Shelly D. Farnham, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Founded Third Place Technologies, a non-profit organization with a mission to empower creative communities through innovation in technology, spaces, and events. Our current focus is the development of collaborative, arts-oriented incubation spaces at the intersection of art and technology. In this role, I developed strategy and mission statement, recruited our board of directors, applied for grants, manage contingent staff, interns, and volunteers, performed research, developed advanced prototypes, produced numerous events, and implemented two arts-oriented maker spaces (Passable and Sky Artworks).See https://ThirdPlaceTechnologies.com

Artist and founding member of Totally Legit LLC, an art group at the intersection art and technology. We do large-scale, tech-oriented art installations. We also produce collaborative art events and run an arts-oriented maker space in Capitol Hill, Seattle.

Bedford, Ma, Us

Performing HCI / UX research for the Facebook Business Integrity Team via Planet Interactive. This was a temporary consulting/contractor role.

Performed mixed-methods research to inform the design of Google’s internal, next generation ticketing, endpoint management, and community systems. Research activities included assessing existing practices through behavioral analytics (GoogleSQL, BigQuery, SPSS), developing requirements and prioritizing features through questionnaires (Qualtrics), and assessing design concepts and usability testing through qualitative interviews.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Team lead for all research initiatives exploring innovative social media and community technology solutions. Managed interdisciplinary team, performed quantitative social media research, and developed data-centric prototypes.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Researched early stage social technologies as an embedded researcher with the communications and communities teams (Yahoo! Mail, Groups, Messenger), with the goals of guiding forward-thinking products and inspiring innovation.

Consulted with startups in the social networking space to help them build or evaluate social technologies. Clients included Zillow, Strands, Trusera, O'Reilly, the City of Seattle, and Microsoft. Worked on a few in-house projects (Pathable, Reality Allstarz, MyTwee), one of which was rolled out into its own company (Pathable), where I played a lead role in early stage design, development, and evaluation of core Pathable technology. Pathable continues today as a community and social networking service for events.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Researched social technologies expected to impact Microsoft products two to ten years in the future. Research activities included: user experience research, including laboratory, questionnaire, and observational user studies; quantitative usage analysis of large scale social technologies; advanced prototyping, which included coordinating teams through phases of brainstorming, design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation; consulting with product groups, and; participating in research community through papers, presentations, organizing workshops and conferences, and mentoring interns. Projects included Wallop (media centric social networking), Slam (mobile social cordination for smart phone), Swarm (text based mobile social coordination), Inner Circle (email-based networking and sharing), Personal Map (email networks), Point-to-Point (enterprise social networking), MSR Connections (bootstrapping mailing list networks), MSN Communities (large scale usage analysis), HutchWorld (virtual world for cancer patients).

Ph.D., Social Psychology

B.A., Psychology And Fine Arts