Weimin Hou Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Columbia, MD

-- Lead the requirement gathering and user research activities, which include conducting interviews, facilitating focus groups, designing surveys, organizing card sorting exercises, and moderating usability testing sessions-- Analyze user research data and document the findings, requirements, and recommendations-- Develop prototypes and wireframes or.

Silver Spring, MD

-- In the large multi-team Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) QPP website project, led and conducted user research activities, including moderated remote desktop/mobile usability testing, diary studies, online card sorting, tree testing, survey, and interview-- Worked with design teams in an Agile environment, conducted user research and.

Silver Spring, MD

-- Led user research activities, drafted participant recruiting questionnaires, designed user research evaluation materials, wrote reports and recommendations, and presented to a variety of non-profit and for-profit clients, including government agencies, international organizations, financial institutions, and private companies-- Worked with diverse user.

Laurel And Silver Spring, MD

Functioned as Usability Specialist and Information Architect in the large multi-year Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) website transformation project, which included the consolidation of more than 80 web domains, sub-domains, and sub-sites and implementation of a Drupal web content management system-- Conducted multiple.

Frederick, MD

-- Designed, maintained, and updated the organization’s website-- Coordinated with school administrators and teachers, developed the Chinese language program at local schools, designed curricula, and drafted contracts

Baltimore, Maryland Area

USABILITY RESEARCH ASSISTANT-- Developed usability evaluation methods for online community interfaces -- Led and conducted usability evaluations: Carried out user interviews and surveys, observed, recorded, and analyzed user interactions with the online community prototype-- Coordinated data collection in three countries and conducted data analysis.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

-- Taught Elementary Chinese to undergraduate students at UMBC

Beijing City, China

-- Served as liaison among clients, embassies, and government departments -- Edited and translated English-Chinese business correspondence and documents

M.S. & Ph.D., Information Systems, Human-Computer Interaction (Hci) Track

Doctoral Research Area: Human-computer Interaction (HCI) Dissertation: Supporting Children's Online Identity In International Communities

Ma, Intercultural Communication