PeopleSoft User Experience Alumni

This page provides PeopleSoft UE Team contact information. If you are a current or former UE team member of PeopleSoft please get in touch. Send the text for your entry to jeffenglish@yahoo.com.

Note: If you are not an alumnus of PeopleSoft UE, please refrain from contacting the individuals below unless they state they are an independent consultant or contractor, or you are personally known to them.

*recent update* Christian Pantel, July 29

Contact

PeopleSoft History

Now

Last Update

Abbas Moallem
Moallema@yahoo.com

User Research and Usability Expert
Information Architect
2000 - January 2006

UI Architect
Tumbleweed Communication
Redwood City, California

08/12/06

Aimee Freeding
afreeding@hotmail.com

Sr. Interaction Designer
EOne HCM, FMS & Foundations
February 2004 - June 2005

EU Head of User Experience
Expedia.com
Soho, London, UK

02/07/08

Alan Millar
xpsoft_alanmillar@modia.com

Senior Interaction Designer
Financial Management Systems until March 2005

Recent projects - Design and testing of Grants Managements and IT Asset Management applications.

Previously - UE Manager of the PeopleSoft Enterprise Solutions Group. This business unit dissolved in December 2004.

Senior Product Designer
Autodesk

One Market Plaza, SF I will be working on the DWF product line.

Autodesk® DWF™ Composer software is the only all-digital way to review, mark up, and revise drawings, maps, and models without the original design creation software. Autodesk® DWF™ Viewer is the free application for viewing and printing 2D and 3D DWF™ (Design Web Format™) files.

03/15/05

Ali Ebtekar
m: +1 (510) 610 4561
e: ali@blurredwhisper.com
e: ebtekar@acm.org

Specialist, User Experience (HCM group)
2/2004-1/2005

Partner
Blurred Whisper
Palo Alto, California
http://blurredwhisper.com

02/20/08

Alicia Vause
alicia_marin@yahoo.com

Interaction Designer
1997-2003

General Ledger Developer
1994-1997

Chasing after active toddler

01/24/05

Alisa Hamai
ayh1@pacbell.net

Senior Usability Participant Recruiter
March 2003

Oracle

12/29/04

Amanda Linden
35 Miramar Ave. SF, CA 94112
415-385-6781
amandalinden@yahoo.com

Usability Engineer & Interaction Designer PeopleSoft CRM
2003 - 2004

UED Director, Yahoo Social (since July)
Yahoo Inc., Sunnyvale

02/11/08

Amy Chen
amyszuchen@hotmail.com

Usability Engineer
September 2001 - Present

Oracle

12/22/04

Anna Budovsky
anna_budovsky@yahoo.com
http://www.budovsky.com

Sr. UE Designer
January 2004 - Present

Oracle

12/23/04

Anton de Young
Work: 415-832-7750
Mobile: 510-717-2534
adeyoung@adobe.com
adeyoung@gmail.com
AIM: antondeyoung

Sr. Interaction Designer
PeopleTools UE
May 2004 - February 2005

Adobe Systems Incorporated
Sr. Technical Writer
Adobe Flex Builder

01/04/06

Beth Goldman
bethgoldman@hotmail.com

Interaction Designer/Usability Engineer CRM
June 2003 - Present

Interaction Designer
Yahoo! Travel
Santa Clara, CA

01/07/07

Brent White
brentw@sonic.net

Interaction Designer
October 2004 - Present

Principal Interaction Designer
Mobile User Experience
Oracle

02/11/08

Cathy Barnes
cbarnes@industrialwisdom.com

Sr. Usability Engineer
PeopleSoft/J.D. Edwards
May 1996 - January 2005

Senior Solution Architect
Industrial Wisdom, LLC

03/03/08

Christian Pantel
204-488-4793 (h)
925-246-5655 (w)
cpantel@gmail.com
christian.pantel@workday.com
Skype: cpantel
*recent update*

Director, User Experience
May 1999 - February 2005

UI Product Manager
Workday

07/30/08

Dana Matula
dematul@aol.com

Usability Engineer for centralized User Experience team, and then Tools and Technology User Experience team from 2001 - Present.

Manager from for CRM at Vantive (acquired by PeopleSoft in 2000)
1999 - 2001

Usability Engineer
1998 - 1999

Specialist/Lead Usability Engineer
Oracle

01/05/05

David Walden
dave@thoughtbureau.com
http://thoughtbureau.com

Visual Designer
UE Central
February 2004 - January 2005

Visual Design Lead - UX
Bank of America

02/07/08

Donna Scheele
scheele@yahoo.com

Sr. Usability Contractor
March 2004 - December 2004

Sr. Manager, UI Standards User Experience
Oracle

02/08/08

Ed Rosenblum
ERosenblum@Saba.com

User Experience Program Manager
December 2003 - May 2005

Director - User Experience
Saba

06/02/05

Eduardo Flores
eduardo_r_flores@yahoo.com

Interaction Designer
FMS
May 2002 - May 2003

Architect (self-employed), La Paz Bolivia

12/17/04

Erin Liman
erin at interplayarts dot com

UE Manager
HCM
April 2003 - November 2004

Design-led Innovation Coach & Researcher
Design Services Team
SAP

01/02/07

Eric Stilan
925-202-9593
estilan@yahoo.com
http://www.ericstilan.com

PeopleSoft Visual Designer
1999 - Present

Oracle

01/05/05

Holly Counter Beaver
hcounter@covad.net

Usablity Engineer
DFM
2003

Chief Information Architect
Sun Microsystems

03/04/08

Ian Swinson
415-987-4112
ian@ianswinson.com
http://www.ianswinson.com

Senior Interaction Designer
PeopleTools - Reporting & Analytics team lead (though I never got a team).

Lead User Interface Designer
Salesforce.com

01/13/05

Jason Winters
415-244-3757
ui@jason-winters.com
http://www.jason-winters.com

Sr. Interaction Designer
PeopleTools, Enterprise Portal
2002 - February 2005

Manager, Applications UI
Salesforce.com

04/11/08

Jean-Anne Fitzpatrick
jafitz@alumni.sims.berkeley.edu
http://www.jafitz.net

Senior Interaction Designer
September 2004 - May 2005

Senior Interaction Designer
IronPort Systems

05/18/05

Jeff English
jeffenglish@yahoo.com

Sr. User Experience Manager
Supply Chain Management
June 2002 - January 2006

Director of User Experience
Ellie Mae
http://www.elliemae.com

01/23/08

Jennifer Wissman
wissmanj@yahoo.com

Usability Engineer
September 2003 - December 2004

Working in Cincinnati doing usability work for VA Medical Centers

01/06/05

John Armitage
johnarmitage1@hotmail.com

Sr. Interaction Designer, Expense Management and Project Planning, 2003.

Director of User Experience
Business Objects SA.

I’m back from Paris, living in Berkeley and still with BusinessObjects/SAP, leading the design of next-generation products.

10/31/07

John Cartan
john@cartania.com
http://www.cartania.com

Principal UE Designer
Oracle Reporting & Analytics

Senior Usability Architect
Peoplesoft Tools Group
November 2001 - January 2005

Specialized in workflow, reporting, wizards, brainstorming, and rabble-rousing. A quote which sums up what I *tried* to do: "In matters concerning creativity, it's best to use the mind like a kite, not a shovel."

Principal UE Designer Oracle Reporting & Analytics

I have barricaded myself in my cube and have enough supplies to last six months. Send Help!

01/06/06

John Kuo
kuo.john@att.net

Sr. Interaction Designer
September 2003 - February 2005

Specializing in structured information display and analysis; known as "that grid guy."

Director of Product Design and Management
WebAMG, Inc. AKA LifeStreet Corp. AKA Flingweb Corp.
I've been there since May of 2007.

02/08/08

John Stickley
stickley_john@yahoo.com
510.708.1573
www.visualvocab.com

Principal Interation Designer
Sept 2003 to Present

Oracle

01/06/07

Jonathan Arnowitz
jonathan@arnowitz.net

Interaction Designer
Financial Management Solutions / Enterprise Performance Management
2002 - February 2005, with time off for good behavior between October - December 2003.

SAP Labs

02/02/05

Josh Vaughn
josh_vaughn@comcast.net

Usability Engineer
Supply Chain Management
September 2003 - January 2005

Helped improve the user experience of eProcurement 8.9 and Services Procurement 8.9 applications.

Principal User Experience Designer
Informatica Corporation
Redwood City, CA
http://www.informatica.com

02/11/08

Kellie Mecham
kelmech@yahoo.com
925.200.7300

User Research/Usability, first line employee in PS User Experience Group, builder of the lab.

2 stints in UE group: 
1998 - 2000 (PSBN and general PS usability, cross product)

2001 - 2002 (general, then Financials)

Sr. User Researcher
Symantec
Austin, TX (with frequent travel to Culver City, CA and Mountain View, CA)

02/11/08

Kelly Bowles (now Kelly Lyman)
kabowles@hotmail.com

UE Manager and Sr. UE Architect
EPM/FMS
June 2001 - July 2002

User-Centered Design Lead
IBM Research

01/17/05

Kiki Widjaja
tkwidjaja@gmail.com

Sr. Usability Engineer
November 2004 - February 2005

*need update*

05/18/05

Madhuri Kolhatkar
kolhatkar@msn.com

User Experience Manager
EOne
Introduced Usability at old J.D. Edwards in Jan 2001.

Keeping the "chin up."

12/25/04

Maggie Law
mlaw@recumbo.com

Senior Interaction Designer, SCM UE
September 2003 - February 2005

Senior UI Designer
Salesforce.com

06/02/06

Mark Shurtleff
mark_shurtleff@yahoo.com

Senior Interaction Designer
June 2002 - Present

Contributed to UI designs for e-procurement, strategic sourcing, purchase order, case management, and work list.

Oracle

12/29/04

Mark Williams
markjwilliams@gmail.com

UE Architect
HCM
2003 - 2004

UE Manager
HCM
2002 - 2003

UI Architect
Apple

01/06/06

Melissa Sherman
melisherman@yahoo.com

Senior Interaction Designer
2002 - 2004

Product Designer Manager for Autodesk CPM products

01/03/07

Michael Arent
michael.arent@sbcglobal.net

UE Manager
Financial Management Solutions and Enterprise Analytics
October 2002 - January 2005

Vice President, UI Standards
SAP Labs

02/08/08

Michael Kronthal
mkronthal@hotmail.com

Interaction Designer
Enterprise Solutions Group - Enterprise Portal
April 2003 - July 2003

User Experience Specialist
Peoplesoft.com
April 2002 - April 2003

Director, Customer Insights
Yahoo! Search Group

02/08/08

Michele Synder
michelesny@aol.com

Usabilty Engineer
FMS
Aug 2004 - Present

Usability Engineer
CRM
Sept 2000 - Aug 2004

Oracle

12/23/04

Monica Heidelberg
monicavh@yahoo.com

Sr. Usability Engineer/ Sr. Interaction Designer

Led large scale field research, usability engineering and interaction design efforts on products in Financial Management Solutions & Enterprise Analytics.

March 2003 - March 2005

SAP Labs
April 2005

03/17/05

Mojdeh Marashi
Work:  650.293.3238
Cell:    510.541.7545
Y!:      mojdeh_marashi
mm@mojdeh.com
Mojdeh@adify.com

Sr. Interaction Designer
Peoplesoft Tools Group
September 2003 – May 2004

Director, User Experience
Adify Corp.

05/28/06

Nevin Berger
elitoons@yahoo.com

Senior Interaction Designer
FMS, EPM

June 2003 - April 2005

Design Director
Ziff-Davis Internet Publications

05/18/05

Nicki Shovar
nshovar@yahoo.com

Senior Usability Engineer 
Human Resources

2001 - 2003

Director of Consumer Research
Ubisoft Entertainment San Francisco

01/02/07

Pam Polizzi
pampolizzi@hotmail.com

Usability Engineer
June 2001 - January 2004

Senior Usability Engineer at Autodesk in San Francisco.

01/04/06

Paul Burkhead
p_burk@yahoo.com

March 2002 - September 2003

Boeing (by way of Microsoft Game Studios)

12/18/04

Rosa Ren
rosaren@gmail.com

Usability Engineer
CRM, SCM
2002 - 2004

Adobe

01/17/05

Sarah Waterson
sarah@h2osun.com

Usability Analyst
PeopleTools & Technology
July 2003 - January 2005

UI Designer
LiveOps

01/04/06

Scott Robinson
scott@orarian.com
http://www.orarian.com/

Senior Interaction Designer
SCM
September 2003 –May 2005

Senior Manager for Financials
Oracle

02/08/08

Shilpa Shukla
shilpas@earthlink.net

In my PeopleSoft history column I would like to pay my respects to all my User Experience collegues. And a special note of gratitude to Madhuri, Josh Staller, and Cathy Barnes. Madhuri taught me invaluable lessons in project management. Josh instilled lessons on being impeccable with your word - his approach to usability and the execution of a project have left a strong impression on me. And I want to also extend my deepest gratitude to Cathy, who was also very genuine and supportive. Through my brief (but intense) experience working with the PeopleSoft E1 User Experince team, I am now able to work autonomously, with confidence, and a deeper passion for usability engineering. I hope to stay in contact with many of those talented people from my team and with those I indirectly worked with at PeopleSoft in California.

Lead Usabiliity and Human Factors Enginner at HP for all Digital Photography Software products

01/06/04

Steve Fadden
sfadden at yahoo dot com

User Experience Architect
SCM and FMS
September 2001 - March 2003

Director of Research
Associate Professor
Landmark College

Director
Landmark College Institute for Research and Training

Adjunct HCI instructor
Marlboro College Graduate Center

02/07/08

Suzy Thompson
suzy_turtle@yahoo.com

Sr. Interaction Designer
March 2004 - June 2005

Sr. Functional Analyst
June 2000 - April 2003

Senior Design Consultant
Cooper

02/07/08

Tanya Livingston
tanya@glassdot.com

User Research and Design
CRM
February 2001 - June 2005

Senior User Experience Architect
Hot Studio

02/07/08

Terry (Teresa King) Holmquist renegadered@yahoo.com

Interaction Designer/Usability Engineer
HCM
April 2003 - April 2005

Getting ready for my Caribbean cruise.

03/31/05

Terry Roberts
TerRoberts@mindspring.com

Sr. Interaction Designer
ESG and EPM
June 2003 - December 2004, overlapping almost exactly the dates of the Oracle takeover saga.

Sr. UI Designer
Intuit

12/23/04