Project Manager Design

Rebecca L. Shapley

925-***-**** *******@****.********.*** www.sims.berkeley.edu/~rebecca/portfolio

Education

U. C. Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS), Masters 2005

User-Centered Design of systems, interactions and interfaces

Course projects include:

Designing, prototyping and usability testing a search interface for networked database

Interaction design and functional specifications for an application to organize video media

Visualizing biological data with a parallel coordinates layout

Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. Biology, Honors, Magna Cum Laude, B.A. 1997

Employment

Department of Integrative Biology, Berkeley, CA. Graduate Student Researcher, 2004 present

Conducting needs assessment and usability evaluations for tree-structured data visualizations

Developed initial survey project into Master s project

Berkeley Natural History Museums, Berkeley, CA. Informatics Summer Intern, 2004

Improved user interface for geographic map tool via heuristic evaluation and user interviews

Studied search logs to characterize user search behavior

Conducted concept analysis for new educational products

Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, CA. ScienceVIEW 2000 2004

Project Manager, 2002 2004

Produced 6 website products with multimedia components, cutting-edge educational experiences and

community-building tools. Managed production schedules and six-figure budgets.

Responsibilities included:

Developing design with client

Writing functional specifications and product documentation

Conducting formative usability evaluations

Managing content producers, artists and programmers

Junior/Revisions Project Manager, 2001

Managed programming, art and client resources to complete and deliver 5 beta interactive

(Macromedia Director) educational multimedia CD-ROM products.

Developer, 2000

Designed and programmed interactive educational games (Macromedia Flash) and

timekeeping/accounting database application (FileMaker Pro).

Akodon Ecological Consulting. Partner, 1998 present.

Conducting ecological fieldwork and journalism, including bat surveys in Guyana, Belize and Brazil.

The Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia, PA. Traveling Scientist, 1997 1999

Delivered quality educational science shows at customer locations in 7 counties

Enhanced functionality of departmental FileMaker Pro reservation database

Technical Skills

Programming: Java, PHP, MySQL, Flash, FileMaker Pro, XML, Javascript, CSS, Perl, C

Production software: Macromedia Director, Flash, Dreamweaver. Microsoft Office. BBEdit. Eclipse. Quicken.

Adobe GoLive, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premier, Acrobat. OmniGraffle. Final Cut Pro. wikis.

Video production: Short films, fictional and documentary. Scripting, editing, compression, web delivery.

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