When you hire us for a project, we may bring on other professionals to fulfill specialized research, technology, or artistic roles. For larger projects we call upon people and businesses that offer a high level of expertise in their field.

Our established partners include:

Jane John - On Point Research
www.onpointresearch.com
On Point Research conducts industry, business and market research for technology firms. President Jane John has twenty years of research experience, including ten with a national R&D firm. Clients range from high tech start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. In collaboration with other business consultants and the Maine Technology Institute, Ms. John has assisted over fifty small Maine companies in assessing potential markets. Ms. John has a Masters in Library and Information Science from Denver University. She is currently President of the Association of Independent Information Professionals. She is also a member of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals and the Maine Association of Professional Consultants. Read more about On Point Research (PDF 1 page)

Matt Carrano, Interactive Media Designer and Developer
www.CarrannoInteractive.com
Matt Carrano, of Carrano Interactive, has joined forces with Usability Resources to offer a combined prototyping and usability research service for our consumer and business technology clients.  Matt is an interactive media developer, visual artist, and Graduate Lecturer in Digital Media at Northeastern University. Over the past 25 years Matt has worked as an engineer, manager, user experience designer, and consultant for leading companies including IBM, Wang Laboratories, and the Eastman Kodak Company. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University, and an MA in Technology Strategy and Policy from Boston University. In his work with Usability Resources, Matt combines his unique talents as a software engineer, artist, and user experience designer to help our clients clearly express product design ideas so they can be evaluated by target end users.

Peter Kimmins - Kimmins Design
www.kimminsdesign.com
Kimmins Design is an integrated creative services studio. We're equally comfortable working in print or on screen. Projects are split between print collateral, web design, flash work and illustration. We have a great deal of experience developing identities for businesses (smaller and mid-sized) entering the marketplace.*

*Kimmins Design also designed this Web site

Adrienne Benton - Onyx Spectrum Technology - Compliance, Project Management, and Business Systems Analysis
http://www.onyxspectrum.com
Onyx Spectrum Technology partners with its clients to achieve process improvement and enhanced security through the efficient use of technology. The Onyx team, leverages technology, software development, project management, and business process analysis experience to integrate and streamline processes across departments and locations to reduce errors, supporting quality improvement, improve security and information sharing.


Patrick Lee - Orbis Integrated Solutions - software development
http://www.orbis-is.com
Orbis Integrated Solutions’ cost-effective software development service enables customers to bring competitive software solutions and products to market quickly. Orbis has expertise in multiple technical domains to focus on rapid development of specialized solutions (Java - J2EE, J2ME, .NET ASP, C++, VB, SQL Server, Oracle). Orbis Integrated Solutions’ extensive experience in the global development of world-class software products allows our project teams to become seamless extensions of our customers' software development initiatives and ongoing maintenance and enhancements.



Our organizational affiliations:
   
Commonwealth Institute The Commonwealth Institute

SigChi logo  ACM GBSIGCHI

MIT Enterprise Forun  MIT Enterprise Forum

QRCA logo  Qualitative Researchers Consultants Association

UPA logo  Usability Professionals Association