Engineer Design

Adam Brody

Mountain View, CA *****

*****@****.***.***

http://www.linkedin.com/in/brody

https://be.net/adambrody

Lead User Experience Designer

Often at the forefront of technology and innovation. Earned a design and ingenuity award at MIT for a head-mounted camera control system before the term “Virtual Reality” (VR) was coined. Utilized VR at NASA to investigate rescuing astronauts. Expertise in designing UIs, which includes designing space station UIs in hypertext before the web existed and interactions for personalized relevant search at Outride before Google, which ultimately bought the product. Designed UIs for a small, wireless, pen-based device before the creation of iPads and smart phones. Demonstrated success in ramping up quickly.

EXPERIENCE

SENIOR INTERACTION DESIGNER, Ariba, an SAP Company, Sunnyvale, CA 2013-2015

As member of Core Team, designed the User Experience for Ariba Exchange User Community, a high-profile social application to provide user engagement and self-help. Created responsive designs for web, sidebar, and mobile platforms. Collaborated with executives, content creators, developers, and product managers. Product was featured in the Keynote address at Ariba Live 2015.

Created interactive prototypes and improved flows for User Profile, Q&A, Commenting, Notifications, and other end user and Moderator features for sidebar, mobile, and popup platforms.

Led redesign of Search across the product line.

Contributed to Visual Refresh and User Centered Design Group projects.

Collaborated cross-functionally with engineers, product managers, and QA, in the US and India in completing design projects meeting all requirements and deadlines.

CHIEF INTERACTION DESIGN MAGICIAN, Hewlett-Packard, Sunnyvale, CA 2011-2013

Designed the User Experience for ArcSight Command Center from the ground up. Product was featured in the Keynote address, demo booths and exhibit hall at Protect '13 User Conference. Many praised the tremendous increase in usability.

Led the interaction design of Enterprise Security Manager, Logger, Connector Appliance, and other leading Big Data security products.

Created UX Design Process to facilitate the creation of quality designs. Created Design Patterns to speed design process and increase internal consistency.

Wrote several versions of UI Guidelines to better leverage time and productivity and to enhance consistency across the product line.

Conducted usability tests at user conferences and elsewhere.

Performed heuristic evaluations of all major products.

Redesigned navigation, installation, and information architecture. Performed revolutionary redesign of product navigation, which led to the reduction in the number of clicks required to navigate to valuable content by over 90% in some cases. Reduced the amount of screen real estate consumed by navigation by over 50% to increase space for content. Redesign of flagship product was received so well that other organizations embraced the designs and took advantage of its flexibility and scalability.

Patent pending.

Received Outstanding Teamwork Award.

SENIOR USER INTERFACE DESIGNER, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA 2010-2011

Created Web 2.0 UIs and design patterns for Collaboration Manager, Search, Job Scheduling and network management products. Collaborated with international team of engineering, marketing, UX researchers, and other designers.

LEAD USER EXPERIENCE DESIGNER, Symantec, Mountain View, CA 2009-2010

Led international team in building Veritas Operations Services, a flexible web-based SaaS console to assist system administrators in identifying risks in data centers and to increase operational efficiency. Within less than one year of release, number of users, servers tested and many other metrics surpassed goals. Product was so successful that other divisions of Symantec pursued adoption.

STAFF ENGINEER, USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN, Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, CA 2007-2009

Led UI design and usability testing of SSL-VPN appliance console and other remote access products. Derived user requirements and collaborated with Engineering, Marketing, and Technical Publications. Created UI Design Guidelines and patterns.

PRINCIPAL USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN ENGINEER, Blue Coat Systems, Sunnyvale, CA 2006-2007

Designed administrator console and work-flows for WAN accelerator. Wrote functional specifications and newsletter about latest usability research.

SENIOR PRINCIPAL USER EXPERIENCE ENGINEER, Vitria, San Jose, CA 2006

Designed user interfaces for award-winning Business Process Integration SaaS product. Collaborated with Product Management and Engineering to derive user requirements and implement designs.

SENIOR USER INTERFACE DESIGNER, eBay, San Jose, CA 2005

Designed highest priority user interactions for Second Chance Offer, Buyer Requirements, My eBay, and other features. Localized products for Poland and German Motors. Collaborated with international team of product managers, writers, and artists to produce highly usable products.

SENIOR USER EXPERIENCE ARCHITECT, Symbol Technologies, San Jose, CA 2003-2004

Led design and testing of enterprise portal for wireless network management. Instituted standards program and mentored junior designer. Created GUI style guide and User Experience Design process.

SENIOR UI ENGINEER & TECHNICAL LEAD, Trend Micro, Cupertino, CA 2002-2003

Earned product award for increasing installation usability. Created standards program. Led redesign of entire product line including enterprise products. Mentored international team of ten designers. Wrote newsletter relating usability principles to company's products. Met with users to derive requirements.

DIRECTOR OF UI & USABILITY, MS2, Mountain View, CA 2001-2002

Led the design and testing of leading Product Lifecycle Automation SaaS application. Built mobile usability lab and tested mockups and interactive prototypes. Worked closely with Marketing, Engineering, and Professional Services to ensure enterprise application matched users’ mental models and supported the workflow of the various personas. Standardized dialogs, property editors, and other interactions. IP acquired by Agile.

SENIOR USER INTERFACE ARCHITECT, Outride, Redwood City, CA 2000-2001

Established usability program; led team to design personalized, relevant search tool. Conducted usability tests with software prototypes. Performed heuristic evaluations, and created and tested paper mockups. Developed tasks and questionnaires for beta test. Worked closely with Marketing to ensure product supported user needs. Collaborated with Advanced Development to ensure appropriate hooks and scars were provided for future features. Initiated rewards and recognition program. Google purchased IP.

ADDITIONAL RELATED EXPERIENCE

Previous experience includes Interaction/Interface designer positions at AT&T, Netscape, Sony, and two startups. Revolutionary software update design for Netscape resulted in a significant Netcenter portal traffic increase. Derived requirements, conducted usability tests, and prototyped designs.

SENIOR RESEARCH SPECIALIST, Sterling Software NASA

SENIOR HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEER, NASA Centrifuge Facility Project

Lead User Experience Designer for space station’s largest payload.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, Aerospace Human Factors Research Division

Designed environment in Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation (VIEW). Pioneered research to investigate rescuing stranded astronauts. Designed software for NASA Space Station Proximity Operations Simulator. Performed human factors studies; accumulated over 200 hours of simulated flight.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Space Systems Laboratory, MIT

Designed, developed spacecraft flight simulator for human factors testing. Designed spacesuit glove.

AEROSPACE PUBLICATIONS

List includes 12 refereed articles, 9 NASA publications, and 16 conference publications.

EDUCATION

SM Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, GPA: 4.5/5.0

SB Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, GPA: 4.3/5.0

MA Human Factors Psychology, San Jose State University, GPA: 4.0/4.0

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Design Thinking, Formative Usability Tests, Field Research, Interviewing, Influencing Without Authority, Assertiveness, Working with Diverse Team Types ~ Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Search Inside Yourself: Employee Wellbeing, Taking Control Back from the Inmates: Using Goal-Directed Design to Create Cool Stuff, Applying New Technologies to the Interface, Driving Real Innovation with Customer Data, Creativity in the Digital Age, Designing Interfaces For Complex Applications, User-Centered Knowledge Acquisition: Methods, Applications, and Tools, Emotional Intelligence at Work. See complete list on LinkedIn.

AFFILIATIONS

BayCHI, 1994-Present

Mountain View Tennis Club, President, Vice President, and other offices.

AWARDS and HONORS

HP Outstanding Teamwork Award, MIT Admiral Luis de Florez Prize for design and ingenuity of a novel user interface, NASA Tech Briefs Award, Cisco Software Quality Award, Trend Micro Project Award, Sony Inventor Award, Cradle of Aviation Museum Honor Roll.

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