Ben Shoemate

Current

• Web Designer, Developer, Architect at Burleson Technology Group

Past

• Consultant at Burleson Technology Group
• Information Architect at Nissan
• Information Architect at IBM Global Business Services

• Information Architect and Web Strategiest at Ben Shoemate INC (Independant contractor)
• Information Architect at Studio Interactive (division of PwC Consulting)
• Information Architect / Lead Designer at Studio Interactive a division of PriceWaterhouseCoopers Consulting
• Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers - Studio Interactive

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Education

• Texas A&M University

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website

Ben Shoemate’s Summary

I am a web designer, developer, and architect. Some people call it User Experience Design and others call an Information Architecture, but basically my job is to understand and document the vision, requirements, and functional specifications of web software.

For the last ten years I have been doing this kind of work on large projects for large companies such as IBM, Nissan, Northrup Grumman, Amex, ExxonMobile, Qwest, and many others. I have designed and help to build just about every type of web solution from employee enterprise portals, search engines, wikis and CRMs to vision prototypes for 5 year roadmaps. Over the years, technology has improved. It has gotten smarter, faster, more agile, and so far, so I have been able to keep up.

Today I work more with wiki's than with complex content management systems, but the principles of user experience design have remained constant - listen to the user, understand their goals, and make them feel like a hero when they use your product.

Ben Shoemate’s Specialties:

Information Architecture, Web Design, General Web Development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), IBM Websphere, Confluence Enterprise Wiki, WordPress (blogging platform), Branding, Content Management (software selection, workflow design), Governance and web strategy, intranet design, enterprise portal design, requirement gathering, user persona development, project management, design specification, training, documentation, roadmap planning and rollout support

Ben Shoemate’s Experience

• Web Designer, Developer, Architect

  Burleson Technology Group

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

  This is a company I started with fellow web guru Cody Burleson.

• Consultant

  Burleson Technology Group

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

• Information Architect

  Nissan

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2005 — 2007 (2 years )

• Information Architect

  IBM Global Business Services

  (Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2002 — December 2007 (5 years )

• Information Architect and Web Strategiest

  Ben Shoemate INC (Independant contractor)

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2002 — December 2007 (5 years )

• Information Architect

  Studio Interactive (division of PwC Consulting)

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1999 — 2003 (4 years )

• Information Architect / Lead Designer

  Studio Interactive a division of PriceWaterhouseCoopers Consulting

  (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2000 — June 2002 (2 years 6 months)

  Lead functional and user interface designer for client engaments. Designed various portals and web applications from the ground up.

• Consultant

  PricewaterhouseCoopers - Studio Interactive

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1999 — 2002 (3 years )

Ben Shoemate’s Education

• Texas A&M University

  BA , English, Computer Science, Chemisty , August 1994 — December 1999

  Activities and Societies:

  Corps of Cadets, Parsons Mounted Cavalry, Aggie Bonfire, Corps Staff, A-2 All-Americans, Talon 12,

Additional Information

Ben Shoemate’s Websites:

• My Website

Ben Shoemate’s Interests:

World History, Science, Information Architecture, Art, Philosophy, Archeology, Stock Market, Comic Book Collection, Travel, Illustration, Communication, Science Fiction, Technology, Futurist Extrapolation, Information Software Design, Web Technology, Understanding, Zeitgeist, Foreign Languages, Poetry, Literature, Lingustics, Etymology, Artifical Intellignce, Archival, Astronomy, Space Exploration, Sensors, Riddles, Puzzels, Music, Anthropolgy, Culture, Religious History, Traditional vs Modern Human Lifestyles and the health - social - spritual -issues and impacts

Ben Shoemate’s Groups:

Texas A&M Corps of Cadets, Parsons' Mounted Cavalry

•    International Association of Software Architects
•    Content Management Professionals
•    Association of Former Students - Texas A&M
•    Burleson Technology Group
•    End to End Web Developers

Ben Shoemate’s Contact Settings

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