Ken Taki

Toronto, Canada Area Canada

Senior Manager of Special Projects at Side Effects Software

Technology / Software / Internet

CORE COMPETENCIES: - USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN SKILLS–designing software that is simple to use yet robust enough to handle extremely large data sets; collecting real user data and conveying the users’ needs through multiple user personas - COMMUNICATION–articulate the user requirements and competitive analysis in writing and through discussion - CG INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE–20 years in the 3D Computer Graphics industry; worked both in the field as pre-sales and post, and in development as user interaction designer, always being the voice of users - INTERNATIONALIZATION/LOCALIZATION–understanding the real cultural differences and having driven successful implementations of multiple 2D/3D CG s