Cody Frew
Summary
I am a young and enthusiastic individual that is looking for a career within an organization that offers a strong and challenging team-oriented environment which fosters growth and creativity. My objective is to enhance HCI, interface design, and user-centered products by creating innovative and usable implementations of engineered design.
Experience
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June 2007 – Present
Interaction Designer
Worked within the User Experience Team to enhance and validate the design of upcoming and current products. Migrated existing product work flow solutions into new development platforms. Created and presented wireframes, flow diagrams, and high-fidelity prototypes of software products. Maintained User Specification Documents.
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September 2006 – June 2007
Technical Writer / Human Factors Consultant
Worked within the Human Factors Engineering division to enhance the usability, emotional design, and interaction design of upcoming products. Wrote and edited user experience specification documents to be used between multiple departments. Analyzed contextual interviews and user observational data to support development of innovation.
Education
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September 2004 – September 2006
University of California, San Diego
Cognitive Science
I placed my course emphasis on Human-Computer Interaction (one of the main facets of the Cognitive Science program) and I graduated receiving a Bachelors of Science in Cognitive Science, with Provost's Honors 4 times, and an overall GPA of 3.6.
Coursework:
Cognitive Engineering: Closet Redesign (COGS 102C)
(03/2006 - 06/2006) Devised a decision-aiding cognitive system in a 7-student team using the contextual design process. Performed contextual interviews, constructed flow models, and created physical and digital prototypes.HCI Programming Project: 'Cortext' (COGS 121)
(03/2006 - 06/2006) Helped design and construct a collaborative, web 2.0 internet platform for studying the human brain. Used AJAX and Flash in conjunction to provide for a user-led internet station combining Yahoo images and Wikipedia article content.Human Computer Interaction (COGS 120)
(01/2006 - 03/2006) Read papers and discussed information visualization, ubiquitous computing, privacy and history of HCI. Performed contextual interviews within a 4-student team and wrote a critique on the design and usability of car stereo interfaces.Distributed Cognition: Instructional Assistant (COGS 195)
(09/2005 - 1/2006) Graded assignments, read student papers, and taught weekly course sections on distributed cognition.Web Design and Programming (COGS 25)
(01/2006 - 3/2006) Learned how to code XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, and XSLT. While keeping a focus on user interaction, designed and built web site projects.
Skills
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MS Office
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(x)HTML
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Photoshop
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Visio
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CSS
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JavaScript
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Illustrator
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Google SketchUp
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XML/XSLT
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Java
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Matlab
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Flash