Larry Marturano

Director, Chicago Office & Project Manager

Larry brings both a passion for Contextual Design and a rich multi-disciplinary skillset to his work at InContext, built upon over twenty years of user-centered design and technology development in the communications industry. Larry applies his project management, user-centered design and technical skills in matching clients’ strategic needs with InContext’s innovative coaching and design services, fostering new and existing client relationships, as well as leading individual Contextual Design projects.

Prior to joining InContext, Larry spent twenty years at Motorola Labs, where he participated in and led numerous technology research and development projects, spanning consumer cellular telephony, cable and IP television applications and services, public safety and government wireless communications, and most recently, ubiquitous social computing. While at Motorola, he led the successful commercialization of research application and service concepts in these areas, matching emerging technologies with the future strategic needs of Motorola’s businesses and shepherding technology transfer across organizational boundaries. He played a key role in introducing user-centered design methods into Motorola Labs’ strategic technology research, leading to the systematic adoption of Contextual Design and other user-centered methods in future technology ideation and research.

Larry holds a Ph. D. from Northwestern University, and M.S. and B.S. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all in electrical engineering. He holds four U.S. patents.