Amanda	Eddington
amanda.eddington@gmail.com
www.amandaeddington.com
613.542.7892

OBJECTIVE 
To join an energetic, ambitious team striving to deliver creative solutions to everyday business problems.

EXPERIENCE	
Product Designer, Open Text Corp.
May 2006 – Present
My work with the Product Design team involves visiting customers, interviewing end users, analyzing and communicating their needs to development and product management. Responsibilities include:
> Designing and documenting user interfaces 
> Writing trip reports from customer visits
> Creating personas, scenarios and use cases
> Creating and maintaining our guidelines
> Administering usability tests at user conferences 
> Contributing blog postings

EDUCATION
Computer Engineering, Queen’s University
September 2000 - May 2004
I focused my studies on human-computer interaction and requirements engineering. My fourth-year thesis project was a device that rendered 2-D images in 3-D for users to touch.  

English Literature, Queen’s University
April 2002 – May 2006 
I chose to enter the English Literature program to get a more balanced education. I travelled to England in the summer of 2002 to study Shakespearean literature.

COMPUTER SKILLS	
> Microsoft Word, Visio, PowerPoint, FrontPage, Outlook
> Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat
> VMWare Workstation and Player
> HTML, JavaScript and CSS 
> JASC PaintShop

INTERESTS	
> windsurfing, sailing, wakeboarding, tubing
> knitting, reading, writing, painting, cooking