Principal consultant Lane Halley began her Cooper design career in 1997. Ms. Halley is responsible for many of the best practices used by Cooper teams and taught at Cooper U. She was responsible for several of the design projects featured in founder Alan Cooper’s book The Inmates are Running the Asylum.

Over the past 20 years, Lane has gained first-hand experience with the software development process by working with software development teams at Microsoft, The Software Toolworks, Mindscape and SenSage. She has designed and delivered successful desktop, Web, and enterprise products.

Lane was a founder of the Silicon Valley chapter of Women on the Web. She has been a presenter for the Inland Empire chapter of the STC and Jared Spool’s UIE Roadshow.