Dan Greenblatt

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	Daniel M. Greenblatt dan -dot- greenblatt -at- gmail -dot- com www.dangreenblatt.com
			300 N. Canal St. Apartment #1409 Chicago, IL 60606 M: 312 714 2916
Objective
	I intend to obtain a full-time position as an interaction designer at a technology company, consulting firm or other organization that values creativity and a user-centered design methodology. I possess expertise and have demonstrated proficiency in the diverse but allied domains of visual design, software development, user interface development and usability, and have worked in environments ranging from pure research to product development. This combination of experiences puts me in a unique position to innovate while leveraging the desires of customers, constraints of engineering, and abilities of fellow designers.

Education
	Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA Degree: M.S. In Human Computer Interaction, May 2007 Cumulative GPA: 3.91 on a 4.0 scale

	Duke University Durham, North Carolina Degrees: B.A. in Computer Science, Certificate Program in Genetics, May 2002 Cumulative GPA: 3.45 on a 4.0 scale

Experience
	Experience Planning Team, Motorola Inc., Chicago, IL		August 2007 - present
	Interaction Designer: Create compelling mobile experiences, from research, to ideation, to detailed design and prototyping, working within the constraints of both the tactical and strategic timeframes. Coordinate with various stakeholders, including research labs, technical marketing, media designers and product teams in order to align experiences with larger business goals and successfully drive them into products.

	Media Computing Group, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany		June 2007 - August 2007
	Research Assistant : Refined a software library that supported bluetooth communication between a computer and the Nintendo Wii Remote. Responsibilities included optimization of an existing code base, bug fixes and the addition of features to facilitate integration into new projects. Updated library is currently being used in ongoing research within the laboratory.

	Multimedia Experience UI Group , Nokia, Oulu, Finland		May 2006 - August 2006
	Summer intern: Collaborated with a cross-disciplinary team of user interface/graphic/sound designers on projects exploring next generation multimedia software applications for mobile devices. Responsible for creating Flash simulations from user interface specifications and designing and conducting qualitative studies of technology use. Also developed a recipe viewing application for the Nokia 770 internet tablet.

	Everyday Computing Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA		September 2005 – May 2007
	Graduate Research Assistant: Conducting research as part of a home healthcare project funded by Siemens. Responsible for the design and implementation of a mobile application that was used to collect data about health-related decision-making processes in patients with chronic conditions.

	UCSF Computer Graphics Lab, UCSF, San Francisco, CA		July 2002 – July 2005
	Programmer / Analyst: Worked as part of a five-person development team on the ‘Chimera’ molecular modeling system. Responsibilities included development of new features, writing of user- and programmer-level documentation, responding to user feedback, managing regression test procedures, and various dissemination activities including designing web pages, conducting training workshops, and contributing to research papers.

	Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC		September 2001 – May 2002
	Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Teaching assistant for an introductory computer science course, Computer Science Fundamentals. In addition to helping students complete their labs, I was also responsible for running a weekly extra help session to review course material.

Publications
	L. Mamykina, E. Mynatt, P. Davidson, and D. Greenblatt: MAHI: Investigation of Social Scaffolding for Reflective Thinking in Diabetes Management. Full paper to appear in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008).
	K. Mäkelä, S. Belt, D. Greenblatt, and J. Häkkilä: Mobile interaction with visual and RFID tags: a field study on user perceptions. Note in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007): 991-994.
	A. Dearden, A. Light, S. Dray, J.C. Thomas, M. Best, C. Buckhalter, D. Greenblatt, G. Krishnan, and N. Sambasivan: User centered design and international development. Workshop proposal in the Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007): 2825-2828.
	U. Pieper, N. Eswar, H. Braberg, M.S. Madhusudhan, F.P. Davis, A.C. Stuart, N. Mirkovic, A. Rossi, M.A. Marti-Renom, A. Fiser, B. Webb, D. Greenblatt, C.C. Huang, T.E. Ferrin, and A. Sali, MODBASE, A Database of Annotated Comparative Protein Structure Models, and Associated Resources, Nucleic Acids Research, 32(1):D217-D222, 2004.
	E.F. Pettersen, T.D. Goddard, C.C. Huang, G.S. Couch, D.M. Greenblatt, E.C. Meng, and T.E. Ferrin, UCSF Chimera - A Visualization System for Exploratory Research and Analysis, J. Comp. Chem., 25(13):1605-1612, 2004.
	T.E. Ferrin, C.C. Huang, D.M. Greenblatt, D. Stryke, K.M. Giacomini, and J.H. Morris, Enhancing Data Sharing in Collaborative Research Projects with DASH, Proceedings of the 2005 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing.

Technical Skills
	Programming	Developing on the Linux, Windows, and Macintosh platforms, HTML, XML, Python, Java 2 Standard (J2SE) and Micro Edition (J2ME), Objective-C, PHP, MySQL, Adobe Flex IDE and MXML, object-oriented software design

	Design	Illustrator, Flash (including Actionscript), Dreamweaver, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), software and paper prototyping techniques

	Usability	Formative (questionnaires, interviews) and summative (cognitive walkthrough, heuristic evaluation, think-aloud, focus groups) evaluation techniques, qualitative field methods

Interests
	Hobby electronics, cooking, tutoring, triathlon, travel