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What's your ideal work environment?

INTERACTIVITY = RELATIONSHIP

Posted @ 08:46AM, September 20, 2007 by Ben Sykes | Permalink
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Work history

Cisco Systems January 2008 to January 2009
Manager of User Centered Design

How would you describe your time at Cisco Systems?

++ Products:

-WebEx & WebEx Connect
- Cisco Unified Personal Communicator
- Enterprise Instant Messaging Clients
- Web 2.0 Management Portal

++ Technology:

- Adobe Suite (all)
- Visio
- MS Project
- Expression Suite
- Visual Studio
- XAML/WPF

++ Responsibilities:

- Requirements capture &
UI/Design spec development
- Team & vendor management, evaluation, scheduling & hiring globally
- Interaction design, information architecture & wireframe development
- Coordinate WebEx Connect design (ixd, ia, wireframe) into the Cisco Unified Communicator
- Coordinate and design (ixd, ia, wireframe) Cisco IM client integration into IBM Sametime & Microsoft Office Communicator.
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Microsoft January 2006 to January 2008
User Experience Lead - Product Manager

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How would you describe your time at Microsoft?

++ Products:

- GFS/MSN Ignition Portal - Microsoft Sharepoint
- TSP Plug-in for Visual Studio (VSTF)
- Microsoft Online Suite (saas)

++ Technology:

- Adobe Suite (all)
- Visio
- MS Project
- Expression Suite
- Visual Studio
- XAML/WPF

++ Responsibilities:

- Requirements capture & UI/Design
spec development
- Product managed the marketing strategy and wrote the usability testing plans.
- Worked closely with disparate development groups to establish product functionality, scope and delivery.
- Led team in experience design, Interaction design, information architecture & wireframe development
- Assisted in user contextual inquiry and usability tests. Translated user findings into affinity diagrams, event sequence diagrams, and use cases.
- Created & managed the creation of multiple high fidelity Flash driven clickable prototypes.
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Education

Mediterraean Flat Breads

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How would you describe your time at Culinary Institute of Ameri...?

This was a program at the Greystone Campus for already working Chefs.. I took this course during the Summer whilst I was filling in as a Chef Tournant at the Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa
Carnegie Mellon University August 1993 to May 1997
English, Cognitive Science

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