Designer, connector, strategist.
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Design Strategist, Community Builder, Business Analyst at faberNovel / PariSoMa
- Past
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- Design Strategist / Information Architect (contract) at Garcia Media
- Interaction Designer (contract) at Adaptive Path
- Founder, Chief Instigator, CEO at PlaceSite, Inc.
- Researcher at Intel Research Seattle
- UI Engineer, Front End Developer at Scient
- Designer, Producer, Channel Manager at Knight Ridder Digital, San Jose CA
- Education
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- UC Berkeley
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Sean Savage’s Summary
The latest: www.DisrupSean.com
Passionate designer, user researcher, product manager. Ten years professional experience building online products. U.C. Berkeley School of Information Masters degree. Clients include four Fortune 500 corporations.
Projects include a locative social networking application (PlaceSite.com), financial services, medical information systems and news content management systems.
Published in Wired, The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, SIGCHI Bulletin, The Chicago Tribune. Black Rock Ranger.
Portfolio: www.SeanSavage.com. Resume available upon request.
Sean Savage’s Specialties:
User Experience, Mobile design, Location-Based Service Design, User Interface Design, Interaction Design, Coworking, Locative Services, Strategy, HCI, Human Computer Interaction in Pervasive Computing. Some formal training in urban planning, urban design, architecture.
[Keywords: UX, coworking, locative, LBS, wi-fi, location-based, location-aware, UI, wireless, design, user research, information architecture, architecture, urban planning, city planning, social media, strategy.]
Sean Savage’s Experience
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Design Strategist, Community Builder, Business Analyst
faberNovel / PariSoMa
(Management Consulting industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
Strategy consulting and business analysis. Community building, event organization, setting up and co-directing PariSoMa, a coworking space in San Francisco. Advice, research and writing regarding businesses in the social networking and online personals space comparing activity in Europe vs. the U.S.
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Design Strategist / Information Architect (contract)
Garcia Media
(Design industry)
October 2007 — January 2008 (4 months)
Design strategy and information architecture for Garcia Media, a newspaper and magazine design firm, for a Web social network site design project for Sakal Papers Ltd.
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Interaction Designer (contract)
Adaptive Path
(Design industry)
March 2007 — August 2007 (6 months)
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Founder, Chief Instigator, CEO
PlaceSite, Inc.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2004 — 2006 (2 years )
Reinventing wi-fi community. See www.PlaceSite.com
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Researcher
Intel Research Seattle
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INTC; Semiconductors industry)
2004 — 2004 (less than a year)
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UI Engineer, Front End Developer
Scient
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year )
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Designer, Producer, Channel Manager
Knight Ridder Digital, San Jose CA
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; KRI; Online Media industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years )
Sean Savage’s Education
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UC Berkeley
Masters , Information Management & Systems , August 2003 — May 2005
- Activities and Societies:
- Carnegie Fellowship
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