Screen Shots from Previous Projects: Publishing Environment Messaging Application Video Editing Application Special Effects Application Remote Server Management Workflow Designer Remote Text Editor		Terry Brown User Interface and Instructional Designer 4740 Winding Creek Ave, Santa Rosa, California, 95409 Biz phone: 707 538-1529 Cell phone: 707 486-3476 eMail: terry@terryvision.com   COMPETENCIES User Interface Design. Gather requirements, define target audience, perform task and skill analysis, develop wireframes, create prototypes, write usability testing scenarios, run usability sessions, present usability findings and provide recommendations for adjustments, write user interface design specification, create icons and all other user interface graphical design elements, define menu structure and keyboard shortcuts, and write heuristic evaluations. Also, shoot and edit video, create GIF or Flash animations, digital photography, photo editing in Photoshop, and optimize graphics for internet or wireless delivery. Instructional Design. Task and skill analysis, instructional methodology design, instructional standards design, storyboarding, develop and deploy Computer-Based Training CBT, develop and deploy Web-Based Training WBT, create vector-based illustrations using Illustrator or Freehand. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE USER INTERFACE and INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER Terryvision Design Services (This is my own Contract Design Service) Santa Rosa, California – July 2001 to Present Started long-term User Interface Design contract for Pixorial (http://www.pixorial.com) in July 2007. (See: "The Team") Site Designer, Administrator, and Partner in the subscription service: OEX Options - http://www.oexoptions.com Ongoing contracts with The Evans Group of Boca Raton, Florida. Shot photos, designed website and many Flash-based animated banner ads for this company. (http://www.theevansgroupllc.com) Oct 17, 2005 to Oct 17, 2006 - Worked a one-year contract for Network Appliance (NetApp) in Sunnyvale, Ca. I provided Web Design, Instructional Design, and Graphic Design services. 2001 thru 2002 - Completed 18-month contract with Quark, Inc (http://www.quark.com) in Denver, Colorado. Designed the user interface for Quark's desktop products and new web-based solutions. This included products for Workflow Project Tracking, Media Independent Publishing, Online Publishing Solutions, Digital Asset Management Database, and icons for Quark XPress (Page Layout). The target audience for Quark’s products was publishers of content for newspapers, magazines, catalogs, and web sites. Created usability testing prototypes and test scenarios. Ran usability test sessions. Wrote detailed user interface specifications. Created icons and graphical design elements for all assigned projects. Helped the company to visualize a Media Independent Publishing Solution (MIPS) by providing interactive screen designs. SENIOR CONSULTANT Interlink, Inc Denver (Inverness), Colorado - November 2000 to June 2001 Designed the user interface for a variety of web and desktop client projects. Interlink is a contract engineering company whose target audience varied by project. Wrote heuristic evaluations for company products vs competitive products. Performed task and skill analysis for each assigned project by interviewing subject matter experts and witnessing task performance. Created interactive wireframe task flow diagrams using Visio. Ran usability sessions to further task analysis and validate proposed software solutions. Wrote implementation and design specifications using the Rational Unified Process for system development (RUPS). Created icons and graphical user interface design elements for all assigned projects. DIRECTOR, PRODUCT USABILITY OpenGrid, Inc Santa Clara, California - September 1999 to November 2000 Defined and designed the user interface for a large content distribution platform with access and delivery on the web and on wireless devices. The infrastructure required a user interface for viewing and subscribing to content. It also required a UI that allowed content contributors to upload small applications then charge a subscription fee. Performed task analysis to determine the types of content that would be included and how the content would be used. The target audience for this website included people who needed to subscribe to content that they could use on their own websites, and developers who would provide content or functionality to the service. The developers had the option of providing their offerings for free or be able to charge a subscription fee. Created interaction flow diagrams (wireframes). Wrote usability test scenarios, then prototyped screens for usability testing. Wrote user interface design specification for use by engineering, marketing, and quality assurance. Created icons and other graphical user interface design elements. Email Aggregation Module Designed an Email aggregation program for web and wireless access. The target audience for the Email aggregation program was business executives and anyone in the hi-tech industry that typically had multiple email accounts and used wireless devices such as PDAs and cell phones. Created screen designs and dialog layouts. Ran usability testing sessions to test proposed solutions and gage interest in the product. Wrote heuristic evaluations for company products vs competitive products. USER INTERFACE DESIGNER ChannelPoint, Inc Colorado Springs, Colorado - September 1998 to September 1999 Designed the user interface for rules-based insurance eligibility software. The purpose of the software was to automate the tedious paper-based processes of qualifying collections of individuals within company-paid insurance plans. The target audience for the software was processing agents within insurance companies. Performed task analysis to determine how work was being completed without using computers. Provided wireframes and screen designs for feasibility analysis. Ran interactive usability studies to determine if proposed solutions met the required needs. System Administration Tool Designed the user interface for a web-based system administrator for maintaining multiple servers. The target audience for the product was system administrators who were tasked with keeping multiple servers online 24 hours a day. The system had to be secure, but the status of all nodes constantly accessible via the web for immediate action. Defined the tasks and skill sets of the typical system administrator. Wrote a user interface design specification. The target audience for the specification was the engineers who built the product and the quality assurance group who tested the system. Created all icons, UI graphics, and branding graphics. USER INTERFACE DESIGNER Adobe Systems, Inc. (http://www.adobe.com) San Jose, California - January 1997 to September 1998 -     Defined the design direction and created the user interface for Adobe's professional video editing software (Premiere 5) and special effects software  (After Effects 4.0) in collaboration with engineering, marketing, and product users. The targeted audience for the editing software shifted from multimedia developers to professional video editors. Many design decisions such as keyboard shortcuts were made to accommodate professional video editors rather than graphic artists and multimedia producers. Gathered product requirements from marketing, engineering and user-focus groups. Performed task analysis to clarify the process used by professional video editors. -     Created preliminary interactive prototypes and screen layouts. Tested concepts with users. -     Defined application menu structure, keyboard shortcuts, and context menus. -     Wrote UI specifications for use by engineering, marketing, quality assurance, and user education. -     Created product icons, buttons, cursors, screen and dialog layouts. -     Conducted alpha and beta testing during development. -     Wrote recommendations for current and future product UI changes utilizing data collected from users. -     Addressed cross-platform design issues - Macintosh, Windows, Unix. -     Addressed localization issues. -     Wrote heuristic evaluations for company products vs competitive products. VISUAL INTERFACE DESIGNER Infoseek, Inc. Santa Clara, California - May 1996 to January 1997 Provided screen layouts, typographic elements, illustrations and icons for Infoseek's information search portal. Designed the look and layout of search results pages. The target audience for this search engine was open to anyone using the internet, so it was broad and varied. Created alternate branding schemes for affiliate companies. Conceptualized and designed banner advertisements. -     Wrote heuristic evaluations for Infoseek’s services vs competitive products. USER INTERFACE and INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER Apple Computer, Inc. (http://www.apple.com) Cupertino, California - Dec 1988 to May 1996 Led effort to transform training materials and technical procedure manuals from a paper-based medium to an interactive multimedia system with delivery on CD using Computer-Based Training (CBT) rather than paper. The targeted audience for this large conversion project was internal Apple Support personnel and third-party Service Engineers who repaired Apple computers. Because this delivery method was so new for technicians, we performed numerous usability sessions and site visits throughout the development process. The rate of acceptance was tracked and their feedback was used to make continuous improvements to the CBT product. For delivery as CBT, I experimented and developed methods for creating highly optimized screen graphics and instructional video. Once the internet became a viable delivery method, we began making further design enhancements to provide the technicians with timely service information as it became available using Web-Based Training (WBT). Diagnostics Software: Designed the visual and interaction interface for diagnostics software. Most of the diagnostic software was targeted for Apple Support personnel and Service Engineers, however, two products (Disk First Aid and Apple Personal Diagnostics) were developed for use by all Apple computer owners. Defined skill set of Service Engineers vs end users. Created interactive prototypes of diagnostics that were used for collection usability data. Wrote usability test scenarios Wrote all user interface specifications. Designed screen and dialog box layouts. Created all icons and graphical user interface design elements. INSTRUCTIONAL WRITER & TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATOR Storage Dimensions, Inc. San Jose, California - June 1987 to Dec 1988 Developed, wrote, and illustrated instruction manuals for mass storage devices. The target audience for the documentation was installation technicians and end users. The instruction manuals covered installation of the hard drives into computers and the use of partitioning and automated backup software. INSTRUCTIONAL WRITER & TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATOR Tecmar, Inc Cleveland, Ohio - Dec 1985 to June 1987 Developed, wrote, and illustrated instruction manuals for mass storage devices such as tape backup subsystems. The target audience for the documentation was installation technicians and end users.   EDUCATION: Cooper School of Art Major:  Illustration and Graphic Design Cleveland, Ohio - Graduated - June 1981   SOFTWARE EXPERTISE: Adobe's Photoshop (Bitmapped Photo Editing and Illustration) - Expert level Adobe's Illustrator (Vector Illustration) - Expert level Adobe's Premiere (Video Editing) - Expert level Adobe's After Effects (Special Effects) - Skilled Adobe's Frame Maker (Document Design) - Skilled Adobe's GoLive (Website Creation) - Skilled Macromedia's Director (Used for creating interactive prototypes – includes scripting) - Expert Macromedia's Flash (Vector-based Animations) - Skilled Macromedia's Dreamweaver (Website Creation) – Skilled Visio (Wireframes and Visualization) – Skilled HTML - Skilled