Chris Reckling Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston

Guitarist w bluegrass and old time stringband, The Splinters.Banjo and guitar with old-time duo, The Long Lost String Band.

Littleton, MA

o Responsible for a new Watson IoT design system including patterns, components, and style, working with a talented team of designers from all over the world.o Improve the quality and consistency of design deliverables by developing processes that incorporate best practices in an agile development environment.o Manage designers and researchers.

Littleton, MA

I manage a large team of designers and content developers covering the IBM Collaboration Solutions portfolio, including IBM Verse and IBM Connections for both cloud and on premises, for web browsers and mobile devices. We're building the next generation of collaboration, infused with cognitive capabilities.We practice IBM Design Thinking in everything we.

Littleton, MA

I lead the mobile design and user experience team for IBM Verse (email, calendar, to-do's), IBM Sametime Chat and Meetings, IBM Connections social software and anything else mobile related. I manage a team of UX professionals across the disciplines of user research, interaction design, and visual design. Responsibilities include:Research overall mobile.

In UX Strategy, led a team of designers and user researchers to create strategies for mobile UX, future integrated collaboration solutions, which became IBM Project Vulcan, and other projects using design methodologies and prototypes.

Westford, MA

Responsible for user experience professionals (product, visual, and user research) working on IBM/Lotus branded products in Massachusetts. Primary products were Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, and Lotus Connections.Shipped a major update to Lotus Notes, version 8 (Hannover Project), which focused on delivering a world class user experience.Responsibilities.

Responsible for group of visual and interaction designers working on Lotus collaboration products, including the flagship Lotus Notes and Lotus Sametime.

Manage the product strategy, requirements definition and development of a broad range of tools to the address target user audience:o Workplace Builder, Lotus Workplace API Toolkitso Workplace Designer, a new tool built on Eclipse for the visual, script developer. o Managed product requirements, market research, technology evaluation, business development.

Responsible for shipping Collaboration Center features in Websphere Portal 4.2 to drive revenue goals for higher value product. Includes requirements for Lotus Notes, Sametime, and Quickplace portlets, as well as a new People Finder function, now a shared component between WebSphere Portal and Lotus Workplace. Extensive work with marketing, design, and.

Manage the product strategy, definition and development of Lotus K-station, a portal to support the Lotus Knowledge Management efforts. Worked closely with cross-functional teams from engineering, design, and marketing. Shipped 3 releases before these features were to be merged with the new WebSphere Portal 2.1 effort and came to fruition in version 4.1..

Manage the product strategy, definition, and development of Lotus Domino application development tools, including Domino Designer v4.6, 5, and 6, as well as the introduction of XML into the Domino application model.

Managed a team of Technical Support product planners, responsible for introducing new products into support and preparing for customer inquiries across all Lotus products, including all Desktop products(Smartsuite) and Lotus Notes.

Responsible for product planning and introduction in order to reduce support costs and achieve higher customer satisfaction for Lotus products – 1-2-3 Macintosh, Lotus Improv, Magellan.

Provide high quality and timely technical support for Lotus customers. Responsible for versions of Lotus 1-2-3 DOS, Windows and Macintosh, Magellan, Freelance. Award for Support Excellence.

Bachelor Of Music, Guitar, Composition, Arranging

Music

Spanish, Physics, History