Jared Bauer, Phd Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

• Develop a research strategy with the product teams to improve our understanding of GitHub's customers.
• Conduct formative user research through interviews and contextual inquiries.
• Synthesize user research to build a coherent picture of our users' motivations, attitudes and work flows.
• Evaluative and benchmark new and existing experiences in person or online with UserTesting, and Lookback.
• Analyze research using R, Python and Excel/Sheets.
• Improve Research Operations by developing and communicating processes to ensure best practices for user research are conducted across the organization.

Seattle, WA, US

Lecturer for University of Washington's Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE) department. I help small teams of students research, design, evaluate and communicate their work on a topic of their choosing.

Seattle, WA, US

• Conducted extensive research on context-aware computing and users' relationship with technology
• Conducted studies on novel design methods
• Conducted statistics to evaluate design methods using R
• Conducted a language analysis of user feedback using Python and Python’s Natural Language Tool Kit (NLTK)

Redmond, Washington, US

• Work with the product teams to develop a strategy for understanding our customers and the product space.
• Conduct formative user research through interviews and contextual inquiries.
• Synthesize user research to build a coherent picture of our users' motivations, attitudes and work flows.
• Evaluative and benchmark the efficacy of new and existing experiences in the lab or online with UserTesting, and Lookback.
• Conduct and analyze surveys.
• Use R, Python and Excel to analyze and report user behavior.

• Work with UX Designers and Product Managers to develop research hypothesis,questions, and test protocols to evaluate designs.
• Conduct studies with users online and in the lab to understand user motivations andattitudes.
• Use R and Excel to analyze and report user behavior.

• Create mockups and prototypes in Figma, Sketch and InVision to evaluate designs for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services.
• Research and develop design patterns to communicate best practices and encourage design consistency across the product.
• Work with UX Researchers and Product Managers to develop research hypothesis, questions, and test protocols to evaluate designs.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Designed (and redesigned) mockups, storyboards, wireframes for a chat application and intelligent agent using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Omnigraffle
• Conducted a usability study on a multi-modal mobile chat application
• Conducted user research on intelligent agents and computer-mediated communication
• Prototyped a novel chat application and intelligent agent using JQuery, HTML, Python, and Python’s Natural Language Tool Kit (NLTK)
• Conducted a user-study on a novel chat application and intelligent agent

Santa Clara, California, US

• Conducted an extensive literature review on sleep and sleep technology
• Designed (and redesigned) mockups, storyboards, wireframes for an app to promote healthy sleep habits using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Omnigraffle
• Conducted a user-study on an app to promote healthy sleep habits
• Designed a sleep environment sensing system using SketchUp, AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, and Omnigraffle
• Prototyped a sleep environment sensing system using Arduino, Processing and Python
• Designed an app for measuring sleepiness using Adobe Illustrator and Omnigraffle

Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

• Developed a tool for visualizing conversations using Python for language processing and Adobe Flex with the Fuse visualization library

Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

• Conducted an extensive literature review of context-aware design tools
• Designed and prototyped a virtual reality system for designing ubicomp applications using Java, Java’s Wonderland 3D world builder API, and Blender

Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

• Designed and developed an interface to visualize taxonomic information using Adobe Flex
• Created mock ups of the visualization and how the visualization would be integrated into the existing website using Omnigraffle, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
• Conducted contextual interviews of potential users to gain insight into how students used taxonomies

• Conducted contextual inquiries on how deans manage their departments.
• Designed a “dean’s dashboard” webpage using Adobe Illustrator and Omnigraffle.

Phd, Information Science

Master Degree, Information Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Cognitive Science With A Specialization In Hci