Kendall O. Conrad

# Address Removed #
Fairborn, OH 45324
(937) Upon Request
kendall_conrad @ yahoo.com
http://www.angelwatt.com

I'm looking for a job in the areas of web design, graphical interface design, or technical research

Description: Hard-working, Dependable, Dedicated, Trustworthy, Bright, Helpful

Skilled at: Web Design, Research, Human Factors, Psychology, Computer Science, Art

Can start working: --Not currently seeking employment--

Employment

Human Factors Engineer

Jun. 2007 - Present

SAIC

Beavercreek, OH

Trained on IMPRINT Pro
Team training strategies experiments

Commander's Predictive Environment for AF
Create innovative GUI design concepts

Research Fellow

Feb. 2004 - Jun. 2007

Consortium Research Fellows Program

Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

At the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Human Effectiveness Cognitive Systems (HECS) branch
Designed & created web pages for projects

Designed & maintained software programs
Conducted research in UI Patterns, Software Systems, Collaboration in Command & Control (C2), etc.

Sr. Computing Helpdesk Assistant

Jan. 2001 - Jun. 2004

CaTS Helpdesk, Wright State University

Dayton, OH

Resolved technical issues in person, by phone, & e-mail
Mentored and trained helpdesk assistants

Collected data from computer lab usage
Helped faculty, staff, students use University facilities

Additional Experiences

Electronics Sales Associate at Sears
Assistant Manager at Papa Murphy's

Help individuals with web design tasks

Education

June 2007: M.S.Egr. - Human Factors Engineering - Wright State University, Dayton, OH
June 2004: B.S. - Psychology - Minor in Computer Science - Wright State University, Dayton, OH

Skill Sets (practical years of experience)

Web Technologies

(X)HTML (6)
CSS (5)
XML/XSLT (3)
AJAX (1)

Languages

JavaScript (5)
PHP (3)
Java (3)
C++ (2)

Applications

MS Office (10+)
Dreamweaver (3)
Gimp (1)
Photoshop (2)

Interests

Drawing/Art
Cycling
Exercising
Learning

Familiar with: W3C Standards, Accessibility, SVG, JSON, MySQL, Jython, Perl, User-Centered Design, Work-Centered Design, Typography, MS Excel, Frontpage, CSE, EID, Apache, Python

Publications (readable online)

Conrad, K., Stanard, T. (2007). Advanced Design Patterns: Enabling Designers of Complex Systems. In the Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP). June, 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Wampler, J., Roth, E., Whitaker, R., Conrad, K., Stilson, M., Scott, R., Thomas-Meyers, G. (2006). Using Work-Centered Specifications to Integrate Cognitive Requirements Into Software Development. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) 50th Annual Meeting. Oct. 16-20, 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Conrad, K.O., Schmidt, V.A. (2006). Practical Technologies for Implementing Distributed Applications as Evolvable Software Systems (ESS). Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP). June 26-29, 2006, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Stanard, T., Wampler, J., Conrad, K., Osga, G. (2006). HCI Design Patterns for C2: A Vision for a DoD Design Reference Library. 2006 CCRTS The State of the Art and the State of the Practice. May 15-17, Las Vegas, USA.
Conrad, K.O., Schmidt, V.A. (2005). Progressive Software Systems: Dynamic Software for a Dynamic Workplace. Proceedings of the Ninth IASTED International Conference SEA, Nov. 14-16, 2005, Phoenix, AZ, USA.