Summary:

• Design and engineering management experience
• Award-winning, on-the-shelf products and applications (multi-million dollar, large-scale projects)
• User interface and interaction design, user experience, and human-computer interface (HCI) expertise
• Program development and division building
• Making complex decision space beautiful and easily digestible

• Held positions at Apple Computer, NCSA, MIT, a few startups and currently at MITRE

Experience:

Involution Studios    Jan 2009 - current
Creative Director
Arlington, MA

• Designer and studio head of Boston office
• Design and deliver remarkable on-the-shelf products and services
• Rapid prototyping, interface design, product design, company direction and strategy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)    2008 - current
Lecturer
Cambridge, MA

• Instructor and mentor for Engineering Process and Design course (2.009)
• Rapid prototyping, sketch modeling, and product-to-market analysis

MITRE    Jan 2003 - current
Design Group Leader
Bedford, MA

• User Interface Design and group lead, project management, and strategy
• User interface and interaction design, HCI research, service and product design
• Managing a suite of applications, instituting design patterns and guidelines
• Group direction, mentoring, and professional development

• Project architect for distance education and classroom learning applications
• User interface and interaction design

Cinoni, Inc    2000-2001
Director of Creative Practice
Boston, MA

• Managed creative division and front-end development
• User interface and interaction design, service design
• Marketing, branding, PR, collateral design and production

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)    1995-2000
User Interface Designer, Research Scientist

• User interface and interaction design, HCI, user experience, evaluation, testing
• Creative direction and architecting project-wide visual standards and designs
• Interactive installation design, physical environment and product design
• National program development, public policy, and strategy for Education and Outreach Division for NCSA
• Research and rapid prototypes using dynamic sonification and visualization

Chicago Tribune, National Public Radio, Euro Television, Siggraph, Siemens Broadcasting, Village Voice

Pompidou/IRCAM Center, Paris; Ars Electronica, Austria; Miller Theatre, New York; St Louis Science Center, Missouri; Minnesota Science Museum, Minnesota; Illinois State Museum, Illinois

• Production manager, user interface design for critically acclaimed on-the-shelf software
• Marketing, branding, PC, and collateral production

The New York Times (full-page Sunday spread), Newsweek, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, BBC International, Billboard, National Public Radio, Computer Gaming Online, Computer Gaming Monthly

PC World - Top 100 Applications award for The Ring Disc

• K-12 and Higher Education product deployment

Independent Projects and Interests

Filmmaker

• Fifteen years experience as producer, editor, and cinematographer (including Glidecam/Steadicam operator)

• Lexington Symphony (55-seat regional orchestra)

 Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   
BA - Cinematography (and Mechanical Engineering)

 

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