Adam
Adam Doti
Multi-Disciplined Artist/Technologist/Adventurer
Experience
  • Senior Manager, User Experience
    June 2011 – Present

  • User Experience Practice Manager (Creative Services)
    OpenText, Corp. (formerly Vignette, Corp.)
    July 2009 – June 2011

    Creator/Manger of the User Experience Practice & Creative Services where I provide full life cycle creative agency solutions to clients and partners ensuring they have a well rounded holistic engagement experience.

    + Create visual, interaction and user interface design components for web applications, portal, mobile, social and dynamic environments. I use a balance of creative consulting, interaction design and art direction skills with a usability and accessibility focused methodology.

    + Lead Fortune 500 customers in the Financial Services, Media, Healthcare, and High Technology industries needs, challenges and goals. Design solutions that take advantage of the product suite and 3rd party integrations to meet and exceed their business needs.

    + Manage and lead proof of concept and design engagements demonstrating value to customers in pre-sales and alliance engagements. Create and implement user experiences from concept to wireframe to mockup to final deliverables.

    + Collaborate internally across diverse teams and functions. Stickler for technological implications as well as business and marketing goals. Conduct customer and team training in design and development of User Experiences, Interfaces and Information Architecture. Conduct investigative engineering support resolution of customer issues.

    + Create and deliver high quality deliverables documenting a User Centered Design approach. Including but not limited to storyboards, wireframes, mood boards, site maps and high fidelity mockups.

    Sample of clients include DOJ, NASA, Nike, Pepsi, Expedia, Wells Fargo, Disney, GE, NBC and Seagate.

  • User Experience Practice Manager
    OpenText Public Sector Solutions (formerly Momentum Systems, Inc)
    July 2009 – Present

    Manage the growth and maturity of the User Experience consulting practice through the refinement of UX and design methodologies, processes and deliverables.

    Responsible for developing and delivering User Experience Services for public sector clients and partners. Provide expertise in Section 508, ADA and WCAG 2.0 specification consulting, design and implementation utilizing a User Centered Analysis and Design approach.

    Promote and deliver Portal, Social and Web Content Management best practices, design and implementations. Innovating solutions from concept to wire-frame to high fidelity designs.

    Unique expertise in designing user experiences for immersive, high stress and critical situational environments.

    Sample of clients include U.S Center for Immigration Services, Department of Defense, Navy and U.S. Health and Human Services.

  • Creative Director/Designer/Owner
    Doti Labs
    1994 – Present

    Consulting, creative, development services specializing in executing a wide range of solutions to solve unique client problems and goals. Multi-disciplined capabilities which include but not limited to; digital media, dynamic web, data visualizations, 3D (digital and physical modeling) and UX consulting.

    Tools to get the job done include everything from blowtorch to pushing pixels.

    Clients include: 24 Hours in Cyberspace, Baynote, Credit.com, America Online, The Exploratoruim SF, Global Brand Consulting, Spinner.com and Quicksilver.

  • Lead User Experience Architect (Practice Manager & Creative Services)
    Vignette Corp. Austin, TX
    January 2003 – July 2009

    Created and established the User Experience Design and Development practice within the Professional Services group helping customers envision, design and launch their initiatives utilizing Portal, CMS and social software solutions as well as integrations with other leading web, social and design technologies.

    Vignette Corp. is a leader in Web Content Management that delivers Web experiences, including customer's audiences with rich content and multi-media; Transactional Content Management, which manages the content that drives human or document centric business processes within healthcare, insurance, financial services, media and public sectors; and Intranet Solutions that enable organizations to optimize knowledge management, enable expertise location, and leverage enterprise social media with portal and collaboration technologies. (Vignette was acquired by OpenText Corp. in July 2009)

  • Senior UX Designer
    Epicentric Inc. San Francisco, CA
    January 2000 – January 2003

    Provided professional services in consulting, creative and development to a wide range of customers and projects.

    Epicentric Inc. was a leading technology company that developed software and services for corporations and media businesses to establish personalized portal web sites that can aggregate and integrate internal and external information and applications. (Epicentric was acquired by Vignette Corp. in 2003.)

  • Designer/Model Maker
    M5 Industries. San Francisco, CA
    1999 – 2000

    Worked as part of a team and individually on projects for the entertainment industry. Areas of focus included; special effects, model making, product prototype and set design.

    Sample of projects include: MonkeyBone (film) and Rockin' Roller coaster (amusement park prototype).

  • Senior Designer
    e-agency (MCA Advertising) Oakland, CA
    1997 – 1999

    Advertising, Web and Marketing agency where I worked as a print and online media designer/developer for local and national companies including AT&T, AOL, Fort Howard Paper, Madison Park REIT, City of Oakland and Oakland Airport.

Education
  • Human Factors International
    Certified Usability Analyst. License #2009-2110
    2009
  • Academy of Art University
    BA, 3D Modeling & Animation
    1997 – 1999
  • San Francisco State University
    BA, Fine Art/Conceptual Design
    1991 – 1996
  • Skills
  • Evangelizing User Centered Design
  • High fidelity production ready designs
  • 508, ADA and WCAG 1.0 & 2.0 Standards
  • Product Development
  • Agile Development
  • Training/Mentoring
  • Team white‐boarding, brainstorming and visioning
  • Wire‐framing, storyboarding and concept designs
  • Heuristic reviews, user studies and persona development
  • Drawing, painting, sculpture and mixed media
  • 3Dmodeling,animation & NLE
  • Topical presentations at industry conferences such as Vignette Village (04‐08) and Content World (09) and on client site
  • Available for positions involving national trust
  • Jack of all trades
  • Areas of Interest
  • Manager/Director UX Practice
  • User Experience Design and Services
  • Products and services innovation
  • Web production, management and maintenance
  • User Centered Analysis and Design
  • 508 Compliance testing and development
  • Portal and Content Management
  • Social Networking Strategy
  • Graphic Design
  • Animation / Film / Video
  • Conceptual Design and Fine Art
  • Software + Systems
  • Photoshop
  • Flash
  • Director
  • Illustrator
  • Dreamweaver
  • AfterEffects
  • Premiere
  • Windows / Mac / UNIX
  • HTML, CSS
  • JavaScript
  • JSP, ASP, PHP
  • XML, XSLT
  • Visio
  • Apache, IIS, Weblogic
  • Omniture
  • WordPress etc...
  • Flint, Maya, Alias
  • Vignette, OpenText
  • LiveLink