President at American Society for Indexing
Greater Chicago Area
- Current
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- President at American Society for Indexing
- Chief Operating Officer at Agilitect
- Owner and Principal at ContextualAnalysis, LLC
- Past
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- Information Architect at Argus Associates
- arts manager at various performing ensembles
- Manager, Newberry Consort at Newberry Library
- Assistant Manager at Music of the Baroque
- Education
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- University of Chicago
- University of Maryland College Park
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Fred Leise’s Summary
Taxonomy designer specializing in metadata development projects for large corporate websites and intranets; Information architect; workshop presenter on taxonomy design, indexing and usability issues.
Fred Leise’s Specialties:
taxonomy, thesaurus and controlled vocabulary design; information architecture; website indexing
Fred Leise’s Experience
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President
American Society for Indexing
(Publishing industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
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Chief Operating Officer
Agilitect
(Internet industry)
October 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)
Agilitect is a modeling, design and documentation tool designed for those who design websites and interactive media.
A Visio add-on, Agilitect Professional allows information architects and user experience designers to focus on creative processes by managing documentation and manual tasks, beginning at site navigation to wireframes to process flows to HTML prototypes.
In addition to corporate operations, my work focuses on ensuring that the product meets the needs and expectations of those working in the field. -
Owner and Principal
ContextualAnalysis, LLC
(Internet industry)
2001 — Present (8 years)
Taxonomy design and Information architecture consultant. Clients have included American Mathematical Society, Scripps Newspapers, Harpo, Inc., Abbott Laboratories, Alliant Energy and HP.
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Information Architect
Argus Associates
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
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arts manager
various performing ensembles
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Performing Arts industry)
1974 — 2000 (26 years)
various administrative positions with the Albany Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Wavery Consort, Music of the Baroque, Newberry Consort
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Manager, Newberry Consort
Newberry Library
(Internet industry)
1992 — 2000 (8 years)
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Assistant Manager
Music of the Baroque
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Music industry)
1981 — 1989 (8 years)
Fred Leise’s Education
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University of Chicago
Certificate in the Publishing Program, Graham School of General Studies 1993 — 1994
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University of Maryland College Park
1967 — 1974
B.S. in Mathematics, minor in computer science
Additional Information
Fred Leise’s Websites:
Fred Leise’s Groups:
Information Architecture Institute
Consortium of Indexing Professionals
American Society of Indexers
IxDA
Content Management Professionals
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Boxes and Arrows -
Information Architecture Institute (IAI) -
KM Chicago -
Rosenfeld Media
Fred Leise’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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