Exciting Human Factors career opportunity offering challenge, travel, and
personal growth with one of the world's top computer companies.  NCR's
Atlanta-based Human Factors group has openings for HCI designers.  We are
consultants and entrepreneurs within the Retail and Financial industries. 
We run our department as if it were our own business.   We need
team-oriented, articulate UCD practitioners.

Our HFE team has grown from a group of four individuals to a highly 
motivated team of 15 professionals.  The expertise and skill sets within
the 
group vary from cognitive engineers, to ergonomists.  Early on, we fought 
the typical HF wars within this engineering and manufacturing facility and 
have won enough credibility and had enough successes to warrant a new lab, 
team growth, and expansion into Europe and Canada.  The expectations for
our 
team has also grown, and we still have more challenges ahead.


WHAT DO WE DO:
We are consultants.   We consult internally, when projects budget for HF 
work (R&D funding).  We consult externally, to supplement R&D funding and
as 
a needed/requested service for our clients.   We run our business as if it 
were our own business.  We are all entrepreneurs and are constantly
involved 
in many different activities while juggling many projects at once.  
Creativity, innovation, motivation, salesmanship, diplomacy, communication,

and much more are part of our daily activities above and beyond project 
work.  As a team, we design, test, and implement our own structure, 
organization, operation, and business model.  We are firm believers in 
staying up to date and maintaining a high level of expertise.  To this end 
we encourage everyone to attend tradeshows, conferences, and classes.

As internal consultants, we work with our R&D engineers on both hardware
and 
software products.  We perform analysis, design, and evaluations.  We
travel 
to trade shows and provide support for our products as well as promote our 
own HF services.
As external consultants, most of our work is within the Retail and
Financial 
industries, however we have done work in government, transportation, and 
other industries as well.  Our work does involve travel, both domestic and 
international.  We conduct much of our analysis, evaluations, and 
presentations at customer sites (headquarters and stores) which span the 
globe.  Here is a sample of just a few of our domestic clients:
   Food and drug (Kroger, Safeway, Albertson's, .....),
   Hospitality (KFC, Pizza Hut, Chick-Fil-A, .....),
   Department Stores, GMS (JC Penny's, Rich's, Sears, .....),
   Specialty Stores (Victoria's Secret, .....),
   Mass Merchandisers (Wal*Mart, Target, KMart, .....)
   Convenience Stores (7-Eleven, Tokheim, ....)
   Financial (Bank of America, Mellon Bank, Centra, Telco, ....)

Our work with external clients provides us with insight and data which
makes 
us invaluable to our internal clients (engineers, product managers, and 
 marketing).  One of the many rewards of our job is working with retailers 
that almost everyone sees and interacts with often.  It is very inspiring
to 
see the results of your work in action in environments frequented by 
friends, family, and the general public.  Once you're a part of our team, 
you will never walk into a retail or financial institution again with the 
same old perspective.


WHO DO WE NEED:
We have immediate openings for HCI Designers with the following 
qualifications:
Bachelor + five or more years industry experience,  or
Masters Degree + few or more years industry experience in
Computer Science, Engineering, Psychology, Cognitive Science, or Human 
Factors.
Candidates for this position must have industry experience in data
collection, analysis, 
design, and evaluation activities related to human computer interfaces & 
interactions.

Knowledge and expertise in the following areas are essential:
 - User Centered Design and other similar processes
 - user, task, and environment analysis
 - transform and use analysis and requirements data into design information
 - UI design (cui, gui, multimedia, internet, key/pointer/touch/voice
based)
 - low and high fidelity prototyping (paper storyboards, Visual Basic,
Delphi, etc.)
 - document UI specifications
 - usability tests & UI heuristic evaluations (design & conduct tests, 
analyze results)
 - defend and justify designs
 - UI standards, principles, and guidelines
 - coordination and promotion of HF activities within cross functional
teams
 - software development processes
 - MS office products: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Win95

Knowledge and expertise in the following areas are a plus:
  - object oriented programming and design concepts- statistics &
statistical software tools (SPSS, etc.)
 - graphic arts/design
 - computer simulations/modeling (e.g., MicroSaint)
 - cost/business justification
 - project management
 - industrial design
 - C, C++

Essential personal skills:
 - team oriented
 - highly motivated
 - handle multiple concurrent projects
 - work diplomatically with other engineers
 - handle both fire prevention and fire-fighting
 - AWESOME written and verbal communication
 - separate business and personal issues (take criticism w/an open mind)
 - belief in process & methodologies (versus personal opinion and ego)


WHAT YOU SHOULD DO:
For more information and answers to questions, contact:
Ali M. Vassigh:  770-623-7366 (9-6pm M-F, EST), or
ali.vassigh@atlantaga.ncr.com

Mail resumes to:
NCR Corporation
Ali Vassigh, Human Factors Dept.
2651 Satellite Blvd.
Duluth, GA 30136

Fax resumes to:
NCR Corporation
Attn: Ali Vassigh, Human Factors Dept.
770-623-7495

Applications are always accepted; it's never too late to send it in.

Thank You,
		Ali

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Ali M. Vassigh, NCR Atlanta Human Factors Dept.
ali.vassigh@atlantaGA.ncr.com