Engineer Design

Lawrence Najjar

Austin, TX

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http://www.lawrence-najjar.com/new-index.html

Objective

Position designing easy-to-use user interfaces for challenging software applications

Experience

8/11 Present: Informatica, Principal User Experience Designer, Austin

Design user interfaces for complex data integration applications.

5/05 06/11: TandemSeven, Principal User Experience Architect, Austin

Interviewed stakeholders, identified users and their needs, created interaction

designs for complex Web-based applications, performed usability evaluations, and

wrote user interface design specifications. Clients included 1-800-Flowers, Abbott

Pharmaceuticals, Campbell Soup Company, Career Education Corporation, Chubb,

Citigroup, Experian, Girl Scouts of the USA, Grainger, and Orbitz. For Career

Education Corporation, also wrote interaction design guidelines for online student

portal.

Received Nielsen Norman Group "2008 Intranet Design Award" for design of

Campbell Soup Company employee intranet.

3/03 4/05: BMC Software, Senior Interaction Designer, Austin

Gathered requirements, identified users, performed task analyses, iteratively

designed user interfaces, created demonstration prototype, led client design

reviews, and wrote user interface design specifications for enterprise database

management and business services management applications.

Wrote Java application accessibility user interface style guide.

12/01 3/03: GTRI, Human Factors Engineer, Atlanta

For commercially available multi-function print/scan/copy/fax product, performed

needs assessment, developed design checklist, and performed accessibility

evaluations with representative users. Designed improved user interface concept for

users with disabilities.

As freelancer, performed usability heuristic evaluations of Worldspan travel

reservation Web sites.

6/00 10/01: Viant, Information Architect, Atlanta

Working on multidisciplinary teams, wrote proposals, estimated work scope,

identified user and client needs, and made project proposal presentations to clients.

Created use cases, organized information, designed navigational structures, created

task flows, and developed interactive HTML mockups. Clients included Fast

Forward consumer electronics, Fleet Bank, and NASCAR.

Led iterative user interface design reviews. Created user interface design templates

for proposed company standards. Performed usability expert reviews.

8/98 6/00: iXL, Senior Information Architect, Atlanta

With teams, designed user interaction for Home Depot online store, America Online

corporate information site, Delta Air Lines internal agent reservation system,

Thomson Financial corporate site, and GE Power Systems order status extranet.

Estimated work scope, wrote proposals, analyzed user needs, wrote functional

requirements, organized site information, created interactive HTML prototypes,

performed heuristic evaluations, led client design reviews, and wrote user interface

design specifications.

6/93 8/98: GTRI, Research Assistant, Atlanta

Researched user needs, then designed and evaluated innovative software and

hardware user interfaces for network-enabled mobile wearable computers.

Designed, created, and maintained Web sites for department and international

conference.

5/84 6/93: IBM Corp., Human Factors Engineer, Atlanta and Rockville, MD

Performed contextual observations and user interviews, then designed software and

hardware user interfaces for US air traffic control system. Designs included digital

flight strips, customized keyboard, workstation ergonomics, and audio alerts.

Planned and conducted dozens of usability tests on commercial software

applications and product set-up instructions.

2/83 5/84: Systems Research Laboratories, Human Factors Engineer, Hanover, MD

Worked with client and representative users to design user interface for complex

audio control panel and advanced word processing and audio transcription system

for US government agency.

Education

Degrees in Engineering Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology

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