Ryan Hanau

New York, NY

Overview

Numerous award-winning design visionary with over 15 years of exceptional experience and two user interface design patents. Specialties include Usability, User Experience Design, Information Architecture, and Online Strategy/Marketing.

Objective

Obtain a full-time senior management position, agency or client-side, where I can maximize my leadership skills, serve as a mentor and build an effective team that consistently wins awards and breaks records. Continue to produce innovative and effective work in the field of complex and analytical transactional user interfaces for both desktop and Web.

Awards

Patents

WORK

Motorola, New York, NY | 5-09 to Present

Senior Manager, Usability | www.motorola.com

Full-time staff at Motorola overseeing the usability practice for the Broadband Mobility Solutions group, which is responsible for all of Motorola’s 1000+ B2B products. Management role includes budget management, overseeing all agency and independent contractor relationships, establishing and meeting team benchmarks and championing usability within a Fortune 100 corporation. Practical responsibilities include conducting large-scale usability testing , quantitive surveying, heuristic reviews, persona development, localization issues (28 countries/11 languages) and evolving the product lines to meet industry usability best practices.

Independent Consultant, New York, NY | 1-06 to 4-09

Senior User Experience/Usability Subject Matter Expert

Work in-house as senior staff at top interactive agencies and direct to client as an UX/IA and usability specialist on large-scale Web re/design engagements. Guide the user experience through online strategy, requirements gathering, usability testing, low-fidelity wireframe prototyping, high-fidelity interactive prototyping, functional/technical specification, and quality assurance testing. Produce strategy documents, heuristic reviews, competitive analyses, requirements matrices, user personas, annotated wire frames, use case flows, site maps, functional specifications, and user trial scripts and reports.

Consulting Projects

Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann Publishing, San Francisco, CA | 10-00 to Present

Usability Publishing Advisor (on occasion)

Perform reviews/critiques of usability and user experience design manuscripts & proposals in progress. Contribute to the development of usability and user experience design theory.

Chroma Design, San Francisco, CA | 10-98 to 01-06

President | www.chromadesign.com

Founded a successful design firm with no investment. Pitched, won and successfully managed complex large budget projects adhering to challenging schedules/deadlines. Completed 150+ projects in a variety of business sectors (Finance, Tech, VC, Health Care, Advertising, Media, etc.). Created award-winning UX, visual creative and code. Recruited, hired, mentored and supervised a staff of 8+ exceptional designers.

SF State University and Foothill College, San Francisco, CA | 6-01 to 6-04

Adjunct Professor

Taught UX, Usability, Web Design and Graphic Design courses. Successfully mentored classes of 25+ students of varying abilities. Course material ranged from complex human factors theory to hands-on programming of (X)HTML, CSS and JavaScript by hand. Produced online course materials.

Studio Le Fresnoy National des Arts Contemporariness, Tourcoing, France | 4-98 to 10-98

International Cultural Exchange Award Recipient, Artist-In-Residence

Served as an Artist-in-Residence invited by the French Ministry for Cultural Exchange to pursue a personal/ professional project (3D Human Anatomy) and to teach.

The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA | 6-95 to 10-97

Interactive Designer

Designed the first LA Times Web site (one of the first news Web sites in the world) and “TimesLink”, an interactive version of the LA Times on the Prodigy Network. Set the standard for the design of interactive, on-line news. Established the precedence for user-friendly Web sites. Demonstrated the commercial viability of the Web.

SCHOOL