Robin Silberling
Austin, TX

Objective

A User Experience position where my strong product and interaction design skills can support a multidisciplinary team delivering compelling interactive web-based software products.

Professional Experience

I am a user experience designer with nearly twenty years of experience in the internet and software industries. I have collaborated with engineering and UI teams designing user interfaces for complex web applications, web sites, desktop applications, operating systems, and multimedia products. My abilities include creating diagrams, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, visual designs, use cases, requirements, and specifications to support all aspects of a user-centered design process.

Freelance Designer – Austin, TX
2004 to present (part-time)

  1. Designed and implemented web sites and print materials for local businesses and organizations.

Senior User Interface Designer – Allegis Corporation, San Francisco, CA
September 1998 to August 2002. Contract through 2003

  1. Lead UI Designer for Allegis eBusiness Suite, a web-based PRM application with over 30 configurable components. Designed application structure, appearance, interaction conventions, and many business features.

Senior User Interface Designer – Netscape Communications, Mt. View, CA
November 1995 to September, 1998

  1. Designed HTML and Java-based server features for Netscape SuiteSpot 3.0 through 4.0 beta. Lead designer for a new cross-product server management framework, end-user content management, newsgroup management, and access control.             
  2. Lead Designer for cross-platform web page editor for Netscape Navigator Gold 2.0 and 3.0. Contributed to early design of Composer and Navigator for Communicator 4.0.

Senior User Interface Designer  - BAM! Software, Inc., Mt. View, CA & New York, NY
September 1993 to June 1995       

  1. Lead Designer for Prentice-Hall's Writer's Solution, an educational multimedia system.

Senior User Interface Designer – Taligent, Inc/Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA
January 1991 to September 1993

  1. Interaction designer on UI team creating a user experience for a new object-oriented operating system. Explored new visual and interaction paradigms for the desktop metaphor.

Interface Designer & Quality Engineer  - Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA
February 1987 to January 1991

  1. Led design and development for example programs for HyperCard 2.0.
  2. Performed quality assurance testing.

Graphic Designer – LaserWrite, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
March 1986 to February 1987

  1. Created camera-ready artwork for local businesses, using early “desktop publishing” technology.

EDUCATION

St. Edward’s University
 Photo-Communications, 2004 – 2007

UC Santa Cruz Extension
Certificate in Graphic Design & Production, 1987

Independent Studies
UC Berkeley Extension, 2001 – 2003, Foothill College, 1981 – 1984, 1996 – 1999, Ohlone College, 1984

Brief Bio

My early career as a graphic designer coincided with the introduction of the Macintosh. I worked as a print designer in the pioneering days of the "desktop publishing" industry, but my interest shifted toward designing software interfaces when I joined the HyperCard team at Apple in 1987.

Over the next decade plus, I worked on a variety of innovative products that explored (pre-internet) concepts of hypertext and linking. At Netscape Communications, I was an initial member of both the Client and Server User Experience Teams. I then joined Allegis where I was responsible for creating the UI for a data-intensive B2B web application.

Since moving to Austin, Texas, I have been freelancing part time as a web designer while studying photography. I have decided to look for a full-fledged UI design position because I miss working on larger and more complex projects, and having people to collaborate with.

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