About Us: Achievements
- Served as principal interaction designer in the redesign of Fidelity Investments’ NetBenefits, a web application that provides account access to over one million retirement savings plan investors.
- As a result of the NetBenefits redesign, deployed in June 1999, a September 2000 New York Times article stated that “57 percent of the contacts made by retirement-account customers have come online this year, compared with 16 percent in 1998.”
- Designed and developed Java-based financial planning tools for Fidelity Investments (Contribution Calculator, Withdrawal Calculator) that were deployed within its NetBenefits web application.
- Designed and developed the Java-based Take Home Pay Calculator for Fidelity’s 401k.com site.
- Served as principal interaction designer in the redesign of HOLT Value Associates’ (now Credit Suisse HOLT) flagship financial analysis product for portfolio managers, ValueSearch.
- Greatly simplified the web publishing process of DeVry University’s academic catalog by using XML, XSLT and XSL-FO to repurpose content and display it in an easy-to-navigate online format.
- Developed and enhanced user interfaces for Endeavor Information Systems’ web-based products.
- Served as usability analyst and principal interaction designer of a call center web application for Allstate Financial.
- Served as lead developer and user interface designer of the Functional Accessibility Evaluator at the University of Illinois.
- Designed and developed user interface enhancements for Unix-based applications at BGS Systems (later acquired by BMC Software).