Tom Allison

I served on a volunteer basis 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, as the Head Mentor for UX, Product Strategist, Google Design Expert and Certified Google Design Sprint Master.

• Worked on customer acquisition, managed initial team and project set up and managed team performance and customer relationships on large collaborations with CodeCenteric involving mixed design and development teams • Ran multiple Google Design Sprints: e.g., for Tommy Hilfiger, Siemens, Wetter.de, EnBW • Spearheaded a complex collaboration with CodeCentric and AWS to develop the Digital Innovations Studio in Berlin based on principles of Rapid Application Development and paired-design practices

• Lectured on methods for design evaluation • Coached and evaluated 18 students with semester projects

• Introduced Agile practice to company • Developed target personas and customer journey for products • Defined UX practice and hired 4 UX designers • Helped to grow the company from 10 to 50 employees as part of management team • Contributed to successful raising of venture capital series A funding round

• Introduced UX practices to company • Led management in identifying target personas for flagship mobile products • Conducted user research in 4 cities • Helped craft proposal for UX practices in global holdings

• Integration of UX activities in an Agile development environment • UCD via personas, scenarios, wireframes and continual testing • Field research, interviews and in situ system tests • Development of a “bug triage” process to prioritize system issues • Software, web and mobile application design and development

• Stakeholder meetings and workshops • Information architecture development and communication via personas, sitemaps and wireframes Projects for: • BMW • Deutsche Post • Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) • Humboldt University: Invited talk on Agile-Integrated UX

• UX and business analysis for an Agile (XP) programming team • Stakeholder interviews • Interviews and observation of end users in their workplace contexts • Interface design, specification and on-going Agile adjustment • Show-and-Tell with team and sponsors, Estimation and Planning Game Projects for: • GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) • Accuri Cytometer • JSTOR

• Defined Information architecture for the instructional website • Developed site in DHTML • Interviewed subject matter experts • Developed an integrated bug tracking system for the site • Conducted extensive usability testing of the site

• 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

• Designed and conducted research in neurobiology and behavioral neuroscience • Taught undergraduate courses as a graduate teaching assistant in chemistry, neurobiology and cognitive psychology • Founded a student organization focused on ethics in biomedical research

Human-Computer Interaction; Interaction Design; Information Architecture; Design of Systems and Services

Developmental Biology; Biopsychology