User Experience, Social Networking and Product Development Consultant
Greater Los Angeles Area
User Experience, Social Networking and Product Development Consultant
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Information Architecture in transactional and heavy content management sites
- Creative management of teams of web designers and web developers
- Process improvement and development
- Product management for start-up companies
- Experienced in OpenSocial and Social Networking Communities
User experience, information architecture, usability, lead generation, product management, product development, process architecture, content management
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Responsible for defining the User Experience, Information Architecture and Product Strategy process within a consultancy, and evangelizing that process to the clients. Company implements custom development, SharePoint (MOSS), Rich Media (SilverLight and Flash) and other Microsoft solutions.
Previously -- Practice Manager, User Experience: Responsible for the management a User Experience team within a web development consultancy. Grew the practice to 25 team members in a year, from the ground up. Set up policies, process and procedures for creative development.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
May 2002 — Present (6 years 5 months)
Recent Projects include work for :
- BidRx
- Anderson Books/Walmart
- Los Angeles Unified School District
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
March 2001 — May 2002 (1 year 3 months)
Managed the P&L for a consumer level escrow product. Wrote functional requirements for new features. Helped manage a customer support center.
(Public Company; Marketing and Advertising industry)
October 1999 — February 2001 (1 year 5 months)
Wrote functional requirements based on market requirement documents for a Windows application, and worked with developers to validate those functional requirements.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
October 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 1 month)
Managed the development of the reverse-auction business to consumer website from proof of concept to 1.0 release. Included providing the functional requirements, hiring the development team, and establishing development processes.
(Public Company; Internet industry)
September 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 2 months)
(Public Company; Marketing and Advertising industry)
May 1997 — October 1998 (1 year 6 months)
Managed local producers and editors for a network of city guides. Work included evaluating new technology for the guides, and advising the local markets on to share and improve content.
(Internet industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year)