Preston Smalley

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Director, Interaction Design, eBay Inc. (Nov 2007 – Preston)
eBay Inc, User Experience Design, San Jose, CA

Leads the Interaction Design practice for eBay including all 25 designers working globally on eBay Marketplaces products.

Sr. User Experience Manager, eBay Inc. (Jun 2006 – Nov 2007)
eBay Inc, User Experience Design, San Jose, CA

Managed the User Experience Design team focused on buyer facing areas of the eBay Marketplace flagship offering including homepage, searching, bidding & buying, payments, and merchandising. Directly managed 14 interaction designers and another 12 visual designers & content strategies on a dotted-line basis.
Shaped the strategic direction of the business in those areas of focus—determining the investment portfolio. Coached teams on working effectively towards a common goal, achieving stakeholders’ goals and delivering excellent results.
Partnered with eBay leaders around the globe including Europe and AsiaPac to leverage the strengths of a common trading platform while enabling local teams to tailor the product to best meet their needs.

Manager, UI Design, eBay Inc. (Jan 2005 – Jun 2006)

Managed team of 5 UI Designers focused on eBay’s search engine, multifaceted browsing, homepage, landing pages, internet marketing and SEO. Shaped the strategic direction of the business in those areas of focus—determining the investment portfolio.
Coached teams on working effectively toward a common goal. Ensured teams consistently achieved stakeholders’ goals and delivered excellent results. Worked with partners around the globe including Europe and AsiaPac (relocated to Shanghai office for 2 months)
Reviewed UI designs for improvements to search products. This included task analysis, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, information architecture diagrams, and coordinates development of interactive prototypes.

Sr. UI Designer, eBay Inc. (Jan 2003 – Jan 2005)

Led the effort to improve the finding experience for our worldwide community (eBay users conduct over 400 million searches per day – July 2006).
Created and reviewed task analysis, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, information architecture diagrams, and coordinates development of interactive prototypes.
Created a knowledge management system for collecting and sharing best practices.

Program Manager, Microsoft (Internships 2000, 2001)
Macintosh BU, Mountain View, CA and MSN, Redmond, WA

Planned and designed improvements to the next MacOS versions of IE and MSN Messenger. Defined business focus based on company priorities and competitive landscape.

MBA - Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley (May 2005 – May 2008)
Marketing, Competitive Strategy, Organizational Leadership
BS - Computer Engineering, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
User Experience, Software Development, Project Management

Invented five patents on search products and reputation systems
Presented on faceted metadata search at CHI 2006 w/ Marti Hearst and Corey Chandler
Published on best practice sharing at CHI 2005 w/ Jeff Herman
Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America

See LinkedIn profile for references.