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Today I accepted a position with Manhattan Associated in Atlanta, GA for a User Interface Designer position. It should be an interesting job in that I'll be part of a new department that currently has two people the supervisor and one other person. We are working on revising the whole Manhattan line of supply chain management products to make them more user friendly. It is going to be a challenge but I am not one to shy away from that.

I leave Bloomington for the last time next week. It will be sad to leave behind the place I have called home for the last two years. I have met many wonderful people and learned so much since walking in the door the first day of orientation.

I am sure I'll be back since I am not that far away. The funny thing is that I am almost half way between the two universities I attended. Gainesville is about 5 hours away and Bloomington 8 hours.

I turned in my capstone paper on Friday. I haven't had a chance to put a write up on it in my portfolio yet but I have uploaded the paper.

http://www.jamiemcatee.com/portfolio/papers/capstone.pdf

I really enjoyed working on this project and hope that some of the ideas and recommendations that came out of this project will be implemented in the department.

I hope to post a summary on my portfolio soon but I am currently in the process of finishing interviewing and packing to leave Bloomington next week.

What a month it has been. Between graduation, my job search and working on my capstone presentation I haven't had much time to blog.

I presented my capstone on Friday and it was very well received by faculty and the international students. It looks like someone might be carrying on my research after I leave. I hope to post a video of the presentation before the week is over. I'll have more about that in my capstone blog. http://www.jamiemcatee.com/blog/index.php/capstone

I have updated the design of my portfolio and posted a few new pieces. I now have a final version of the Design Research Society paper that I worked on with Prof. Erik Stolterman, David Royer and Selvan Thandapani. http://www.jamiemcatee.com/port.php?ID=19

I have also added two short papers the first is a design critique of vacuum cleaners and a user evaluation of two potential article designs for a newspaper website.

After I got back from CHI and a small vacation I walked right into the end of the semester and graduation so finding time to post has been difficult until now.

I thought the student design competition poster session went well but unfortunately our team did not make it to the final round. It was really sad because we put so much work into this project. I did get a lot of comments from people after the one minute presentation of our project at the final round saying they thought our project belonged in the finals.

We submitted our project as a note to UbiComp 2008. I won't know anything about the status of our paper until June.

I spent a lot of time working as an Student Volunteer so I didn't get to see many of the things I wanted to see. I have the papers on a DVD from the conference so I'll go through and read those later.

Right now my current concentrations are on finishing up my capstone, presenting on May 22nd and job hunting. For more on my capstone status please see my capstone blog, http://www.jamiemcatee.com/blog/index.php/capstone.