Jenny Benevento

Current

Information Architect/Taxonomist at Sears Holdings Management Corporation
Controlled Vocabulary Developer at Associated Press

Past

Project Coordinator and Asst. Prof of Library Administration at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Acquisitions Assistant at Slavic Library, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Graduate Assistant at Mathematics Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Reed College
Fenwick HS

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Industry

Information Services

Jenny Benevento’s Summary

I bring a passion for taxonomy development, metadata creation & normalization, information architecture, user navigation & experience to your company & its website(s). I have worked in Internet content creation & organization, web design, competitive intelligence, corporate research, online media, and libraries. I specialize in subject, geographical, product & entity vocabularies. I have years of experience in online media--its both its creation & design.

My information research and interests are in knowledge organization, particularly classification systems, thesaurus construction, and taxonomies. I bring encyclopedic knowledge, a passion for research, and solutions for metadata wherever I go.

The ampersand and tilde are my favorite characters.

Jenny Benevento’s Specialties:

Taxonomies; Information architecture; User experience; Metadata creation, aggregation, and normalization; Web design and content creation; Metadata shareability and transformation; Data model creation; Old media; New media; Online media; Web 2.0; Social media; Social networks; Social networking; Writing user documentation; Incredibly interested in everything; Passion for learning everything new; Technical ability with people skills.

Jenny Benevento’s Experience

Information Architect/Taxonomist

Sears Holdings Management Corporation

(Public Company; SHLD; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

February 2009 — Present (6 months)
Controlled Vocabulary Developer

Associated Press

(Partnership; Online Media industry)

September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)

I research, define, rationalize and structure concepts into vocabularies that meet business and technical needs, create documentation, perform taxonomy management (including rule-writing and testing), ensure vocabularies are maintained and up-to-date, identify new vocabulary terms, create custom vocabulary solutions for internal and external customers, identify requirements for new vocabularies, and validate taxonomy usability. This position requires heavy usage of SchemaLogic and Teragram software.

Jenny Benevento’s Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

MS , Library and Information Science , 2004 — 2005

Emphasis on information organization.

Activities and Societies:

Beta Phi Mu; ALA; ASIS&T; SLA; Curriculum Committee
Reed College

BA , History , 1997 — 2001

Thesis on torture and confession in the Moscow Show Trials. Coursework in political science, Russian history and literature, film, torture, confession, and international tribunals.

Activities and Societies:

The Quest
Fenwick HS

1993 — 1997

Additional Information

Jenny Benevento’s Interests:

cooking, food science, Soviet History, propaganda, attending other people's churches, conservative Christianity as a political and social phenomena, dollar stores, beverages, reading, getting input, Johnny 5 style.

Jenny Benevento’s Groups:

Beta Phi Mu, Special Library Association, Institute of Information Architecture, Taxocop, International Society for Knowledge Organization, American Society of Indexers, Taxonomies SIG, Information Architecture Institute,