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| UUX 2008 Community Elections |  |
Candidate InformationThe following members are running for office: Candidates:
Candidate Bios Mary believes that to provide the best user experience with a product or Web site, you have to know the user: who they are, what they want, how they work, and what their goals are in using your product. Usability research and testing is all about learning about users and then working with designers to incorporate that knowledge into a product. Mary began her career in technical communication and usability 20 years ago, while working with Microsoft's usability department to increase the effectiveness of documentation. She went on to receive a Master of Science from the University of Washington where she focused on user-centered design and human-computer interaction. Mary now specializes in conducting research during the early phases of design or redesign and defining user requirements in order to craft prototypes and design iterations. Mary's has conducted usability work for a broad set of industries including real estate, education, software and telecommunications. Her clients include Microsoft, Amazon.com, Global Crossing, NextPoint, Mimeo, General Electric, Metropolitan Life, and the University of Washington. She was a technical writer and editor at Microsoft before opening her own consulting company in 1994. She has been a member of STC since 1988 and served in the Puget Sound Chapter as program chair and competition manager and judge. Mary has presented at numerous STC conferences and her work has won several STC awards. She has been a judge for the International competition five times, including serving on the Best of Show committee for the online competition. Mary also regularly writes book reviews for Technical Communications. Mary is also a member of the Usability Professionals Association and has been active in organizing World Usability Day activities in Seattle for the past two years. She also belongs to ACM and SIGCHI. She is co-author, with Cheryl Lockett Zubak, of Designing Help for Windows 95 (Que, 1997) and has written numerous articles and book reviews. She spent five years delivering training to other technical communicators through Solutions, Inc. and WinWriters. She currently teaches in the certificate program in technical communication at Bellevue Community College.
I am Managing Editor of Usability Interface, the award-winning newsletter of the UUX. I received the UUX Distinguished Service Award in 2002, and in 2007 bestowed the title of Associate Fellow. I am co-founder and first President of the Belgium Chapter. I am a member of the Washington, D.C. Chapter and serve as Usability Special Interest Group (SIG) Manager; as Usability SIG Manager I have helped the Chapter to co-sponsor the World Usability Day in 2005, 2006 and 2007 with the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Usability Professionals Association (UPA).
Eric Hughes has been working in the interface development field since 1989 when he was employed by the Charles Schwab Corporation. At Schwab, Eric was involved in the planning and deployment of voice response systems that serviced the entire Schwab customer population. It was there he learned about the challenges in proving timely & relevant mission-critical information with limited interface capabilities. When Eric moved to Wells Fargo Bank in the early 1990's, he was again involved in solving (and in some cases creating) difficult usability problems. This time it was helping to manage and deploy a network management interface that needed to monitor thousands of network nodes with limited screen real estate. Then in the mid 1990's, Eric was responsible for the interaction design and deployment of a 20,000 person intranet crossing all bank businesses. In 1998, Eric started his own web development and information architecture business, and has serviced over 60 clients since. He writes a usability column for the Berkeley STC "Ragged Left" newsletter, and is committed to not only finding every usability problem on the web, but in daily life as well. Eric has a BA degree from Indiana University/Bloomington and an MS from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He has also taken courses at UC Berkeley in technical writing and editing.
My 24-year career in technical communication began as a contract writer for AT&T, working on UNIX documentation. As a contractor, I also wrote training material for IBM and reference material for Bankers Trust of New York. I wrote user guides, programmer manuals, and administrator guides for Data General networking products. I taught technical writing at Durham Technical Community College for three years. For over 15 years, I managed documentation teams for Data General and EMC. I'm now a Statistical Writer for SAS Institute, writing about SAS Risk Intelligence products such as SAS Risk Dimensions and SAS Credit Risk Management for Banking. For more information about my career, please refer to http://www.linkedin.com/in/mtharvey. Education: STC service, honors, and awards: Other (non-STC) professional affiliations, honors, and awards:
For the past six years, Martina has been technical writer and the "voice of the user" for CMC Microsystems in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She works as writer, editor, document development coordinator, and web usability specialist. Martina holds a three-year diploma in electronic engineering technology and a certificate in technical writing. As a six-year member of the STC, Martina enjoys contributing articles to Intercom and hopes to do more in the near future. Martina believes in developing herself professionally by volunteering in her community. For example, to develop her writing, she was a volunteer columnist for the local newspaper. To develop her skills in web usability, she volunteered to help launch a website for the local foodbank. Martina hopes to continue this journey by volunteering as treasurer for the UUX community.
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