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Thomas M. Spine

50 Holstein Avenue
Londonderry, NH 03053-3912
 
 603-432-7060 (home)
603-818-9990 (cell)
603-206-9131 (work)

Current Position

2006 to Present Product Design Manager · Civil Products · Infrastructure Solutions Division
Autodesk, Inc. · Manchester, NH
 
Manager of the product design group responsible for Autodesk Civil 3D.

Previous Experience

2002 to 2006 Senior Software Manager · End User and Client Design · IBM Software Group
IBM Corporation · Westford, MA
 
Manager of the product design group responsible for Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime instant messaging and Web conferencing, IBM Workplace Managed Client, and related personal-productivity and collaboration applications.
  • Manager of the End User and Client Design product design team since January, 2005; prior to that was a Senior Software Product Designer.
  • Responsible for leading product design team for the next major release of Lotus Notes, code named Hannover; have overall responsibility for the user experience design of Lotus Notes.
  • Recipient of the 2005 Outstanding Management Leadership Award.
  • Proposed, formed, and served as chair of IBM-wide work group on Web-application user interface design guidelines.
  • Served as Web experience lead designer for IBM Workplace 2.5.
  • Served as lead designer for Lotus Workplace Builder for Lotus Workplace 2.0.
  • Served as lead designer for Workplace application "catalog" portlets and Workplace application templates for Lotus Workplace 1.1.
2002 Principal Human Factors Engineer · User Centered Design
Symantec Corporation · Nashua, NH
 
Responsible for the user interface design and usability of enterprise security management products and applications.
1995 to 2002 Senior Staff Engineer and Senior Engineering Manager · Solaris Human Computer Interaction
Sun Microsystems, Inc. · Burlington, MA
 
Responsible for the user interface design and usability of system management products and applications.
  • Chair, User Interface Review Board. Responsible for ensuring corporate-wide consistency for system management user interfaces.
  • Oversight responsibility for a staff of HCI designers who are defining corporate-wide guidelines for Web-based system management application user interfaces.
  • Primary contributor to Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines: Advanced Topics
  • Designed system management interface for Solaris PC NetLink.
  • Spearheaded design effort to eliminate installation usability problems for Solstice Network Client. Reduced support call rate by 45%, while shipping volume doubled.
1994 to 1995 Manager · SmartStream Human Computer Interaction
Dun & Bradstreet Software Services · Westborough, MA
 
Manager of a four-person group supporting the SmartStream client-server platform and suite of financial, human resource, and manufacturing applications.
  • Determined user interface design strategy for Windows 95 migration.
  • Initiated routine gathering of usability feedback from customer training.
  • Project leader for the SmartStream Application User Interface Style Guide.
1993 to 1994 Manager · Usability Expertise Center
Digital Equipment Corporation · Nashua, NH
 
Manager of a 16-person human factors consulting group with corporate-wide responsibilities for software, hardware, and ergonomic standards.
  • Supervised $1.5M in annual human factors consulting contracts.
1985 to 1993 Usability Engineer · Software Usability Engineering
Digital Equipment Corporation · Nashua, NH
  • Served as liaison to the Open Software Foundation for the OSF/Motif Style Guide.
  • Served as chair of the OSF's Style Guide Working Group.
  • Project leader for the DECwindows Companion to the OSF/Motif Style Guide.
  • Co-author of the DECwindows user interface design specification.
  • Usability engineer for desktop and programmer productivity applications.

Education

1984 Master of Science · Industrial Engineering (Human Factors Concentration)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University · Blacksburg, VA
Thesis: An Experimental Investigation of File Management on Interactive Computers
1982 Bachelor of Arts · Magna Cum Laude · Mathematics and Psychology
Washington University · St. Louis, MO