Resume

Dave Nelson, IDSA

Human Factors Engineer
Sprint Nextel
July 2006 to current

User Experience Consultant
User Insight Management
June 2006 to current

Independent company specializing in designing brand experiences for advertising and interactive agencies.

User Experience Architect
Barkley Evergreen & Partners, Inc.
February 2005 to June 2006

Full service regional advertising agency striving to create great work that remains relevant to client and consumer. Wear many hats and frequently adjust process to budget size and time scope.

Conducted research from clients to kids for large scale internal web-applications to small external micro-sites. Producing design direction and use modeling through every stage of rapid prototyping and iterative testing through to final interaction documentation. Evangelizing user needs throughout development then measuring completion. Also piloted a process for holistically plotting a map of consumer touch points to strategically manage the series of sensory take-aways a consumer has across the overall brand experience.

Interaction Designer
ALTEC (Advanced Learning Technology in Education Consortia,
Center for Research on Learning at The University of Kansas)
August 2001 to February 2005

Grant funded NFP dedicated to enhancing learning and integrating technology into education. Researched students and teachers to produce highly usable digital tools and design assets for active use in traditional and high-tech classrooms. Worked closely with multicultural development teams to produce a range dynamic web and handheld applications.

Freelance User Interface Designer
Vitalseek
October 2002 to 2003

Internet start-up, next generation search engine for medical community. Designed and produced image assets and page interfaces incorporated into existing visual style and site structure.

Visual Design Internship
Media Horizons Web Design
March 1999 to October 1999

Internet start-up dedicated to customer and quality while pushing the envelope of conventional web-design. Worked closely with clients and integrators to produce site structures and visual layouts directing the overall web site experience past trends and early UI design limitations.

Management

UPS, United Parcel Service
May 2000 to August 2001

Package Level Data Manager
Managed Hub computer package-tracking system and office employees
while monitoring and trouble-shooting system errors within the operation

Part Time Supervisor of Operations Training
Managed and trained new employees to hub specifications for
safety and performance while assisting with area management

Safety Committee Representative

Retention Committee

Education

Industrial Design BFA, May 2003
The University of Kansas

Human Factors Psychology
concentration

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