Shelly D. Farnham

About Shelly D. Farnham

I am currently focusing on community technology, community organizing, and art in the context of Third Place Technologies (501c3 nonprofit) and my art group Totally Legit. At Third Place Technology, our mission is to foster the growth of collaborative communities through technologies, spaces, and events, with a special focus on arts and civic communities. We are currently focusing on the the development of art and tech incubation spaces in Seattle and Skykomish, HCI / user researcher bio: Exceptionally innovative and experienced HCI, user experience, and behavioral analytics researcher for web and mobile technologies, specializing in social computing, social media, computer supported cooperative work, community tools, and civic tech. Have extensive experience performing forward-thinking quantitative and qualitative research to strategically impact innovative design, product development and user engagement throughout the product cycle. Excellent research, development, communication, and people management skills.I have worked both full-time for large-scale tech companies and in a consulting capacity for numerous startup, academic, and government organizations.

Experience

1. President

   Third Place Technologies

   Nov 2014 — Present

   Founded Third Place Technologies, a non-profit organization with a mission to empower creative communities through innovation in technology, spaces, and events. Our current focus is the development of collaborative, arts-oriented incubation spaces at the intersection of art and technology. In this role, I developed strategy and mission statement, recruited our board of directors, applied for grants, manage contingent staff, interns, and volunteers, performed research, developed advanced prototypes, produced numerous events, and implemented two arts-oriented maker spaces (Passable and Sky Artworks).See https://ThirdPlaceTechnologies.com

Education

• University of Washington

  Ph.D., Social Psychology

  1993 — 1999

• Georgetown University

  B.A., Psychology and Fine Arts

Skills

• User Experience
• User Research
• Human Computer Interaction
• Social Networking
• User-Centered Design
• Quantitative Research
• Social Computing
• Start-Ups
• Civic Technology
• Data Analytics
• Community Technology
• Web 2.0
• Social Psychology
• Rapid Prototyping
• C#
• Mobile Devices
• Mobile Technology
• User Experience Design
• Social Media
• Contextual Inquiry
• Heuristic Evaluation
• Interaction Design
• User Interface
• User Scenarios
• User Interface Design
• Mobile Applications
• Distributed Systems
• Usability Engineering
• Information Architecture
• Software Engineering
• Persona
• Mobile Internet
• Qualitative Research
• Data Mining
• Research Design
• Ethnography
• Machine Learning
• Data Analysis
• Big Data Analytics
• Asp.net Mvc