David Muir

David Muir

Communications Professional

Toronto, Canada Area

Current
  • Principal Consultant at David Muir and Associates (Sole Proprietorship)
  • Member, Advisory Committee for Programming Curriculum at Seneca College
Past
  • Manager, Information Development Technology, Strategy & Development at IBM
  • Consultant and Judge at McMaster University
  • Manager at IBM
  • Information Developer at IBM
  • Technical Writer at Bramalea Limited
Education
  • Ryerson University
  • Trent University
Connections
162 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

David Muir’s Summary

A results-driven, passionate people and project manager with a strong interest in end-user satisfaction and simplicity of approach.

Experience in:
* content management
* information architecture
* user interaction design
* technical writing
* budgeting
* negotiation
* personnel management
* distributed systems design
* XML, PHP, SQL, Java, JavaScript

David Muir’s Specialties:

content management, information architecture, software development, technical writing, user interaction


David Muir’s Experience

  • Principal Consultant

    David Muir and Associates (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; Information Technology and Services industry)

    March 2009Present (9 months)

    Content to overachieve.

    Communications consulting. Specializing in:
    * Content and Digital Asset Management Systems
    * Interactive Communications Planning
    * Editing and Information Architecture
    * Business Analysis
    * Project Management

  • Member, Advisory Committee for Programming Curriculum

    Seneca College

    (Higher Education industry)

    September 2006Present (3 years 3 months)

    Volunteer position to review and guide curriculum on application and database development, systems management, and open source community participation.

  • Manager, Information Development Technology, Strategy & Development

    IBM

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

    June 2007February 2009 (1 year 9 months)

    Led a Corporate User Technologies team doing strategy and development for IBM's information development tools and infrastructure.

  • Consultant and Judge

    McMaster University

    (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

    20012007 (6 years )

    Judged Senior Capstone Project in the Software Engineering program. Lectured about user interaction design and development methodology. Volunteer position. http://tinyurl.com/bvrpxm

  • Manager

    IBM

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

    October 2000June 2007 (6 years 9 months)

    Managed an information development team until March 2006, then managed a compiler and tools development team for System i Application Development.

  • Information Developer

    IBM

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

    September 1992October 2000 (8 years 2 months)

  • Technical Writer

    Bramalea Limited

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Real Estate industry)

    May 1989September 1992 (3 years 5 months)


David Muir’s Education

  • Ryerson University

    BAA , Radio & TV Arts , 19861989

    Activities and Societies:
    Eyeopener News Editor, Microcomputer Lab Assistant
  • Trent University

    BA , Computer Studies / Philosophy , 19831986

    Activities and Societies:
    Trent Radio

Additional Information

David Muir’s Websites:

David Muir’s Interests:

Social Media, Innovation, Coaching, Software Development Process, User Interaction Design

David Muir’s Groups:

Project Management Institute, Information Architecture Institute

  •    The Official Trent University Alumni Association
  •    Digital Asset Management
  •    PMI Southern Ontario Chapter
  •    Information Architecture Institute (IAI)
  •    User Experience Professionals Network
  •    Drupal Community Network
  •    DITA Awareness Group
  •    Masters of Digital Assets
  •    CIDM (The Center for Information-Development Management)
  •    Toronto Semantic Web

David Muir’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

  • career opportunities
  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • job inquiries
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

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