Stewart McCoy

Current

Editorial Assistant at Go! transportation magazine

Past

Instructional Designer at Iowa State's Department of Environmental Health & Safety
Graphic Designer at Iowa State University's Center for Transportation Research and Education
Copy editor at Iowa State Daily

Corporate Manuals Intern at Wells Fargo

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Education

Iowa State University
Iowa State University

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Stewart McCoy’s Summary

My professional interests lay at the intersection of editorial strategy, especially for web-based magazines and newspapers, and interaction design and user experience for multimedia platforms (e.g. designing how editorial content is consumed across devices like the Kindle, iPad, iPhone or other smartphones, as well as on personal computers).

For the last year and half I've been writing and developing content for Go! transportation magazine. For my master's project, I am analyzing and realigning the magazine's content strategy and user experience with its editorial strategy. Major deliverables include include a more efficient publication workflow and a content management system.

Stewart McCoy’s Specialties:

professional writing and editing, visual communication (layout, color, typography), web development, web standards, usability, content strategy, information architecture, interaction design, user experience

Stewart McCoy’s Experience

Editorial Assistant

Go! transportation magazine

(Educational Institution; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

August 2008 — Present (2 years 1 month)

workforce development for the transportation pipeline, feature writing, content strategy, proposal writing, public speaking, direct marketing, social media marketing, web analytics.

As a graduate student writer for Go! I was the recipient of a Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship, awarded by the Federal Highway Administration for both 2008-2009 and 2009-2010.
Instructional Designer

Iowa State's Department of Environmental Health & Safety

(Public Safety industry)

May 2009 — July 2009 (3 months)

instructional design, graphic design, multimedia development, publication design, technical writing.
Graphic Designer

Iowa State University's Center for Transportation Research and Education

(Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)

graphic design, visual identity design, publication design, report design, brochure design, copywriting.
Copy editor

Iowa State Daily

(Non-Profit; Newspapers industry)

October 2007 — April 2008 (7 months)

copy editing, illustration, graphic design, infographic design, reporting, photojournalism
Corporate Manuals Intern

Wells Fargo

(Public Company; WFC; Financial Services industry)

March 2008 — March 2008 (1 month)

content management, graphic communications

Stewart McCoy’s Education

Iowa State University

M.A. , Rhetoric, Composition & Professional Communication , 2008 — 2010

Web Design for E-Commerce
Multimedia Content Management
Production Processes for Technical Documents
Visual Communication in Professional Writing
Writing and Analyzing Professional Documents
Theory and Research in Professional Communication
Writing Proposals and Grants
Iowa State University

Bachelor of Arts , Art & Design and Journalism & Mass Communication , 2005 — 2008

Principles of Statistics
Sources of Visual Design
Color Theory
Design Cultures
Multimedia Production
Visual Principles of Mass Communication
Reporting and Writing for Mass Media
Fundamentals of Photojournalism

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Stewart McCoy’s Interests:

user interface design, rich internet applications, (X)HTML, semantic web, CSS, JavaScript, DOM scripting, unobtrusive scripting, Ajax, progressive enhancement, PHP, Rails, SQL, wireframes, sitemaps, personas, mental models, card sorting, navigation, findability, typography, graphic design history, development methodologies (e.g. agile)