Proceedings of the SMPTE Conference and World Media Expo, October, 1996.

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