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Deborah A. Barber
Long Island City, NY

OBJECTIVE

Creative problem solver seeks opportunities to create compelling user experiences as a Interaction Designer/Producer/Information Architect in the New York City - Metro area, contract or permanent.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

  • Fluent in the languages of both design and technology
  • Ability to learn new technologies and concepts quickly and independently
  • Ability to see “the big picture”
  • Hands-on site structure design, user interface/interaction design and coding experience
  • Coursework in User Interface and Interaction Design
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

SKILLS

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Photoshop, CVS, Task Analysis, Site mapping, Flow Charts, Documentation, XML/XSL, JSP, Digital Audio Production, Editing/Proofreading

Working Knowledge of: Unix Shell programming, Java, SQL, CGI, Database design

WORK EXPERIENCE

Internet Programmer. Advance Internet, Inc. November 2004 - present

Records Coordinator. American Red Cross September 11 Recovery Program May 2002 - July 2004

  • As a critical member of the steering committee for program’s SQL Server/ASP client-tracking application I reviewed requirements, designed user feedback survey for data entry group and documented workflows.
  • Managed staff of six full-time employees overseeing records for 60,000+ clients
  • Selected outside vendors for file digitization project as a member of an inter-departmental task force
  • Conducted workflow analysis of department procedures
  • Created survey and indexing scheme for documents in client case files, which was used as a reference for file digitization project.

Volunteer and Data Quality Manager.
American Red Cross of Greater New York September 2001 – May 2002

Began as volunteer entering information into missing-persons database and later hired to update new client-tracking database for 9-11 disaster.

  • Trained workers and wrote User Guide for data quality project that audited paper files and financial records for over 2000 clients against database records

Independant Contractor. NYC November 2000-present

  • Designed and coded site for Pyburn Films to demo stills to clients
  • Edited copy for andante, a classical music label and web site
  • Created information archtecture for financial site

User Interface Designer. G.Triad/Computer Horizons Corp., NYC May 2000-November 2000

  • Performed information and task analysis and wrote corresponding Functional Design document
  • Designed site navigation and page layouts
  • Coded HTML templates
  • Coordinated and uploaded client content, HTML code and graphics
  • Assisted developers with integration of templates into Cold Fusion code

Web Developer. Grey Interactive, NYC August
1999-May 2000

  • Coded pages with HTML and Javascript
  • Cut and optimized graphics for production
  • Tested sites for cross-browser issues

Clients included M&M Mars, Liz Claiborne, CoverGirl and Procter & Gamble

Editorial and Production Assistant.
Jazz Central Station Genre Site, Music Boulevard Network/N2K, NYC Sept. 1997-March 1999

  • Edited and encoded audio and video files into RealMedia formats
  • Using Visual Interdev, updated RealAudio links in older articles to allow for Bandwidth Negotiation.
  • Converted publicity photo library into digital form
  • Managed publication of Jazz Track, daily Web magazine, during restructuring of department
  • Coded pages with HTML.

ORGANIZATIONS

IA Institute

ACM/SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction) since 1998. Attended annual conferences in 1999 and 2000.

EDUCATION

November 2004 - Contextual Design Workshop

July 2004 - Attending The Elements of User Experience workshop given by Adaptive Path’s Jesse James Garrett

April - May 2003 - Supervisory Development Institute: Six-week course sponsored by Bryan & Associates, Inc.

April 2000 - Short course on Web Sites that Work, taken at SIGCHI Conference 2000, Netherlands

ABD MM, Music Technology, New
York University, NYC.
Relevant courses include: Interaction Design, Psychology of Music, User Interface, Audio for Video II and Beginning Java

MA Composition and Theory University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. December 1990.
B.Mus. Composition and Theory, Violin Principle, Belmont University, Nashville, TN. May 1988

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