49ers Coaching Tools
49ers Coaching Tools: Various custom tools to support the coaches.
Managed the relationship and all programs supporting the San Francisco 49ers professional football coaches. Specific tools created included tools to support pre-game analysis to track opponents’ tendencies, scouting reports, creation of the weekly playbooks for both Defense and Offense, play analysis and selection for the Defensive Coordinator, and additional consulting as needed, including evaluation of player draft analysis tools.… Continue reading 49ers Coaching Tools
50 Dangerous Things
50 Dangerous Things (you should let your children do): A book and website. Co-wrote, co-designed, implemented in InDesign, and self-published the book Fifty Dangerous Things (you should let your children do). Due to exceptional sales as a self-published work, the book was picked up by Penguin Books and is available at bookstores and online. Company:… Continue reading 50 Dangerous Things
Adobe Acrobat 8
Adobe Acrobat 8: Redesign of the application interface.
I was program manager for the design team, bridging the work of the designers with the existing Acrobat product team process. To ensure a result that both pushed the user experience forward while respecting the existing product, one of the most senior Macromedia XD designers was paired with one of the existing Acrobat team designers.… Continue reading Adobe Acrobat 8
Adobe MAX Vision
Adobe MAX Vision: Kevin Lynch presented our vision of the future of interaction. Our team created a live, working prototype how future users would interact with Adobe’s products, demonstrated by Kevin Lynch during his keynote at the MAX conference. I co-managed, with Gever Tulley, the Innovative Design Experience (index) team within Adobe’s Experience Design (XD)… Continue reading Adobe MAX Vision
Adobe Media Player
Adobe Media Player: a desktop media player designed for both users and publishers; one of the first Adobe AIR applications. The XD team was tasked to design a new type of Media Player: one that provided an amazing experience for users, with full control over their content and viewing, as well as value for publishers,… Continue reading Adobe Media Player
AIRS
AIRS: Accident/Incident Reporting System for the US Hang Gliding & Paragliding Assn. Designed and managed development/deployment of a system for reporting accidents and incidents that occur at US hang gliding and paragliding sites. A specific constraint was restricting all participants’ identities through an NIH Certificate of Confidentiality protecting participants in research using human subjects. The… Continue reading AIRS
Bowerbird
Bowerbird: noun, 1 – a strong-billed Australasian bird, noted for the male’s habit of constructing a bower adorned with feathers, shells, and other objects to attract the female. 2 – a pilot tracking system. Designed, co-created, and managed deployment of a system for tracking paraglider pilots participating in competition, making the logistics of running major… Continue reading Bowerbird
CART RaceViewer
CART RaceViewer: Online live coverage of CART motor races in the context of a broadband technology trial. Overall management of the design and development of “RaceViewer” software that assembled, presented, and allowed the audience to interact with a live CART (Championship Auto Racing Teams) experience. This was a showcase of new broadband technology. Helium had… Continue reading CART RaceViewer
GM Auto Show
GM Experience Online: Live internet coverage of the GM Auto Show. Produced live internet event coverage for GM of the 2000 North American International Auto Show, including supervision of the design team, web production team, and onsite media production team. The “GM Experience” included live feeds along with stories produced in the classic Quokka Sports… Continue reading GM Auto Show
Helium Spiral
Helium Spiral: A hybrid approach to project management, optimized for development of custom live event software.… Continue reading Helium Spiral
Kognito Interactive
Kognito Interactive: Interactive simulations to help students and faculty have difficult conversations about important topics, such as thoughts of suicide. Directed all aspects of the California Community College (CCC) client relationship for an award-winning developer of online, interactive role-playing health games. The CCC is the largest system of higher education in the country (then 112… Continue reading Kognito Interactive
SCO Office Suite
SCO Office Suite: Word processing, spreadsheet, and database – three now-common business applications all running on SCO XENIX/UNIX. As one of the first employees of The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), my job morphed almost continuously during my tenure there. It was my first job out of college, starting on the office staff then quickly becoming… Continue reading SCO Office Suite
Sony Media Center
Sony Media Center: A proof of concept branded media viewing and management experience. The XD Team within Macromedia was specifically tasked with pushing the boundaries of Macromedia’s products and creating new, more immersive user experiences. Not surprisingly, one of our managers, Chief Creative Officer Michael Gough, brought some of the same design sensibilities we explored… Continue reading Sony Media Center
Sydney Olympics
Action Tracker: Live event coverage based on real-time data from the Sydney Olympics. In addition to supervising a team of 5 PMs as Director of Project Management at Quokka Sports, I also directly managed several projects supporting the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Action Tracker provided live images, commentary and results of track and field, swimming, diving… Continue reading Sydney Olympics
Tinker Challenge
Tinker Challenge: Hands-on, customized “teams building” workshops. Co-producer of Tinker Challenge events with Gever Tulley. Clients included Adobe, Google, and the Pop!Tech conference. Our workshops were uniquely engaging, reliably delightful, and received universally high praise from our clients. Gever and I collaborated on inventing the team-specific challenges themselves, along with all aspects of production: materials… Continue reading Tinker Challenge
Tinkering School
Tinkering School: An innovative summer camp known world-wide. In 2005 Gever Tulley and I invited 8 kids to spend a week at our house: building things bigger than they were. This was the first session of the world-famous overnight summer camp, Tinkering School. In 2009 we founded a non-profit, the Institute for Applied Tinkering (IAT),… Continue reading Tinkering School
TourTracker
TourTracker: Live coverage of the AmGen Tour of California bicycle race. This was the first tour coverage to integrate live data analytics and streaming video with real-time GPS positions for key racers providing a unique and compelling race-viewing experience. I managed all aspects of the project, including client communications, schedules, testing, bug tracking, feature negotiation,… Continue reading TourTracker
USHPA.org
USHPA.org: Public-facing website communicating to general public, members, press, landowners, and potential new members. Also integrates members-only restricted content and ties into a comprehensive back-end member-management system. This is a story about how sometimes the only solution to an intractable problem is tenacity and sheer willpower. This project was a complete overhaul of the technology… Continue reading USHPA.org
We Are Pilots.
We Are Pilots.: A video series I conceived and created about women who fly paragliders (work in progress). At a popular free flight film festival I realized that there were zero women pilots represented on-screen. I wanted to change that, so I immediately went out and bought a GoPro camera with the intention of submitting… Continue reading We Are Pilots.
Xaos Tools
Xaos Tools: Production software start-up. As Director of User Satisfaction my team was responsible for quality assurance, documentation, installations, and support of all Xaos Tools products (for both business and consumer clients). Xaos Tools was created to productize special effect software developed by Xaos, Inc. The most popular products were Paint Alchemy and Terrazzo, both… Continue reading Xaos Tools
XD Brown Bag Series
xd brown bag: Innovative internally-focused presentation series that effectively established the Macromedia/Adobe Experience Design team as thought-leaders in design and technology.… Continue reading XD Brown Bag Series