User Experience Architect at Ascentium
Greater Seattle Area
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- User Experience Architect at Ascentium
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- Site Manager at Ascentium
- Information Architect at Microsoft
- Graduate Assistant/Information Architect/Web Developer at University of Washington
- Customer Relations Manager and Consultant at NPower
- Web Developer at Microsoft
- Public Access Computer Trainer at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Proceedings Editor at SPIE
- Education
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- University of Washington
- Western Washington University
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Kris Bell’s Summary
• User Experience Architect with over 7 years experience architecting, developing, and managing websites and web applications.
• 2009-2010 Secretary of the PNW chapter of ASIS&T.
• Deep knowledge of user experience, information architecture, and interaction design.
Clients I have worked with include:
• Microsoft
• Onvia
• The Washington State Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development (CTED)
• Nintendo of America
• McKesson
• The Act of Giving Foundation
• The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Hacienda CDC (Portland, OR housing corporation)
• NW Catholic Counseling
• First Night Tacoma
Kris Bell’s Specialties:
User research; persona and scenario development; wireframing, sitemapping, and interaction flows; rapid site and application UI prototyping (CSS, XHTML, and javascript; Axure); Visio, CS2&3; web site management; client and engagement management.
Kris Bell’s Experience
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User Experience Architect
Ascentium
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
I do information architecture, user research, interaction and UI design, and usability testing for Ascentium, a 500+ person consulting firm. In my time here I've worked on a variety of projects, including designing MOSS-based intranet portals, public facing marketing sites, and AJAX-enabled web applications.
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Site Manager
Ascentium
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2007 — April 2008 (11 months)
Managed the nuts and bolts updates and refreshes for a portfolio of client websites.
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Information Architect
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
June 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 1 month)
In a vendor position through the University of Washington's Information School, I worked on an internal marketing intranet doing information analysis and architecture in preparation for a relaunch. I spent most of my time mapping content and navigation taxonomies, defining site metadata, editing and tagging content for a site migration, and wireframing and documenting interactions for the integration of "web 2.0" social networking modules.
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Graduate Assistant/Information Architect/Web Developer
University of Washington
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
September 2005 — June 2006 (10 months)
Graduate Assistant to the University of Washington Information School Extended Faculty. Most of the work centered around architecting, building, and managing websites for faculty, courses, and special projects.
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Customer Relations Manager and Consultant
NPower
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
July 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 2 months)
For NPower's Oregon program I managed a team of subcontractors working on technology integration projects for non-profit organizations throughout Oregon and SW Washington. This position was sponsored by TACS--Technical Assistance for Community Services, an organizational development non-profit in Portland.
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Web Developer
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
February 2004 — July 2004 (6 months)
At Microsoft’s Portland office, I used suite of content management systems to build and manage registration web pages for Microsoft Office Live Meeting Services. This was a contract position through Volt.
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Public Access Computer Trainer
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — 2003 (2 years)
The US Library Program endeavored to provide public access to computers and internet by placing networking computers in public libraries nation-wide. Working as a public access computer trainer I, along with 50 or so other trainers, canvassed the country installing networks and training public librarians on computer and networking basics.
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Proceedings Editor
SPIE
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years)
Worked with a team of five other editors to manage publication lifecycle of 300+ Proceedings volumes per year for a professional engineering society.
Kris Bell’s Education
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University of Washington
Masters of Science , Information Management , 2005 — 2007
The Masters of Science in Information Management is a technology- and information-focused business degree offered through the University of Washington's Information School. It approaches the management of information and business systems with a user-centered focus, emphasizing the unique ways that different people and organizations use information and technology.
My coursework was focused on the social web, user centered design, and web content management. -
Western Washington University
Bachelor's , History , 1994 — 1998
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Kris Bell’s Interests:
emerging technologies, information architecture, social networking technologies, content management, rock and roll, project management, web standards, open source technologies, web design, user experience, information
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