Resumé

Melissa Cliver
Interaction / Experience / Research / Communication
melissacliver@gmail.com

Objective :
To conduct interaction design research in collaborative interdisciplinary teams in order to create sustainable systems comprised of services, technology and products.

Keywords: Design Research, Augmented Reality, Visualization, Service Design, HCI, Emotion, Experience, Social Networking, Support Systems

Skills :
Design ethnography, participatory design, contextual interviews, usability testing, client relations, task analysis, strategy, user experience analysis, conceptual modeling, blue printing, emotional charting, video, design for service and concept validation.

Graduate Work :
Carnegie Mellon University
Communication / Interaction Design 09:

Communication / Interaction Projects: (research,concepts,service)
(::) Travel App "Word of Mouth"
(::) Visual Patient History and EMR: Mayo Clinic
(::) Biobank Research Donation Process : Mayo Clinic
(::) Mobile Financial Card "Current-C": Microsoft & Motorola
(::) Multimedia messaging "I Remember" : Apple
(::) Transform Airport Security : TSA
(::) Transform Patient Experience : UPMC Medical
(::) Interactive exhibition device "Hind Sight" : Mattress Factory
(::) Collaborative Video Whiteboard "Ivory Slate" : Adobe


Independent Creative Consultant
Selected Experience 1998 - present
Fine Arts, Academia and Advertising :

F i l m :
Experimental Documentary Producer
BURN
Experimental 16mm short. Several international awards, gallery and museum exhibitions.Held by MOMA in the Experimental Short collection curated by Chrissie lies.

Documentary film director
Patient / Mother 16mm short.
First exhibited at the International Visual Sociology Conference,
Antwerpen, Belgium.

Documentary film director
Tattoo Worlds Fieldnotes from NY.
The adventures of an ethnographic graduate student
gathering tattoo stories of the 'modern primitives' in New York. Collaboration with Mary Kosut, now Assistant Professor of Media Society and the Arts at SUNY Purchase.

Exit Poll Interviewer
2004 U.S. Presidential election (if you wanna call it that)
Election Protection (Broward County Florida)

T e a c h i n g :
Pratt College of Art and Design. NY
Ethnographic Interviewing lecturer

Rutgers University. NJ
Seminar in Contemporary Art
Color Photography

F i n e A r t s :
International exhibition coordinator The Bronx Museum of the Arts:
One Planet Under a Groove - Museum Villa Stuck, Munich Germany
Theresa Cha retrospective in association with Berkeley University.
Valeska Soares, Follies - Museo de Arte Contempor�neo de Monterrey

Gallery owner and director with 3 partners 31Grand Gallery, emerging art gallery Brooklyn New York.
Curated 4 group shows, 20 artists, 10 months.
Incorporated royalties for artists, with goals to include health insurance and grant support.

Fine art collection curator Altria (Philip Morris).NY
Created a themed emerging artist collection for the Corporate Capital Division. Investment increased 20% in the first year.

P u b l i s h i n g :
Art Direction / Book design
Artadia Foundation for artists. NY & Chicago
Art Fair Index Spring 2008

Art Direction /Photo Editor
Bedford St. Martin Press. NY
Focus on Writing
Developed new visual look and feel for students who are not text based thinkers.

Managing Editor Trafika Press Czech Republic (Brooklyn office) Trafika is a literary journal publishing international text for the first time in English.


A d v e r t i s i n g :
Set Designer and Wardrobe stylist
Nordstrom
Conceptualize and produce artistic vision of creative director for catalogue print and commercials.

Art Director Warner Bros.
Various lo fi music video art directing, no budget fast and furious make-magic-now with this cardboard style of video production techniques.

Display designer Barneys NY
Same as above but in the windows on 5th avenue with smarter ideas fueling the handicraft,also more varied materials such as make-magic-now with this twig, shoe lace and broken deer antler.

E d u c a t i o n :
AA Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising
Los Angeles and San Francisco
(Design and Merchandising)

BA Evergreen, Olympia, Washington (Ethnography)
MFA Rutgers University, New Jersey (photo / video)

Mdes Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh (Interaction Design Research and Strategy / concentration Service Design) �09

A w a r d s :
Black Maria best short, Guggenheim project grant, Jerome foundation project grant
Heinz foundation and the MOMA art collection holding of BURN.

Exhibition record, filmography, complete client list and project descriptions available upon request.
Contact : melissacliver@gmail.com or
( 917 ) 887 9721

Projects by Melissa Cliver

Designing for Transition
19 Files

Hindsight - art exhibition tour device
8 Files

SHAKE
2 Files

Service Design -patient experience
9 Files

Ivory Slate collaborative white board web application
11 Files

TAXI 07 - Design Trust for Public Space
3 Files

Pittsburgh Airport TSA redesign
12 Files

Resume
3 Files

Exhibited art work
15 Files

Ambient Navigation for Smoke Jumpers - Montana
7 Files

Curatorial
10 Files

Essays
2 Files

Smaller Assignments
11 Files

Current-c Mobile Financial Card
15 Files

Project Trinetra - Business Model
4 Files

Mobile Financial Card
10 Files

Letter of Recommendation
1 File