Brigitte Eaton
Santa Cruz, CA
brig@eatonweb.com
831.454.9332

what i want from you:

i'm looking for a position in a small company where i can work with intelligent, highly skilled people on an innovative and exciting product. a position which will enable me to expand my skillset into new realms. while continuing to use the skills i have already developed. i want ownership, responsibility, and accountability.

what you'll get from me:

• intelligence
• hard work
• commitment
• e-commerce experience
• web application ui design
• excellent communication skills
• the ability to "get inside the user's head"
• user-centric approach to site architecture
• skill in breaching the gap between technology and design
• experience w/large, database driven websites
• superior web skills across a wide range of disciplines.

i am good at all of these things (some i'm even excellent at):

• information design/architecture
• ui design
• programming
• designing
• usability
• producing
• maintenance.

i use these skills to do the above things (some i'm much better at than others):

• hand-code html
• dhtml
• css
• javascript
• jsp/java
• php
• mysql
• emacs
• unix
• photoshop
• usability testing
• tcl
• storyserver
• perl
• asp/vbscript

experience:

for brevity, no site links are listed here. please go to my web site listing for all the sites i've designed.

6/00-present/00

co-owner/ui specialist
jungawunga - scotts valley, ca

handled all front-end work for various projects including strategy, web design, information design, user interface design and front-end programming (jsp/java/php).

1/00-6/00

sr. user interface designer
peoplescape - san jose, ca

complete ownership of ui design, strategy, and web design for landmark new product. responsible for taking a concept, fleshing out the functional spec, and providing an extremely easy to use interface with very little barrier to entry.

7/99-1/00

engineer
clip2.com - palo alto, ca

complete ownership of ui design and programming (jsp/java), html coding, web strategy. secondary jobs - web design, graphic design, user testing. if the user sees it, i did it. challenges: taking a complex interface with a great amount of functionality and condensing it into an easy to use product targeted at advanced web users. at the same time creating a site that was friendly, easy to use, and very consumer-oriented.

2/99-6/99

ui/information designer (contract)
conduit - palo alto, ca

planned, designed and architected complete site structure, flow, and ui. this product had a very rudimentry prototype before i began work on it, i took this concept all the way to completion, providing them with a solid foundation, flow and ui design.

6/98-6/99

senior information designer (12/98 - 6/99)
web designer/ui specialist (6/98 - 12/98)
beyond.com/software.net - sunnyvale, ca

used my interest in usability and ease of use to establish ui and usability guidelines, usability testing, and established myself as the "ui guru" (the one and only) of the company. rewrote the ui for the order process and improved the overall "shopping experience". created key user interfaces, did usability testing, produced, designed, architected, coded and created graphics for the site.

4/98-6/98

web designer (contract)
software.net - san jose, ca

through my layout and design skills, i took the software.net site to "a new level". formerly a very engineering based site, i established a look and feel for the site and laid the groundwork for a complete redesign. produced, designed, architected, coded, and created graphics for various stores and sections of the software.net site.

1/98-4/98

web designer (contract)
cybersource - san jose, ca

took the opportunity to increase my skills by learning unix, emacs, and some basic perl. also increased my javascript knowledge by utilizing it for pop-up help on one of the sites. produced, designed, architected, coded, and created graphics for 3 sites (2 internal, 1 external).

12/97-1/98

web designer (contract)
healthstar, inc.

established a user friendly look and feel for this health care provider. produced, designed, architected, coded, and created graphics for their corporate site.

3/97

graphic designer (contract)
Vantive - santa clara, ca

created graphic buttons for vantive's first web application VanWeb.

4/96-12/97

production assistant (contract)
symbol technologies - san jose, ca

took my interest in the web and my design skills to the next level by learning html and web design and establishing myself as web designer for this division. produced, designed, architected, coded, and created graphics for 2 internal sites. Also provided technical illustrations and layout for manuals.

1/96

graphic designer (contract)
epic - santa clara, ca

consulted on layout for prototype ecommerce website

11/95

graphic designer (contract)

created graphics for prototype octel website.

10/93-4/96

graphic illustrator
eip microwave - milpitas, ca

created technical illustrations, layout, editing, and publishing services.

1991-1993

manager/typesetter
quik print - santa cruz, ca

managed print shop, did all typesetting (logos, business cards, letterhead, etc.).

education:

• diploma, westboro high school, westboro, ma
• 3 years, university of massachusetts, amherst, ma
• advanced postscript course, acquired knowledge incorporated
• production methods course, dynamic graphics education foundation
• advanced javascript, ziff-davis university (zdu)
• edward tufte, seminar on information design

organizations:

• member, wise-women
• member, digital eve
• member, html writers guild
• member, webgrrls
• member, sf women on the web (sf-wow)
• member, web standards project

articles & interviews:

• bbc online - 03/00
• macworld - 03/00 (print edition)
• e & p online - 03/08/00
• wired news - 02/23/00
• industry standard - 01/00 (interviewed, no article published yet)
• webword - 12/07/99
• ClickZ - 11/10/99
• entertainment weekly - 08/99

interests:

• reading
• weblogs
• web journals