UI Resume for Desiree McCrorey  

Titles Principal User Interface Designer/Analyst, Interaction Designer, UI Architect
Address 1636 York St., San Jose, CA 95124
Phones 408.266.9591 hm;   408.655.0715 mo
Email ddmcc3@yahoo.com  
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Objective

Continue designing and developing usable, useful, award winning user-computer interfaces.

 

 

Summary
              

Highly experienced and committed User Interface Information Architect/Designer, Usability Specialist, and Requirements Analyst. Ten years designing healthcare-related user interfaces; 10 years designing commercial desktop and PDA applications; over 16 years designing, prototyping and testing products for commercial web sites and mobile devices; managing UI design teams, profiling users (personas), designing and testing products using multiple UCD methods. Creator of a healthcare award-winning UI model. Produced design standards, specifications, UI training modules. Trained software designers in UI design principles & methods, usability testing, and using prototyping tools.

     
 

Skills & Proficiencies

Operating Systems, Applications, Languages:
Windows, PalmOS, Unix; Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MS Office Suite, Visio, various web browsers.

Products:
Designed and tested financial, healthcare, educational web and desktop software for professionals and consumers; networking tools, real-time command & control systems, OS simulation, networking utilities, human performance research studies for the Space Shuttle, award-winning medical information management UI model, user interface design & usability testing lesson modules.

Education:
Twelve credit hours toward Master's degree in Applied Psychology at San Jose State University, CA. Earned Bachelor's degree in Neurosciences from the University of Vermont. Additional education, training: Desktop and Web Information/Interface Design, Graphic Design, Informational Design & Display, HTML, JavaScript, Interface Design, Macintosh OS and Unix System Administration.

Awards:
Produced UI interaction model that won the Industry Solution Award for Healthcare at the Microsoft Healthcare Users Conference.
 

 
 

PayCycle.com > Intuit.com

Principal - User Experience

  • Apr 08 - present
    Design, test and produce the site's payroll online product design for the best online user experience with regard to usefulness, usability and customer needs. Generate task flows, user-interface requirements and interactive prototypes; research department needs, stakeholder expectations and business requirements; work closely with management, marketing, engineering, customer service, etc. to analyze stakeholder and end user needs.
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    Healthline.com



    Principal Information Architect / Web Producer

  • Sep 05 - Mar 08
    Designed, tested and produced Healthline.com’s consumer healthcare information architecture and visual design for the best online user experience with regard to usefulness, usability and business needs. Generated task flows, user-interface and functional requirements for an interactive system; research audience needs, stakeholder expectations and business requirements; worked closely with executive directors, marketing, engineering, customer service, etc. to analyze stakeholder and end user needs.
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    CaremarkPCS's iScribe.com


    Senior Product Manager - User Interface Experience

  • Sep 02 - Jun 05
    Created highly usable user interaction experiences for the Caremark iScribe physician handheld and web products that are efficient and elegant in meeting those users' demanding needs; worked closely with executive directors, marketing, engineering, customer service, etc. to analyze stakeholder and end user needs, designed, prototyped, and tested various interface designs for usability, document product requirements, and released products to the market on schedule.
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    Intuit.com

    User Interface/Usability Analyst Contractor

  • Nov 01 - Jan 02
    Guided a large web site development team in implementing user centered design and usability testing methodologies during their web site redesign efforts. Responsibilities included analysis, developing user requirements and key personas, facilitating UI designs and usability testing.
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    Kenamea.com

     

    Principal User Interface Engineer/Usability Analyst

  • May 01 - Nov 01
    Defined user requirements, designed/prototypeed web-based secure messaging products for software developers. Detailed tasks include: user profiling, task analysis, verifying UI-related market/product requirements, iterative prototyping, UI design, usability testing and analysis of in-house and commercial products, produce detailed UI design specifications.

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    WebMD.com

     

    Principal User Interface Engineer/Usability Analyst

  • May 00 - May 01
    Defined user requirements, design/prototype web-based healthcare information software products. Timely management of every phase of development: competitive analysis, site usage analysis, user profiling, task analysis, verifying UI-related market/product requirements, iterative prototyping, UI design, usability testing, producing detailed UI design specifications.
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    CTB/McGraw-Hill Systems

     

    Principal User Interface Engineer/Usability Analyst

  • Jan 98 - Apr 00

  • Defined user requirements, designed/prototyped Windows-based education assessment software products. Conducted timely management of every phase of development: user profiling, task analysis, verified UI-related market/product requirements, iterative prototyping, UI design, prepared usability test materials, conducted field usability testing and evaluation, produced detailed UI design specifications.
     

    IDX Healthcare Systems, Corp.

     

    Principal User Interface Engineer/Usability Analyst
  • Apr 96 - Jan 98

  • Manager of corporate UI team; defined user-centered design methodologies, established common GUI model to host all desktop, internet and award-winning intranet products, infused user-centered design strategies and methods into development process, designed UI interaction and visual (Windows95, web-based style) standards for healthcare information software. Developed UI courseware, trained software designers in task, role and user analysis, desktop and web application design, usability testing and prototyping. Established laboratory for UI testing, competitive analysis, product R&D, and prototyping tool evaluations.

     

    Jager DiPaola Kemp Designs

     

    Mac Head (Network & Systems Manager, Usability Analyst, UI Designer)
  • Nov 94 - Dec 95

  • Supported Macintosh network management; educated and trained computer users; configured and troubleshot hardware and software; implemented World Wide Web and other advanced information services; designed user interface for company's financial and human resources databases.
     

    Apple Computer, Inc.

    User Interface Engineer/Usability Analyst
  • Apr 93 - Sep 94

  • Principal user interface designer; identified, prototyped and incorporated users interface needs into Macintosh and Unix-based system, networking, communication and system software; conducted usability testing; managed assistants.
     

    TRW, Inc.

    User Interface Engineer/Usability Analyst
  • Jun 85 - Apr 93

  • As Principal Investigator; researched UI enhancements; designed UIs, analyzed and prototyped user interfaces, trained user engineers on design and testing methods. Managed and coordinated design teams located around the world. Identified, analyzed and defined mission requirements, their dependencies, constraints and interrelationships for military missions.
     

    Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.

    User Interface Engineer/Usability Analyst
  • Nov 84 - Jun 85

  • Analyzed, designed mission critical user interfaces, prototyped mission critical user interfaces; conformed to MIL-STD-1472C, MIL-H46855B guidelines.
     

    United States Air Force

  • May 78 - Nov 84
  • Requirements Analyst
    Defined, validated and documented all manpower requirements for a new operational command. System administrator.
    Human Behavior Research Associate
    Defined and conducted NASA studies for the Space Shuttle program of environmental stressors on human physiology and task performance; supervised laboratory assistants.
    Space Systems Director
    Directed operations and maintenance personnel of a missile launch warning site.
     

    Produced visual design of Healthlinks Navigator floating div.

    Collaborated with product team to produce visual design template for content pages.

    Produced interaction and visual design of Symptom Search search tool.
    A proposed "guided search" visual style.
    Another proposed visual design for a "guided search" with search results.
    Produced visual design of this web application's main setup page; designed to help users understand their progress during account setup.
    Updated employees/contractors overview page's visual, interactive and information designs.
    Updated visual and interactive designs for pages which contain highly sensitive information.
    Proposed visual and interactive design update for Customer Service staff.
    Proposed employees/contractors overview page's visual, interactive oand informatin designs for a pilot project.
    Proposed visual, interactive and information design for a individual employee for a pilot project.

     

    Last update to this page: 9 July 2010. Send comments, questions or suggestions to Desiree McCrorey.