Jason Cornwell - Résumé

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Jason Cornwell

jasoncornwell@gmail.com
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EXPERIENCE	2007-Present, VMware, Inc. Interaction Designer Designed VMwareÕs next generation web platform for virtual infrastructure management. Designed applications that manage the development and deployment of virtual appliances. Developed in-house tools for managing data from user research. 2008, Postbox, Inc. User Experience Consultant Designed the overall navigation, rich media views, search, tagging, and rich message compose features of Postbox, an email client launched at Techcrunch 08. Conducted user research to help drive the design process. 2006-2007, Carnegie Mellon University Research Programmer, CogTool Project Developed CogTool, an application that allows interaction designers to quickly mock up user interfaces and then calculates detailed performance predictions of experts manipulating those interfaces Designed and developed visualizations of the behavior and performance of both model users and real users Integrated NASA’s CORE cognitive architecture into CogTool 2005, Carnegie Mellon University CSCW Researcher, RADAR Project Designed and ran user studies on an intelligent email assistant that automates routine tasks for webmasters Developed specialized event logging and analysis software for automatic recording of experimental data 2001-2005, The University of Pennsylvania Research Programmer, PMFserv & LeaderSim Projects Designed and implemented the user interface for PMFserv, an emotional agent architecture intended for use by social scientists Designed, prototyped, and implemented the user interface for LeaderSim, a geopolitical simulation / game built with PMFserv agents Participated in the conceptual design, paper and pencil prototyping / play-testing, and user-testing of LeaderSim and it’s board game spin-off: BigWig Rearchitected PMFserv to better support rapid scenario development and facilitate reuse of knowledge engineering assets Presented PMFserv tutorial at BRIMS Conference, 2004.
EDUCATION	2005 - 2007, Carnegie Mellon University Masters Degree - Human Computer Interaction GPA: 3.98 Selected Projects: Usability analysis of tablet-based math skills training program for 4th graders Design of MarketMate: a robotic shopping assistant Redesign of 2008 Cadillac Escalade XM Radio Design and implementation of people-finder service for Windows Mobile Design of mobile blogging thin client for Microsoft Research Design Expo Design and implementation of gesture-driven media playback system using gyroscopic mice 1997-2001, Pennsylvania State University Undergraduate Degree – Cognitive Psychology Psychology GPA: 3.85 / 4.00, General GPA: 3.75 / 4.00 Honors B.S. in Psychology, Quantification Concentration Enrolled in Schreyer Honors College, graduated Cum Laude Thesis: Using genetic algorithms to grow models of development in ACT-R
METHODOLOGIES	Contextual Inquiry / Design Think-Aloud User Studies Heuristic Evaluation Keystroke Level Modeling Cognitive Walkthrough Directed Storytelling Wizard-of-Oz Studies Affinity Diagramming Personas and Scenarios Storyboarding Wireframing Prototyping (paper and interactive) Artifact Walkthrough Bodystorming MakeTools and Cultural Probes
PUBLICATIONS	Cornwell J B., Fette I., Hsieh G., Prabaker M., Rao J., Tang K., Vaniea K., Bauer L., Cranor L., Hong J., McLaren B., Reiter M., Sadeh N. "User-Controllable Security and Privacy For Pervasive Computing", 8th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2007). Zimmerman, J., Tomasic, A., Simmons, I., Hargraves, I., Konhkern, K., Cornwell, J B., McGuire, R. “VIO: a mixed initiative approach to learning and automating procedural update tasks.” SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2007). Cornwell, J B., O'Brien, K., Silverman, B G., Toth, J A. (2003) “Affordance Theory for Improving the Rapid Generation, Composability, and Resuability of Synthetic Agents and Objects.” Proceedings of the Twelth Conference on Computer-Generated Forces and Behavior Representation, SISO. Cornwell, J B., Silverman, B G., O’Brien, K., Johns, M. (2002). “A Demonstration of the PMF-Extraction Approach: Modeling the Effects of Sound on Crowd Behavior.” Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Computer-Generated Forces and Behavior Representation, SISO. Silverman, B G., Johns, M., Weaver, R., O’Brien, K., Silverman, R., Cornwell, J B. (2002) “Human Behavior Models for Game-Theoretic Agents: Case of Crowd Tipping.” Cognitive Science Quarterly, Fall 2002.
DEVELOPMENT	Programming Languages Python (wxPython) Javascript (jQuerry) HTML/CSS Java (swing, SWT) Objective-C C# Software OmniGraffle Adobe Creative Suite (Fireworks, Photoshop, Flash) Eclipse Apple XCode Microsoft Visual Studio