Larry King
w 3100 Black Hickory Drive w Falls Church, VA 22042
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[email protected]
w Phone: 301-395-0137
SKILLS User Experience w Interaction design
w Prototyping
w Information architecture w Site maps w Personas w User research
Software
Technical
w Dreamweaver w Techsmith Morae
w XHTML
w Photoshop
w Tobii Clearview
w CSS
w Illustrator
w Visio
w JavaScript
w Usability testing
w Scenarios
w InDesign
w Flash
w Wireframing
w Taskflows
w Balsamiq
w Axure
w Storyboarding
EXPERIENCE User Experience Architect
Accenture
August 2007 - Present
w Clients included U.S Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Postal Service, Proctor & Gamble,
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, United States Department of Agriculture, and U.S. Department of Treasury w Conducted user research, user interface design, information design, interaction design and usability
testing for government agencies and public companies w Activities included planning user experience project strategy, conducting stakeholder interviews,
creating audience analysis and personas, writing usability test plans and scenarios, planning and executing usability testing, conducting heuristic reviews, creating low- and high-fidelity prototypes, wireframing and creating high-fidelity detailed designs w Mentored junior team members on user experience techniques w Led the 1200+ member Accenture User Experience Community of Practice. Duties included planning
and budgeting community of practice activities for fiscal year 2008-2010, delegating duties to user experience group members, planning and conducting virtual training seminars, editing and publishing the quarterly user experience newsletter, and developing and maintaining the user experience Interact and Deliver site
Adjunct Professor
University of Baltimore
January 2008 - May 2008
w Instructed graduate level class in standards based web design w Subjects included history of the web, how the web works, the importance of web standards, XHTML,
CSS, JavaScript, accessibility and 508 guidelines, and usability testing
Instructional Support Specialist
UMUC
June 2005 - August 2007
w Designed, planned and implemented user research study of UMUC’s course management system,
including stakeholder interviews and contextual inquiry of both students and faculty w Co-lead the redesign of University of Maryland University College’s departmental websites, including
template design, content inventory, content migration, content maintenance strategy, and information architecture w Implemented open source article management system for the online distance education magazine DE
Oracle, including content inventory and migration strategy, design template implementation, and PHP and MySQL modifications w Maintained and implemented features for class visit database using Coldfusion and MS Access
Larry King
w 3100 Black Hickory Drive w Falls Church, VA 22042 w
[email protected]
Web Design Tutor
University of Baltimore
w Phone: 301-395-0137
August 2006 - December 2006
w Provided instruction and guidance for Masters students taking Hypermedia Production class w Helped students troubleshoot problems with XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Research Support Analyst
University of Baltimore
February 2005 - May 2005
w Conducted administrative and research support for a research project sponsored by the Center for
Community Technology Services w Project consisted of engaging non-profit organizations in the development of relationship management
software using participatory design techniques
Illustrator
Georgetown University
July 2004 - August 2004
w Created illustrations for the technical journal “Public and Private Interests in Standard Setting: Conflict
or Convergence?” by Garcia, D.L., Leickly, B.L. and Willey, S.W. In S. Bolin (ed.), The Standards Edge: Future Generation (2005). Georgetown University Communication, Culture and Technology Program
E D U C AT I O N University of Baltimore
Baltimore, MD MS in Interaction Design and Information Architecture
August 2004 - May 2007
w Masters thesis: researched and designed a communication platform for an online learning management
system w Created information architecture for University of Baltimore site redesign, including initial user
research, site map, wireframing, and usability testing w Conceptualized and coded online game for children using Actionscript and object oriented
programming w Designed Eye Toy game prototype for children using participatory design techniques w Studied the history and concepts of human computer interaction, including mental models, visual
perception, distributed cognition, activity theory, and interactive learning
American Intercontinental University
Hoffman Estates, IL
January 2003 - March 2004
BFA in Digital Design w Conceptualized, planned and developed individual and group projects consisting of layout design,
logos and corporate branding, raster and vector image manipulation, animation, multimedia, web development, and video game design