Portfolio: sharon-elizabeth.com
Email: sharon -at- sharon-elizabeth.com
Phone: 910-330-2205
User Experience DesignerOctober 2014 - Present
Northrop Grumman Corporation Huntsville, AL
- Providing user-centered design and research support for government and internal contracts
- Specializing in information architecture work, including content inventories, card sorting, and additional methods
- Making and collaborating on interface designs with other designers; iterating these designs based upon user and peer feedback
- Thoroughly documenting interface designs and interaction patterns for later use by developers
- Creating and conducting user interviews, expectancy tests and usability tests in order to understand user expectations and needs
January 2014 - October 2014
ITS Web Services, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC
- Analyzing the structure and user opinions of its.unc.edu through content inventories, site maps and analyzing survey feedback
- Studying user satisfaction and comprehension with a website re-design through usability testing; wireframing for new sites
- Migrating websites to a WordPress environment and providing customer support for websites hosted in WordPress
- Writing HTML, CSS and PHP for additional projects as needed; utilizing a Git-based version control system to maintain code
May 2013 - August 2013
IBM Corporation Research Triangle Park, NC
- Created mock-ups for potential modifications to parts of the application called Rational
- Evaluated existing interfaces as a fresh set of eyes and documented concerns for usability
- Conducted remote and in-person usability tests; offered usability recommendations based upon the results of these tests
February 2013 - December 2013
Carolina Digital Library & Archives Chapel Hill, NC
- Met with University members and affiliates to discuss requirements for websites centered around digital collections
- Wireframed suggested ideas for themes built using the Omeka web platform
- Implemented these ideas through HTML, CSS and PHP in a LAMP environment, using Subversion to maintain code repositories
October 2012 - December 2013
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Government
Chapel Hill, NC
- Assisted full-time staff in handling Remedy-generated tickets and help requests from School of Government staff and faculty
- Imaged new computers for staff and faculty and assisted in deploying them
- Set up peripherals, installed software and handled the setup of other technological equipment as needed
May 2012 - August 2012
ICF International
Fairfax, VA
- Wrote cross-browser compatible HTML and CSS for the Office of Veterans Affairs Intranet website
- Constructed a map of client offices using the Google Maps API
- Worked to make PDF documents and websites Section 508 compliant for other government offices
August 2011 - May 2012
School of Information and Library Science
Chapel Hill, NC
- Conducted research on the usability of synchronization tools and analyzed their directionality
- Aided with populating and writing HTML and CSS to style an online collection of synchronization tools
- Assisted in developing interview questions to further our research.
Wireframes, Usability Testing, Personas, Prototyping, Cardsorting, Content Inventories, Sitemaps
Code: HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, Python, Django, Subversion, Git, Responsive Design
Software:Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Axure RP
Bachelor of Science, Information Science
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Triangle User Experience Professionals Association, Member, 2012 - 2014
Tennessee Valley User Experience Professionals Association, Member, 2015 - Present