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Manager, Information Architecture at Spot Runner
Greater Los Angeles Area
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- Manager, Information Architecture at Spot Runner
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- Director of User Experience at YELLOWPAGES.COM
- Director of Interaction Design at Real Branding
- Director of Interaction Design at MetaDesign
- Senior Information Architect at AGENCY.COM
- Web Projects Manager at NASA Ames Research Center
- Information Architect at Independent Consultant
- Interactive Courseware Developer at Dyned Int'l.
- Lecturer in English at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
- Education
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- San Francisco State University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- University of California, Berkeley
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Charles Brewer [cbrewer@spotrunner.com]’s Summary
• Builder and leader of digital, interactive design teams
• Solution-finder using interactive technologies to solve problems in work and communication
• Strategic, creative and interactive leader in defining the business value of interactive design
• Leader and manager of creatives and delivery teams in interactive
• User experience design for web applications, software, web sites, mobile and other platforms
• Interactive marketing and branding
• Strategy for online businesses
• Trusted, high-quality, spam-free networking
Charles Brewer [cbrewer@spotrunner.com]’s Specialties:
• Leader-manager of design teams
• Strategy development and requirements definition for design
• User Experience
• Interaction Design
• Information Architecture
• User and Customer Needs Research
• Usability Research and Testing
• Business Development
• Pitching and Proposing
• Strategies for Online Customer Relationships
• Online Marketing and Branding
• Client Relationship Management
Charles Brewer [cbrewer@spotrunner.com]’s Experience
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Manager, Information Architecture
Spot Runner
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Leading the UX delivery for technology startup
UX lead for concepting and design of Project Malibu, an enterprise-level Web transaction platform for buying and selling broadcast media
Usability research and testing
Develop systems and standards for UX delivery
Mentoring and leadership for UX staff
Source and manage UX contractors
Web application design and best practices -
Director of User Experience
YELLOWPAGES.COM
(Public Company; T; Internet industry)
September 2007 — June 2008 (10 months)
Director of User Experience for Yellowpages.com
-Top 30 Web site (Comscore) with over 30M uniques per month
Yellowpages.com:
-Listings redesign
-New mapping interface
-Product pages
-New Yellowpages.com browser toolbar
YPMobile:
-New YPMobile smartphone mobile application
-Built in-house usability testing facility
-Redesign of Anywho.com (not launched)
-Led 7-person UX team of IA's, Web Designers and Writers
-Managed 15-person digital agency team
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Director of Interaction Design
Real Branding
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
December 2006 — September 2007 (10 months)
UX leadership:
-Concepting, design and user testing for global HR Web site redesign: LA-based, global media and entertainment company (not yet launched)
-Redesign of ABC's Soapnet.com (television, broadcasting, Internet)
-Redesign of DVD e-commerce site for Disney Consumer Products (consumer products)
Major brand Web engagements:
-Transamerica Insurance (retail, insurance)
-Anheuser-Busch InBev (consumer products)
-Led the establishment and growth of the Interactive Systems Design practice at Real Branding:
-Pitched and won major interactive projects from Fortune 1000 companies.
-Led 5-person UX team of Interaction Designers
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Director of Interaction Design
MetaDesign
(Public Company; Design industry)
August 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 5 months)
UX leadership and delivery for global and major US brand engagements and digital products, including product and marketing planning, concepting, design and user testing:
-New global redesign of Fourseasons.com and its booking engine (global luxury brand)
-Design of online marketplace Web application for media owners and advertisers for LookSmart (media, advertising, high tech)
-Relaunch & redesign of Thomson Now!, leading university-level courseware web app for Thomson Higher Education, now Cengage (web application, publishing, courseware)
-Product UX standardization and standards library across all product UIs for Cisco Systems (high tech)
-Stryker.com global corporate redesign (medical technology, medical devices)
-Walmartstores.com corporate redesign (#1 US consumer retail company)
-Danger.com corporate redesign: Hiptop handheld device platform mfr. (high tech)
-Major pharmaceutical product engagements for Eli Lilly & Co. (Pharmaceuticals)
--Digital product design for Philm www.philm.com (Consumer Products) -
Senior Information Architect
AGENCY.COM
(Public Company; OMC; Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 1999 — August 2004 (5 years)
UX team and project leadership for major brand engagements:
-Redesign of Visaonline.com for Visa (financial products)
-Redesign of United Airlines booking engine (airlines)
-Redesign of Kodakpicturecenter.com online photo-sharing web site for Kodak (consumer products)
-C-Level Internet strategy engagement for McKesson (pharmaceuticals and medical devices)
-Abbott Laboratories pharmaceutical products sites (pharmaceuticals)
-Barrie Pace redesign (fashion)
-Sovereign Bank (finance)
-Providian Financial (finance)
-SABMiller (consumer products) -
Web Projects Manager
NASA Ames Research Center
(Government Agency; Defense & Space industry)
July 1998 — July 1999 (1 year 1 month)
Design and deployment of Ames-internal Web sites
Curatorship of Ames Webmasters site
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Information Architect
Independent Consultant
(Design industry)
June 1997 — June 1998 (1 year 1 month)
Major client engagements:
-Informania
-Dyned and Radio America -
Interactive Courseware Developer
Dyned Int'l.
(E-Learning industry)
July 1996 — September 1997 (1 year 3 months)
Interactive Courseware Developer for educational software developer and CD-ROM publisher
-English as a Second Language software series (multiple) -
Lecturer in English
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
(Higher Education industry)
August 1992 — July 1996 (4 years)
Director of CALL Lab (Computer-Aided Language Learning) at KSA's major science and technology university
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Charles Brewer [cbrewer@spotrunner.com]’s Websites:
Charles Brewer [cbrewer@spotrunner.com]’s Groups:
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LAUX (User Experience Los Angeles)
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