What does this all mean? It means I can help you attract users, achieve goals, find bugs, avoid pitfalls, and think about the future. Get ahold of me.
Skillset
Information Architecture
- Wireframing (Omnigraffle, tool of choice)
- Usability Analysis
- Search Analysis
- Taxonomy, Thesauri, & Navigation
Management
- Project management
- Client Relations
- Scope Management
- Search engine advertising & visibility tactics
Programming & Scripting
- PHP (cakePHP, Zend, CodeIgniter)
- Ruby (Rails)
- Python (Django)
- JavaScript (jQuery, MooTools, Prototype)
- HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT
- SQL, mySQL
- Version Control (git, svn, bzr)
Experience
2009 – Current › Lead Information Architect
Paradowski Creative
I am the Senior Information Architect as well as the Technical Lead for the interactive team.
2008 (June – November) › Site Architect
Obama for America Inc.
I architected and implemented the deployment mechanisms and technologies for the campaign’s various web properties, including, but not limited to, barackobama.com and voteforchange.com. Other work involved building applications to improve some processes, automate others, and facilitate in-state/headquarters communications for some of the departments within the campaign. Miscellaneous duties included general maintenance, day to day content administration, feature planning and development of technologies to bring the myBO social network closer to the main site’s content and navigation. I also worked on the wireframes for the neighbor to neighbor application and several of the other web properties.
2007 – 2008 › Part-time Faculty
Interactive Arts and Media Department, Columbia College Chicago
Columbia College Chicago is one of the largest arts and media colleges in the country. The majority of classes at Columbia College are taught by part-time faculty. Part-time faculty are allowed to teach a maximum of three classes per semester. Within the Interactive Arts and Media department, I teach Authoring Interactive Multimedia, Programming Web Databases, and Emerging Web Technologies. These classes range from thoeretical to practical and beginning to advanced in content. I developed and continually revise the syllabi for the Programming Web Databases and Emerging Web Technologies classes.
2005 – 2008 › Lead Strategic Developer
Visicswire LLC
While running Visicswire as my own company I have tackled business development, operations management, production, website design and development, web application design, development, and deployment. In this position I have produced web applications for Columbia College Chicago, advised and produced web sites and applications for a number of businesses and artists, and consulted for non-for-profits on how best to utilize and streamline their technologies and processes.
2003 – 2006 › Technician
Photography Department, Columbia College Chicago
Mac OS X server installation, configuration, upkeep. Workstation, Imacon Scanner, and printer (networked and non-networked) support. Web server installation, configuration, and administration. Technology implementation and planning on a department-wide level.
2001 – 2003 › Technical Associate
Apogee Strategies, LLC
Client relations, domain configuration, web design, business technology consulting, server and workstation support and administration. Web development and design of sites and html email newsletters.
1999 › IT Department, Illinois Secretary of State’s Office
Onsite and helpdesk end user support.
Education
2006 – Present › Illinois Institute of Technology
Master of Science in Information Architecture (All but Thesis)
2002 – 2005 › Columbia College Chicago
Bachelor of Arts in Interactive Multimedia