Brian Landau's Resume (Last updated May 8th 2008)

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BRIAN LANDAU

Chapel Hill, NC 27514 - USA
http://www.claimid.com/brianjlandau

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SUMMARY 
You'll find me to be a responsible and conscientious worker, and a quick learner. Most of the skills I've listed I've picked up in the past year working on personal projects that have not come to fruition yet. This makes me very adept at learning new skills easily and on my own without the supervision or direction of others. Both educationally and professionally I have worked individually and as a member of a larger group, and do well in both situations. You'll find that I'm someone who adapts quickly to any situation I find myself in.
As a masters student in UNC - Chapel Hill - School of Information and Library Science's Information Science program, my educational interests lie in web design, web based applications/services, usability, interface/interaction design, and user experience.
These are also my professional interests, but particularly I'd like to work on the interface and the user experience of web applications.
My home page

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WORK EXPERIENCE 

Viget Labs, Durham, NC

5/08 - Present
Web Developer
Ruby on Rails Developer

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DesignHammer, Durham, NC

7/07 - 5/08
Web Developer
  • Refactored a custom CMS system to be more OOP
  • Scripted XML conversions and imports
  • Developed custom CMS back-end solutions
  • Developed a Rails Web Application deployed via Capistrano
  • Administrated a nginx/mongrel/rails server stack
  • Managed an Amazon S3 account and used it as an asset and backup server.


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Motricity, Durham, NC

10/06 - 06/07
User Experience Engineer Intern
  • Worked on redesign of CSS/HTML prototypes
  • Testing of various CSS capabilities of Mobile Devices, and analysis of the results
  • Designing and executing a usability test of a sites redesign.
  • Analysis of the usability test results be evaluating both questionnaire results and screen captures.
  • Presentation of results to business owners, developers and other team members.


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Dr. Diane Kelly, UNC - Chapel Hill

5/06 - 8/06
Research Assistant
  • Helped design experiment for testing a information retrieval interface
  • Conducted research with participants
  • Made a web form participant sign-up system for the experiment.
  • Made web forms for the usability questionnaires given during the experiment.

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ILSSA, UNC - Chapel Hill - SILS

1/06 - 12/06
Technical Coordinator
  • Set up a Mediawiki Wiki, customized it, maintained it and administrated it: SILSWiki
  • Managed 2 email lists
  • Designed, managed and administered a department wide web-based voting system for Student Organization Officer Elections
  • Coordinated with other organizations on various projects and activities

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SKILLS 
Languages
  • (X)HTML
  • CSS
  • XML & XSLT
  • XForms
  • JavaScript
  • Ruby & Rails
  • PHP
  • BASH
  • Regular Expressions
  • SQL
  • AppleScript

Programs
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Microsoft Project
  • OmniGraffle Pro
  • TextMate

Server Administration
  • nginx
  • mongrel
  • mongrel_cluster
  • memcached
  • MySQL
  • sqlite
  • Subversion server
  • Apache
  • PHP
  • logrotate scripts
  • ffmpeg
  • init.d scripts

Operating Systems
  • MacOS X
  • Windows
  • UNIX/Linux

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EDUCATION 

Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, 8/99 - 1/03

BA in Biopsychology with a Concentration in the Cognitive Sciences

 

UNC - Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 8/05 - 8/07

MS in Information Science

 

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COURSE WORK 
Systems Analysis
User Interface Design
Web Databases
XML

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PUBLICATIONS 
Kelly, D., Harper, D. J., & Landau, B. Questionnaire mode effects in interactive information retrieval experiments.Information Processing & Management. (2008), 44(1), p122-141
doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2007.02.007

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