Seeking opportunities to create compelling online user experiences as a Interaction Designer/Producer/Information Architect in the New York City – Metro area, contract or permanent.
SUMMARY
I am a creative problem-solver with over 11 years of Internet production and Information Management experience. Comfortable working with teams from all parts of an organization, from SysAdmins to Designers, I also have excellent research and communication skills and can be counted on to finish projects accurately and ahead of schedule.
Performed as technical manager for XML Repository program update, coordinating between programmer and newspaper editorial staff.
Assisted manager with planning and conducting Proof of Concept testing of Java-based CMS (Escenic Webspeed), a potential content management system for the company, and created test templates in JSP format.
Maintained XML repository of news stories, wrote scripts converting documents in diverse formats into XML.
Wrote XSLT to convert feeds to RSS format to send to search indexing company (Planet Discover).
Records Coordinator.American Red Cross September 11 Recovery Program May 2002 – July 2004
As a critical member of the steering committee for program’s SQL Server/ASP client-tracking application I reviewed requirements, designed user feedback survey for data entry group and documented workflows.
Managed staff of six full-time employees overseeing records for 60,000+ clients
Selected outside vendors for file digitization project as a member of an inter-departmental task force
Conducted workflow analysis of department procedures
Created survey and indexing scheme for documents in client case files, which was used as a reference for file digitization project.
Volunteer and Data Quality Manager. American Red Cross of Greater New York September 2001 – May 2002
Began as volunteer entering information into missing-persons database and later hired to update new client-tracking database for 9-11 disaster.
Trained workers and wrote User Guide for data quality project that audited paper files and financial records for over 2000 clients against database records
Independent Contractor. NYC November 2000-present
Designed and coded site for Pyburn Films to demo stills to clients
Edited copy for andante, a classical music label and web site
Created information architecture for brokerage site
User Interface Designer. G.Triad/Computer Horizons Corp., NYC May 2000-November 2000
Performed information and task analysis and wrote corresponding Functional Design document
Designed site navigation and page layouts
Coded HTML templates
Coordinated and uploaded client content, HTML code and graphics
Assisted developers with integration of templates into Cold Fusion code
2008-2009 – School of Visual Arts Continuing Ed. Took Basic Graphic Design, Photography and Graphic Design, and Designing with Type
July 2009 – Presenting Data and Information: one-day course with Edward Tufte
November 2004 – Contextual Design Workshop given by Shelley Wood of InContext
July 2004 – Attended The Elements of User Experience workshop given by Adaptive Path’s Jesse James Garrett
April – May 2003 – Supervisory Development Institute: Six-week course sponsored by Bryan & Associates, Inc.
April 2000 – Short course on Web Sites that Work, taken at SIGCHI Conference 2000, Netherlands
ABD MM, Music Technology, New York University, NYC.
Relevant courses include: Interaction Design, Psychology of Music, User Interface, Audio for Video II and Beginning Java
MA Composition and Theory University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. December 1990. B.Mus. Composition and Theory, Violin Principle, Belmont University, Nashville, TN. May 1988
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Deborah A. Barber
Long Island City, NY
OBJECTIVE
Seeking opportunities to create compelling online user experiences as a Interaction Designer/Producer/Information Architect in the New York City – Metro area, contract or permanent.
SUMMARY
I am a creative problem-solver with over 11 years of Internet production and Information Management experience. Comfortable working with teams from all parts of an organization, from SysAdmins to Designers, I also have excellent research and communication skills and can be counted on to finish projects accurately and ahead of schedule.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Web Developer.(volunteer) Taproot Foundation July 2009-present
Web Developer. Advance Internet, Inc. November 2004 – February 2009
Records Coordinator. American Red Cross September 11 Recovery Program May 2002 – July 2004
Volunteer and Data Quality Manager.
American Red Cross of Greater New York September 2001 – May 2002
Began as volunteer entering information into missing-persons database and later hired to update new client-tracking database for 9-11 disaster.
Independent Contractor. NYC November 2000-present
User Interface Designer. G.Triad/Computer Horizons Corp., NYC May 2000-November 2000
Web Developer. Grey Interactive, NYC August
1999-May 2000
Clients included M&M Mars, Liz Claiborne, CoverGirl and Procter & Gamble
Editorial and Production Assistant.
Jazz Central Station Genre Site, Music Boulevard Network/N2K, NYC Sept. 1997-March 1999
SKILLS
Languages: HTML, CSS, Javascript, XSL/XML, JSP, SQL, some Java and Perl
Platforms: Unix/Linux, Windows XP, Macintosh
Tools: VMWare, Subversion, Emacs, Adobe Photoshop, Visio, OmniGraffle, MS Office Suite, WordPress, Escenic Webspeed
Site Design & Production: Coding webpage templates, Task Analysis, Information Architecture, Documentation, Digital Audio Production, Copy Editing/Proofreading, Photo Editing
ORGANIZATIONS
ACM/SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction) since 1998. Attended annual conferences in 1999 and 2000.
IAI (Information Architecture Institute)
EDUCATION
2008-2009 – School of Visual Arts Continuing Ed. Took Basic Graphic Design, Photography and Graphic Design, and Designing with Type
July 2009 – Presenting Data and Information: one-day course with Edward Tufte
November 2004 – Contextual Design Workshop given by Shelley Wood of InContext
July 2004 – Attended The Elements of User Experience workshop given by Adaptive Path’s Jesse James Garrett
April – May 2003 – Supervisory Development Institute: Six-week course sponsored by Bryan & Associates, Inc.
April 2000 – Short course on Web Sites that Work, taken at SIGCHI Conference 2000, Netherlands
ABD MM, Music Technology, New York University, NYC.
Relevant courses include: Interaction Design, Psychology of Music, User Interface, Audio for Video II and Beginning Java
MA Composition and Theory University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. December 1990.
B.Mus. Composition and Theory, Violin Principle, Belmont University, Nashville, TN. May 1988