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BRETT BARROS
Email bb@BrettBarros.com
Portfolio BrettBarros.com

Objective UI Ninja seeks to create user experiences that no one thought possible
beforehand and everyone thinks fundamental afterward. Front-end design
and development skills available for contract; not available full time.

Skills  Adobe’s Creative Suite (Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator).

 Validating HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript / jQuery.
 Omniture, Google’s Tools (Analytics, AdSense, AdWords).

Interests  Interactive design patterns.

 Analyzing efficiency vs proficiency and discoverability vs clutter.
 HCI research and web analytics that inform best practices in UX.

UI/UX AOL, Truveo

2010-2011 Founder & CEO
Joined in Oct. 2010 to design and develop their HTML5 video player and aid
in debugging and cross-platforming their then-new website redesign. I’m a
co-author of their most recent patent application, and am responsible for:

 Celeb Feed Page - http://truveo.com/celebfeed.php

 1st Player Mock - LatentMotion.com/player/v1-light.jpg
 2nd Player Mock - LatentMotion.com/player/index8.png

Founder Latent Motion, LLC

1997-2010 Founder & CEO
Founded the Web consulting agency Latent Motion, orchestrating the
individual talents of nearly a dozen international designers and programmers.
To give back to the community, I’ve open sourced a few UX / Dev tools:

 Link Building Light - seox.org

 Link Building Pro - seox.org/pro-beta.html
 jQuery Bookmarklets - LatentMotion.com/jquery-bookmarklets
 Google Alerts - LatentMotion.com/google-alerts

UI/UX Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2007-2010 Interaction Designer and Developer
Designed and developed the UX/UI for a few sites and a few apps at MIT. I’m
particularly pleased with the results for:

 US-Iran Relations - BrettBarros.com/demo/us-iran.html

 MIT HyperStudio - hyperstudio.mit.edu/projects
  Iraq Mortality - web.mit.edu/humancostiraq
 Shakespeares (beta) - GlobalShakespeares.org

Front-End Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2002-2003 W3C Validator / Accessibility Checker

 Corrected XHTML, nested tables, and W3C Incompliance.

 Cleaned and re-organized CSS file selectors.
 Trained MIT staff in a variety of software programs.

Director Anonymous Record Store

2001-2010 Director of Web Marketing
Rebuilt Web presence, oriented primarily around SEO/SEM strategies, with the
explicit goal of maximizing visitors. This client’s name is available with an NDA.

 Performed extensive keyword research, competitive analysis, split A/B

tests, and web analytics based behaviour research.
 Increased traffic from 10k visitors per year to over one million.
 Created a Craigslist data mining and notification tool. It isolates and
emails the store notifications about relevant user posts that match
keyword sets, item quantity checks, and negative phrases.

SEO eVision SEM

2008-2009 Consultant
Managed several clients’ Google AdWords accounts as a certified individual,
and performed landing-page audits for improved ROI, as well as site-audits for
search engine crawlability.

Education Boston University, College of Communication

2003-2006 Bachelors in Advertising, Minor in Psychology
Graduated Magna Cum Laude in three years

Protagonist In my free time

1983-2011 I play strategy games (such as Chess), word games (such as Scrabble), and
follow politics (which is like a combination of word and strategy games).

Find Me Now it’s your turn

Today In 2010, I moved from Boston to SF with an eye towards joining a startup. Take
a look at what I’ve done, then let me know when I can join you.

 View my Portfolio - BrettBarros.com

 Read my Blog - LatentMotion.com
 Use those fingers - bb@brettbarros.com
 And them ears - 415 - 763 - 8421