Anna Ekberg
Usability Architect and System Developer

Anna Ekberg - Usability Architect and System Developer

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CURRICULUM VITAE

OBJECTIVE
To work as a Usability Architect, dealing with gathering complex information and translate it to products with high usability level and based on cutting edge technology.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (at current position)

  • Participate in all phases of the project – from start to finish - focused on user centred design and all types of end users different needs

  • Being up to date with new research and spreading it to other team members

  • Leading seminars and workshops within the adera+ group for project managers, designers and technicians in order to spread the internal usability knowledge.

  • Develop guidelines, standards and "best practise".

  • Planning and conducting usability evaluations

  • Conduct workshops with clients as well as the different kind of end users to gather input and translate the input from workshops to detailed requirement/specifications documentation and use cases.

  • Work together with project managers, designers and programmers with focus on two opposite usability aspects:

    • The internal usability – as a Usability Architect with extensive knowledge and hands on experience in technical development, I can contribute to faster, more reusable technical development phase.

    • The external usability – the built in usability in the product delivered to the client, for example a web site.

  • Responsible for the technical development based on Lotus Notes at adera+ group.

  • Planning and delegating project task to consultants and other team members.

  • Project management/Technical project management

 

EDUCATION

University college - Swedish "Högskola/Universitet"
1997-1998 Sociology. University of Stockholm. With focus on investigation sociology and statistics.
1993-1996 Cognitive Science. University of Skövde. With focus on computer science and design

Senior high school - Swedish "Gymnasium"
1991-1993 with focus on Social Science

Other - IBM School
1998-1999 CLP System Administrator and CLP Application Developer, IBM Project management Certification. 34 weeks. IBM School, Head Quarters Stockholm

 

CERTIFICATIONS

Lotus Notes
CLP Application Developer 4.6
CLP System Administration 4.6
R5 Update Application Developer
R5 Update System Administration

 

SKILLS

  • Project Management, including team working

  • Planning, organisational and delegating skills

  • Ability to communicate, verbally, written and by drawing.

  • Cognitive Science/Usability/HCI Human-Computer-Interaction

  • Sociology methodologies

  • Lotus Notes R5 & 4.6; Application Development and System administration

  • Very good computer skills including all MS Office programs

 

Language skills:

  • Swedish: excellent

  • English: good

  • German: beginner

  • Spanish: beginner

 

EXPERIENCE
Usability Architect and System Developer, February 2000 – ff
Adera+ , Stureplan Office
Please see "Key responsibilities"

System Developer and Usability Architect, September 1999 – February 2000
Multisoft Education (previously SVPC – Svenska ProgramCentralen) "Responsible for the technical development based on Lotus Notes and keep focus on developing product with high usability level."

Advanced Computer Secretary, Autumn 98
Poolia AB

Web Developer, Summer 98
Folkhälsocenter, Västerås

Final Year Project, Spring 98
University of Skövde

Member of WWW-team, 94/95
University of Skövde

Tutor, 94/95
University of Skövde

Affiliation:
Editor and V. Secretary, 1996-1998

 

PERSONAL
Born in Västerås, Sverige in March, 1974
Fiancé Henrik Nordström

 

REFERENCE
Please contact me for names and contact information

 

CONTACT INFORMATION
Please feel free to contact me.

By e-mail:
amse@hem.passagen.se

By phone:
+ 46 8 711 51 53

By mail:
Anna Ekberg
Visättravägen 6
S-141 50 Huddinge
SWEDEN


© Anna Ekberg, 2000, Last updated 2001-02-25
E-mail: amse@hem.passagen.se
Phone: +46 (0) 8 711 51 53