Htet Htet Aung 3029 Hutumn Ct, Herndon, VA 20171 Home: (703) 435-5305 Cell: (571) 332-9832 hhaung@gmail.com http://www.zizawah.com OBJECTIVE An experienced UI analyst and interaction designer looking for an opportunity to research, design, and create products or systems that are usable, efficient, easy to use, and aesthetically pleasing to the end users. EXPERIENCE Zizawah Designs (11/08-Present) * As UI Designer, designed and developed two websites for a realtor. Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, PA (09/06-08/07) An established Healthcare Information Systems and equipments vendor bringing together innovative imaging equipment, information technology, management consulting, and services to help health and hospital systems achieve tangible, sustainable clinical and financial outcomes. * Senior UI Analyst and Designer for the Soarian Clinicals application which offers an innovative, systematic way to optimize workflow, manage patients, enter orders, and access patient records. * Worked closely with end-users, product analysts, and developers within an Agile development framework. * Dramatically improved work-flows, efficiency, and usability for the patient census, work lists, and the tracking board for emergency departments. * Initiated and contributed to a Soarian UI standard that aims to ensure uniformity in UI look and feel and to enhance aesthetics in collaboration with other UI designers. * Proposed a new UI framework to integrate disparate areas of the application to form a more streamlined and efficient application. * Worked with front-end developers to help structure CSS and HTML codes in product development to improve efficiency, code-reuse, and access time. Succeeded in improving access time by 70% in one case. QuadraMed Corporation, Reston, VA (04/05-09/06) A medium-sized Healthcare Information Systems vendor embarking on an ambitious effort to build a suite of J2EE and web-based applications to leapfrog its competitors. Distinguishes itself by offering flexibility, efficiency, and empowerment to users with customized decision support, robust builder, and integrated workflow. * Principal UI Designer for the Clinical Workstation application, a suite of applications which includes Clinician Access, Computerized Physician Order Entry System and Electronic Document Management and for the Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI) application, an application which allows searching, editing, merging, and unmerging of patient identifications. * UI Consultant for all clinical applications within QuadraMed and as such worked with various analysts to troubleshoot and offer UI solutions. * Working closely with the physician architect, clinicians, and other analysts, created new designs and improved existing designs for Clinical Workstation, EMPI, and others with focus on usability and ease of use. * Created, designed, and proposed a new UI framework for Clinical Workstation application which better accommodates existing and future functionalities, is easy to use, easy to customize, and aesthetically pleasing. * Presented design ideas and conveyed the merits of the new designs to product analysts, developers, and managers to ensure adoption and successful implementation. * Created a corporate UI standard that aims to ensure uniformity in UI look and feel and to enhance aesthetics through collaboration with two other UI designers. * Worked with front-end developers to help structure CSS and HTML codes in product development. Pebbles Group, Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), Pittsburgh, PA (08/03-12/04) * As a Research Associate II, worked on Marmalade (creating new and easier-to-use programming environments) and EdgeWrite (a new technique for text entry for handhelds and the handicapped). * Designed, conducted, and analyzed user and device interaction studies to learn how well EdgeWrite techniques support handicapped users. * Conducted and analyzed user studies to better understand how novice and expert users program and use different IDE software. * Created and designed graphics for publications, posters and the EdgeWrite user guide. * Designed, conducted, and analyzed usability studies for the GMC Denali navigation system and submitted the usability problems report to GM. * Helped design a new IDE programming environment which uses tools that better enable expert, novice, and non-programmers alike to efficiently and effectively design, develop, and debug computer software. * Designed and developed the EdgeWrite and Pebbles web sites to make the technology available to the user community and other researchers and to showcase various research projects and its sponsors. Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), Pittsburgh, PA (08/02-06/03) * Proposed and accepted for an Independent study for HCII site redesign. * Designed, conducted, and analyzed an online survey and interviews to get feedback from the alumni about the HCI program and its web site and presented to the HCII Executive Committee with the redesign proposal and survey results. Zizawah Designs 08/03-12/04 * Proposed and won the contract for the development of a secure intranet and lab notebook web application for the Bone Tissue Engineering Center of Carnegie Mellon University. * As project manager, ensured the project was on time, within budget, and successfully delivered. * As UI analyst and designer, conducted user research, designed, tested, and developed the intranet & lab notebook application to be usable, efficient and easy to use. * Helped the director of BTEC propose for an NIH grant application for further intranet development. University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA (01/03-08/03) The School of Dental Medicine is a medical center and an accredited dental school which is one of six health sciences schools at the University of Pittsburgh. * As UI analyst and designer, one of five HCI masters students on a Masters Capstone project, worked on creating an intranet for the School of Dental Medicine. * Spearheaded the user research efforts, data analysis, contextual design and the development of the SDM intranet site architecture. * Designed and prototyped a role-sensitive intranet after exploring the needs and requirements of various users through a thorough contextual inquiry based user research. Diamond Bullet Design, Ann Arbor, MI (02/01-07/01) Diamond Bullet is a highly innovative, people-centered digital services firm dedicated to creating the most usable web products and provide leading-edge services to a diversity of clients worldwide. * As web developer, developed, maintained, and updated various client web sites. * Designed and developed PERL modules for easier E-banking administration. Hippocrates Project, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY (05/94-08/01) Hippocrates project is the hypermedia instructional development program of New York University Medical Center. It is a multidisciplinary, faculty-student effort to identify, study, and invent the variety of ways by which computer and communication technologies can enhance the learning process. * As a research intern created graphical presentations of biological pathways and molecular models using MacDraw and Adobe Photoshop. * As a multimedia author, designed and developed the “Computer Image Guide to Neuroanatomy - The Internet Brain” courseware using Macromedia Director. EDUCATION School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Masters of Human-Computer Interaction, 08/02 - 12/03 (GPA 3.98/4.0) Southampton College of Long Island University, Southampton, NY Bachelor of Science (Pre-Medicine - Molecular Biology), 09/93 - 05/97 (GPA 3.86/4.0) PUBLICATIONS * Wobbrock, J.O., Myers, B.A. and Aung, H.H. (2008) The performance of hand postures in front- and back-of-device interaction for mobile computing. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 66(12), 857-875. * Ko, A.J., Myers, B.A., Coblenz, M. and Aung, H.H. (2006) An Exploratory Study of How Developers Seek, Relate, and Collect Relevant Information during Software Maintenance Tasks. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 32(12), 971-987. * Wobbrock, J.O., Aung, H.H., Myers, B.A. and LoPresti, E.F. (2005) Integrated Text Entry from Power Wheelchairs. Journal of Behavior and Information Technology 24 (3). London: Taylor and Francis, 187-203. * Ko, A.J., Aung, H., and Myers, B.A. (2005) Eliciting Design Requirements for Maintenance-Oriented IDEs: A Detailed Study of Corrective and Perfective Maintenance Tasks. International Conference on Software Engineering, St. Louis, MI, May 15-21, 126-135. [Winner of Best Paper Award] * Fogarty, J., Ko, A.J., Aung, H.H., Golden, E., Tang, K.P. and Hudson, S.E. (2005) Examining Task Engagement in Sensor-Based Statistical Models of Human Interruptibility. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005), 331-340. [Winner of Best Paper Award] * Ko, A. J., Aung, H., and Myers, B. A. (2005). Design Requirements for More Flexible Structured Editors from a Study of Programmers' Text Editing. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Portland OR, April 2-7, 2005, 1557-1560. * Wobbrock, J.O., Aung, H.H., Rothrock, B. and Myers, B.A. (2005) Maximizing the Guessability of Symbolic Input. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '05). Portland, Oregon (April 2-7, 2005). New York: ACM Press, 1869-1872. * Wobbrock, J.O., Myers, B.A., Aung, H.H. and LoPresti, E.F. (2004) Text Entry from Power Wheelchairs: EdgeWrite for Joysticks and Touchpads. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS: Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS’04). Atlanta, Georgia (October 18-20, 2004). New York: ACM Press, 110-117. [Winner of Best Paper Award] * Ko, A. J. Myers, B. A., and Aung, H. (2004). Six Learning Barriers in End-User Programming Systems. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, Rome, Italy, September 26-29, 199-206. * Wobbrock, J.O., Myers, B.A. and Aung, H.H. (2004) Writing with a Joystick: A Comparison of Date Stamp, Selection Keyboard and EdgeWrite. Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI '04). London, Ontario (May 17-19, 2004). Waterloo, Ontario: Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, 1-8. * Wobbrock, J.O., Myers, B.A. and Aung, H.H. (2004). Joystick Text Entry with Date Stamp, Selection Key-board and EdgeWrite. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘04). Vienna, Austria (April 24-29, 2004). New York: ACM Press, p. 1550. * Filoteo, A. G., Elwess, N. L., Enyedi, A., Caride, A., Aung, H. H., and Penniston, J. T. (1997) Plasma Membrane Calcium Pump in Rat Brain: Patterns of Alternative Splices Seen by Isoform-Specific Antibodies. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272, 23741-23747. SKILLS HCI Methods * Cognitive Walkthrough * Contextual Inquiry and Design * Fault Tree Analysis * GOMS Modeling * Heuristic Evaluation * Requirements and Task Analysis * UI Specifications * User Testing Programming * Flash ActionScript * HTML/CSS * Java * JavaScript * MySQL * PHP * Visual Basic Design * Document Design * UI and Information Design * Lo/Hi-Fi Prototyping * Typography and Color Software * Director * DreamWeaver * FireWorks * Flash * Illustrator * InDesign * Photoshop Coursework & Tutorials * Advanced Java Programming * Colors and Computers * Communication Design Fundamentals * Designing for Efficiency * Designing Responsive Software * HCI Methods * Human Factors * Information Visualization * Interface and Interaction Design * Organizational Management * Professional & Technical Writing * Programming Usable Interfaces * Statistical Reasoning and Methods * Usability Methods in Web Design Membership * ACM/SIGCHI Languages * Fluent Burmese and English * Some Spanish Portfolio * zizawah.com