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Team : Michael W. Mitchell
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Michael W. Mitchell, Ph.D.
oneVoice™ User Experience and Service
Platform Design Consultant
oneVoice™ - Integrated Mobile Information,
Communication and Collaboration Service Platform™
[email protected]
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Summary
- Community and business
UI conception, design, implementation, redesign
and consulting
- Ph.D. in Human Factors
Engineering (HCI Concentration), MS in Human Factors
Psychology
- Co-founder of 2 Internet
communications software and related services startup
companies
- 9+ years of professional
design experience
- 7+ years of information
architecture, web & software user-interface (UI)
design, prototyping and user-testing experience
- Connections into large
networks of experts, brilliant visionaries/futurists
and eager entrepreneurial youth in the US and developing
countries
- I have the vision, passion
and UI concepts for uplifting and unifying humanity
(through a mobile, immersive, profile-matching game
called theFlow™)
- I have been working with
a holistic approach for using information and communication
technologies (ICT) to stimulate economic growth
in developing countries and strengthen emerging
markets
- Strong interests in smart
mobs, ecotourism, storytelling, matchmaking, youth
and women empowerment, geographic information systems
(GIS), location-based services, social network visualization
and utilization, trust/reputation and identity systems,
multi-point barter systems, microlending and alternative
currencies, all areas sustainable living (ecology,
technology, sociology, economy)
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Desires
- I desire to see a world
moving toward peace and its people gaining mutual
understanding and acceptance of one another through
global interconnection of and meaningful interaction
between people of potential synergy.
- I desire to help pull the
people on this planet closer together onto varying
(and as of yet unseen) planes of common ground/interest
by allowing people to visualize, better utilize
and more richly interact with their existing community
networks as well as extending those networks by
uniting people of affinity around the world by their
synergistic ideas, insights, friends, questions,
goals, interests, knowledge, expertise, skills,
experience, etc.
- I desire the opportunity
to develop mobile- and web-based interfaces that
harness, integrate and simplify information and
communication technologies to help people remotely
find, communicate, share, trade, collaboratively
create, learn, work and play with others of affinity.
- I desire to assist in the
creation of a global, frictionless, real-time, mobile-
and web-based, all-inclusive idea/knowledge/assistance/resource/etc.
gift/trade/barter/etc. exchange system supporting
all existing monetary and complimentary currencies,
and which leverages existing technologies.
- I desire to create theFlow™
- a globally inclusive, mobile, pay-it-forward,
pervasive reality-tv game concept wherein youth
webcast their journeys around the world as agents
of lasting change.
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Recent Interface Design Work
Game Design 
- Currently designing theFlow™,
a social-network & knowledge-sharing game for web-enabled
mobile devices.
Freelance Web Design
oneVoice™ Mobile: Integrated ICT and Collaborative
Storysharing Environment
- Global Information System
(GIS) enabled, mobile team/knowledge/situation management
software for smart mobs and oneVillage Global
Transformation Agents (GTAs) to locate, identify,
connect, coordinate, collaboratively create, execute,
capture, track and report on projects with genuine
positive social benefit.
- Leverages existing technology
as well as the emergent standards-based integrated/unified
online trust/identity systems to allow continual
matchmaking of needed/desired connections to relevant
information/knowledge, individual and groups of
experts, individuals and groups of synergy/affinity/interest
- Initial scenarios focus
on AIDS and other conditions that form the primary
cause of societal breakdown (issues of disease,
hunger, malnutrition, abandonment of orphans, toxicity,
hazard, environmental degradation, societal collapse,
political aggression, community and family disintegration,
and other suboptimal situations of the human enterprise).
- oneVoice Mobile will enable
oneVillage, its GTAs, NGO customers and ecoPartners
to reverse community disintegration by focusing
on restoration, renovation, reclamation, and renewal
of the human spirit.
oneVillage Foundation and oneVillage.biz
fatbubble™: Like adding a sixth sense to
your IM tool.™
(company now defunct)
- Group activity and history
mining plugin for Internet Explorer 4.x and higher
(lives at the bottom of your browser window)
- Lets you see where your
instant messenger buddies go online (based on invitation)
- Share and filter your web
activity, rating and comments across any topic area
with your closest online friends and IM buddies
- Find relevant research
within your networks of friends and people of affinity
- Mobile use scenarios for
shared landmarking and commenting on physical locations,
shared social calendars, shared collections of anything/everything
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Application design (concepts, sketches, scenarios,
flows, Photoshop and HTML mockups) for theFlow™,
oneVoice™ and fatbubble™
presented in person upon
request.
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Professional Experience
11.03 » Current
Freelance Videographer, Web and Graphic Designer
Cinema Division and Virtual Development Division
On the edge� Media Group // Spokane, Washington
- Serving as interim Director
of Cinema Division
- Serving as Creative Director
and interim Director of Virtual Development Division
- Leading the design and
development of the On the edge� Media Group website
- Leading the design and
development of On the edge� Media Group client websites
such as Drye Goods� (http://dryegoods.com/)
and Arlie Pierson (http://arliepierson.com/)
- Managing the web hosting
and email administration for On the edge� Media
Group and its client base
11.02 » 11.03
Co-founder and User Experience Director
oneVillage Foundation and oneVillage.biz // San Jose,
California
- Assisted in the conception
of an international ecotravel company (oneVillage
evoTravel™ - Evolving people and places through
heart-based travel) to create jobs, identify areas
for microinvestment and stimulate sustainable economic
growth and independence in developing countries
- Led a multi-disciplinary
team of employees and outside developers in the
creation of an integrated information and communication
technology tool enabling mobile story capture/sharing
and location-based knowledge/resource/decision/relationship/opportunity
management for use by NGOs, oneVillage Transformation
Agents, ecotravelers, activists, anyone/everyone
- Developed sketch, Photoshop
and HTML prototypes for a 'unified online profile'
based around storytelling and profile-based automated
matchmaking
- Co-authored company presentations
and marketing documents
- Designed, developed and
until recently maintained the oneVillage websites
(http://oneVillageFoundation.org/
and http://oneVillage.biz/)
- Designed, developed and
produced all oneVillage
family identity, logos and info-graphics
02.00 » 08.01
Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer
fatbubble Inc. // San Francisco, California
- Led a multi-disciplinary
team of employees and outside developers in the
creation of a consumer rating application for instant
messaging users
- Led development of the
company's application from initial concept through
creation of functional requirements, design and
prototyping, user-testing and into development
- Conducted primary research
(surveys and small focus groups) to understand target
audience
- Developed information architecture
and user-flows for the application
- Designed and developed
prototype application (using HTML and Photoshop)
for user-testing and design specifications document
- Designed, developed and
maintained fatbubble website (no longer active)
- Hired and managed outside
graphic designer to develop the final look and feel
of the fatbubble tool, display panels and website
- Co-authored all company
marketing documents
- Co-developed and presented
business plan to Silicon Valley investment community
including VC/Angel "pitch" meetings with well known
investors
- Pursued and secured seed-round
financing from domestic and international investors
02.99 » 02.00
Lead User Interface Engineer
Customer Experience Innovations Center
Scient Corporation // San Francisco, California
- Third person hired into
Scient's creative department (Customer Experience
Innovations Center), helping to build the group
to over 200 high-caliber creative people within
first year
- Co-authored and developed
sections of the Scient design approach
- Hired and managed outside
design firms and contract developers
- Served as customer experience
architect, information architect, UI designer, and
liaison between clients and teams of visual designers,
web animators, front-end technologists and back-end
programmers to communicate and implement user-centered
design considerations for high-visibility e-business
and e-commerce web applications
- Designed and prototyped
user-flows and UI components for e-business and
e-commerce web applications such as BenefitPoint
(http://benefitpoint.com/)
and Sephora (http://sephora.com/)
- Designed and conducted
usability evaluations of Scient web applications
and web-related deliverables, translating user insights
into potential design opportunities/solutions for
clients and communicating such solutions to other
product designers and engineers
02.97 » 01.99
Interface Design and Usability Engineer
Web Externals Design and Development Group
IBM Corporation // Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
- Served as creative director
and liaison between IBM website clients and teams
of visual designers, web animators, and programmers
to communicate and implement user-centered design
considerations for high-visibility segments of the
IBM corporate web space
- Monitored the consistency
and overall end-product quality, fit and finish
across a number of high-visibility external IBM
product and service websites
- Made significant impact
to the usability of the IBM external corporate web
presence
- Designed and conducted
usability evaluations of IBM websites and several
web-related software products
- Analyzed usability data
and communicated findings via summary reports for
IBM clients
- Designed and prototyped
UI components for web server and web content management
software
- Designed and conducted
usability evaluations of several web-related software
products
07.94 » 09.96
Creative Director/Multimedia Developer/Interface
Designer
Software and Multimedia Products Group
American Research Corporation of Virginia // Radford,
Virginia
- Served as creative director
and liaison between management and teams of video/graphic
artists and programmers to communicate and implement
user-centered design considerations across all products
- Managed the development
of interactive multimedia and computer graphics
software for medical and behavioral applications
sponsored by the federal government
- Managed the filming and
editing of video and creation of art and animation
for software products
- Promoted to lead designer/developer
of graphical UIs for multimedia software products
- Designed and conducted
usability and efficacy evaluations of multimedia
software products
- Organized content and edited
scripts for multimedia productions
- Recruited and supervised
personnel, including acting talent, for multimedia
productions
- Co-authored 1 conference
paper
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Education
08.91 » 05.97
Doctor of Philosophy
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Human Factors Option with Human-Computer Interaction
Concentration
Virginia Tech // Blacksburg, Virginia (GPA 3.57/4.00)
Dissertation: The effects of embedded question
type and locus of control on processing depth, knowledge
gain, and attitude change in a computer-based interactive
video environment. (Sponsored by American Research
Corporation of Virginia)
Download
Dissertation (1.4MB)
08.89 » 05.91
Master of Science
Psychology
Human Factors Option
University of Idaho // Moscow, Idaho (GPA 3.71/4.00)
Thesis: Determining effective display format
and content options for in-car moving-map navigation
and information systems. (Sponsored by General
Motors Research Laboratories)
08.85 » 05.89
Bachelor of Science
Psychology
Music Minor
University of Idaho // Moscow, Idaho (GPA 3.01/4.00)
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References
Provided upon
request.
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