Cameo Wood

San Francisco, California USA

Objective & Summary

I am a Symbolic Systems researcher and engineer with varied interests and engineering skills to make my ideas a reality.

I enjoy positions where I can help organise consensus and advocate ideas between different aspects of an organisation.

My cross-function leadership and research experience is from Sprint, Lucent, GTE Labs, eDial, Free World Dialup, and Six Apart.

I also have a practical and formal knowledge of Human Factors methods and user-centered design.

Experience


01/07-Present LiveOps, Inc. Palo Alto, CA
Product Manager

  • Define scope and solutions to complicated and ambiguous operational problems.
  • Provide motivation and direction to ensure that project goal, objectives, milestones, and deliverables are achieved in a tmely manner.


03/05-09/05 Six Apart San Francisco, CA
Usability Tester

  • Conducted and designed usability tests for all Six Apart products: Moveable Type, TypePad, and LiveJournal.
  • Wrote scripts, screeners, questionnaires, and final usability reports.
  • Performed think-alouds, cognitive walkthrough, heuristic evaluation, etc.


04/05-08/05 Wiley Publishing Indianapolis, IN
Technical Editor

  • Reviewed and made technical edits to "BitTorrent for Dummies".


12/03-01/04 Neurosciences Institute La Jolla, CA
Researcher

  • Researched and developed a theory of swarm modelling for groups within groups.
  • Designed a Java simulation to present model in a visual way to other researchers.


12/02-02/03 Neoteny Tokyo, Japan
Consultant

  • Researched and presented Japanese VoIP solutions for a free VoIP network for the Nagano Prefecture
  • Developed recommendations and wrote a publication for proposal to the government of Japan on Biometrics, e-voting and PKI systems


01/01-02/02 Free World Dialup Melville, NY
CTO

  • UI Design, rapid prototyping, and implementation of VoIP GUI.
  • Designed and managed SIPop!, a general availability interoperability event with full marketing and technical support.
  • Managed technical relationships with hardware vendors and software integrators.
  • Built technical relationships amongst integration partners, representing Pulver.com/Free World Dialup, Inc. from a technical perspective.


11/99-01/01 eDial, Inc. (Now Alcatel) Newton, MA
Director of Operations

  • Led user interface discussions on usability, organisational, and functional design.
  • Investigated and solved security risks in both the UI, server, and network design.
  • Managed the design of a network capable of supporting five million users with a 99.99% uptime.


01/99-11/99 Lucent Burlington, MA
Research Engineer

  • Designed a network management system for a network operations center (CTC Communications).
  • Developed automatic utilisation reports, trouble ticketing user interfaces, and dynamic network diagrams (CTC Communications).
  • Researched and presented a protocol solution for a VoIP firewall (GTE Labs and Cisco Systems).


Education

08/04 - Present Simon's Rock College Great Barrington, MA
Bachelors of Linguistics and Symbolic Systems
Dean's List, GPA 3.67

  • Linguistics, Native American Languages.
  • Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Java Programming.
  • Cognitive Neuroscience, Attention and the Brain.
  • Research Methods in the Social Sciences, Philosophy of Mind.


09/02 - 02/04 Bennington College Bennington, VT

  • History of Automatons, History of Mathematics.
  • Complexity & Automata, Swarm Intelligence.
  • Algorithms, Cryptography, Spacetime Physics.


Continuous World Traveling Planet Earth

  • Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Spitzbergen.
  • Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia.
  • Japan, China, Tibet, Russia.

Expertise

Human Factors:

  • User-centered design process
  • Cognitive walkthrough
  • Rapid prototyping
  • Think-aloud
  • Heuristic evaluation
  • Contextual inquiry

Software Engineering:

  • Java, Python, IC
  • Web service standards
  • Learn quickly, creatively

Publications

Lessig, Lawrence, C.Mladen, R.Guerra, L. Weinstein, P.G.Neumann, C.D. Wood, M. Rotenberg, J. Alhadeff, L.F. Cranor, S. Garfinkel, S. Davies, Gus Hosein. "A Report of Research on Privacy for Electronic Government", funded by the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications of Japan. (2003)

Wood, Cameo, Melissa Leventhal, Allyson Sgro. The Original Imitation Game. Submitted for publication. (2006)

A PDF version of my Curriculum Vitæ is also available.