Pat Lang

Happy to be working with a great team and great company!

Responsible for developing and cultivating a lean user experience team process, internal client relationships, contributing a strategic design process to new product initiatives and providing best-practices for user experience, interaction and research. Manage and lead ux project teams, work collaboratively, and mentor/support other UX team members in the execution of internal client related deliverables.

Created and maintained interactive wireframes and prototypes for the redesign of Uverse.com.

Collaborated with the AT&T Customer Experience Team on user research initiatives to evaluate and validate product designs.

Lead a multi-disciplinary team with an overall responsibility for overseeing the user experience strategy and tactics of all marketing and product iterative media properties, as well as managing multiple innovation initiatives. This position required being strategic, tactical, and creative while remaining people oriented and process focused.

- Managed a 4 person team of Interactive and User Experience Designers.

- Managed the user experience process from concept to completion of mobile apps and websites.

- Combined business, user and technical knowledge to define strategy and create product roadmaps.

- Lead the UX process of Bridgepoint's long overdue redesign of the Ashford university website (apron. 5M monthly views) http://www.ashford.edu

- Lead the UX process and and managed creative resources for Bridgepoint's corporate site redesign. www.bridgepointeducation.com

- Lead the UX process and managed the creative and iOS development process to launch Bridgepoint's first internal enterprise iPad App; The Lead Card App for the Corporate and Military Sales Teams

- Lead the UX process of Bridgepoint's first Mobile Classroom iPhone app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ashford-university-mobile/id440722504?mt=8

- Lead the UX and implementation process of Bridgepoint's first Military Showcase iPad App, a presentation app for trade shows.

- Lead the creation process of Bridgepoints first Showcase App, an internal presentation Pad app for the government affairs team.

Working with The LIFT Interactive Agency (www.thelift.net) and the Founder of TCPN, I created Wireframes, Clickable Prototypes and provided Strategic Consulting to help launch The College Planning Network.
http://www.thecollegeplanningnetwork.com

Working directly with the Founder, Johnny Buss (LA Sparks/Lakers) and Cyplex Interactive Agency (www.cyplex.com). I created documentation to help define the features and requirements for Musester.com. The final deliverable included all front end specifications, and a few high-level wireframes.

When inbetween projects I work on my mobile/iPhone/iPad brand called Beats and Bars, as an outlet to improve my mobile project / product management and design abilities and to deepen my understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle, including User Research, Project/Product Management, Product Design, User Experience, Social Media, Content Producing, Vendor Management and Usability Testing.

Mic Check, a simple song recorder, is in the Apple Store has been downloaded over 40,000 times.

Working directly with the founder, I provided Strategic Consulting to
• Analyze Business Models
• Identify Revenue Streams
• Analyze Competitors
• Identify Creative and Technical Team Requirements
• Calculate Annual Software Development Budget
• Shape User Experience via High Level Wireframes
• Define a Preliminary Mobile Strategy

Consulted with The LIFT Interactive Agency (www.theLift.net) to implement and evaluate a unique marketing solution that combines Motion & Gesture Detection, a Touch Interface, Interactive Video, and Mobile Messaging. This unique experience is the first in the United States to combine this many technologies in addition to being projected onto an 8 foot sales window display.

Information Architecture services for a WiMax Media Portal.

I am very happy to be working with Loop'd again, to do formal Usability Testing on their social network platform.

Its especially rewarding to work with an organization that actually implements formal User Experience procedures to innovate and improve their products.

Worked with an exciting, early-stage Internet startup in Westwood, CA As an Information Architect / UI Designer. I joined the team and played a role in conceptualizing and designing a web 2.0 community and application targeted at Baby Boomers. I was responsible for creating interactive design prototypes as well as conceptualizing, exploring, and proposing new features, behaviors, interactions, and product enhancements.

This is an exciting opportunity and I am very proud to a part of such a dynamic and talented team.

Helped launch a social network for sports, and evaluated site changes to the redesign of Sponsorhouse.com, a web 2.0 application that connects athletes and sponsors.

Entriq: Storefront and DRM Solutions for Mobile, Broadband, and iTV

Product Development Group: User Interface and User Experience Design for Mobile, Broadband, InternetTV, and PSP Devices. Reports to VP of Product Development

Usability Consultant for an engagement with a Start Up Software Company.

• Implemented User Centered Design (UCD) Principles to design and develop interface for the company intranet, public site and Content Management System.

eLearning and Process Training Development for Software/Web Engineers.

Conceptualized and designed eLearning scenarios, interactions and interface design requirements using Visio, PowerPoint, PhotoShop, Video Production, Flash, DreamWeaver, OnDemand, and Intel internal applications.

Frontera was small boutique design business started by Pat Lang to capitalize on a new thing called the internet. :-)

Along with talented co-founders Kemal Erbas and Emrul Alto, Frontera designed and coded some of the first websites for many small to large companies and web 1.0 startups. Clients included: Sun Microsystems, PC World Magazine, Duarte Design, In Your Face Design, EON interactive, CSU Chico, KiraCom, GoWeb, Patent Cafe

Frontera Design and In Your Face Design entered a strategic partnership to handle the overload of business and provide a complete solution for our clients.