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Valeska O'Leary

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  • Melany Gallant posted a comment on Valeska's Professional Profile 14 days ago
    "hey sory about the weirdness with the Sixent blog "request membership". for some reason membership was set to "closed". It's... open and you're definitely a member! ;)"moreless
  • Valeska joined the group 4 weeks ago
  • Melany Gallant posted a comment on Valeska's Professional Profile 7 weeks ago
    "ok - Patrick does a tutorial: http://sixentblog.sixent.com/override_sixent_styles_to_customize_a_page Let me know if you... find it confusing or easy to do. We are working on templates to make it easy for non-tech folk. ;)"moreless
  • Valeska posted a comment on Melany Gallant's Public Profile 7 weeks ago
    "Yes, share the secret."
  • Melany Gallant posted a comment on Valeska's Professional Profile 1 month ago
    "want to know how i edited my page? i can send you the instructions...until we get a template, you need to do a bit of a... "hack" but it's fairly straightforward."moreless
  • Valeska posted a comment on Melany Gallant's Public Profile 1 month ago
    "I like what you did to your page."
  • Melany Gallant posted a comment on Valeska's Professional Profile 1 month ago
    "Valeska! your Boston package just arrived! thanks so much! now i need to take a pic with a Red Sox hat. :D"
  • Melany Gallant posted a comment on Valeska's Professional Profile 3 months ago
    "Valeska - your luggage tags are in the mail. :)"
  • Valeska posted a comment on Richard Wexler's Public Profile 3 months ago
    "C'mon, start build your profile, stranger. Keep in touch."
  • Valeska commented on Patrick Lajeunesse's bookmark Researchers help define next-generation social networking 3 months ago
    "The 3 pre-set profiles at Sixent, my updates make a lot more sense. No more silly updates to my professional network. That's... what I like about Sixent. Bravo!"moreless
 
 
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Personal

  1. Local Time

    1:19 PM (GMT -5)
  2. Birthday

    December 1
  3. Gender

    Female
  4. Biography

    I'm an information architect and usability specialist with extensive experience designing and testing web-based applications for a variety of industries. Focus on developing solutions that successfully support business goals through user-centered design.

    People say I have an easygoing personality and good sense of humor which I’ll take advantage of to establish good working relationships with everyone on the team.

    Things I love to do when I’m not organizing information :

    - Volunteering my skills to Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX)
    - Volunteering my skills to Massachusetts Association for Mental Health (MAMH)
    - Aid the immigrants community to cope with problems of domestic violence, child abuse, education, and health care through the Board of Directors of Total Assistance
    - Watching movies
    - Completely addicted to podcasts (send me to rehab, if you will)
    - An avocational interest for blogs and social computing
    - Finding new gadgets and designer jewelries to invest my money in

    I am a member of the Usability Professionals' Association, The Institute for Information Architecture, Boston CHI, IxDA and the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (MITX), where I serve as Judge in several technology panels.

    It's not a job to me. It's my passion. If the above doesn't make it for a great "user's advocate", I don't know what it does.

    Talk to me.
 
 
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Business

  1. Employer (July 2007 - Present)

    Director of User Experience & IA

    Network World/IDG

    (Media)
    Framingham, Massachusetts
    01772  United States 
 
 
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Education

  1. College / University

    Bentley College

    Information Design
  2. College / University

    WPI

    Web Technologies (2002)
 
 
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Contact Information

  1. Business Phone

    508-490-6484

  2. Work Website