Jiri Mzourek

Responsible for an international team of user experience professionals (interaction designers, visual designers and user researchers) located in Europe and USA. Responsible for all kinds of products: development tools (NetBeans, Sun Studio), enterprise products (SOA/BI), web 2.0 (Project Kenai, Zembly), platforms (Java FX for desktop and mobile), product webpages (www.javafx.com) and end-user applications (Communications Suite – email, calendar, IM etc.)

Responsible for a local team of user experience professionals focused mainly on Sun’s development tools (NetBeans, Sun Studio, Java Studio Enterprise and Java Studio Creator). The team was involved in several important projects: The UI Design of Matisse: a world class, advanced Java GUI builder for NetBeans, Sun currently has pending patents on the UI concepts. Redesign of www.netbeans.org. NetBeans 6.0: integration of former Java Studio Creator and Enterprise products into NetBeans.

Led a transformation of the team from UI development to UI design. Participated on redesign and usability testing of the new core NetBeans paradigms: projects system and window system which appeared in NetBeans 4.x.

The team played a role of “proxy” between the design team in the US and the rest of engineering in Prague. There was formed “NetBeans UI Team” which was focused on “clean up” (redesign and reimplementation) of the interface in the beginning and on establishing UI design related processed in open source environment. The team also spent one year on a project focused on accessibility compliance of NetBeans, which required getting the appropriate know-how, development of testing tools etc.

Helped to define a charter of newly formed team.

Senior engineer: developed specialized customer software in Visual Basic and Java for international clients.