Jack Beaton
5628 Fifth Avenue B-16
Pittsburgh, PA 15232

jackbeaton@cmu.edu
717-404-5782
www.jbeaton.com

Work Experience, Carnegie Mellon University 

Nov 2007 – Present: Application Programming Interface (API) Design Researcher working with SAP Business Process Renovation Team to evaluate usability improvements to SAP Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture.

First-Author Publications:
“Usability Evaluation for Enterprise SOA APIs”, ICSE SDSOA ‘08
“Usability Challenges for Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture APIs”, VL/HCC ‘08

Entrepreneurship Experience, SimTime

Mar 2008 – Present: User Experience Designer for part-time startup SimTime, designing software project management training simulation.

School Experience, NASA & CALO

Jan – Aug 2007: Project Manager of the NASA PROPHET HCI Project Team, creating functional prototypes of a handheld interface for problem reporting during the upcoming Constellation missions.

Aug – Dec 2006: Client Liaison for CALO User-Constructed Workflows project team. Researched, designed and tested an innovative interface for discretely training a learning algorithm to accomplish routine online tasks.
Graduate Education, Carnegie Mellon University

MS, Human-Computer Interaction, August 2007 – final GPA: 3.89
Founding Secretary, CMU Toastmasters Symposium public speaking club
GSA Representative, CMU Masters of HCI (Fall 2006 & Spring 2007)

User Interface Design Skills: Contextual Inquiry, User Needs Analysis, Design Specification, Usability Testing, Rapid Interface Design Evaluation

Software Prototyping Skills: Visual Studio .NET, Web Services SOA, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Flash, GOMS

Undergraduate Education, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

BA, Cultural Anthropology, May 2004 – final GPA: 3.34
University Scholar, full four-year scholarship
Honors College Graduate, May 2004
Outstanding Student in Anthropology, 2004
International Studies, 12+ months China, 3 months Middle East & Europe