Sean Coon

Current

• Founder at the dotmatrix project
• Principal Owner, Design Director at dotmatrix, llc. (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• User Experience Consultant (Self-employed)
• User Experience Group Lead at Ameritrade
• Sr Interaction Designer at Ameritrade

• Sr. UI Engineer at Datek
• Information Architect (Contract) at Organic
• Global Services, Lead Information Architect at Xpedior, Inc.
• Information Architect at Lycos
• Information Architect (Contract) at Organic
• Art Director at DVC Interactive
• Game Designer (Contract) at Learn Technologies Interactive
• Game Designer at The Bureau of Electronic Publishing

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Education

• Cooper
• Argus Center for Information Architecture
• ACM SIGRAPH

• Syracuse University

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Connections

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Industry

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Websites

• the dotmatrix project

Sean Coon’s Summary

I've been designing interactive experiences since 1993 and have been a working information architect since 1998. My consultancy, dotmatrix, focuses on helping organizations understand today's internet and the opportunities available to connect with and serve their customers, client and/or constituents.

I'm open to projects ranging from designing full services to one-day presentations and/or strategy sessions.

My after hours gig is the dotmatrix project, which is a localized effort to promote original musicians via the talents of local artists while helping define the foundations for what a next-gen music label needs to be.

Sean Coon’s Specialties:

* User experience design (interaction design, information architecture)
* Game design (narrative script, level design, event sequencing)
* Design management (team building, mentoring, directing and evaluating, vision definition, presentation and evolution)
* Live music recording, mixing, marketing, music videos

Sean Coon’s Experience

• Founder

  the dotmatrix project

  (Music industry)

  April 2008 — Present (7 months)

  the dotmatrix project is a collective of artists -- musicians, photographers, filmmakers, sound engineers -- who dig live music.
  
  We put on shows with bands local to North Carolina and document the evening with live albums, music videos and show photography.
  
  In 2009 we plan on expanding to focus on a collective music blog, a hyper-local event service and potentially, a for hire service to document bands outside the NC area.

• Principal Owner, Design Director

  dotmatrix, llc. (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  May 2006 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  dotmatrix is a design/technology consultancy and a collaborative blog think-tank. We focus on building future-thinking user experiences, leveraging the open aspects of the web and the participatory nature of 21st century netizens.
  
  Clients: Scripps Networks, Audible.com, Zecco.com, Kindermusik, SecondSpace.com, Rutgers SCILS

• User Experience Consultant

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  April 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 2 months)

• User Experience Group Lead

  Ameritrade

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AMTD; Financial Services industry)

  February 2004 — April 2005 (1 year 3 months)

  Active Trading, Long-term Investment & Advisory Services
  
  Led the redesign of the Ameritrade Apex brokerage website, moving Ameritrade from a Barron’s Online Brokerage site experience annual ranking of 13th place with 2.5 stars in 2004 to 2nd place with 4.0 stars in 2005

• Sr Interaction Designer

  Ameritrade

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AMTD; Financial Services industry)

  February 2003 — February 2004 (1 year 1 month)

  Trading Platform Redesign

• Sr. UI Engineer

  Datek

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)

  March 2002 — February 2003 (1 year)

  Lead designer for Streaming Applications

• Information Architect (Contract)

  Organic

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

  September 2001 — February 2002 (6 months)

  Summary:
  Lead IA on Reliant Energy's non-authenticated, web site redesign; creating a CMS driven information architecture for supporting the interactive presentation of external marketing campaigns. On the authenticated side, the project consisted of dynamic information hubs supported by customer personalization.
  
  Lead IA on the redesign of the SourceOne.com web site; primarily a sales tool for SourceOne in viscerally describing their global services and applications.

• Global Services, Lead Information Architect

  Xpedior, Inc.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2000 — March 2001 (1 year)

  Senior Managing Consultant, Client Pitches and Methodology

• Information Architect

  Lycos

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; TRLY; Internet industry)

  March 1999 — April 2000 (1 year 2 months)

  Personal Publishing and Community Tools

• Information Architect (Contract)

  Organic

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  June 1998 — February 1999 (9 months)

  Summary:
  Designed the information architecture for the initial launch of the Eyeweb.com sytem. This effort included designing a rich kiosk interface (one that supported the photographing of a human and pin-pointing measurement points on the resulting interface), a marketing web site, an e-commerce web site, a recommendation system and a java-based application for trying-on frames.

• Art Director

  DVC Interactive

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  February 1997 — June 1998 (1 year 5 months)

  Interactive and linear marketing

• Game Designer (Contract)

  Learn Technologies Interactive

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

  January 1996 — February 1997 (1 year 2 months)

  Levels, CGI, Video Production, etc. for:
  • Simon Fefher's Junkland Jam
  • The Robot Club (with R/GA)
  • Qin: Tomb of the Middle Kingdom

• Game Designer

  The Bureau of Electronic Publishing

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

  April 1994 — December 1995 (1 year 9 months)

  CGI Artist, Sound & Video Producer, Scriptwriter for:
  • Digital Beethoven on Cyberspeed
  • Inside the White House
  • Story of the States
  • Multimedia US History
  • This Day in US History

Sean Coon’s Education

• Cooper

  Interaction Design Practicum November 2004 — November 2004

• Argus Center for Information Architecture

  Synonyms and Taxonomies January 2001 — January 2001

  Peter Morville and Samantha Bailey

• ACM SIGRAPH

  Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics April 1997 — April 1997

  Keynote speaker, Bill Buxton

• Syracuse University

  BFA, Advertising Design, September 1988 — December 1994

  Concentration in Illustration and Literary Theory

Additional Information

Sean Coon’s Websites:

• the dotmatrix project

Sean Coon’s Groups:

Big Brothers and Big Sisters, EFF

•    Usability Professionals' Association International (UPA-I)

Sean Coon’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch