Develop, conduct, and report Formative and Summative usability studies on five different projects for a major medical equipment company. Help align company systems and products with FDA and ISO/IEC requirements and guidelines.

Consulting with small business owners. Providing technical expertise along with review and editing of documents for contract submissions. • I incorporate Microsoft 2010 – Excel, Word, Access, and PowerPoint to present/provide information. • Presently performing these assignments for a small business near Richmond, VA named Syneren which has interest in contract work for the Federal Aviation Administration.Previous experience as carpenter/homebuilder and Certification in Gerontology… Show more Consulting with small business owners. Providing technical expertise along with review and editing of documents for contract submissions. • I incorporate Microsoft 2010 – Excel, Word, Access, and PowerPoint to present/provide information. • Presently performing these assignments for a small business near Richmond, VA named Syneren which has interest in contract work for the Federal Aviation Administration.Previous experience as carpenter/homebuilder and Certification in Gerontology led to consulting with number of contractors, architects, and home owners to provide workspaces where older adults can maintain their independence and activities of daily living (2013 – present). • Conducted in-home, one-on-one interviews and focus groups to acquire feedback. • Incorporate drawings with Visio and PowerPoint for room layouts and different finished product views respectively.Westinghouse Electric Company (2013)• Worked with main control room operators and software engineers to verify integrated system “human engineering discrepancies” of Westinghouse nuclear power plant main control room and Ovation software design.• Developed database management system (MS Access) permitting SMEs to verify 3000 additional Human Engineering Discrepancies occurring during 2011 NRC scenario trials. Show less

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) - contractor - Research and Development Human Factors Laboratory (RDHFL) – William J. Hughes Technical Center - HF Engineer/ Researcher 2001 – 2012Develop methods for measuring human performance in technical operations and air traffic control environments, evaluated long term operational concepts, and developed design standards. Employed scientific methods and advanced technology to ensure that systems include human operators and maintainers perform as… Show more Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) - contractor - Research and Development Human Factors Laboratory (RDHFL) – William J. Hughes Technical Center - HF Engineer/ Researcher 2001 – 2012Develop methods for measuring human performance in technical operations and air traffic control environments, evaluated long term operational concepts, and developed design standards. Employed scientific methods and advanced technology to ensure that systems include human operators and maintainers perform as effectively and safely as possible. Developed and managed numerous databases with MS Access. .• Developed surveys and conducted data collection for numerous projects• Performed data analyses for various qualitative and quantitative studies.• Microsoft SharePoint Site Collection architect for Quality Assurance of FAA Weather products supported with Microsoft Access databases. • Developed several websites and one site collection with Microsoft SharePoint• Technical Operations (TO) work at 26 FAA facilities with over 350 specialist participants resulted in numerous interface design recommendations, several technical notes, and one symposium presentation.• Work concerning standardization of HITL computer interactions with systems, services and equipment in operation by FAAs technicians and controllers. Function Based and Sequential analyses of 20 plus computer systems monitored and controlled by technical specialists • Extensive work with Future EnRoute Workstation (FEWS) involvement with several simulation studies; developed scenarios with target generation facilities (.tgf) software, collected and analyzed data from Applied Science Laboratories Eyetracker 6, and biomechanical data (workstation input devices) Initial development of Future Terminal Workstation (FTWS) simulator including involvement with first two simulation studies; Initial development of Tower Operations Digital Data System (TODDS), include each development project and first two actual lab simulations. Show less

Improved or developed websites for numerous clients in the public sector. Conducted human performance evaluations, focus groups, wire framing, etc. and provided expert website analyses. During time at MarchFIRST created site maps and style guides for numerous clients. Completed a series of courses in Project Management.

• Collaborated in design, development, testing and presentation of prototype keyboard. • Composed/drafted original renderings of prototype keyboard. • Utilized electro-goniometers for dependent measurements of wrist and elbow motion. • Supervised entire data collection process through completion of project.• Provided written information and critical analysis for this NSF funded project.