| 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: |
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| 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. | |
| Freelance Consulting Examples: | ||||
| Wilderness Travel | 2007 – 2009 | Dynamic, standards-based web and application design and development, information and interface design, project management, usability testing and research, staff training, documentation, multimedia, production, process analysis and planning. Other clients include: UC Office of the President, Terrestra, Foundation for Accelerated Vascular Research, Redwood Day School, Prospect Sierra School, Pie Ranch, Classroom Connect, Marin Country Day School, Scholastic, Purple Moon, and Apple Computer, Inc. |
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| Outformations, Inc | 2006 – 2007 | |||
| Tehiyah Day School | 2006 – 2007 | |||
| San Francisco Day School |  |
2002 – 2007 | |
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| 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, Foundation for Accelerated Vascular Research, Tehiyah Day School, Washington Elementary School PTA, Pie Ranch, UC 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 |
Project Manager, myBerkeley Project Manager, User Experience Design User Interaction Developer, Fluid Project |
| Managing teams responsible for the design and development 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 | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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Rev. 12 - Last updated:
07/14/2011 |