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Usability & Design

Usability
Accessibility User Focus Information Architecture
W3C Validation Workflow Content Taxonomy
Color Blindness User Testing Site Map
Graceful Degradation Usability Heuristics Search Engine Optimization
Section 508 Tool Logic Internationilization
  • Able to develop highly usable content
    • Worked closely with blind and vision impared users in feature development at Benetech
    • Familiarity with how screen readers present websites to users
    • Understanding of why's and how's of graceful degradation
    • Optimization of content for high and low broadband connections
  • Can show you how to structure your content to maximize SEO
    • Good SEO is good usability. If people can't find your content, they can't use it!
    • SchoolForge.net has seen search traffic increase over 400% since June 2007
    • Because of solid information architecture that reinforces itself for SEO, keyword targetting has been successful
    • Traffic has maintained a consistant upward trend since June 2007
    • Application of short term and long term strategies
  • Uniquly prepared to deliver the usability required in todays applications
    • Over 6 years of working directly with end users in technical support roles has provided a strong foundation for being able to internalize how users will interact with information
    • Four years spent working at word class data center and enterprise level software
  • Participated in FLOSS Usability Sprint at Google HQ - November 2007
Interface Design
Applications Libraries Web Resources
Adobe Creative Suite gd, imagemagick, pngcrush Google APIs
The Gimp matplotlib, numpy, scipy, basemap Flash embedding
advgraph, pychart Widgit Development
jQuery, YUI, mootools