My Resume

Aye M. Moah

Experience:

Senior User Interaction Designer (2008 – Present) Mzinga Burlington, MA

• Mzinga provides software that allows client companies to build and manage their online communities.
  
• Primary responsibilities include improving usability in existing service offerings and designing the user interaction for a productized community package.
  
• Redesigned forums.
  
  • Improved usability by displaying only relevant actions, encouraging users to add more content by removing barriers to posting, and fixing navigation so that users no longer feel “lost.”
    
  • Created novel and intuitive pagination system for tracking unread pages within a thread.
    
  • Improved visual design.
    
• Designed admin interface for productized package.
  
  • Removed/hid options that did not impact end user experience, streamlined the rest (from 250 to about 25), made the layout intuitive, and set sensible defaults whenever possible.
    
• Designed Social Intelligence Analytics.
  
  • Designed collection of reports and interfaces that make millions of numbers accessible to non-statisticians. Packaged community statistics into a simple visual shape that conveys the personality/DNA of a community at a glance.
    
• Currently designing an enterprise wiki product.
  

User Interface Designer (2007 – 2008)  Cisco WebEx Burlington, MA

• Created comprehensive functional and user interface specification documents for complete products. (Specifications completed: To Do, Tagging Component, Calendar)
  
• Designed and delivered information architecture and visual layer of each product.
  
• Produced wire frames, screen flows, and high fidelity mockups.
  
• Gathered feedback from development and design team and maintained specification documents as the projects progress.
  
• Provided support, including competitive analysis, to product management in pitching new product ideas.
  

Associate of Technology (2005 – 2007)  Sapient Corporation Cambridge, MA

Gevity Project: Part of a global distributed team to build a web portal for over 8,000 small- and medium-sized client businesses with user base of over 100,000 client employees for mid-sized HR company.

• Gathered requirements from end users and drove communication with clients for design closure.
  
• Managed relationships and communication across multidisciplinary teams and with clients.
  
• Designed protocol and developed prototype for single sign-on integration with Salesforce.com.
  
• Led Usability Testing sessions with end users.
  

Education:

BS in Computer Science and Engineering June 2005, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Certificate of Digital Graphic Design from The New England Institute of Arts

Skills:

CSS, HTML, Perl, Java, SQL, Agile Methodology, Full Lifecycle Experience, Product Management

Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, InDesign, MS Visio

Portfolio: http://thinkstick.net/portfolio