
User Experience Designer and Information Architect
Greater Detroit Area

User Experience Designer and Information Architect
Greater Detroit Area
User experience expert with an emphasis on information architecture and interaction design.
Strengths include designing effective user-centered solutions and strong interpersonal skills for collaboration between users, clients, visual designers, and development teams.
business analysis, user needs assessment, requirements gathering, requirements documentation, competitive evaluation, workflow analysis, ethnographic field research, persona & scenario creation, information architecture, interaction design, interface design, iterative prototype development, usability evaluation, development support
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2006 — Present (2 years 4 months)
started serving as Pres. in Aug 2008
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
May 2006 — Present (2 years 5 months)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2004 — June 2008 (3 years 10 months)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 4 months)
Designed information management systems for a large pharmaceutical company. Business process analysis and re-design, requirements gathering and documentation, interaction and interface design, information architecture [articulating taxonomies and their application to content and content sources, + navigation and labeling of online environments], as well as usability evaluation of existing and emerging systems.
Activities were focused on content management, personalized and community work environments, and search & retrieval projects.
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
June 2001 — October 2004 (3 years 5 months)
Research on the Science of Collaboratories project - www.scienceofcollaboratories.org - at University of Michigan's School of Information
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2000 — April 2001 (10 months)
MSI, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), September 1998 — April 2000
BS, Philosophy & English, 1994 — 1997
MOCHI, UXNet, University of Michigan School of Information Alumni Society Board, Information Architecture Institute, UPA, ACM SIGCHI, A2B3