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MY WORK

Experience Across Industries and Product Types

Bringing extensive experience in Human-Centered Design (HCD), I have led research and design efforts across diverse industries and digital product landscapes, ensuring user needs remain at the core of every solution.

A career applying Human-Centered Design methodologies across industries, transforming complex challenges into intuitive, effective, and user-friendly experiences.

Private Industry

Experience with integrating Human-Centered Design methodologies to enhance Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software design at companies that include, but not limited to:

  • Microsoft, Inc.

  • ESRI

  • Lexis Nexis

Government

Experience with informing digital product strategy and design for enhancing accuracy, safety, and efficiency in various Federal and State agencies, to include, but not limited to:

  • Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

  • Department of Defense (DoD)

  • US Department of State

  • US Consumer Product Safety Commision

  • State Health and Social Services

High Stakes Environments

Inform the process enhancements and product designs in high stakes environments where critical decision making is performed under high stress with errors having critical consequences, to include, but not limited to:

  • Emergency Response Planning

  • Command & Control Systems

  • Port Security

  • EMT Performance in Ambulances

Highly Regulated Industry

Experience in quickly learning regulations and policies needed to effectively inform product design in highly regulated industries, to include, but not limited to:

  • Federal Acquisitions

  • Defense Trade Controls

  • Energy

  • Pharmaceuticals

  • Water Rights

Resume

Download Aten’s Resume (PDF)

Work Samples

Available upon request