
at F-Secure SDC
Paris Area, France

at F-Secure SDC
Paris Area, France
User Experience Professional with a strong Product Management background and a penchant for Usability and elegant Design. Drupal expert and supporter since 2001.
product management, functional specification, information architecture, GUI design, usability expertise, user testing, web development, CMS's, drupal, wordpress, knowledge management, DRM, downloadable goods, project management, outsourcing.
(Public Company; FSC1V; Information Technology and Services industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
(Design industry)
September 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)
- Web & Desktop Design
- Identity & Branding
- Usability Expertise
We are specialised in Drupal web development and consulting.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2007 — September 2009 (2 years 7 months)
- User experience honcho
- Product roadmap juggler
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2005 — February 2007 (2 years 2 months)
Work on new products and features for the various Boonty sites and software applications:
* Build proof-of-concept prototypes;
* Write functional specification;
* Interface between the marketing and development teams;
* Constantly improve the overall user experience.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2001 — December 2004 (3 years 3 months)
Resposable with the definition of the web user interface of the software product:
* defined user interactions and contributed to the definition of functional specifications,
* wrote the GUI technical specifications,
* designed prototypes for specific tasks,
* developed interactive SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) charts,
* drew pixelised icons for the GUI elements.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1998 — September 2001 (2 years 10 months)
I began as a graphic designer and webmaster, working on the following:
* designed and maintained the corporate web site,
* designed the product packaging, including manuals and box,
* maintained the demo product installations, acquiring new technical skills.
A year later, I became the user interface designer for iChannel, switching teams from Marketing to Product Management. My assignments included:
* designing and prototyping the web-based product user interface,
* conducting usability tests with user groups,
* writing functional specifications, defining test cases,
* working close to the development team, validating development milestones,
* managing projects using Onyx CRM tools.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
July 1996 — November 1998 (2 years 5 months)
Agora Press is the main publisher of IT content in Romania. As part of its DTP task force, I became a true expert in the following:
* publishing workflow: authoring, editing, page layout, proofing, validation and print,
* page layout for magazines and books,
* digital image acquisition and enhancement,
* conversion to various alternative formats (HTML, PDF, etc.)
At Agora I also had the opportunity to test-drive most graphics and DTP software available, and occasionally wrote reviews in IT magazines.
usability, typography, digital photography, martial arts, community web sites, agile software development, personal publishing, knowledge management, emigration theories, mac, free software