About
I am currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia working as a User Interface Designer for Manhattan Associates. Manhattan Associates provides supply chain software for many of the largest supply chains in the United States and worldwide. I am part of a new small team that has been charged with making the interfaces of the software easier to use and understand. I am the key designer of the Distribution Management suite of seven products.
I recently completed a Master degree in Human Computer Interaction Design at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana in May of 2008. My interests in this fields center mainly on creating useful, usable interactions with technology using a human centered design methodology.
In 2008 as the group facilitator I helped lead my team to a semifinalist selection in the CHI student design competition in Florence, Italy. Our team was one of 12 selected from a pool of 40 submissions. We presented our project in early April at the CHI conference. You can read more about our project aSister – Scheduling for Homeless Women with Special Needs in my portfolio.
My capstone project started with the issue of international students who are hesitant to interact in class. I see this as a problem since these students came to the U.S. to learn and they are not getting the most out of their U.S. education by not speaking up in class. I used surveys and one on one interviews to collect information about this population. I built out and tested one concept and implemented another one. You can read more about my research in this area on my capstone blog.
While in school I spent some time on who I am as a designer as part of a course and also as personal quest. After much exploration I came to the conclusion that I am a human centered designer. If you are interested in my final paper, which contains my personal design reflections, you can find it here.
In May of 2002 I received my bachelor’s degree in Journalism with a concentration in Online Media from the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida.
Until August of 2006 I was employed by the New York Times Regional Media Group at the corporate office in Tampa, FL as the Senior Technical Producer. In this position I was responsible for developing and implementing new web products, training for new employees in our content management system and supervising a team of technical producers. Our department worked with the 15 papers that belong to the regional media group.
Prior to taking this position I was employed by The Ledger in Lakeland, FL as the Electronic Media Producer. In this position I was responsible for most of the programming and design of the core site along with designing and developing new projects.