Speaking Engagements and Articles

From time to time over the years, I've been asked to speak at various conferences on the topics of user interface design, agile user interface design, prototyping, big data visualization, or design management.

A Simple, Fast Approach to Analytics for Big Data/IoT with kdb+

Big Data Conference - Strata + Hadoop 2015

Februray 2015

San Jose, United States

 

Explorations In Interactive Visual Analytics:
Supporting Analysis And Data Visualization At Scale

YOW!2014 Software Developer Conference

December 2014

Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, Australia


Explorations In Interactive Visual Analytics:
Supporting Analysis And Data Visualization At Scale

GOTO Copenhagen and Aarhus Software Developer Conferences

September 2014

Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark

Slides Video

CARE: A Collaborative Analytics Environment

NATO Visualization Workshop

November 2011

Vancouver, Canada

Slides

Sketching User Interfaces

CAPCHI Monthly Meeting

February 2011

Ottawa, Canada

Slides

Business Analysis and Requirements Workshop

Better Software Conference

June 2011

Las Vegas, United States

Event Info

Agile Envisioning: Build It Right, The Third Time

GOTO Copenhagen and Aarhus Software Developer Conferences

September 2010

Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark

Slides

A Collborative Methodology For The Rapid Development And Delivery Of Online Courses

SIGDOC 2002 - International Conference On Computer Documentation

2002

Article

Coming To Our Senses: Multi-Modal User Interfaces

Design Management Institute Conference

1997

Minneapolis, United States

Article

 

Print Design Awards

Gold Award, Ottawa Ad & Sales, CHEZ “Rock Transit” campaign, 1991

Gold Award, Ottawa Ad & Sales, Ottawa Roughrider’s “Rough Stuff” campaign, 1991

Bronze Medal, Int’l New York Advertising Festival, OCEDCO’s “Square Foot” direct-mail campaign, 1991

Award of Excellence, Society of Technical Communications, Nortel documentation standards, 1990

Award of Merit, Society of Technical Communications, COMPASS product brochure, 1989

Award of Excellence, Society of Technical Communications, Nortel DV-1 promotional marketing suite, 1988

Best of Show, Society of Technical Communications, Nortel DV-1 1987 calendar, 1987

Award of Merit, Society of Technical Communications, Nortel MS-1 brochure, 1987

Best of 80’s Award of Merit, Graphic Designer’s Guild of Canada, Nortel DV-1 1986 calendar, 1986

 

Product Design Patents

Connection manager user interface patent, 2000

Problem analyser user interface patent, 2000

Inter-layering system for displaying multi-technology network topologies, 1999

Visual language for network management user interfaces, 1996

 

Industry Awards

Nortel Top Talent Awards, 1999-2001

Award of Excellence Network Management, 1997 and 1994