Michael Simborg

Current

• Principle User Experience Architect, Digital Innovation Group/OBU at Sears Holdings Corporation

Education

• Illinois Institute of Technology
• Chicago School of Professional Bartending
• DePaul University

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Recommended

5 people have recommended Michael

Connections

283 connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

• My Website
• NALOXONE

Michael Simborg’s Summary

Ethnographic, usability, primary observation, documentary media production and direction, photography, digital imaging, animation, interactive media design and education, information and experience architecture, creative direction, art direction, communications design, ABSORB AND APPLY AND LEARN LEARN LEARN, collaboration, investigation, evolution, revolution, music, harm reduction outreach, public education reform, trial and error, fail early and often, ask questions but find answers...

Areas of expertise include all adobe products, visio and other "mind mapping" tools, illustration, strategic communications development, planning and management/oversight, imaging and photography, animation and graphic design, user interface design, and prototype production.

Extensive experience running contextual or field observation for use in the development of human-centered design. This includes video, audio, still images, research frameworks, media collection models and knowledge-sharing tools.

Very well-rounded and front-line experience from all levels of the industry enables me to really communicate with the people involved with multi-disciplinary development teams. Extensive residence over-seas has further facilitated an ability to break down walls or boundaries and drive, inspire and contribute to effective innovation.

Michael Simborg’s Specialties:

Project management and scope definition, user needs analysis and direction, design and art direction, branding, high and low-level conceptualization, semantics, semiotics, education from grade to graduate level course and curriculum development in interactive media design, digital photography, contextual inquiry and analysis, foundational marketing and advertising as it relates to design and communications.

Michael Simborg’s Experience

• Principle User Experience Architect, Digital Innovation Group/OBU

  Sears Holdings Corporation

  (Public Company; SHLD; Retail industry)

  March 2009 — Present (9 months)

  Social engineering on a passionate, human-centered and evangelical scale...

Michael Simborg’s Education

• Illinois Institute of Technology

  MDes , Human-Centered Communications Design , 1998 — 2001

• Chicago School of Professional Bartending

  Certified Mixologist , Bartending , 1995 — 1995

• DePaul University

  Communication Theory , Linguistics, Semiotics, Graphic Design, Fine Arts , 1989 — 1993

  Activities and Societies:

  Director of Chicago/Metro Apartment Market Analysis, Grubb & Ellis Company

Additional Information

Michael Simborg’s Websites:

• My Website
• NALOXONE

Michael Simborg’s Interests:

Learning, absorbing, applying, reflecting, education of self and others, reading, writing, communications design, photography digital imaging printing, advertising and marketing, branding, user experience architecture, sociology, anthropology ethnography, primary, observation and analysis, interface design, usability conceptualization, iconography, visual semiotics, semantics, identity, strategy, my friends and family and dog Morrie.

Michael Simborg’s Groups:

The Chicago Recovery Alliance
Working Professional User Experience Designer

•    International Association of Software Architects
•    Interaction Design Association
•    Advertising Professional
•    Art & Design
•    Institute of Design Alumni
•    The Enterprise Architecture Network
•    Illinois Institute of Technology - IIT
•    Front End of Innovation
•    Linked.NET Users Group (LIDNUG)
•    Open Source Universe
•    Online Advertising Professionals
•    ThoseinMedia
•    DePaul University Alumni Association
•    Customer Experience Professionals
•    Retail Industry Professionals Group
•    Computers, Freedom, and Privacy: Technology Policy '08
•    Social Media Marketing
•    User Experience
•    Medical Devices Group
•    Design Research
•    Yamaha Owners and Enthusiasts
•    IIT Institute of Design

Michael Simborg’s Honors:

The humbling knowledge I receive from living every day, Best Documentary, Belfast International Harm Reduction Documentary Film Showcase, saving over 500 lives through an information campaign, Certified Mixologist, Chicago Bartending School, Master's degrees from IIT/ID, Featured photographer in an exhibit on Hip Hop and International Global Cultural Exchange Exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago, knowing some of the people I know and meeting many of the people I have met and will continue to meet through my work, travels and interests, knowledge and the opportunity to apply it...

Michael Simborg’s Contact Settings

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