USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN & ANALYST
Senior UX Designer – Visa USA Inc, San Francisco, CA. June 2013 to November 2024
Contract Interaction Designer – TIBCO through Aquent, Palo Alto, CA. November 2012 to March 2013
Senior Designer 1 (UI) – PayPal, San Jose, CA. February 2011 to November 2012
Lead User Interface Designer - SuccessFactors, San Mateo, CA. April 2008 to December 2008
Senior Interaction Design - Oracle Corporation, Redwood City, CA. November 2006 to April 2008
Interaction Design and UE Lead - Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CA. March 2004 to November 2006
Contract Designer – Microsoft through ArtSource, Redmond, WA. September 2003 to December 2003
User Interface Designer - BizGenics, San Mateo, CA. November 2001 to July 2002
User Interaction Designer - SBI (formerly marchFIRST), San Francisco, CA. July 2000 to November 2001
UI Intern – Icarian Inc., Sunnyvale, CA. June 1999 to August 1999
GRAPHIC DESIGN, ILLUSTRATION & PHOTOGRAPHY
Freelance/Contract Designer - San Carlos, CA. December 2008 to February 2011
Technical illustrations for video graphics accelerator manual.
Icons for Fanfare, a provider of automated testing solution.
Gratis consulting for individual with startup idea on how to move forward with available resources.
Speaker on design and the tech industry to high school and grade school students.
Freelance/Contract Designer - San Carlos, CA. July 2002 to March 2004
Style Guide for Oracle Enterprise Manager — Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA.
Configuration Guide and Test Use Cases — Mastersoft, San Carlos, CA.
Cover designs for the San Diego Zoo gift items — Creative Marketing Group, San Carlos, CA.
Various Clients, 1980 to 1998
Document Design International, Pittsburgh PA — Illustrations and production of consumer electronic manuals
Illustrious — Illustrations for textbooks
Volunteer for the newsletter of the Redwood Chapter of the Sierra Club – Layout and production
Contractor, The Press Democrat — Illustration and layout
Sebastopol Times & News — Newspaper design and production
The Californians, Grizzly Bear Publishing: The Magazine of California History — Magazine and books, design and production
Sebastopol Times & News — Newspaper layout and repro camera operation
Panel Components Corporation — Technical illustration
Various clients — Logos & Business Systems
The Fringes of Reason: Whole Earth Catalog — Electronic Pasteup (Online Archived Edition)
TEACHING
Menlo College, Atherton, CA. Academic year 1998-1999 — Desktop Publishing, Lecture & Lab
EDUCATION
Masters of Arts in Industrial Arts classes 1998 to 2000, San Francisco State University, CA. (No diploma. Thesis not completed.)
Emphasis: Information Design and User Interaction Design, GPA 4.0. All classes completed
Classes of interest: Cognitive Psychology, Ethnographic Field Methods, HTML.
Thesis: design, development, and usability testing of a 3-D information space using VRML.
Bachelor of Arts Degree Communicative Arts & Humanities, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA. 1988
Emphasis: Graphic Design Option.
Classes of interest: creative problem solving; human factors for architecture, marker illustration, photography.
Senior Project: design of photography show poster.