Ed Kim

Current

• VP, User Experience at Morgan Stanley

Past

• Sr. Information Architect at Razorfish
• Information Architect at Blue Dingo
• Director of Research at Change Sciences

• Information Architect at Scient

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Education

• University of Waterloo

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Industry

Internet

Ed Kim’s Summary

Information Architect and Usability Specialist with experience in a broad range of industries: Financial Services, Media & Entertainment, Publishing, Real Estate, Education, Government, Consumer Products & Services, Apparel, etc. Interested in helping start-ups bring new product and service offerings to market.

Ed Kim’s Specialties:

Information architecture, interaction design, usability consulting, user research, behavioral modeling, contextual inquiry, heuristic evaluation.

Ed Kim’s Experience

• VP, User Experience

  Morgan Stanley

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MS; Investment Banking industry)

  October 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

• Sr. Information Architect

  Razorfish

  (Public Company; MSFT; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  June 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 5 months)

  -Provided tactical and strategic guidance in the design of complex transactional web applications.
  -Conducted user research activities (stakeholder interviews, contextual inquiries, usability studies) and distilled actionable design recommendations.
  -Defined and communicated overarching project vision and scope
  -Collaborated with clients, creative, strategy and technology teams to ensure systems satisfied business and end-user requirements.
  -Clients included: Citibank N.A., Smith Barney, TIAA-CREF and Kodak.

• Information Architect

  Blue Dingo

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  July 2003 — June 2004 (1 year )

  -Lead the conceptualization of user interfaces, functional and information flows for b2b information portals and consumer-oriented sites.
  -Established a rigorous standard for information architecture deliverables, enabling efficient and meaningful communication between client, creative, strategy and technology teams.
  -Ensured that project vision was satisfied throughout the project life-cycle.
  -Communicated usability principles and best-practices both internally and to clients.
  Created and developed an in-house usability research practice.
  -Clients included: Procter & Gamble and Century 21 Real Estate Corporation

• Director of Research

  Change Sciences

  (Internet industry)

  January 2002 — July 2003 (1 year 7 months)

  -Lead usability studies and developed new research methodologies.
  -Performed heuristic customer experience evaluations for online financial services firms, e-commerce sites, and information portals.
  -Produced and presented detailed reports and mockups of design recommendations for key online processes.
  -Architected advanced proprietary behavioral modeling and analysis tools.
  -Published corporate white-papers addressing vertical-specific and process-specific usability issues.
  -Clients included: Citibank, J.P. Morgan Chase, USDA, Scholastic, TIAA-CREF, and AIG.

• Information Architect

  Scient

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2000 — May 2001 (1 year )

  -Served as User Interface Designer during the design and production of MLB.com, the official online portal of Major League Baseball.
  -This entailed the conceptualization, design, prototyping, and production of 200+ unique templates for mlb.com and the 30 associated team sites within an aggressive timeline.
  -Also served as lead UI/IA architect for the launch of iCouldBe.com and several internal projects.

Ed Kim’s Education

• University of Waterloo

  Bachelors of Applied Science , Systems Design Engineering , 1994 — 2000

Additional Information

Ed Kim’s Groups:

•    Interaction Design Association
•    UX Professionals
•    GoScient Alumni
•    AvenueA-Razorfish Alumni

Ed Kim’s Contact Settings

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