Education

The University of Kansas, B.F.A. Industrial Design
(Fall 2003; 154 credit hours; 5 year program, master's equivalent)

Awards

• IDEA2003 Gold Award presented by the Industrial Designers Society of America and sponsored by BusinessWeek. Project: Sustainable Design
• Honorable Mention, KU Birdhouse design.
• First Place, Short Story published in the Mind's Eye, a literary magazine.

Experience

Aug 2006 - Present
Center for Research on Learning, University of Kansas (KU-CRL)
Advanced Learning Technologies in Education Consortia (ALTEC)
Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation (CETE) Lawrence, Kansas
Systems Specialist, Interface Designer

http://www.ku-crl.org/
http://www.altec.org/
http://www.cete.us/

• Design, develop, and maintain student tutorials to support a large-scale computer-based assessment and learning system which, in 2006, delivered 2.7 million computer-based statewide NCLB assessments. Up to 50,000 tutorial views per month.
• Design, develop and maintain teacher instructions that support the computer-based formative assessment system for the state of Kansas (KCA TestBuilder).
• Lead user interface (UI) and user interaction (UX) designer for the KCA TestBuilder project. Daily tasks include W3C and Section 508 web standard and accessibility audits, Screening with JAWS 8.0, user experience research, interaction design, visual interface design, and coding with XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and XSLT. Work in conjunction with system architects and programmers.
• Lead user interface (UI), user interaction (UX), accessibility, and XHTML consultant for the various state support sites, including Kansas, Idaho, Oklahoma, Alaska, and South Carolina.
• Present design concepts using scenarios, storyboards, wireframes, flowcharts, and working prototypes. Proposed, installed, and maintain a UI development blog (Wordpress) that facilitates project communication and promotes institutional memory for discussion, decisions, and milestones. Prototype with Visio or Acrobat8.
• Daily skills: Advanced XHTML and CSS explorations; Keyboard navigation prototypes, Progressive enhancement and unobtrusive DOM JavaScript, Mootools, AJAX, PHP, MySQL, Adobe CS3, Captivate, JSP, Velocity, Apache, Tomcat, Mason, XML, XSLT, and Xpath, AS2, and Flash 7r63 players. I also write utility Perl scripts and bat files, and use Cygwin, rsync, SSH, CVS, SVN, and Mantis. I use both Windows XP and OS X, and I'm familiar with UNIX.

Apr 2006 - Jul 2006 / Feb 2006 - Apr 2006
Glam Media, Inc. San Francisco, California
Web Engineer - two 3 month contracts

• Implemented and customized Drupal, an open source content management system. Worked both remotely and on-site. Familiar with CVS and Cygwin.
• Solved cross-platform, cross-browser display issues.
• Extensive use of HTML, XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, XML, and XSLT while building the Glam Network, a new online network of blogs; GlamSpace, a new community similar to MySpace; and CSS drop menus that span these areas and glam.com.

Jul 2004 - Jan 2006
Allen Press, Inc. Lawrence, Kansas
Web Programming and Design

• Routinely constructed rapid prototypes, task analyses, use cases, interaction models, screenshots, and utilized information architecture techniques for online journal sites and web-based internal/external content management systems.
• Organized, designed, implemented, coded, and maintained hundreds of functional Perl templates.
• Simultaneously worked on dozens of large projects, including PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine.
• Restructured and organized hundreds of outdated OmniMark templates, code, and information; routinely performed 100+ page updates; and wrote custom data conversion scripts.
• Communicated with internal and external stakeholders.
• Used Daily: Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Perl, CGI, Apache, UNIX, HTML, CSS, XML, XPath, SQL, and DOM JavaScript.
• Solved cross-platform, cross-browser display issues.
• Fast-paced team environment.

2002, 2001 summer
Eugene Research Institute Eugene, Oregon
Assistive Technology Staff

• Software development projects involved user feedback, task analysis, flowcharts, storyboards, and Flash based use-models.
• Assistive technology presenter: 15th and 16th Annual Oregon Inservice on Developmental Disabilities.
• Specific technology includes: Dragon Naturally Speaking, Home Page Reader, and head-controlled pointing devices.
• In-home visits to provide technology support for individuals with disabilities.

2001 - Present
Freelance

• Develop, design, customize, integrate, install, and build: site organization, navigation, templates, services, products, and CMS.
• Understand fundamental graphic design concepts.
• Strong artistic, drawing, and sketching abilities.
• Web accessibility, W3C, Section 508.
• Create clean table-less layouts using only CSS for presentation.
• Maintain an understanding of standards and best practices.
• Hand-code valid, semantic, and accessible markup.
• Pavervision3D, AS3, Flash CS3, Blender, Photoshop CS3 + Collada

1998 - 2001
Student Union Activities
Web Master

• Web master and designer: Student Union Activities at the University of Kansas.

1993 - 1996
True Value Hardware and Just Ask Rental

• Assistant store manager and Rental Manager (1000 items).
• Trained employees. Tracked and ordered store inventory.
• Attended seminars in: Chicago, Atlanta, and Las Vegas.
• Enacted Rental Procedures.
• Directly communicated with vendors.
• Solved customer and contractor problems.

Presentations

Carter, B. (January, 2008). Universal Design Considerations for the Kansas Computerized Assessments Online Teacher Instructions. Hawaii International Conference on Education, 5 January 2008. Honolulu, HI. (Session Leader, Educational Technology Panel)

Carter, B. (August, 2007). New Developments in 3D. University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. Lawrence, KS. Topics included Pavervision3D, Flash CS3, Collada, Blender, and Photoshop CS3 + Collada techniques. (Invited presentation)

Carter, B. (July, 2002). Basic Concepts of Web Usability. Early Intervention Program, University of Oregon. Eugene, OR. (Invited presentation)

Tools

Adobe CS3, Perl, Apache, Tomcat, JSP, Velocity, UNIX, Cygwin, rsync, SSH, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, XPath, MySQL, DOM JavaScript, PHP, Drupal, Visio, Mootools, AJAX, Captivate, Wordpress, CVS, SVN, Mantis, Pencil, Paper

Additional information

Specific samples available.
References available.