I help people breathe easier.
20+ years in user experience, and it still daily captures my mind, imagination, and energy! My favorite practices these days are in leadership and strategy, especially with teams of interaction designers, visual designers and UX researchers. Creating the space for such wide-ranging talents, and meeting the needs of real-world people, well, there is simply nothing better.
Okay, so I once wrote a Monte Carlo simulation in Matlab, but that's not really my thing.
In the midst of the fun, I take this profession seriously. It is a craft to be learned and perfected every day. Having gotten a PhD under my belt, with HCI as the focus, my learning ground is now other professionals in the field. Come to the Hot Topics in UX meetup, or UXPA 2016 where a partner and I will be presenting "Adversarial to Harmonious: Building the Developer/UX Connection" or just ask me to coffee. Sharing is what it's all about after all.
Okay, so I once wrote a Monte Carlo simulation in Matlab, but that's not really my thing.
In the midst of the fun, I take this profession seriously. It is a craft to be learned and perfected every day. Having gotten a PhD under my belt, with HCI as the focus, my learning ground is now other professionals in the field. Come to the Hot Topics in UX meetup, or UXPA 2016 where a partner and I will be presenting "Adversarial to Harmonious: Building the Developer/UX Connection" or just ask me to coffee. Sharing is what it's all about after all.
ExperienceAmazon Web Services
Head of UX Research for Compute Rackspace Technology Head of Research Pearson Clinical Assessment Director of UX Design Senior UX Inside Consultant, UX Creative Lead USAA UX Research Lead Practitioner Consultant FalconDay Consulting UX Research, Design, and Consulting Applied Research Laboratories, Center for Agile Technology, and Institute for Advanced Technology, UT-Austin UX Lead for Design & Research |
Professional Development & ServiceInaugural Graduate
Design Leadership Academy Menlo Park, California, 2015 Think: firehose Stanford D-school for leaders! Instructor Software Management Certification School of Engineering, UT-Austin, 5 yrs Professional certification (additional to non-interrupted UX production career) Conference Co-Chair User Experience Professionals Assoc International Conferences, 3 years Award-winning leadership and redesign of annual international event |
EducationPhD, The University of Texas at Austin
Experimental Psychology HCI Methods, UX design, technology leadership MA, The University of Texas at Austin Experimental Psychology HCI Methods, UX design, team collaboration with engineering BS, University of Houston-Clear Lake Anthropology of Sub-Cultures Ethnography, cultural awareness in intervention solutions AA, Lon Morris College Sociology Disenfranchised groups and interventions |
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Won "Best Use of Technology" leading a multi-device data collection hack to teach language to at risk toddlers, before lifetime reading problems begin.
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Helped break a world record for number of students reading or hearing the same story read in a single day!
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Instituted quick-turn design studios in a major publishing company evolving from print to a digital world.
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