PROFILE
Veteran Information Architect seeks leadership role in the creation of elegant and strategically sound user experiences that balance user-centered design, innovative technology, business imperatives, and brand.
SKILLS & CAPABILITIES
User Experience Architecture & Strategy
Designing strategic, scalable Information Architectures for large websites, applications, intranets
Directing integrated Information Architecture, graphic design, and usability teams from concept to launch
Defining effective user research and requirements discovery efforts
Explaining design concepts to senior technical and business personnel
Crafting comprehensive IA documents: sitemaps, navigation flows, wire frames, personas, taxonomies
Adapting agency-based User Experience methods to real business and technical situations
Leadership & Management
Managing successful design projects in large, complex companies
Leading multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary creative production teams
Collaborating effectively with technical leadership and staff, business process owners
Budget conscious project scoping, planning, and management
Team leadership under tight time and resource constraints
EXPERIENCE
PARAMETRIC TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION 2002 - 2003
Information Architect
Dedicated Information Architect for NASDAQ traded (PMTC) software firm with ~$1billion annual revenue and ~4000 staff. PTC’s customers include Toyota, VW, Boeing, NASA, John Deere, IBM, and Lucent. Responsible for Information Architecture and Usability of: global corporate site serving 300,000 customers in nine languages; 100,000 document employee intranet; custom content management system; 20+ Web applications. Lead resource for defining and maintaining IA, brand, and User Experience standards across multiple projects in all departments. Information Architecture and Usability evangelist and liaison to senior staff and executives across company.
PURCHASESOFT 2001
Information Architect
User Interface Team Leader, aligning information architecture and UI design with user needs and business goals for an enterprise-level procurement application with 500 screens. Responsible for all aspects of next generation User Interface for core product, including creating, communicating, and iteratively testing original design concepts.
CHINAVERTEX 2000 - 2001
Co-Founder, Asia-Pacific B2B exchange and market intelligence engine
Principal architect of strategic vision for global B2B surplus consumer goods clearinghouse linking Mainland China suppliers directly with buyers in North American and EU markets. Responsible for defining business model and strategy, executive recruiting, and fund raising, in support of an original business concept to deploy breaking information technologies as a means of rationalizing a lucrative, highly fragmented market space.
ZEFER 1999 - 2001
Senior Structural Designer / Design Steward
Team Leader and Information Architecture practice expert for leading Global 25 / Fortune 100 international Internet consultancy. Clients included Siemens, eCOMPANIES, Sun Microsystems. Led User Experience teams as locus of multi-disciplinary strategy-driven methodology. Scoped and budgeted design activities in tandem with Engagement Leaders. Produced detailed IA specifications, experience strategy briefs, and prototypes. Drafted business & functional requirements, and led discovery and user research efforts. Managed design teams of up to eight members in all day-to-day activities during project life-cycle.
ONE TO ONE INTERACTIVE 1999
Information Architect / New Media Developer
Information Architect and Interface developer for interactive agency of record for State Street Bank, Ziff-Davis, and Motorola. Integrated custom java and open-source components with leading-edge design to create User Experiences, site architectures, and Web applications. Core member of rapid application development team.
ONWARD TECHNOLOGIES / CSC
ONWARD 1997 - 1999
Web Developer
Lead site developer, building and managing large intranets, extranets, and portals for Fortune clients including Computer Sciences Corporation, Cypress Semiconductor, Investors Bank and Trust, and Digital.
STARK SUMMIT SUPERNET 1996 - 1997
Web Developer
Web developer for early adopter internet consulting firm and web design agency. Designed and built Web-interfaces for pioneer local on-line community, SME’s, custom content-management system. Introduced template-driven design, DHTML, W3C standards, and UI best practices to Web development group.
TOOLS + SOFTWARE
Visio, Illustrator, Photoshop, HomeSite, Dreamweaver, Rational Rose, MS Office / Project, HTML/DHTML, UML, XML, MySQL, PHP, PERL, JavaScript
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts in History, with Distinction - University of Rochester
Masters level coursework in Film Studies - Boston University