Connecticut Chapter Officers 2008 - 2010

Michael Rawlins ~ President

Michael is Director of Human Factors Engineering for Open Solutions Inc. in the world headquarters located in Glastonbury, Connecticut. He is responsible for all user experience activities for the Open Solutions enterprise. Prior to joining Open Solutions, Michael provided leadership and creative direction for Tallan Inc, MassMutual, Hartford Life and Aetna Inc.

Michael graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges with a double major in History and Fine Arts. He resides in South Glastonbury with his wife Rhonda, and their teenage children Melissa and Dylan.

Andrew Siegel ~ Vice President

Coming soon!

Brandon Marino ~ Secretary

Brandon Marino is a Senior Systems Analyst at CIGNA (www.cigna.com). He is responsible for modifications and designing new features for CIGNA's Dental PPO and Indemnity claim system. Brandon also serves as the Website Chair for the Hartford, CT chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis®. Brandon is a Certified Usability Analyst (CUA) who, prior to joining CIGNA, worked as a Systems and Usability Analyst at Open Solutions. While at Open Solutions he was actively involved in Usability Testing for a flagship product and was instrumental in applying User-Centered Design principles to the company's call center and interaction management product. Brandon has also held analytical, technical support and training roles at RR Donnelly, Channing Bete Company and Endurance International.

Brandon graduated from Utica College with a major in English. He resides in Agawam, MA with his wife Carrie and their three children: Jessica, Alex and Zachary.

Paul Linton ~ Treasurer

Paul M. Linton is a Principal Human Factors Engineer at Pitney Bowes in Shelton, Connecticut. He holds a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University, an MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and an MS degree in Computer Science and Information Technology from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield Connecticut.

Mr. Linton joined Pitney Bowes in 2000. He has been recognized for contributions to the DM 500 and DM100i user interface designs, each of which won an IDSA Industrial Design of the Year Awards in their launch years. His major interests lie in the area of prototyping and testing of Windows-based and web-based user interfaces, and he is accomplished in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and several software prototyping tools such as Microsoft Visio™, Visual Basic.NET, and Axure Pro 5®. Mr. Linton has also planned and conducted numerous usability tests evaluating both Pitney Bowes hardware and software products and solutions.

Prior to joining Pitney Bowes, Mr. Linton worked for Sikorsky Aircraft for fifteen years. While at Sikorsky, Mr. Linton served as Head, Crew Systems Integration and later as Program Engineering Manager for the Day-Night Adverse Weather Pilotage System (DNAPS), where he directed a professional staff of 20 engineers and contractors in the development of an artificial intelligence co-pilot that performed navigation, threat avoidance and weapon delivery in a single seat attack helicopter. Prior to joining Sikorsky Aircraft, he worked for the Department of Defense in a civilian employee capacity. Mr. Linton was at one time technical manager for all advanced development efforts in crew station integration for the United States Navy, chaired the NATO Defense Research group on Modeling of Human Operator Behavior in Weapons Systems, served as co-chair of the NATO Defense Research Group on Color Electronic Displays, chaired the Department of Defense Human Factors Engineering Technical Advisory Group and currently holds the distinction of being a Designated Subject Matter Expert, for the Human Systems Information Analysis Center (HSIAC) at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

Mr. Linton resides in Madison, Connecticut with his wife Sandi and has two grown children. His hobbies include sports of any type, particularly baseball, computer technology, and photography.