Resume

Experience

Product Designer

Autodesk

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADSK; Computer Software industry)

August 2007 - Present (3 years 2 months)

I am a product designer working on the AutoCAD Map3D software. My primary tasks include working with customers to derive design requirements and designing new product features.

I work on several new features each year. I begin by taking high-level areas from marketing and perform user research and competitive analysis in order to help refine the feature requirements. For this, I produce documentation summarizing product design's findings and recommendations for the other functional areas.

Once we have our features well-described, I begin sketching concepts and talking with users. In this phase I produce conceptual design documents for development and QA to use for estimation and planning. Once the constraints and strategies have been identified, I begin producing the final design specifications for the features I'm assigned.

My tasks also include creating prototypes and assisting in developing and performing usability tests. I also manage icon guidelines for our product.

Associate Instructor

Dept. of Informatics, Indiana University

(Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2005 - May 2007 (1 year 9 months)

I taught two labs for the introductory course at the Department of Informatics for 3 semesters. The class includes basic HTML, Unix, information technology and history, and a little information theory.

Intern

Anthropological Center for Training and Research

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Research industry)

April 2003 - August 2005 (2 years 5 months)

At ACT (Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change) I was a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Intern. My two primary tasks were digitizing maps and creating field maps for researchers. Digitizing maps included scanning large topographic maps and tracing them for analysis and converting older mylar, traced maps into digital form for storage. I created field maps using parcel data and satellite imagery for researchers before going into the field (Para State, Brazil).

In my last year there I created 3 8-foot world maps for the Indiana University Anthroplogy Department.

Education

Indiana University Bloomington

M.S. Human-Computer Interaction

2005 - 2007

Indiana University Bloomington

B.S. Informatics

2000 - 2005

Indiana University Bloomington

B.A. Geography

2000 - 2005