Mike Niebling Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

In this role I spend most of my time on strategic technology problems like:* How can we incrementally refactor our monolithic legacy app without losing velocity?* How can we make any Mediafly app have a unified user experience, regardless of which team built it?* How can we improve our velocity and reduce our support ticket rate?* How can we provide a.

Chicago, IL

As a principal engineer, I didn't get the time to do much UX work any more but I did focus primarily on larger-scale frontend challenges, like:* A transition of our frontend codebase to React micro-frontends.* Technical architecture for the frontend of a new workflow editing application.* Leading a re-write of one of our oldest and buggiest UI features.*.

In this role, I led the frontend implementation of some large features, like:* Our homegrown analytics application, with custom data visualizations built on React & Highcharts* An advanced search query builder UI, using a parser generator and dynamic form* A document builder app that allowed users to combine pages from different docsI also spent time.

This was a cool hybrid UX design & frontend engineering role. I split my time about 70/30 between technical work and design work. My favorite design project during this time was a blank-slate redesign of our iOS app. On the code side, I spent a lot of time doing UI feature development and coming up to speed on our developer tooling & shared frontend.

Chicago, IL

I came on board as the first UX designer at Sonoma to help build out a new Enterprise Mobility & User-Centered Design practice. We did native apps on iOS and Windows 8 as well as cross-platform mobile and traditional web applications. Here are some cool things I was able to design:+ A native Windows 8 touch application to help Special Forces commanders.

Greater Chicago Area

+ I was the original design lead for the company's first mobile app, released on both iOS and Blackberry.+ I maintained our design documentation process, changing it once from MS Word (!) to beautiful InDesign artifacts, then again to a wiki system two years later.+ I built functional HTML/JS prototypes for usability testing, as well as a few small.

Greater Chicago Area

+ I worked as an one of 3 interaction designers on an agile software development team, creating wireframes and detailed documentation for a web-based CRM module.+ I took a week off of this project to help on a large-scale comparative usability test for a set of mobile devices.

Greater Chicago Area

+ I worked on many different types of projects, including remote testing, eye tracking, mobile device testing, and large-scale usability tests.+ I was involved with 240-plus participant sessions, including over 48 hours of one-on-one session moderation.+ I led the U.S. leg of a global research project for an international sports body.+ I was 2nd author on.

Reviewed and discussed current literature, designed an experiment in information navigation and created instruments to administer the experiment.

Mentored a group of first-year resident assistants, planned and implemented staff training programs, developed and implemented a student-run hiring process, administered a group of 40 residents, created programming for both residents and staff.

M.S., Human-Computer Interaction

Graduated with distinction. Elective focus on psychological factors.

B.S., Information Science & Technology

Minors in Writing and Business & Management Systems.