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Valeska O'Leary

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  • Melany Gallant posted a comment on Valeska's Professional Profile 2 months 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 2 months ago
  • Melany Gallant posted a comment on Valeska's Professional Profile 3 months 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 3 months ago
    "Yes, share the secret."
  • Melany Gallant posted a comment on Valeska's Professional Profile 3 months 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 3 months ago
    "I like what you did to your page."
  • Melany Gallant posted a comment on Valeska's Professional Profile 3 months 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 5 months ago
    "Valeska - your luggage tags are in the mail. :)"
  • Valeska posted a comment on Richard Wexler's Public Profile 5 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 5 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

    6:19 AM (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. Address

    Boston
    United States 
  2. Business Phone

    508-490-6484

  3. Work Website