User Experience Designer & User Researcher

Sharon Haber

San Francisco, CA

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I am a User Experience Designer & Researcher with 9 years professional experience designing intuitive experiences that delight end users as well as meets business needs.

My experience is derived from a diverse variety of agency and client work. From websites to mobile sites to entire systems, my understanding of workflows and users' needs is varied and robust. I am interested in finding a position that utilizes design and research for the greater good.

I believe that great products come from truly understanding users - their needs, contexts, and environment. I generally advocate the lean UX approach of iteratively creating and testing designs in an agile manner.
Education
- M.S. Digital Media & HCI
  
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  
  2002 - 2004
Experience
- Sr. User Experience
  
  Adobe Systems
  
  Apr 2013 - Present (11 years 8 months)
- President
  
  User Experience Design, Inc
  
  Jun 2011 - Present (13 years 6 months)
  
  My UX consulting company umbrella from which I contract to wonderful clients like Spring Studio, Critical Mass, and Proving Ground.
- Freelance, Sr. User Experience Consultaant
  
  Spring Studio
  
  Aug 2012 - Mar 2013 (7 months)
  
  Sr User Researcher and UX Architect specializing in generative research and concept testing for next generation mobile and web solutions. Implemented iterative design - test cycles for high profile client projects
- Sr. User Experience Architect
  
  Proving Ground, LLC.
  
  Jun 2011 - Sep 2012 (1 year 3 months)
  
  UX Architect at Proving Ground. Work with startups to create customer focused and relevant interaction designs. Within the agile environment, help turn client ideas into product specifications through ideation meetings, user interviews, personas, workflows, wireframes, and prototypes.
- Sr. Manager, Mobile UX at AT&T Mobility
  
  AT&T
  
  Oct 2009 - Jul 2011 (1 year 9 months)
  
  Optimized the user experience for pre-launched mobile devices. In collaboration with AT&T labs, launched a scalable usability project aimed at measuring a device on usability and experience metrics and tying this data with business metrics. Worked directly with UX representatives from Samsung, LG, and Pantech to improve their Android Implementation from a user experience perspective.
- Sr. User Experience Architect, Team Lead
  
  Engauge (US) / Spunlogic
  
  Apr 2007 - Nov 2009 (2 years 7 months)
  
  Team lead of a User Experience Team in a major National Agency. Worked with diverse clients to create engaging customer experiences for mobile, web, and kiosk. Led stakeholder meetings, gathered requirements, and directed user research. Created templates and standardized processes across the team. Clients included Home Depot, GMAC, Food Lion, and Johnson & Johnson
- Information Architect
  
  Cingular Wireless
  
  2005 - 2007 (2 years)
  
  Worked on a team of User Experience Designers to design, build and test applications throughout the organization.
- Information Architect
  
  CDC, Contractor
  
  2005 - 2006 (1 year)
  
  User Experience Designer and researcher for CDC's public and internal web assets.
- Interactive Media Intern
  
  TNT
  
  2003 - 2004 (1 year)
Affiliations

CHI Atlanta, SigChi, IXDA
Skills
- UX
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