Seeking part-time or freelance opportunities to apply my varied technical, design and artistic background to web projects.
Summary of Qualifications
Passionate about user interfaces. Experienced in many back-end technologies, but strong advocate for designing user experience first and foremost. An engineer who can design, a designer who can build.
Able to take on problems outside direct area of expertise and be successful. Easy-going, skillful communicator, quick learner. Adept at avoiding jargon and acronyms with those just approaching a new topic. Detail-oriented, fanatical about quality.
Education
Cornell University, Master of Engineering, 3.86 GPA
Brigham Young University, Bachelor of Science, cum laude, 3.78 GPA Major: Electrical Engineering / Minor: Mathematics
Maximum score of 800 in two out of three GRE categories.
Responsible for design of software applications, internal and external web sites, and web applications.
Improved awful but effective engineer-designed interface of main web application, resulting in a good-looking UI loved by managers, customers and even engineers. Due to NDAs, cannot show it, alas.
Built and maintained main external site.
Built and maintained employees-only intranet. Wtih a high design concept, this Adobe AIR site was finicky, but lovely.
Coached new employees in using company’s software.
Circle.com, New York NY
1999-2001
Production Manager
Responsible for workload and personal growth of programmers.
Managed group of 5 programmers.
Hired 1 full-time and 6 freelance programmers.
Worked across disciplines: Coordinated with 6 project managers, 4 design directors, technologists at other offices and many client representatives.
Responsible for design of power supply for a new color copier product, prototype electronics, design of copy-controlling functionality and mechanical interface for sensors and heater.
Created performance and regulatory specification and defined technical criteria to evaluate vendor qualifications, resulting in selection and implementation of a power supply used world-wide.
Redesigned analog circuit and edited reference specification for clarity, achieving proper execution of copy-controlling function on a color copier with no field failures and no customer complaints.
Redesigned paper sensor circuit, thus ensuring a smooth production ramp with no shutdowns for this sensor.
Electrical Engineer, Manufacturing (1994-1996)
Responsible for main electronics boards for three printer and copier products, seeing to design quality, cost and reliability improvements, warranty performance and support issues; also responsible for production-line issues.
Improved functional test of electronics board at contract manufacturer through improvements to test software, eliminating 2 failure modes of the board at top-level factory.
Reprogrammed DOS end-of-line testing for copier product, which resulted in an assembly-time reduction of 2 minutes per unit.
Reduced high servo subsystem failure rate by over 90%.
Contact references for these sites available on request.
Additional Skills, Experiences & Interests
Languages
Conversational Spanish. Some Italian, German and French.
Other Professional Experiences
Electronics teacher at Middlesex Community College, piano teacher, music director for Methodist church, chorus member with Boston Symphony Orchestra and La Jolla Symphony, theater producer in New York City, commercial actor.
Personal Interests
Solve crossword puzzles, hike Runyon Canyon at 7:00 AM, participate actively in Cornell Club of Los Angeles.
A Personal Note
I decided it was time to move “back home” after 10 years on the east coast, and now I am enjoying being in Los Angeles!