Objective: Design, manage, and deploy great user experience for software projects.
Education:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Penn. B.A., May 2000.
Human-Computer Interaction and Professional Writing double major. In-majors QPA: 3.88.
Work Experience:
Google, Inc. Mountain View, Ca. May 03 - present. User Experience Designer.
Principal or sole designer for Google Base v1 - v2, Google Payments v0, Blog Search v0, Groups v2. Information architecture, innovative interaction design, visual design, HTML / javascript, design project management, project scoping, internationalized design. See www.ellenbeldner.info/portfolio for details.
Non-project activities: I introduce new design processes to help strengthen the role of design at Google. Significant contributor to Google’s UX Style Guide. Give talks to engineers and PM about fundamentals of UCD. Designed and built team’s intranet site.
Covigna Inc., Mountain View Ca. Jun 01 – Apr 03. Interaction Director.
Managed, designed, built, and usability tested interface for web-based enterprise contract management software, deployed at multiple Fortune 1000 companies. Responsible
for front-end UI, administrative UI, and UI of supporting tools.
Reactivity, Inc., Belmont Ca. Jul 00 – Apr 01. Design Entrepreneur.
Interaction design and usability research at a startup consulting and incubator company. Responsible for user-centered interaction design on client and internal projects; acted as design lead on several client projects.
Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh Penn. May 98 – May 00, Interaction Designer.
IA, interaction design, and implementation of online process guides.
Strategic Interactive Group (Digitas), San Francisco Ca. May 99 – Aug 99,
Interface Programmer.
Prototyped, designed, and implemented front end designs at the interactive division of a large ad agency. Projects included major brands like Hewlett-Packard.