About


 
 

Strengths

Getting all the arrows pointing in the same direction

Through strong communication skills, enthusiasm and collaboration, I've led clients and team members to discover and embrace a combined vision for a project.

Making the complex simple

I've led projects that have turned large datasets, complicated workflows and tricky architectures into useful and usable (and sometimes even fun!) interactions. I very much enjoy creating elegant solutions out of complex problems.

Working within constraints to find clever solutions

I actually like constraints - instead of limiting us, constraints can help us to think outside the box. I work well as an intermediary between designers and technologists and have found that some of the best ideas come out when juxtaposing the two.

Professional Experience

Director of User Experience

Mark Logic Corporation - San Carlos, CA, Nov 2009 to Present
Provide UX strategy, product design and leadership for product management, marketing and engineering. Conduct user research and translate into prototype workflows, wireframes and interactions for the MarkLogic product.

Director of User Experience

New City Media, Inc. – 1998 to 2008, Blacksburg, VA
Responsible for direction and leadership of designers and programmers in the creation of approximately 150-175 websites and multimedia projects.

Responsibilities included: user experience design, information architecture, art direction, client consulting, estimating and proposals, strategic planning, wireframing, interface design, programming, user testing and mentoring. Fluent translating between “propeller head” and “normal” speech, particularly with clients. Excellent at getting team members and clients on board with a unified vision.

Awards
Multiple IMA, CASE, Addy, and Macromedia/Adobe Site of the Day awards.

Other titles while at New City Media


Instructor - "Designing UX for the Web"

Virginia Tech Art Department - Spring 2008, Blacksburg, VA
Designed and instructed Art 4984 - "Designing User Experience for the Web." Covered the planning and design of web sites/web applications, and focused on wireframing, navigation, layout conventions, user flows, writing for the web and client relations.

Director of Technology/New Media

Continental Capital & Equity Corporation - 1997-1998, Winter Park, FL
Responsibilities included: design and development of company’s web sites, web-based marketing and advertising, development of new media marketing materials, computer maintenance/purchasing.

Multimedia Author/Integrator

Convivial Design/Purple Moon - 1996-1997, San Francisco, CA

Software Title Credits

Responsibilities included: mTropolis programming for children’s CD-ROM title development. Projects were directed by Brenda Laurel and funded by Paul Allen.
(ahh mTropolis, 10 years later and the best we have is Flash Catalyst & Builder)

Education

Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Master of Human Computer Interaction
August 2009 (3.9 GPA)

Full Sail University, Winter Park, FL

Specialized Associate Degree in Digital Media 1996
Class Salutatorian, Advanced Achievement Award (3.9 GPA)

University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI

Bachelor of Music 1991 in Music Theory/Composition - Minor in Advertising
Cum Laude Graduate (3.37 GPA, 3.43 in major)

Professional Skills

Media - Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Flex, Illustrator, OmniGraffle
Languages & Markup - HTML, XML, CSS, PHP, ActionScript, AJAX/JavaScript, SQL
Music & Audio - Logic Studio, Reason

Activities/Interests

Member Information Architecture Institute
CHI 2009
UIE Web Application Summit, VIP 2007
User Experience Week - Adaptive Path Summer 2006

And just for fun:

 

Contact:
James D. Vogt (JD)
Mobile: 540-250-5079
jamesdvogt@gmail.com
Foster City, CA

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Skills
• Leading Interactive Teams
• User Experience Design
• Interaction Design
• Information Architecture
• Usability Testing

 



Myself and teammates conducting a heuristic evaluation.