 I've always been involved with the Art/Technology interface: first as a scenic designer and teacher of technical theatre; then designing for television; and now as a computer artist/programmer.  Born and raised in Milwaukee, I graduated from Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin with a bachelor's degree in Theatre. After getting my MFA from Ohio University I taught for 5 years at Denison University and then 3 more years at The College of New Jersey. My second career began in 1974 with New Jersey Public Broadcasting (NJN), where I was Scenic Designer for almost 10 years. After leaving NJN, I worked for about 2 years as a free-lance designer for television, with corporate clients such as Johnson & Johnson and AT&T. During my time in graduate school, I devised a mathematical approach to perspective drawing that ultimately led to my interest in computers. In 1982 I purchased a Radio Shack Color Computer with Extended BASIC and started working on making the little beast do stuff no-one imagined it could do; I sold a few programs, wrote some magazine articles, and looked for more computer-related work. I started working at Cognetics Corporation in 1985, where I spent almost 20 years designing and prototyping user interfaces. I learned an awful lot during that time, and Cognetics' strength in User-Centered Design brought me in 2004-05 to an 8-month contract as the Usability and User Interface consultant to a Research and Development group at GlaxoSmithKline. I served briefly as User Experience and Interface Design Architect with Iknow LLC in Princeton, NJ, followed by over 2½ years as the GUI Designer for Sterling Infosystems in New York City. In December, 2008, I switched to ADP in Roseland, NJ. Since June of 2010 I've been an independent consultant, working initially at Dow Jones and then at Chubb Insurance. |
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