Jeremy Canfield

or: my résumé as a pdf

Education

School of Information, University of Michigan

• Master of Science in Information Expected: May 2010
• Honors: Merit Scholarship (half tuition)
• Coursework in:
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Social Computing and
  • Incentive Centered Design

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

• Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology: May 2003
• Graduation Cum Laude
• Concentrations / Minors:
  • Global Business (with Study Abroad in Switzerland and South East Asia)
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Philosophy

Experience

Fellow

Code For America
San Francisco, California | Jan 2011 – Present

• One of only 20 chosen from over 300 applicants for inaugural class of fellows
• Managed, conducted and distilled month-long user experi- cence research effort for Civic Commons project, including over 100 user and stakeholder interviews
• Product manager and lead interaction designer, coordinating design decisions with developers for Civic Commons Market- place, an open app catalog for civic technology
• Led 3 winning app competition teams, including Summer of Smart and Apps for Good

 

President Co-Founder

Phonagle, LLC
Ann Arbor, Michigan | May 2009 – Present

• Co-founded venture capital funded mobile app start-up
• Coordinated and conducted user research interviews yielding critical insight into product features
• Coordinated and ran market research and user interviews
• Rapidly designed, helped develop and launch innovative location-based mobile game with thousands of users and hun- dreds of thousands of play sessions worldwide

 

Lead Interaction Designer

Swellness Project
Ann Arbor, Michigan | May 2010 – Present

• Created interface mock-ups, incentives, specifications, and interaction flows for wellness applications
• Conducted semi-structured user interviews
• Coordinated development of features, schedules and trade- offs with programmers and principals

 

Information Technology Specialist

Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC | July 2004 ‐ Aug 2008

• Conducted user interviews, performed requirements and process analysis for development of enterprise applications, process re-engineering efforts
• Project lead managing teams of developers for agency-wide deployment of open source collaboration platforms (wikis, CMS, blogs)
• Enterprise Architecture Analysis: contributed to government wide enterprise architecture assessments; see GAO Report #06‐831

Skills

• Project Management, Requirements Analysis, User Experience Design, Usability Testing, Information Visualization, Network Analysis
• Technical Competencies: HTML/CSS, Objective C, PHP, C++, Java, SQL, XML, RSS, Ajax, MySQL, JQuery, JavaScript, R, Pajek, Guess, Axure