• 11 years software development experience
• Design Director specializing in successful, efficient production
• Information Architect of websites and production systems
• Interface design specialist in entertainment & educational media
• 5 years experience in professional photography - 35 mm film
DESIGN DIRECTOR collegeboard.com - Feb '01 to present
• Manage a team of graphic designers and information architects making daily enhancements to a 35k page site
• Developed & implemented a design process & documentation method for information architecture, graphic
design and user functionality
• Rationalized site design and site architecture by developing a global
template for content - within 6 months brought 7 different designs into one that worked without changing content or functionality
• Designed a flexible template for online applications including a College Application program, SAT Registration, Student
Search program, a Financial Aid tool, and others
INFORMATION ARCHITECT
Scholastic - Dec '00 thru Feb '01
Created storyboards and flowcharts for a Teachers Professional Development
Program including online courses, offline programming with staff developers
and the coordination of offline and online in programs sold to school districts.
Responsible for the user interface & information architecture a technology based
constructionist learning website for children ages six through ten:
• Architected enhancements to navigation
& functionality, including web activities for children ages six
through ten
• Developed, maintained and oversaw the process of creating user flow and
functional specifications & standards for all online products
• Developed a plan for the total redesign of the site
Managed the creation and production of business to business and business to
consumer websites, taking on the additional responsibility of user interface
and information design:
• Created functional & technical specifications
for complex, database driven sites
• Created and maintained budgets and schedules, rewarded for unsurpassed
success
• Responsible for ultimate quality of product, including aesthetic, market
and content driven goals
Simon & Schuster Interactive - Dec '97 thru April '98
Off shore crisis management consultant for over due, over budget, 3D-animated CD-ROM game. Continued remote management of testing phase and final delivery after
returning to the USA.
Morgan Interactive - Sept '95 thru Dec '97
Content design and off shore production management of childrens CD-ROM games
contracted by leading interactive publishers:
• Creative Manager and Producer of childrens CD-ROM games with emphasis
on successful integration of educational, functional and licensing requirements
• Created educational content, product scripts and interface design elements
• Created tools for offsite production including design documentation,
art packages, issues tracking tools, and a testing database and implemented
them company wide
• Created installers, technical specifications and localization packages
SYSTEMS CONSULTANT
Andersen Consulting - Feb '92 thru Sept '95
Software developer and integration specialist for large scale business systems:
• Designed modules for large telecommunications billing system, emphasis
on business requirements
• Managed team in creation of test plans, functional requirements and
executing system tests
• Instructor and section leader for courses on C programming & product
development fundamentals
• Programmed in C and C++ in developing modules for large customer information
system
PRODUCT CREDITS
• Richard Scarry's Best Math Program Ever, Simon
& Schuster Interactive, Content Design & Producer 1997
• Richard Scarry's Best Reading Program Ever,Simon & Schuster Interactive, Content Design & Producer 1996
• Math Grade 1, Nubby's Quiz Show, McGraw Hill Home Interactive, Content Design
& Producer 1997
• Math Grade 2, Foggy McHammer's Treehouse, MGraw Hill Home Interactive, Content
Design & Producer 1997
• The First Christmas, Porchlight Interactive, Content
Design & Producer 1997
• Frog and Toad are Friends, FoxToons Interactive,
Re-release Producer 1996
• Danny and the Dinosaur, FoxToons Interactive,
Re-release Producer 1996
• Morgan's Adventures in Colonial America, Harper
Collins Interactive, Re-release Producer 1995
• Morgan's Adventures in Ancient Greece, Harper Collins Interactive, Re-release Producer 1995
OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE New Alternatives for Children - Summer/Fall 2000
• Directed the design and production of a website for
a nonprofit organization
Free Arts for Abused Children - 1999 thru 2000
• Lead groups of grade school children and their parents in creating
art projects together
Glass Egg Digital Media, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - January 1999
• Consulted in internal operations and procedures, business strategy
& industry direction
National Educational Media Network, San Francisco, CA - 1997 thru 1998
• Educational CD-ROM Juror
Lafayette Elementary School, San Francisco Public Schools - 1995 thru 1998
• Second grade reading tutor
EDUCATION
Graduate Coursework & Conferences:
• Black & White Darkroom II, International Center for Photography, New York, NY Spring 2003
• Developing a Personal Vision, International Center for Photography, New York, NY Winter 2003
• Style & Light, International Center for Photography, New York, NY Winter 2002
• Strobe Lighting Techniques, The New School, New york, NY Fall 2001
• Human Computer Interface Conference, The Hague, Netherlands Spring 2000
• Vision and Technique (B&W Photography), School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Winter
1999
• Introduction to Interactive Multimedia, SF State University Multimedia
Center Summer/Fall 1994
• Graphics & Human Interface on the PC, SF State University Multimedia Center Summer/Fall 1994
• 3D Modeling on the MAC, SF State University Multimedia Center Summer/Fall 1994
• Black and White Photographic Processing, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA Spring 1993
• C Programming, University of California, Berkeley Extension Fall 1992 Undergraduate Education
