PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY:
Platform Support Experience: Microsoft .NET, Visual Studio; ASP, SQL, PHP, Netweaver (SAP), Eclipse (Java), Domino (Lotus).
Extensive Experience (10+ yrs): |
Professional Experience: |
Expert level (20+ yrs) |
- DreamWeaver
- Fireworks
- Flash
- Photoshop
- HTML, CSS, DHTML
- XML
- Javascript / jQuery
- Flash Actionscript
- Visio
- MS Office
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- Axure
- Protoshare
- Mockflow
- Director
- Freehand
- Illustrator
- PageMaker
- 3D Studio
- Painter
- Poser
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- CorelDRAW
- publications
- conference lecturer
- professional instructor
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PERSONAL SKILLS SUMMARY:
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Innovation and Thought Leadership
- Rapid adaptation to new environments and technologies
- Excellent Research Skills
- Experienced presentation developer and conference lecturer
- Highly Creative, extensive digital design experience
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Inventiv Healh / GSW: Information Architect 04/12 - Present
Information Architecture staffing pool providing support to leading Pharmaceutical Advertising agency;
- Development of sitemaps, wireframes, heuristic analyses and interactive prototypes for websites, mobile applications,
social media (Facebook) applications and content
- Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to develop, review and revise requirements and specifications across numerous assigned projects
Elsevier / medAI: UCD Lead (contractor) 04/12 - 07/12
User Centric Design contractor providing support to large design team creating documentation and prototyping of complex reporting applications;
- Development of wireframes, workflow diagrams and interactive prototypes in collaborative online environments (mockflow, Axure) for medical statistical analysis & population management systems
- Collaboration with stakeholders to develop, review and revise requirements and specifications across assigned projects
Fahlgren Mortine: Information Architect (contractor) 02/12 - Present
Information Architecture contractor providing support to PR / Digital agency:
- Development of IA Deliverables including wireframes & interaction flow diagrams
- Collaboration / brainstorming with internal stakeholders to develop project strategies / visual documentation
Discover Financial: User Experience Architect 04/11 - 02/12
Onsite Contractor providing UI design support for WMS development
- Conceptualization & Development of screen mockups, models & html prototypes
- Collaboration with stakeholders to review and revise requirements and specifications
- Screen layout, design & development with HTML / CSS / JQuery on ColdFusion platform
Ohio State University College of Medicine: Business Analyst (UX) 11/10 - 01/11
User Experience and UI consultant supporting development team for Medical School LMS update
- Conduct stakeholder & system user interviews to identify opportunities for improvement in functionality and usability of existing system.
- Development of User Stories to provide guidelines and expectations for Agile Development Team
- Collaboration with stakeholders to review and revise requirements and specifications.
- Development of sitemaps, wireframes, and customized conceptual visualization
Resource Interactive: Information Architect (contractor) 05/10 – 12/10
Information Architecture consultant providing support to leading agency:
- Collaboration with stakeholders to review and revise requirements and specifications
- Development of IA Deliverables including sitemaps, wireframes, user flow diagrams
- Conduct internal whiteboard planning / strategy sessions
Projects include: KeyBank, Hewlett Packard, Constellation Energy, Procter & Gamble (Clairol)
MindLeaders, Inc: User Experience Designer 11/08 – 01/10
GUI design, usability and information architecture for LMS & TMS web-based application platforms:
- Collaboration with business and technical stakeholders to outline requirements and specifications
- Conceptualization & Development of User Interface models including wireframes, page mockups, HTML prototypes and other customized visual documentation
- Design, Implementation & Analysis of Usability Testing exercises using mockups and workflows
- Card Sort studies for Information Architecture
- E-Commerce partner site template design & development with HTML / CSS / Javascript;
- Research & Analysis of current benchmarks and best practices for specialized enterprise platform (Talent Management Systems),
- Development of mental models to assist stakeholder brainstorming
Scotts Miracle-Gro Company: User Interface Designer / Developer 02/08 – 09/08
Redesign of Corporate Intranet in SAP Netweaver Portal 7.0
- Business Analysis & Development of Functional Requirements;
- Collaboration with business and technical stakeholders to outline scope and specifications for redesign project;
- Design, Implementation & Analysis of Card Sort studies for Information Architecture;
- Conceptualization & Development of wireframes, page mockups, Intranet Branding / Look & Feel;
- Prototype site model development in HTML / CSS / Javascript;
- Modification of desktops in SAP Portal Theme Editor, customization of page layouts and iviews
- Development & Implementation of page templates in Web Page Composer for Portal 7.0
- Basic understanding of SAP Portals iViews, pages, worksets and roles
myTriggers.com: User Interface Designer / Developer 11/06 – 02/08
UI development including Website design, user interaction and information architecture:
- Conceptualization, development, implementation and testing & maintenance of page templates
- Wireframe & HTML / CSS prototyping, javascript, CSS & php presentation layer code
- Research, benchmarking and brand development for family of Comparison Shopping websites
- Flash banner ad development
- Development and maintenance of Google adsense campaigns
Nationwide Insurance: UI Designer 06/06 – 10 /06
Design & Implementation of User Interfaces for Custom Rapid Solutions, in-house IT projects based on Lotus Notes platform and implemented with Domino Developer:
- Collaboration with development team to analyze requirements, lay out application screens and define user experience
- Implementation of Look & Feel and other graphics support
- Coding presentation layers for solution deliverables
Freelance & Contract: UI Designer & Multimedia Consultant 11/03 – 11/06
Consultation, design and production for website, e-mail template and web-based application development:
- Information architecture and usability design
- Sector research and Project coordination
- User Interface design, graphic design and production using HTML/Javascript and ASP coding
- Website maintenance & content management
- Development of Macromedia Flash interfaces, animations and ActionScripts
Selected Clients:
State of Ohio - Office of Information Technology; Ohio School Facilities Commission; Nationwide Financial Services; Florida Credit Union League; International Trademark Association; Montana Retail Association; ConnectSys Inc; Ohio State Medical Association; Erdey Eye Group; Sophisticated Systems, Inc.; Comm Partners, Inc., Your Daruma Marketing Inc; Allen, Williams & Hughes Co., iNetExtremes.com
Allen, Williams & Hughes Co.: User Interface & Graphics Consultant - 12/99 - 10/03
Development Team member for information architecture, template design, UI production and development for commercial websites and proprietary web-based applications:
- Client consultation
- Analysis of requirements and usability assessment
- User Interface design and development, graphic design and presentation layer implementation
- Flash, HTML, CSS, Javascript and ASP coding
- Sites and templates built in the Macromedia DreamWeaver environment
- Project implementation through Microsoft Visual Interdev and .NET
- RUP process on selected projects
Selected Clients:
Ohio Department of Commerce (Division of Financial Institutions); School Employee Retirement System of Ohio; Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services; Ashland Chemical Co; The Columbus Foundation; Infinity Broadcasting; Workforce Development of Ohio; Adena Health Systems Inc.; The Columbus Zoo; Columbus Plastic Surgeons; Thomas W. Ruff & Co., geoDocs (internal product)
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND: Medical Multimedia
The Web People: Internet Developer - 4/99 - 12/99
Design and production of websites for medical clientele and proprietary medical portal site:
- Research, requirements development, design, production, content development, usability and interface design
- Graphic design
- Medical illustration
- HTML/DHTML/Javascript coding
- ASP programming supervision, project management & supervision of development teams
- Usage analysis and search engine optimization
- Marketing and promotion
Selected projects:
The Network Project - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Project MED - The Nisonger Center at The Ohio State University; Roxane Laboratories (public website and product websites); Medical Spectrum (proprietary public information portal).
Independent Internet Developer / Multimedia Producer 1/98 - 4/99
Selected Projects:
Molecular Events in Progression/Prevention of Oral Cancer
NIH Program Project Grant
Gary D. Stoner, PhD, Principal Investigator
Presentation to NIH review committee, Bethesda MD, January 1998
The Ohio State University School of Public Health
John R. Wilkins, MPh, Principal Investigator 4/98 - 2/99
Website (Development platforms: SGI Irix and Unix server)
A Novel Assay For Mutation Detection
The Ohio State University Research Foundation, Technology Transfer
Christopher M. Weghorst, PhD, Principal Investigator
Multimedia CD-ROM
Instructional Aid Associate, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Department of Surgery - 4/97 - 12/97
Development and production of multimedia training materials for surgical education:
- Conceptualization, organization, scripting, technical writing, illustration, graphic design, usability assessment and interface design, multimedia authoring, production and project management of computer-based, multimedia training materials for surgeons.
- Supervision of intraoperative videography during surgical procedures; post production direction and editing of surgical video and animation; selection and digital conversion of video clips for use as multimedia content.
- Regular consultation with surgical and basic science faculty to maintain and expand knowledge of surgical anatomy and technique, histology and cellular mechanisms, laboratory techniques and molecular biology in order to provide the most sophisticated and up-to-date conceptualization in diagrams and drawings.
Publication Specialist: The Ohio State University Medical Center, Department of Surgery - 1992-1997
Development and production of audiovisual materials including:
- Video, slide presentations, computer-based models and presentations, posters, etc.
- Development and artistic rendering of visual models including but not limited to: Diagrams of surgical techniques and procedures; Medical illustrations of anatomic, cellular and molecular processes; Graphic representations of clinical, scientific, and research data; Diagrammatic representations of experimental design
- Video documentation of surgical procedures, laboratory protocols, and microscopy of pathologic specimens; Digitization and editing of video content for presentation media
- Outlining and organization of scientific and clinical information
- Production design and graphic design to integrate all media content into final presentation
- Coordinating production with service bureaus and production houses
Assisted in development and production of applications for extramural support:
- Assisting faculty with basic outlining and organization of scientific and clinical information
- Proofreading, copy editing, and digital formatting of manuscripts
- Development and artistic rendering of visual models as described above to complement text of applications
- Preparation of final manuscripts using desktop publishing: Page design and layout; incorporation of text, illustrations, scanned images, legends, indices and references into integrated document
Technical Illustrator, Neoprobe Corporation - 1994-1997
In-house illustrator and graphic designer for biotechnology company:
- Design and production of 35 mm slide presentations, for a variety of purposes and audiences
- Design and production of detailed 3-D models of surgical instrumentation and anatomy; Design and production of animations from completed models, for training surgeons and instrument operators in instrument function and novel surgical techniques
- Training of company staff in the use of CorelDRAW to create slides, diagrams, and simple illustrations
PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS
Co-Author:
- Radioimmunoguided Surgery Case Reports.
Martin, EW Jr, Boso, MB, Bertsch DJ.
Seminars in Colon & Rectal Surgery 6:4; 234-243,1995.
- Surgical Applications of Gamma-Detecting Probes.
Burak, WE Jr., Boso, MB, Thurston, MO, Martin EW Jr.
Surgical Technology International V, 1996.
Illustrator:
- Vitamin E is Nature's Antioxidant
Lester Packer, Ph.D. Scientific American Science and Medicine.
October 1993 (premiere issue)
Seven full-color illustrations.
- Bone Marrow Transplantation
Burt, RK, et al. Chapman & Hall 1996.
Book cover.
- Acute Allograft Rejection
Orosz, CG. RG Landes Co., Austin. 1996
Multimedia CD-ROM.
Featured Artist:
- The CorelDRAW Wow! Book
Sharon Steuer, Shane Hunt. Peachpit Press 1999
- CorelDRAW 8 F/X
Shane Hunt. Ventana Press, 1998
- Looking Good with CorelDRAW!
Sheldon Nemoy, CJ Aiken. Ventana Press, 1993
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
- Surgical Precision: Medical Illustration and CorelDRAW
October, 1995. The International CorelDRAW Users' Conference, Dallas TX
" The most popular seminar of the conference..."
Rick Altman, Conference Host, in Corel magazine, December 1995
- Getting More from CorelDRAW
Full-Day Workshop, invited instructor.
July, 1996. Annual Conference, Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI), Cincinnati, OH
- Managing Libraries of Visual Elements
The Return of The Body Electric
September, 1996. The International CorelDRAW Users' Conference, Baltimore, MD
Professional references available on request