Professional Experience
Multidisciplinary Product Management Leader | Writer | Editor | Researcher (specializing in OSINT) | Creative Director | Motion Graphics Designer | Sound Designer | Multimedia producer
In addition to extensive experience with multiple forms of business writing, I have experience writing features for trade magazines; and an extensive background creating agitprop; manifestos; pedantic poetry; situational & experiential happenings.
Currently, founder and principal consultant at Swensonia Consulting in New York.
Swensonia helps companies build and strengthen new product development and product management practices with a core focus on the integration of OSINT (open source intelligence) data gathering and competitive intelligence to monitor and inform business decisions, strategy and tactics. Our market includes a range of information service providers, startups, investigative journalists, inventors and NGOs supporting dissidents. Services include bespoke research & analysis, fractional product leaders
Expertise
Producer (new media)
30 Years
Web Designer
25 Years
Researcher
30 Years
Specialty
Arts & Humanities
30 Years
Entrepreneurship
30 Years
Technology
30 Years
Industries
Online/new media
30 Years
Publishing (non-book) - all
8 Years
Academia - all
2 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
30 Years
Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Hearst New Media (10+)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Elsevier (10+)
Other Work History
• Media theory/media ecology
• Public speaking
• Data-driven agile product management
• Remote management of diverse international and offshore teams
• Development and commercialization of digital product platforms
• Competitive intelligence and OSINT analysis
• Non-profit leadership
• Product turn-arounds
• Talent management
• Product marketing
• Business partnerships / M&A
• Data analytics and visualization
Technical Skills
Python (novice); Javascript (novice); HTML 5; CSS; Linux (misc flavors), literate reading XML; JSON etc.
Foreign Language Skills
Spanish (novice)
Unions
Freelancers Union :-)
Computer Skills
OSs: Mac; Windows and misc. Linux; Adobe Photoshop; AfterEffects; Excel intermediate; MS Office (full suite); Udacity; Logic; DevonThink Pro; multiple development environments;
Equipment
Overt and covert recording equipment; RF sniffers; various digital video and still equipment; Macintosh and Windows hardware
References
Upon request
Awards
• American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE), Best Multidisciplinary Platform in e-Publishing for SciVerse Hub, 2012
• Pace University, Citation for Excellence in Teaching, 1999
• I.D. Magazine, Interactive Media Review – Silver Award for BLAM! 3 design, 1998
• Videonale 8, Berlin Videofest, Berlin, Germany – 1st prize in CD-ROM category for BLAM! 3, 1998
Associations
• American Library Association (ALA)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Force11.org
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Product Development and Management Association (PDMA)
• Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP)
