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Tom Allison
Ehrenamt, User Experience, Lead Mentor, Google Launchpad, Google Germany GmbH
Berlin, Deutschland
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Professional experience for Tom Allison
Current 7 years and 6 months, since 2014
User Experience, Lead Mentor, Google Launchpad
Google Germany GmbH
I served as a UX Mentor in Germany's first ever Google Launchpad for early stage startups and am helping to nurture and shape the program, going forward.
2017 - 2020
Managing Director at UX&I, Berlin
UX&I GmbH
2016 - 2017
Senior Advisor in Matters of User Experience
CareerFoundry
2016 - 2017
Lecturer
HMKW Hochschule für Medien, Kommunikation und Wirtschaft
Conception and teaching of the hands-on portion of a master's course on User-Centered Design for design students led by Prof. Dr. Jan-Henning Raff. My contribution was to lecture on and facilitate the application of methods of design evaluation, including constructing personas, running UCD design reviews and user testing.
2015 - 2016
Chief Experience Officer
CareerFoundry
2014 - 2015
Senior User Experience Designer
Delivery Hero Holding GmbH
2011 - 2013
Senior User Experience Architect
myphotobook GmbH
2006 - 2011
User Experience (UX) Researcher and Designer
Freelance
In addition to giving talks on various aspects of User Experience analysis and UI design, I've been busy as a Konzepter working with large German firms on global Websites and Web applications. I am especially interested in the integration of UX activities in Agile development teams and am always on the lookout for opportunities to work in that context.
2004 - 2005
High Tech Anthropologist (R)
Menlo Innovations
User Experience Researcher and Designer in an Agile Team Context -- Enabled software application development by studying the cultural, symbolic, and value context of users and translated them, in a way that preserves business priorities, to agile software development teams.
2001 - 2004
Web Design and Development of PEERRS Instructional Website
Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan
Developed the information architecture for the site, planned and coordinated usability testing, wrote DHTML code, developed an integrated bug tracking system for the site. I assisted in developing the over-all project plan and schedule. As lead developer, in 2004, I coordinated the work of programmers and subject matter experts.
2000 - 2001
Project Manager & Programmer
Economics Department, University of Michigan
Managed and participated in the development of a website that presents historical research on the Alger Hiss case. Designed and integrated the site’s database with MS Access and ColdFusion
1994 - 2000
Research Assistant in Neuroscience
University of Michigan
Designed and carried out research projects in: Neurobiology of Zebrafish Development, Molecular Neurobiology of the adreno-cortico “stress” axis, and Biopshychology of amygdala function in behaviorally conditioned rats.
tallison@gmail.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaslawrenceallisonii
acquiring German and working on a free-lance basis while looking for positions in User Interface Design, User Experience Design, Information Architecture. See full profile and references here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaslawrenceallisonii
Educational background for Tom Allison
2001 - 2004
Information Science
University of Michigan
Human-Computer Interaction; Interaction Design; Information Architecture; Design of Systems and Services
1994 - 1999
Neuroscience
University of Michigan
Developmental Biology; Biopsychology
1990 - 1994
Chemistry, Philosophy
University of Kansas
Languages
English
First language
German
Fluent
French
Intermediate