Digital Products Professional
My serious look
1987 to 1994: Engineering, project management and technical innovation. During this period I gained an understanding of the importance of making technology simple and understandable.
1994 to Present: User Experience, project and product management and digital. I have continuously applied my experience to creating digital products that people use and love. Some win awards. Most deliver value to my clients or employers.
I love technology and how it enables us to extend what we do, to collaborate, communicate, acquire, and divest. And I also know how disappointing and damaging it can be when it fails.
I’m fascinated by pervasive user experiences. Without good experiences, we fail. But even poor experiences teach us to create better ones – if we’re willing to listen.
I work with clients at the Strategic end of User Experience, helping businesses to think about User Experience, review their processes, build teams, and define vision – and then to deliver.
Writer and Human Being
Martini Madness
I’ve been an avid reader and writer since I was four years old. With a wide range of interests in writing, you’d think by now I would have made a more significant move towards treating it as a profession and not just as a hobby.
That said, in the mid-90s I left a good career and between September 1995 and December 1997 I attended the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.
At the same time there was an explosion taking place in the digital world, and torn between a past in technology and my writing, I opted for the digital space, always hoping that I would one day return to writing – or find a way to bring the two together.
Digital publishing and eBooks might just give me the vehicle I’m looking for, combining my love of digital and writing. So expect to see some blog posts about my progress.
Oh… and one last thing. I like my martinis with gin, extra dry, extra olives – shaken, not stirred.
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