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What follows are some samples from various companies where I have worked, starting from the most recent. No proprietary information is included. More details are available upon request.

My most recent UI work involves my User Centered Design and Development group (UCD&D), a team that both designs and develops user-centric interfaces that espouse creativity, usability, accessibility and interaction. We follow internal development standards (some of which I've co-authored), Brand guidelines and best of breed practices for the industry at large. Typically, my team does all the design and implementation for these tools. I still contribute to reviews and help author analyses and standards documents. No examples from my teams that support Oracle applications, Siebel CRM tools or Documentum work is captured here, but I am happy to discuss those further.

I have also done a number of presentations on behalf of the company. I am the co-founder of the User Interface Center of Excellence for Inovant/Visa and organized the company-wide UI Day (and help present) in 2005. The Inovant User Interface Center of Excellence (UICE) promotes standards and communication across development teams. It provides support and review for user interface design, use case development and usability testing within the company.

High level design is extraordinarily important to our process. We always recommend user interviews, contextual observations, user personas, thorough use cases and extensive usability testing. When Inovant LLC (the IT wing of Visa) was a separate company, one of our lead developers and myself redesigned the Inovant internet website in cooperation with our marketing team. The site was tested on a variety of browsers and operating systems in our test labs. In addition to working in Internet Explorer, it is also supported in Netscape, Firefox, Opera and Apple’s OS X native browser Safari. Accessibility features (WCAG 1.0) like a non-Flash version, alt tags and text enlargement were also added. After being in use for two years, it was decommissioned in 2005 after changes to the company structure.

I was the lead UI developer and UI manager for a series of wallet projects.  Often referred to as "digital wallet" or "e-wallets," on-line wallets were secure pieces of software that enable consumers to purchase at a variety of on-line merchants without using the merchant checkout. Wallets took the form of a web-based application or a windows-based software application. These on-line wallets were "branded" for specific customers by my team and later professional services.  Examples include the American Express wallet, the banktone (Brand-agnostic) wallet that was internationalized and localized (I traveled to China for some of this work) and the Globeset Personal Agent (high level design included). This work led into the development of the Verified by Visa service for Visa USA.

I worked at an educational multimedia company called Top Drawer. Three projects from that period include an interactive children's on-line game "What Am I?" and was on Steck-Vaughn’s (now Harcourt) website for over six years.  I was the primary developer for this project and assisted in layout and overall design. The Dolphin Counting Game was authored in Macromedia Director and optimized for the web via Shockwave in 1998. It's a multiplication activity for fourth graders that incorporates interactive choices and video. I did the Lingo development for this project. The other was MathMax, where I was lead developer for a series of CD-ROMs that accompanied math textbooks. I did the JavaScript, DHTML and CSS coding for the projects. Each CD/site contained over 8,000 files in addition to another 2,000 dynamically generated files. There are over 400 Flash animations in each in addition to a proprietary plug-in originally developed for the Windows 95 platform.

Please see the teaching or prose section for more examples, particularly from my academic work.