
Strategist | User Experience Designer | Information Architect
Portland, Oregon Area

Strategist | User Experience Designer | Information Architect
Portland, Oregon Area
• Skilled at balancing idealism and pragmatism, finding solutions with real-world constraints
• Ability to find consensus between alternative views to advance projects
• Talented at developing solutions that meet business goals and user desires
Information Architecture, User Experience Design, Information Visualization, Statistical Analysis, User Testing
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2009 — Present (5 months)
Gestalt Effect is a consultancy created to meet the challenge of fostering effective Collaboration in the Enterprise. I lead efforts to understand the needs of the business and the needs of the workforce to design collaborative teams. Requisite buzzword until I have time to do this proper: Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0 for the Enterprise, Enterprise Collaboration, and so on.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
2002 — Present (7 years)
Provide strategy consulting and user experience design. Clients include:
Boeing, etc.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
1998 — 2002 (4 years)
(Internet industry)
1998 — 2002 (4 years)
Managed a team of 35 technology professionals.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year)
MS , Statistics , 1995 — 1997
Working as a faculty research assistant at the time, completed course load and research to qualify for degree, but due to perceived conflict of interest, OSU is not able to grant advanced degrees to faculty. Did course work for own self interests.
BS , Biology , 1993 — 1995
1992 — 1993
1992 — 1993
kayaking, snowboarding, cycling
usability professionals association, chifoo, wilderness education association, Oregon Entreneurship Forum , CHIFOO, Oregon Entrepreneur Network