Tori Orr

Current

• Technical Communications Manager, Knowledge Services at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Past

• Manager, Library Information Services at Montana State Library
• Director of Information Architecture at DentsuFuse
• Sr. Information Architect at USWeb/CKS and marchFirst

• Consultant/Design Contractor at ZDtv.com, Navio Communications, Paramount Digital Entertainment (Self-employed)

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Education

• Drexel University
• University of Oregon
• MiraCosta College

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Connections

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Industry

Information Services

Websites

• My Blog

Tori Orr’s Summary

I manage projects and teams exploring the convergence of old and new public information spaces and services. Interested in culture-based information seeking behavior and how it intersects with storytelling and personal histories, and influences information design.

Tori Orr’s Specialties:

library science, information architecture, information graphics, usability analysis, grant writing, copywriting, experience and interaction design, knowledge management, content strategy, branding and representation, internet information resource design, information retrieval systems, wayfinding systems.

Tori Orr’s Experience

• Technical Communications Manager, Knowledge Services

  MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  (Research industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

  MITLL is a Federally Funded Research & Development Center managed by MIT and funded by the DoD. My responsibility is ensuring scientists, engineers and researchers can effectively communicate highly technical and sensitive information to external sponsors and the lab community using a variety of video, digital media and traditional publishing tools.

• Manager, Library Information Services

  Montana State Library

  (Libraries industry)

  July 2004 — June 2006 (2 years )

  Managed the Information Services Division of the Montana State Digital Library (MSdL) with a patron base of 10,000 state employees, 30 state agencies and the citizens of Montana. Administrative responsibility for library services with a budget of $300K and a materials replacement cost of two million. Our mission was to provide public access to government publications, GIS data, and biological information on Montana’s wildlife through the first digital institutional repository for state-produced information.

• Director of Information Architecture

  DentsuFuse

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2001 — March 2002 (1 year 1 month)

  This company was a subsidiary of Dentsu, Japan's largest advertising agency

• Sr. Information Architect

  USWeb/CKS and marchFirst

  (Public Company; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  April 1999 — March 2001 (2 years )

  This new media agency was later was renamed MarchFirst and ended in 2001.(see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarchFirst)

• Consultant/Design Contractor

  ZDtv.com, Navio Communications, Paramount Digital Entertainment (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Internet industry)

  1995 — 1998 (3 years )

Tori Orr’s Education

• Drexel University

  MS , Library and Information Science , 2002 — 2005

  Adjunct Professor for Drexel University’s school of information science, teaching “Internet Information Resource Design” for two terms, 2005.

  Activities and Societies:

  Winner American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) research paper award for "Representing Personal Histories in Social Networks" 2004.

• University of Oregon

  BA , Fine Art (painting) and BA, English Literature (folklore study) , 1992 — 1994

  Activities and Societies:

  Dual major, magna cum laude, Student Curator of Erb Memorial Art Galleries for the UofO Cultural Forum

• MiraCosta College

  1990 — 1992

Additional Information

Tori Orr’s Websites:

• My Blog

Tori Orr’s Interests:

Guest lecturer for UC Berkeley Extension, 1999 and Content Management panelist at The San Francisco Multimedia Center in 2001. Presenter with industry leaders Peter Merholz and Steven Johnson on "Interface Culture" at the SXSW Technology Conference, Austin, TX, 2000.

Tori Orr’s Groups:

Volunteer Design Editor for the print magazine InFormation. Volunteer for the International Children's Digital Library in partnership with the University of Maryland and the Internet Archive (www.icdlbooks.org), SIGGRAPH, The American Institute for Graphic Artists (AIGA), Bay Area Computer-Human Interaction Group (BAYCHI), ACM, ASIS&T, and member of "Second Life" Librarians.

•    Content Management Professionals
•    Information, Knowledge and Content Management Specialists
•    Research Institute Publishing Executives (RIPE)
•    Drexel Boston

Tori Orr’s Honors:

ASIS&T Pratt-Severn Award for outstanding paper "Representing Personal Histories in a Social Context," 2004.