Rick Mccaskill
User Experience Consultant at Northbound Gaskets
New Maryland, New Brunswick, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Mccaskill is a User Experience Consultant and maker with a decade of experience designing and delivering web and product experiences across enterprise security, startups, and nonprofit maker initiatives. He combines deep UI/UX and front-end skills with practical 3D prototyping and embedded hardware experience, enabling him to move seamlessly from microcontroller-driven assistive devices to large-scale security dashboards. A former UX lead and Senior Design Manager at IBM, Rick has overseen UX for QRadar and led cross-functional teams while also founding the Fredericton Makerspace and co-founding NLU Technologies to keep an entrepreneurial edge. Currently he balances client-facing digital infrastructure and brand work with hands-on website ops for small businesses and AI-driven sustainability projects. Based in New Maryland, New Brunswick, he brings a thoughtful, user-centered approach informed by a Computer Science degree and a habit of building physical prototypes that reveal hidden usability insights.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of New Brunswick
Github Skills (37)
android-auto10
android-automotive10
wireless9
qradar9
export-to-excel9
adafruit8
exporter7
csv7
raspberry-pi7
weather-data7
rest-api6
ocean6
forecast6
arduino6
rest6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ibm-security-intelligence/visualizations
Oct 2015 - May 2016
Samples of visualization add-ons to QRadar, utilizing public REST APIs
Contributions:6 commits, 7 pushes, 1 comment in 7 months
qradarrestrest-apivisualization
FrederictonMakerspace/LaserMaze
Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
reactlasermoviesspymaze
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