{"id":202,"date":"2009-03-16T20:58:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T01:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinkstick.net\/?page_id=202"},"modified":"2010-04-18T18:18:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T23:18:04","slug":"resume","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/thinkstick.dreamhosters.com\/resume\/","title":{"rendered":"Resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #2eade4; font-family: Tahoma;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>Aye M. Moah<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"95%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">20 Crystal Street 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Floor<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkstick.net\/portfolio\"><span style=\"color: #2eade4; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">http:\/\/thinkstick.net\/portfolio<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Melrose, MA 02176<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:moah@alum.mit.edu\"><span style=\"color: #2eade4; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">moah@alum.mit.edu<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">617.921.1955<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ayemoah\"><span style=\"color: #2eade4; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">twitter: @ayemoah<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2eade4; font-family: Tahoma;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>Experience:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><strong>Product Designer <\/strong>(January 2010 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Current)\u00c2\u00a0<span style=\"color: #2eade4;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/carbonite.com\">Carbonite<\/a><\/strong><\/span><strong> <\/strong>Boston, MA<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Carbonite is a simple, automatic online backup service with over 650,000 paying customers. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Currently redesigning Carbonite.com home page.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Redesigned purchasing and renewing subscriptions process. <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Improved usability by creating a clear path to completion.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Created wireframes and clickable prototypes. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Produced screen flow to cover all possible scenarios. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.2px;\">Tested the usability of the process flow with clickable prototypes. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Guided visual design direction. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><strong>User Experience Engineer <\/strong>(April 2009 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c December 2009)\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/choicestream.com\"><span style=\"color: #2eade4;\"><strong>Choicestream<\/strong><\/span><\/a><strong> <\/strong>Cambridge, MA<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">ChoiceStream generates dynamic, personalized display ads and product recommendations for retailers. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Primary responsibilities are user experience design and development for internal and customer facing advertising products.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> <span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Designed<\/span><\/strong><\/span> <span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">and developed self service ad manager interfac<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">e <\/span><\/strong><\/span><span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">using jQuery and integrating with Ruby on Rails backend.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Designed experiment interface<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"> that allows implementation consultants to <\/span><\/span><span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">easily <\/span><\/span><span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">configure multivariate experiments for recommendation algorithms and advertisements.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><a title=\"slides on slideshare\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ayemoah\/moah-mini-upa2009\" target=\"_blank\">Presented at <\/a><\/span><\/strong><span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><a title=\"slides on slideshare\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ayemoah\/moah-mini-upa2009\" target=\"_blank\">Boston <\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><a title=\"slides on slideshare\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ayemoah\/moah-mini-upa2009\" target=\"_blank\">UPA 2009<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><strong>Senior User Interaction Designer <\/strong>(October 2008 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c April 2009)                           <a href=\"http:\/\/mzinga.com\"><span style=\"color: #2eade4;\"><strong>Mzinga<\/strong><\/span><\/a><strong> <\/strong>Burlington, MA<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Mzinga provides software that allows client companies to build and manage their online communities.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Primary responsibilities include <strong>improving usability<\/strong> in existing service offerings and <strong>designing the user interaction<\/strong> for a productized community package.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\"><strong>Redesigned forums<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Improved usability by displaying only relevant actions, encouraging users to add more content by removing barriers to posting, and fixing navigation so that users no longer feel &#8220;lost.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Created novel and intuitive pagination system for tracking unread pages within a thread.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Improved visual design.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\"><strong>Designed admin interface<\/strong> for productized package.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Removed\/hid options that did not impact end user experience, streamlined the rest (from 250 to about 25), made the layout intuitive, and set sensible defaults whenever possible.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Designed<strong> Social Intelligence Analytics<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Designed collection of reports and interfaces that make millions of numbers accessible to non-statisticians. Packaged community statistics into a simple visual shape that conveys the personality\/DNA of a community at a glance.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><strong>User Interface Designer <\/strong>(May 2007 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c October 2008)\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webex.com\/enterprise\/cisco-webex-connect.html\"><span style=\"color: #2eade4;\"><strong>Cisco WebEx<\/strong><\/span><\/a> Burlington, MA<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Created comprehensive functional and user interface specification documents for complete products. (Specifications completed: To Do, Tagging Component, Calendar)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Designed and delivered information architecture and visual layer of each product.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Produced wire frames, screen flows, and high fidelity mockups.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Gathered feedback from development and design team and maintained specification documents as the projects progress.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Provided support, including competitive analysis, to product management in pitching new product ideas.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><strong>Associate of Technology<\/strong> (July 2005 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c April 2007)\u00c2\u00a0                       <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapient.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #2eade4;\"><strong>Sapient Corporation<\/strong><\/span><\/a> Cambridge, MA<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\"><strong>Gevity Project<\/strong>: Part of a global distributed team to build a web portal for over 8,000 small- and medium-sized client businesses with user base of over 100,000 client employees for mid-sized HR company.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Gathered requirements from end users and drove communication with clients for design closure. <\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Managed relationships and communication across multidisciplinary teams and with clients.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Designed protocol and developed prototype for single sign-on integration with Salesforce.com.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">Led Usability Testing sessions with end users.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2eade4; font-family: Tahoma;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>Education:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\">BS in <strong>Computer Science and Engineering <\/strong>June 2005,<strong> Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\"><strong>Certificate of Digital Graphic Design<\/strong> from <strong>The New England Institute of Arts<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2eade4; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>Skills:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">CSS, HTML, Perl, Java, SQL, Agile Methodology, Full Lifecycle Experience, Product Management<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Software: <strong>Photoshop, Fireworks, Balsamiq, OmniGraffle<\/strong>, InDesign, MS Visio<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;\"><strong>Portfolio<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkstick.net\/portfolio\"><span style=\"color: #2eade4;\"><strong>http:\/\/thinkstick.net\/portfolio<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #2eade4;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aye M. Moah 20 Crystal Street 2nd Floor http:\/\/thinkstick.net\/portfolio Melrose, MA 02176 moah@alum.mit.edu 617.921.1955 twitter: @ayemoah Experience: Product Designer (January 2010 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Current)\u00c2\u00a0Carbonite Boston, MA Carbonite is a simple, automatic online backup service with over 650,000 paying customers. Currently redesigning Carbonite.com home page. Redesigned purchasing and renewing subscriptions process. 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