Scott Smith

Current

Self Employed at Invisible Fist

Past

Business Analyst at RCM Technologies
Tech Services Rep. at American Color
Senior Consultant at Divine

Senior Consultant at Marchfirst
Art Studio Manager at J. Walter Thompson
Manager, Creative Systems and Prepress Production at Draft Worldwide (formerly DraftDirect, Kobs and Draft)
Principal at Self-Employed

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Education

University of Manitoba
Western Michigan University
University of Florida

Seminole Community College
Seminole High

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Scott Smith’s Summary

Veteran of advertising, publishing and Web consulting industries. Have served in variety of creative, technical and managerial positions; equally comfortable with command lines and color management. Industry experience: biotechnology, education, finance, manufacturing and real estate

Scott Smith’s Specialties:

SharePoint-based solutions, process improvement, branding, business analysis, staff leadership, budgeting, support of N-tier and client-server architectures, educational technology, CSS, content management, instructional design,

Scott Smith’s Experience

Self Employed

Invisible Fist

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)

Providing consulting services in SharePoint, instructional design, e-learning and content management (including digital asset management and document management).
Business Analyst

RCM Technologies

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2007 — 2009 (2 years)

Pre-sales, discovery, configuration, look and feel design, user training, development of SCORM-compliant e-learning and tech support for Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS)-based solutions in the education space.
Tech Services Rep.

American Color

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2002 — February 2006 (4 years 1 month)

Provided and array of technical and instructional services for client's digital asset management intranet. Delivered technical and procedural support for end users, and administrators; edited site content in Java Server Pages, monitored system and application logs, proposed improvements to workflow, metadata vocabulary and site usability.
Senior Consultant

Divine

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year)

Project roles included content management strategist and Verity search engine administrator.
Senior Consultant

Marchfirst

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; MRCH; Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year)

Engagements included that of Interwoven content management lead, intranet administrator, and creative director.
Art Studio Manager

J. Walter Thompson

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

1996 — 1999 (3 years)

Managed designers, proofreaders and administrative staff for agency profit center. Ensured timely delivery of all print advertising, collateral materials and new business presentations.
Manager, Creative Systems and Prepress Production

Draft Worldwide (formerly DraftDirect, Kobs and Draft)

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

1993 — 1996 (3 years)

Provided technical support for network and entire creative staff; ensured expeditious workflow and file integrity of all print material, resolved training and technical issues.
Principal

Self-Employed

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1991 — 1993 (2 years)

Digital art production, technical support, research services. Responsibilities and lengths of tenure varied. Clients included:

• Draft Worldwide (now Draft/FCB), Chicago, IL
• Scott-Foresman Publishing, Glenview, IL
• British Telecommunications, Rockville, MD
• National Institutes of Health,/Human Genome Conference Committee, Rockville, MD

Scott Smith’s Education

University of Manitoba

Connectivism 2008 — 2008

Activities and Societies:

Student in George Siemans' and Stephen Downes' Massive Open Online Course (a 'MOOC') on the learning theory connectivism
Western Michigan University

MS, Ed. Technology , educational technology (minor: special education) , 2003 — 2007
University of Florida

BS , Communication, Political Science , 1982 — 1986
Seminole Community College

1980 — 1981
Seminole High

1976 — 1980

Additional Information

Scott Smith’s Websites:

Scott Smith’s Interests:

family, universal design for learning, content management, learning objects, fat-tire biking, reading,

Scott Smith’s Groups:

Content Management Professionals (CM Pros - http://www.cmpros.org ), Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning (MACUL - http://www.macul.org), Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (http://www.phikappaphi.org/Web/index.html)