Lindsay R. Tabas

Education

University of California - Berkeley, School of Information, Masters in Information Management & Systems, Management of Technology Certificate, GPA: 3.67, Completed May 2007

University of Virginia, Systems and Information Engineering, Management Systems Application, B.S. with Distinction, Completed May 2005

Employment

• Performing client discovery, writing business requirements and rules, developing UML use cases and activity diagrams, and detailing data and functional specifications.
• Designing multiple layers of the user interface for client-wide and client-specific consumption; leading the design of the next version of Sycle.
• Helping the executive board manage the company's larger clients by understanding their requirements and delivering timely and successful development projects.
• Assisting the VP of Engineering in managing the in-house and contracted programming resources; maintaining the team motivated and efficient

• Acted as the Human Performance & Usability Lead on a project tasked with developing a custom user interface (UI) for an enterprise document management system.
• Represented the users end-to-end: conducting interviews, collecting requirements, producing wireframes and functional specifications, developing the look and feel (CSS) of the UI, and preparing for and conducting UAT and training.
• Served as the Business Lead for the development of the internal employee portal by managing and producing the business analyst deliverables as well as conducting a user-centered design methodology
• Contributed to the business architecture practice by writing content for user guides, and creating sample client deliverables.

• Developed a robust and holistic service design methodology intended for the renovation of existing, information-intensive services.
• Proposed a more comprehensive set of service terms in order to capture person-to-person, person-to-computer, and computer-to-computer services.
• Wrote two papers for and presented to professional audiences on this research.
• Integrated research into modular curricula pieces to be taught in graduate level courses.

• Developed functional requirements in a rapid-prototyping environment for future versions of the CBM Workbench.
• Analyzed user behavior, documents and processes to formulate solutions that appropriately accommodate CBM engagements and deliverables
• Performed various other usability, user-interface design and business activity analyses including heuristic evaluations, interface redesigns, help documentation and business method evaluations.

• Refined the Collaboration Process Scorecard to define successful regional collaboration among government agencies sharing common regional transportation systems
• Independently conducted interviews and focus groups with transportation professionals to map organizational theory into best practices
• Project was part of the Federal Highway Administration's Regional Transportation Operations Collaboration and Coordination Demonstration Initiative

Related Projects

• SkillShop: A Temporary Hiring Marketplace for the Restaurant Industry, Final Project - Independent Study; Received Honorable Mention from the 2007 Dr. James R. Chen Award for outstanding Master's final projects., Full Year 2006-2007
• Scheduling a Mash-Up: Google Calendar, Mixing and Remixing, IS290 Spring 2007
• Open-Source for the Small and Midsized Business Market, Open Source Development and Distribution of Digital Information, IS296A-2 Fall 2007
• LightsOn - A Wireless Lighting Project for User Interface Design and Development, User-Interface Design and Development, IS213 Spring 2006
• Non-Sedentary Gaming for Pediatric Obesity, Managing New Product Development, MBA 290N Fall 2005
• Playlist Generation & Download, Web Services: Concepts, Design and Implementation, IS290 Fall 2005
• Regional Transportation Operation Collaboration and Coordination Demonstration Initiative, Senior Capstone, SYS453 - 454 2004-2005
• A Virtual Reality Interface for Effective Design Layout of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Undergraduate Summer Research Grant, Texas A&M University, Department of Industrial Engineering Summer 2004

Publications & Presentations

Cheng, D. & L. Tabas,. "ITSkillShop: Putting the right people on the right project should not waste time and money.", Women 2.0 Business Plan Competition 2008: Napkin Business Challenge. One of 5 finalists out of over 100 entries.

Glushko, B. & L. Tabas,. "Bridging the "Front Stage" and "Back Stage" in Service System Design.", School of Information Paper 2007-014.

Tabas, L.. "Designing for Service Systems.", School of Information Paper 2007-008. Presented at the Information Services Design Conference (Mar. 2007) and at the Frontiers in Services Conference (Oct. 2007).

Hartnett, J., Lin, P., Ortiz, L., Tabas, L.. "A Responsive and Persuasive Audio Device To Stimulate Exercise and Fitness in Children.", ACM CHI 2006. Student Design Competition.

Guttridge, K., Koehler, L., Tabas, L., Villadelgado, M., Vogt, L.. "Regional Transportation Operations Collaboration and Coordination Demonstration Initiative.", 2005 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium. Award for Best Paper in Logistics and Information Systems

Skills

• Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista, Mac OSX, SimplyMepis 6.0, Ubuntu 7.04
• Applications: Eclipse Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2, Dreamweaver, Altova XMLSpy, Bluefish 1.0.7, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Photoshop, K Desktop Environment
• Computer Languages: XML, XSLT, CSS, XHTML, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, C#, C++
• Methodologies,: User-Centered Design, UML, ADM, Business Architecture, Product Design & Development, Project Management,
• Other: Strong Analytical Skill-Set, Problem Solving Abilities, Excellent Communication Skills,