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Biography
Stephen Gay is an award-winning designer with a passion for information architecture and interaction design. He began his career with a degree in industrial design from Carleton University in Canada. In his studies, Stephen focused on user-centered design and developing product interfaces for Nortel.
During the early nineties, Stephen was Senior Information Architect for Chicago's premier creative firms: Sapient and Hanna-Hodge. During his four years with these companies, Stephen contributed to the success of several Fortune 500 and international companies, including Lucent, Unisys, Manulife, Pecom, Reynolds, and AGEdwards, working in Chicago, New York, Toronto, and Argentina.
Working for Motorola, Stephen was the product lead for several mobile products, developed design patents, and contributed to the design of the next generation mobile software platform. At Motorola, he also was the design application lead for the file management and media applications through collaborations with Motorola Labs and Human Factors. In addition, projects included next generation ideation, an avatar solution, youth products, and touch screen devices in Chicago and China.
Stephen has independently consulted for clients such as Prudential, Bell South, Anthem, and Blue Cross, providing a variety of services that include usability testing, information architecture, requirements workshops, style guides, information graphics, and icon designs.
Currently, Stephen is working on developing a suite of products for Infogix. Many of the world's leading enterprises, such as American Express, Barclays, Citibank, Wal-Mart, and AT&T depend on Infogix to assure the integrity of their information. They use Infogix solutions to be certain that critical information used for such things as financial reporting, customer statements, and monthly bills are accurate, consistent, and reliable.
In addition his diverse expertise and energy have benefited several start-ups including Bubbleshare
(Sold to Kaboose 2006), MXPlay (Sold to Smith Micro Software 2008), Fivelimes
(Sold to Avid Life Media 2007), and DogoNews. Stephen has a passion for non-profits, currently launching Humanity Calls
(Launches 2010) and volunteers for the Make-A-Wish foundation of Illinois.
A proven project manager, Stephen is a self-motivator -- he defines and analyzes problems and creates definite and achievable solutions. He has maintained creative direction and leadership in collaborative, independent, and ambiguous environments. His personal mission is to utilize real-world experience and innovation to solve complicated business problems related to technology and usability.
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