Eli Goldberg

Bis 2007, Research Assistant, University of Washington, Laboratory for Usability Testing and Evaluation (LUTE)
Mountain View, United States of America

Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse

Heuristic & expert usability analyses
eye-tracking studies
accessibility validation
documentation usability
design and execution of laboratory-based usability

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von Eli Goldberg

  • 6 months, Apr 2007 - Sep 2007

    Research Assistant

    University of Washington, Laboratory for Usability Testing and Evaluation (LUTE)

    Conducted heuristic and expert website reviews and a mid-sized card sort for the Washington State Employment Security Department. Also evaluated emerging methods in recent eye-tracking research and application.

  • 7 months, Sep 2006 - Mar 2007

    Instructor

    University of Washington

    Taught effective technical and workplace communication practices to second-year engineering students. Responsibilities included conducting three hours per week of class sessions, performance assessment, and individual coaching/tutoring. Final quarter evaluations by students were in the top decile.

  • 8 months, Jan 2006 - Aug 2006

    Usability Researcher/Sr. Software QA Engineer

    Flock, Inc.

    Test engineer and usability researcher for this social networking start-up. Co-led first round of usability tests, and produced an internal video of the highlights. Our results shifted Flock's focus away from blogging/bookmarks sharing and towards social networking and photo sharing.

  • 1 year and 7 months, May 2004 - Nov 2005

    Senior Software Test Engineer

    America Online

    Responsible for accessibility design and validation on AOL Pictures. Assessed usability issues under the JAWS screen reader, with more limited auditing for motor and cognitive disability issues. Rewrote spoken interface elements to comply with best practices in auditory interface design.

  • 1 year and 9 months, May 2002 - Jan 2004

    Sr. Software Test Engineer

    Sun Microsystems

    Test lead for the Sun Streaming Server's web-based administrative interface. Performed intuitive testing and authored an extensive test case suite. Also authored a test suite for the Server Appliance sustaining engineering team, highlighted by management as the model for future test suites.

  • 10 months, Aug 2000 - May 2001

    Senior Software Test Engineer

    Eazel, Inc.

    Led testing for the 1.0 release of the Nautilus file manager, a key component of the GNOME desktop for Linux. Maintained public developer and QA websites.

  • 2 years and 9 months, Oct 1997 - Jun 2000

    Software Test Engineer

    Netscape Communications Corp.

    Tester for Netscape releases 4.04.1 through 6.0. Reported nearly a thousand software bugs, and authored numerous test plans. Jump-started Mozilla open source participation through authoring a number of user-friendly tutorials, including Mozilla’s widely-cited Bug Writing Guidelines.

  • 10 months, Jun 1996 - Mar 1997

    Software Test Engineer

    Apple Computer, Inc.

    Member of Apple Human Interface Technologies team. Discovered and wrote bug reports for hundreds of appearance bugs, resulting in bug fixes and/or third-party developer notifications. Wrote test scripts to partially automate testing of new builds. Generated black box test case suites.

Ausbildung von Eli Goldberg

  • 1 year and 11 months, Aug 2006 - Jun 2008

    Technical Communication

    University of Washington

    Studying User Research, through the Department of Technical Communication.

  • 3 years and 10 months, Aug 1991 - May 1995

    Information & Decision Systems

    Carnegie Mellon University

    Concentration in user Interface Design

Sprachen

  • English

    C2 (Verhandlungssicher / Muttersprachlich)

  • Spanish

    B1-B2 (Gute Kenntnisse)

  • Dutch

    A1-A2 (Grundkenntnisse)

  • French

    A1-A2 (Grundkenntnisse)

  • Hebrew

    A1-A2 (Grundkenntnisse)

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