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• 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)

  Currently interviewing members of online art communities about collaborative projects to discover how people work together 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 Intern – Areae – Summer 2007

  Worked on the http://www.metaplace.com website, including some hefty joomla and phpbb3 hacking.

• Web Programmer – Teams In Engineering Service program, UCSD – Summer 2006

  Started rewriting the 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 to support higher server load

• Interface Design Intern – Tribeworks, San Francisco CA – Summer 2004

  Created XML themes for a PDA photo album.