Author bios
Pete Bell
I’m the co-founder of Endeca — part of the team that envisioned the first commercial faceted search system. I work often with the information architecture, user experience, and library science communities. I’m also fortunate to spend time hearing directly from Endeca’s customers, learning how they use the software today and where they hope to use it tomorrow. I’ll be blogging my travels in those worlds.
Mark Burrell
I’m the VP and Worldwide Lead for User Experience at Endeca, where I’ve been working happily on a wide range of discovery problems, applications, products and UI design best practices (e.g., Endeca User Interface Design Pattern Library) for the past four years. I’m a proud professional hybrid – I have a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with minors in cognitive psychology and epistemology/philosophy of science, and a special interest in human change and ethnography (e.g., I co-authored a chapter on “An Ethnographic Approach to Design” with Jeanette Blomberg for the Human Computer Interaction Handbook). I entered the world of user experience and HCI over 15 years ago, after working as a practicing clinician, researcher, and teacher for many years. In my digital career, prior to Endeca, I was a UX manager in the Unified Communication & Collaboration group at Microsoft, a global UX lead for Sapient, and an independent user interface-usability consultant. My passion and my work have always focused on facilitating discovery, and I think we’ve only just begun to tap the potential of faceted, interactive, discovery solutions.
Adam Ferrari
I’m currently the CTO at Endeca, where I’ve been on staff since founding. I’m very much a product and technology focused CTO. In my prior life here I was a software engineer and architect on our core engine, and I come from an academic Computer Science background. My fundamental motivation is building technology that people use and love. A huge part of my professional satisfaction derives from the millions of users who get better access to information every day through applications built on Endeca – code that I wrote, architected, or mentored. My CS “flavor” is in the area of systems; I wrote my first assembly language program at age 12 (6502 rocks!) and I’ve been hacking code ever since. My PhD work was in the area of grid computing, where the applications inspired in me the appreciation that one of the grand challenges of our time is making sense of the exponentially growing mountains of data around us. I’ve been building tools to help do that ever since.
Tony Russell-Rose
I am currently User Experience Manager for EMEA at Endeca Technologies. Before joining Endeca I was founder and director of UXLabs, a user experience consultancy specializing in technology innovation and applied R&D. Prior to this I was technical lead at Reuters, specializing in advanced user interfaces for information access and search. And before Reuters I was R&D group manager at Canon Research Centre Europe, where I led a team developing next generation information access products and services.
My academic qualifications include a PhD in human-computer interaction, an MSc in cognitive psychology and a first degree in engineering, majoring in human factors. I also hold the position of Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Interactive Systems Research, City University, London. I am currently vice-chair of the BCS Information Retrieval group and chair of the IEHF Human-Computer Interaction group.
Paul Sonderegger
I’m Chief Strategist at Endeca. I spend a lot of time with our customers, helping them understand how better discovery in daily decisions across their companies changes the way they compete. Before Endeca, I was a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research focusing on information retrieval and user experience. I’m a big believer that most of today’s information technology problems are not new. Somewhere, sometime, somehow a problem like this has popped up before. This is what I blog about — the bigger context around decision-making, information and competitive advantage.
Vladimir Zelevinsky
For the last five years, I’ve worked at Endeca as a Research Scientist. My projects included designing Relationship Discovery (salient term extraction and clustering solution), working on query result coherence, creating the actor-action-object extraction and semantic navigation system (we called it “Idea Navigation”), and investigating the potential of dynamically-created facets. Generally speaking, I’m interested in HCIR, natural language processing, and user experience. Prior to Endeca, I designed a rather nifty information synthesis system for Lycos. Prior to that, I got a couple of degrees from MIT (B.S. in Physics and M.S. in Nuclear Physics); after earning these, I went the obvious career route and spent two years writing theatre criticism for The Boston Globe.
on August 11, 2010 at 4:04 pm
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