Professional Experience
Research and Teaching
- Current:
- Research Assistant: digital libraries and social media, information retrieval and digital preservation.
- Teaching Assistant: (INFO 405) Computer Supported Collaborative Work
Previous:
- Co-founded and managed a research and development office that created faculty/staff collaborative projects, such as digital libraries and mobile applications.
- Mentored undergraduate student interns in a competitive program that produced multimedia web applications for academic and administative departments.
- Collaborated with faculty and administrators in adapting medical curricula to include web-based materials, including: interactive e-learning applications, digital imaging technology, and virtual lectures.
Information Architect / UX Engineer
- -Led strategic information architecture efforts, including; federated search, guided navigation, and transactional systems for a top three (by volume of traffic) e-commerce network.
- - Designed taxonomic structures, data-tagging, and metadata management tools and requirements for high profile, high traffic web properties
- - Designed multimedia websites and e-learning applications for high-tech, legal, and pharmaceutical clients in a start-up environment.
Web Developer
- - Lead web developer for a liberal arts college, managed search services and led web-development efforts including library web services and a $230M+ capital campaign.
- - Managed a nationally recognized medical e-learning website; hired and supervised development and support staff in a rapidly expanding web development office.
- - Coordinated inter-school efforts with library and technology colleagues at consortium colleges.
Positions:
- - Research Assistant (current)
Drexel University, College of Information Science & Technology
Philadelphia, PA
- - Information Architect
GSI Commerce, King of Prussia PA
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- Web Applications Developer and Designer
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr PA
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- User Experience Engineer
Animation Technologies, Inc., Boston MA
- - Web Developer and Project Lead
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,
Philadelphia PA
Select Presentations
- Education Wants to be Free
Mayor's Commission on Literacy Technology and Adult Education Conference (2009)
- IA for Educators & Students
Mayor's Commission on Literacy Technology and Adult Education Conference (2008)
- Don't Make Me Think, I'm Here to Learn
Philadelphia Area Educational Technology Conference (2007)
Professional Affiliations & Service
- - Curriculum Advisory Committee:
Chester County (PA) Schools - Center for Arts and Technology
- - Professional Mentor: Information Architecture Institute
- - American Library Association
- - ACM SIGCHI - Philadelphia Chapter (PhillyCHI)