Eli Cochran 510.517.3940
1819 Virginia Street, Berkeley, CA 94703
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Summary
Over twenty years experience in technical management, design, development and education.
Including:
  • designing, developing and maintaining web sites and web applications.
  • managing people on creative, development, and production teams.
  • organizing and managing collaborative, distributed projects.
  • developing and implementing interaction and information design and strategy.
  • designing and developing computer-based applications, information, and tools.
  • developing and delivering technology training and documentation.
Objectives
To participate in creative multidisciplinary teams developing exciting and beautiful products. To use computers to help individuals better understand the world around them. To continue to learn and grow both creatively and technically.
Examples of recent work:
Wilderness Travel   2007 – 2009   Information design, project management, engineering, production, documentation, staff training, and on-going maintenance.
Outformations, Inc   2006 – 2007  
Foundation for Accelerated
Vascular Research		   2006 – 2009  
Tehiyah Day School   2006 – 2007  
Prospect Sierra School 2003 – 2007
San Francisco Day School 2002 – 2007
Freelance Consulting
June 1988 - Present
Modern, cross-platform, standards-based web site and web application design and development. Technology design, engineering, and management. Information architecture. Interface design. Usability testing and research. Multimedia development. Infrastructure and process analysis and planning. Tools design. Project management. WebEvent, Contribute, and MovableType integration.

Clients include: Wilderness Travel, Pacific Vascular Research Foundation, Tehiyah Day School, Washington Elementary School PTA, Pie Ranch, University of California Office of the President, Redwood Day School, Terrestra, Town School for Boys, Outformations, Prospect Sierra School, Classroom Connect, San Francisco Day School, Marin Country Day School, Scholastic, Purple Moon, Convivial Design, and Apple Computer, Inc.
Employment
August 2007 - Present
University of California
Berkeley, CA		 Manager, User Experience Design
User Experience Developer
Managing a team of user experience designers responsible for the design of a number of teaching and learning web applications in the Educational Technology Services department at UC Berkeley. Working with the Sakai Foundation and other community-source projects to promote and ensure best practices in user experience design and development through collaboration and training. An active member of the Fluid Project, designing, building and promoting the Fluid framework and a suite of usable, accessible web-application components
May 1999 - July 2001
Bigstep.com
San Francisco, CA		 Senior Manager, User Experience and Interface Engineering
Managed a team of information architects, visual interface designers and engineers responsible for the design and implementation of a feature-rich web-based application. Created and documented production processes to ensure quick, error-free development. Delivered large and challenging projects on-time and on-budget often under extremely tight deadlines. Developed tools and technology for 3rd-party integration and co-branding. Defined and prioritized products and projects.
September 1996 - May 1999
Allegis Corporation
San Francisco, CA		 Product Design Specialist
Designed and scripted templates for Net-It Central, a corporate Intranet site building tool. Helped develop and maintain the Net-It Software external Web site. Designed and implemented print and on-screen tutorials. Participated in the design of a large-scale, web-based, data-driven enterprise application.
January 1995 - June 1995
daVinci Time & Space
San Mateo, CA		 Interface Engineer
Created interactive television experiences in a public domain interpreted language for simulated ITV hardware. Developed tools and processes for converting media developed on the Macintosh to formats for interactive television.
August 1993 - August 1994
Ignition
San Francisco, CA		 Lead Developer
Developed Amnesty Interactive, a multimedia CD-ROM for the human rights organization Amnesty International, distributed by the Voyager Company. Participated in the information and interface design. Implemented the user interaction and prepared the digital media.
April 1989 - January 1995
Apple Computer, Inc.
Cupertino, CA		 Multimedia Designer & Developer
Designed and implemented on-line documentation, tools, tutorials, training, reference and task-based help systems. Usability testing. Developed training materials and tools for software localization. Presented localization training. Managed the production of audio and video.
November 1986 - June 1988
Oxford & Associates
Mountain View, CA		 QA Test Lead
Supervised a software quality testing team at Apple Computer, Inc. Designed tools for testing, inventory, and defect tracking. Tested and evaluated software and documentation for defects, inconsistencies, and performance. Developed and implemented test plans. Participated in the development of network and file server administration software.
Education
September 1981 - June 1984
San Francisco State
University		 Studies included theater arts, journalism, political science, and social science.
Skills, Tools and Technologies
XHTML, HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, AJAX, PHP, JSP, JavaScript, jQuery, Dreamweaver, SVN, Movable Type, WordPress, Photoshop, Mac OS, Unix, and Windows.
Patents
5859638; 5828374; 5825355; 5602996; 5600779; 5488685
US Patents assigned to Apple Computer, Inc. for inventions created in the course of developing Apple Help with P. Coleman, J. Palmer, M. Powers, J. Herman, J. Powers, and G. Brewer

Rev. 11 - Last updated: 04/30/2009
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