Experience

　　Digital Youth Research Project | UC Berkeley | Berkeley, CA

　　Graduate Student Researcher (September 2005 – present)

　　Working under Peter Lyman (UC Berkeley) and Mimi Ito (USC Annenberg Center) on a .3 Million MacArthur grant to study how youths’ informal use of digital media affects communication, learning, knowledge, and play.

　　• Conducted 12 week ethnographic field study of 11-15 year old kids enrolled in an arts and technology program for children from the Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhoods of San Francisco.

　　• Design and perform interview and diary protocols to asses youth’s everyday uses of digital media.

　　• Draft analysis memos leading to a report to MacArthur this spring.

　　Yahoo! Research Berkeley | Berkeley, CA

　　Research Intern (September 2005 – March 2006)

　　Working under Marc Davis’ Social Media group at the recently launched research collaborative between Yahoo! and UC Berkeley.

　　• Assess user needs, develop information architecture, and design user interface prototypes.

　　Garage Cinema Research | UC Berkeley | Berkeley, CA

　　Designer, User Experience Group (May 2005 – August 2005)

　　Member of Marc Davis’ research group focused on “enabling media consumers to become media producers.”

　　• Design information visualizations and user interface prototypes for desktop and mobile applications that leverage temporal, spatial and social metadata for multimedia capture, use, and reuse.

　　Jan Krukowski & Company | New York, NY

　　Interactive Media Producer (January 2002 – May 2005)

　　Information Architect & Interaction Designer (June 2000 – January 2002)

　　Oversee information architecture, user interface design, multimedia content development, and programming of Web sites, CD-ROMs, DVDs, and interactive environments for marketing agency focused on the not-for profit sector.

　　• Conduct qualitative needs assessment through individual interviews with stakeholders and focused group and usability testing with users; help develop survey instruments for quantitative market research.

　　• Draft information architecture and user interface wireframes.

　　• Prototype user interfaces and story-board scenarios for interactive experiences.

　　• Contribute to, and manage, team of writers, animators, 3-D modelers, programmers, photographers, videographers, and editors for multimedia content creation.

　　• Act as primary interface with client.

　　• Work received numerous awards including: Macromedia Site of the Day; UCDA Gold, Silver and Judge’s Choice awards; CASE Gold.

　　UC Berkeley | School of Information (formerly SIMS) | Berkeley, CA

　　Masters expected, May 2007

　　• Graduate fellowship.

　　• Noteworthy Courses: Ethnographic Practice (Jean Lave); Information Visualization (Marti

　　Hearst); Industrial Design & Human Factors (Ken Goldberg).

　　Bowdoin College | Brunswick, ME

　　Bachelor of Arts in Economics, June 2000

　　• Phi Beta Kappa; Summa Cum Laude; Writing Tutor; Economics Prize; Graduation Award.

　　Computer Skills

　　• Design & Prototyping Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign; QuarkXPress;

　　Macromedia Flash.

　　• Computer Languages: Java, XML, XSLT, XPATH, HTML, CSS, ActionScript.