Employment History
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
User Experience Designer, Contractor, Jul 2009 – now
- Actively participated in external website usability study, website redesign and intranet content update. Played an important role in designing and constructing Crisis & Response website.
- Contributed to a Federal Reserve internal usability workshop.
Asus – Fremont, California
Interaction Designer, Contractor, May 2009 – Jul 2009
- Analyzed touch screen user behavior, wrote technical specifications and designed touch screen applications.
- Brainstormed tablet and touchscreen notebook native app and the product got featured on famous tech blog engadget.
SAP Labs – Palo Alto, California
Student intern, User Experience Team, Jun 2008 – Dec 2008
- Won 08′ SAP Sustainability Design Challenge (Every second spent on this project came from my afterwork hours)
- Constructed three CRM and CSM prototypes for SAP enterprise Suite 2009
- Involvement in end user research and Developing use cases
- Support of usability studies, including preparation, conduct, data analysis, and results presentation
Hitchsters.com
Founding member, Sept 2007 – Jun 2008
- Designed and constructed the website, which won the award of “2007 Best 50 websites” by Time magazine.
Library of Congress
Student Intern, Feb 2008 – Feb 2008
- Provide information visualization solutions and website redesign proposal for PCC program.
Shanghai Senwainfo, Shanghai, China
Full-time UI Designer & Assistant Project Manager, Aug 2005 – Jul 2007
- Designed the interface of the company’s ERP product in transition from C/S to B/S
- Finished three ERP full cycle implementations projects of 1000-person size factory
Skills & Software
Interaction Deisgn & User Experience
- Design: sketch, user research, persona and scenario, lo-fi / hi-fi prototyping, usability testing
- User Experience: Contextual Inquiry, Heuristic Evaluation, Competitve Analysis, Informative Usability Testing & Benchmark Usability Testing
Computer Skills
- Web UI: html (tableless), CSS(cross-browser support), JavaScript (ajax jQuery), xml (xslt)
- Information Architecture: Microsoft Visio, Axure,
- MS Office: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint
- Graphic: Photoshop; Flash, ActionScript3, Flex3;
Education
University of Michigan, School of Information – Ann Arbor, MI
Master of Science in Information, Human-Computer Interaction – Expected Apr 2009
Courses:
- Interface and Interaction Design
- Contextual Inquiry and Project Management
- Evaluation of Interactive Systems and Services
- Information Architecture
- Information Visualization
- Network Computing
- Information Economics
- Human Behaviros and Factors
Shanghai University, School of Engineering – Shanghai, China
Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering – Jun 2005