Professional Experience
SENIOR INTERNET DESIGN & BUSINESS STRATEGIST
Accomplished interactive product management and design leader. Consistently set new standards for performance and efficiency through deployment of innovative technical, User Experience (UX) design, and business solutions. Experienced in bridging IT, creative, business, production, and client services. Successful record promoting design, installation and adoption of technologies and programs to create new products and workflow efficiencies, address business challenges, evoke new ideas, and develop new ways to work internally & with customers.
Core competencies include:
* Fifteen years of project management and leadership experience across diverse industries
* Broad understanding of emerging and traditional media outlets
* Eighteen years of knowledge and experience in all facets of digital publishing: eBooks, Web, application-based, CD-ROM and DVD
* User Experience strategy & testing
* Specification and requirements documentation
Expertise
Producer (new media)
19 Years
Other, Specify
15 Years
Web Developer
15 Years
Specialty
Arts & Humanities
19 Years
Business (general)
19 Years
Technology
19 Years
Industries
Academia Teaching
3 Years
Advertising agency
5 Years
Online/new media
15 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
18 Years
Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Richard Kern (3-5), Deka Design (3-5), Diversion Media (1-2), Oxford University Press (1-2)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Allan Chasanoff (3-5), AT&T Labs Research (1-2), Capax Global (1-2), JP Morgan Chase (1-2), L.A. Burman Associates (1-2)
Other Work History
Elsevier, New York, June 2011 - Present
Director Product Management
SciVerse Hub - www.sciverse.com
Swensonia Inc., New York, June 2007 - June 2011
Project Management Consultant | Sole proprietor.
Hearst Interactive Media, New York, January 2002 - May 2007
Director of Program Management.
Swensonia Production Management Consulting, New York, November 1998 - January 2002
Consultant | Sole proprietor.
Hearst New Media Center, New York
Director, Production (1997 - October 1998); Executive Producer (1997); Producer (November 1995 - 1996)
Necro Enema Amalgamated, BLAM! CD-ROM, New York, 1992 - 2000
Co-founder and Creative Director.
Technical Skills
Registered iPhone App developer with projects in-progress; registered Amazon DTP Kindle publisher. registered Nook developer; Arduino enthusiast; Google App Inventor
Foreign Language Skills
Spanish (novice: speaking, writing)
Unions
Freelancers Union
Computer Skills
Operating Systems: Apple OS X Snow Leopard; Windows XP & 7; Linux: Fedora 14 and Ubuntu 10.x
Software: Adobe Director, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Keynote, Apple Pages, Axure RP Pro, Balsamiq Mockups, BBEdit, Calibre (eBooks), DevonAgent, DevonThink, Endnote, Fast Track Professional, FileMaker Pro 9, Final Cut Pro, iPlotz, Logic, Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio Pro Premium 2010, Parallels VM, Microsoft Word, Mindjet MindManager, OmniGraffle Pro, OmniPlanner, OmniTask, Papers, Personal Brain, Protoshare, Quark, Xmind
Programming & Scripting: Apple Xcode and Interface Builder environments; Apple iPhone/iPad SDK 4.2+, Objective C (novice, in training); intermediate Action Script (Flash), HTML, CSS, Lingo (Director); XML
Additional IT Experience: Registered iPhone App developer; registered Amazon DTP Kindle publisher; registered Nook developer
Equipment
iPad 64GB
MacBook Pro 15" 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 (2 for redundancy)
MacBook (Black) 13"
IBM X31 Laptop
Olympus DS-40 Digital Recorder
Large collection of previous generation Macintosh and IBM and IBM-compatible machines for use on testing projects as well as variable media art projects.
Work Permits & Visas
U.S. Citizen
References
Available upon Request
Awards
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
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Graphic Artists Guild (GAG) Information Architecture Institute (IAI) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Interaction Design Association (IxDA) Project Management Institute (PMI) Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP)
