Semantic Engineer at Quiddities Dev, Inc and Accessibility Consultant
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Web Developer at Quiddities Dev, Inc
- Past
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- Consultant at Irenology.org
- Document Analyst at Lockheed Martin
- Legal Assistant at American Civil Liberties Union
- Producer/Public Service Director at WGDR 91.1 FM
- Administrative Clerk at United States Marine Corps
- Education
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- Goddard College
- Universitat Jaume I
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William Lawrence’s Summary
Document handling and media management has been the mainstay of my diet for many years. When taking that to the internet, a very uncertain environment, a work day is ripe with aspects of uncertainty. Finding meaning in organisation branding and translating that to the tubes of the information flow is an everyday task. Creating environments that users, customers, can navigate and consume is what I do all day: engineering the semantics of interaction.
William Lawrence’s Specialties:
Abstraction and Transliteration with a sprinkle of coding.
William Lawrence’s Experience
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Web Developer
Quiddities Dev, Inc
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 2002 — Present (6 years 7 months)
* Responsible for client interface and providing consulting services focused on developing
the client's web presence aligned to their branding and media strategy
* Directly responsible for helping the client organize a broad set of information and data,
develop a set of clear, user requirements, build prototypes of website for user acceptance,
and drive final website design
* Proficient at creating and deploying easy to navigate websites with fully accessible
content, excellent data management, and complex interactions
* Implemented and deployed ecommerce websites
* Developed custom standards-compliant content management systems
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Consultant
Irenology.org
(Non-Profit; Myself Only; Internet industry)
February 2000 — December 2004 (4 years 11 months)
Consulted, advocated, and educated organisations and individuals throughout Eastern Croatia on harnessing the internet as a means to bring peace into their communities. Building Web presence for those who couldn't who were trying to help those who lived in violence who wanted to live in peace, is what irenology.org was all about.
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Document Analyst
Lockheed Martin
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LMT; Internet industry)
December 1998 — January 2000 (1 year 2 months)
The "Year 2000 problem", universal as it was, offered many opportunities to test many forms of computational devices. As a result of these tests, there were ample amounts of documents generated to prove these tests had occurred. Media and document management played paramount during these years.
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Legal Assistant
American Civil Liberties Union
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Legal Services industry)
September 1995 — December 1998 (3 years 4 months)
Civil liberties get violated. Many citizens file complaints regarding these violations. Someone has to process these complaints and sort out what is and what isn't a public issue or a private problem.
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Producer/Public Service Director
WGDR 91.1 FM
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Music industry)
1994 — 1998 (4 years)
Public Service Announcements (PSA) are a part of the nutritious diet of incoming correspondence of radio stations across the world. On any given day, a radio station can expect to receive around 10 to 1 octodecillion PSAs in the mail. Sorting the commercial from the non-commercial announcements, organising, managing, and presenting them on the air and to the team was what one did. It was about carrying on a tradition of relating to the radio station with having public trust. And, I produced and hosted radio programs, and conducted public interest interviews in studio and in the field.
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Administrative Clerk
United States Marine Corps
(Government Agency; Military industry)
September 1988 — September 1992 (4 years 1 month)
Every organisation needs a clerk. Everyone ought to be a clerk for sometime.
William Lawrence’s Education
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Goddard College
BA, Political Science, 1993 — 2000
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Universitat Jaume I
MA, International Relations, 1999
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