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

Experience

2011 - Present › Developer, Strategist, Technologist

Revolution Messaging

I architect, develop, and deploy applications for liberal and progressive causes.

2010 - 2011 › Interactive Technologist

Avenue, Inc.

At Avenue, I participated in discover and define phases to identify client needs, budgets and constraints in order to shape an appropriate response or solution. I produced technical specifications, wireframes, technical briefs, and high-level requirements documents. I also took design assets and translated them into web formats, built sites based on ecommerce and content management platforms. I was often called upon by account managers to aid them in understanding the technical side of any issue occurring within their accounts.

2009 - 2010 (October – July) › Online Director

Robin Carnahan for Senate, LLC

At Carnahan for Senate I built email campaigns, micro sites, coordinated with text messaging and other service providers, built and maintained an Expression Engine-powered website for the campaign, and maintained the areas of the web properties that existed within Blue State Digital’s donation and advocacy platform.

2009 (February – October) › Senior Information Architect

Paradowski Creative

My duties at Paradowski Creative include providing guidance on social media use to clients, business development, information architecture for ongoing internal and client projects, and assisting Paradowski Creative in defining and refining processes in their quest to transition from a creative print shop into a full-service agency offering interactive and new media services.

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. Part-time faculty teaches the majority of classes at Columbia College. Part-time faculties 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 theoretical 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

I acted as technology consultant and manager for the photography department. While in this position I created and maintained web properties, managed servers and workstations (250), and advised on faculty and staff on technology use and implementation.

2001 – 2003 › Technical Associate

Apogee Strategies, LLC

I undertook 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 (May – August) › IT Department

Illinois Secretary of State’s Office

This was a summer job in high school. I provided onsite and helpdesk IT support to end-users. It was so much fun. All the full-timers were quite nice and were all former warehouse workers whom had been retrained in IT. I think they all had been in the same state warehouse. One of them taught me how to make my own ethernet cables (crimper, spool of cable, & RJ45 heads).

Education

2006 – N/A › Illinois Institute of Technology

Master of Science in Information Architecture (All but Thesis)

2002 – 2005 › Columbia College Chicago

Bachelor of Arts in Interactive Multimedia

2000 – 2001 › Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Work towards Bachelor of Arts in Music Business