 |
Aki Helen Namioka
Skills and Attributes
| · | Accomplished and effective manager of software developers. |
| · | Extensive experience in translating research into practical systems. |
| · | Inspires effective and determined development groups. |
| · | Effectively relates the work of individual software groups to organizational concerns spanning multiple business units. |
| · | Collaborative by inclination, but firmly committed to principled action. |
| · | Broad background in systems that respond to flexible human input, from highly-constrained vocabularies to speech recognition. |
Work History
Cisco Systems Software Development Manager 2001 – present
Manager of several development groups in Cisco's Voice Technology Group.
| · | Managed multiple disparate development groups while serving as both manager and technical lead for one group. |
| · | Managed UI design and development groups, including speech UI. |
| · | Achieved high group morale as demonstrated by negligible turnover, negligible requests to transfer out of management tree, and numerous requests to transfer into management tree. |
| · | Consistently received outstanding evaluations by managers, peers, and reports. |
| · | extensive experience with voice messaging applications, and IP telephony. |
| · | Led a group in applying agile methods to an ISO 9000 environment. |
Active Voice Software Engineering Manager 1997 – 2001
| · | Managed teams of Engineers on O/S 2 telephony application development. |
| · | Consistently delivered valuable products on time to OEM partners and our own channel. |
IBM Global Services Project Manager 1996 – 1997
Project manager for a variety of client projects for the Object-Oriented Applications consulting group.
| · | Professional Hire of the Year. |
High-profile projects include:
| · | Project A: Project Manager on a troubled project. High customer satisfaction and repeat engagements followed. |
| · | Project B: Applied Object-Oriented Analysis and Design to project with unclear goals and several personnel issues. The customer CIO was very pleased with outcome and a repeat engagement was requested. |
Boeing Computer Services Artificial Intelligence Specialist 1989 – 1996
| · | Researcher on a Natural Language Processing system on several different domains, e.g. aircraft repair, command and control. |
| · | Participant on the Boeing evaluation team of the Cyc project. |
| · | Publications included conference proceedings and Expert Systems journal. |
Selected Publications
| · | A. Namioka, C. Bran, "eXtreme ISO !?!", Proceedings of OOPSLA 2004, ACM 2004. |
| · | D. Schuler, A. Namioka, eds, Participatory Design: Principles and Practices,, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1993. |
| · | A. Namioka, "Introduction to Participatory Design", in Field Methods Casebook for Software Design, D. Wixon, J. Ramey (eds), John Wiley & Sons, 1996. |
| · | A. Namioka, "Community Computing Projects", in More Than Screen Deep: Toward Every-Citizen Interfaces to the Nation's Information Infrastructure, National Research Council, 1997. |
Education
| · | BA, Linguistics, University of Washington, 1981. |
| · | MA, Linguistics, computational emphasis, University of Washington, 1988. |
Public Service
| · | Public Counsel Citizen Advisory Committee, Attorney General of Washington, 1996 – 2000. |
| · | City of Seattle's Citizen's Telecommunications and Technology Advisory Board, 1995 – 1999. |
| · | Washington State Task Force on Public Information Access Policy, 1994 – 1995. |
| · | Visiting Committee, University of Washington Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 1996 – 2000. |
| · | Visiting Committee, University of Washington Technical Communications Department, 1999 – 2001 |
| · | President, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, 1996 – 1999. |
| · | Board of Directors, Seattle Community Network Association, 1995 – 1999. |
| · | Vice-President, Washington Association of Internet Service Providers, 1997 – 1999. |
|
| |
