Résumé

I am seeking employment as a user experience designer making things that are delightful to use.

User-centered design techniques, including
- Participant observation, contextual analysis, and think-aloud
- Interviewing and data coding
- Qualitative and quantitative data analysis
- Interaction design using flow, artifact, cultural, physical, and sequence models, decision-action and functional flow diagrams, function allocation, and cognitive models
Rapid prototyping and testing with various tools, including
- Photoshop/Illustrator/Image Ready
- HTML/Javascript
- 3d modeling software
Building dynamic webpages and web services with javascript, PHP, AJAX, SQL, etc.

MS in Human Computer Interaction
Georgia Tech (2008)
GPA: 4.0
BS in Cognitive Science with a Specialization in Human Computer Interaction
University of California, San Diego (2006)

Online collaborative 3d art (Master’s Project)
Interviewed members of online art communities about collaborative projects to discover how people work together online and where things go wrong
Visualizing Environmental Data
Gathering data with various environmental sensors, creating visualizations, and building a web portal for anyone to upload and find datasets, visualization programs, and visualizations
Toys for Autism – Capacitive Caterpillar
Conductive fabric “plates” are used so a sensor board can detect when body segments are being squeezed or attached and detached to gather data about the child’s behavior

Web Programmer – Metaplace – June 2008-December 2009
Designed and built a myriad of AJAX interactions, javascript and html dialogs, and PHP pages and web services.
Dell Research Assistantship – Georgia Tech/Dell – Spring 2007 and Fall 2007
Interviewed and taped people using their home media centers, made projections about the sorts of things people need to improve these systems’ usability and utility.
Web Programmer Intern – Areae (now Metaplace) – Summer 2007
Built the first iteration of the http://www.metaplace.com website, including merging PHPBB into a Joomla installation.
Web Programmer – Teams In Engineering Service program, UCSD – Summer 2006
Talked to various stakeholders and laid the groundwork for the new team collaboration site in PHP with improved workflow and many new collaboration features.
Forum Coordinator – Renderosity.com Blender 3d Forum – July 2005-present
Organize and moderate the forum and associated gallery, download, and tutorial areas
Integration Intern – Entriq, Carlsbad CA – Summer 2005
Customized storefront with CSS for customers, rewrote storefront application in AJAX.
Interface Design Intern – Tribeworks, San Francisco CA – Summer 2004
Created XML themes for a PDA photo album.

Please feel free to contact me below or at pam@pamgriffith.net with questions, comments, or job opportunities!