Thought leadership, user experience, interaction design, information architecture, software development, interactive public art, graduate professor.

Omnigraffle, Axure, Microsoft Visio, numerous content management systems, Adobe Creative Suite, Arduino & PIC microcontroller programming, Macintosh and Windows platforms.

Razorfish (MSFT) San Francisco, CA
Sr. Information Architect, User Experience Team August 2007 - July 2009
- User Experience Design for an Energy efficiency calculator, winner of David vs. Goliath Gold Effie Award, 42% increase in sales leads.
- Site transformation redesign of largest public university
- Participating in the transformation of a global network communications company's web presence. Used high-fidelity clickable prototype to validate and improve user experience and visual design with prospects and existing customers.
- Participating in the transformation of a global network communications company's web presence.
- Designed home page architecture for a California power utility.

Sapient, Inc. San Francisco, CA & New York, NY
Sr. Associate Creative Design, Information Architecture April 2006 - August 2007
- Participated in the relaunch of a Fortune Global 50 financial company's multilingual web site operating in over 40 countries.
- Developed testing materials for participatory design, concept testing, and usability in Asia, Europe, and the United States.
- Lead User Interface and Information Architecture track for CRM data cleansing application for global investment management firm.

EAR (Electronic Arts Research) Studio, Inc. New York, NY
Freelance associate 2004 – 2006
Studio manager/project manager/interaction designer 2002 – 2004
- As the first full-time employee my efforts allowed the principal of the company to pursue new business and together we managed as many as 12 simultaneous projects. Revenues tripled in two years.
- Project manager for Listening Post art installation.
Exhibited Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, NY
Winner 2004 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica for interactive art
Winner 2003 Webby Award for Net Art
- Responsible for bookkeeping, human resources, and ongoing web site maintenance and development.

New York University New York, NY
Assistant adjunct prof. of communications Fall Semesters 2003 - 2006
- Professor of "Introduction to Physical Computing" in the Tisch School of the Arts' Interactive Telecommunications Program.
- Graduate course covers basic electronics, microcontroller programming, production of physical interfaces (focusing on input, and serial communications), and interaction design.

Guest Speaker on Information Architecture and Physical Computing:
- NYU School of Continuing Education
- Pratt Institute Manhattan
- Integrated Digital Media Institute at Brooklyn Polytechnic University

Selected Physical Interactive Art Exhibitions
Sonic Pong with Pong.Mythos Exhibition
- Games Convention Leipzig, Germany 2006
- Württembergischer Kuntstverein Stuttgart, Germany 2006
Sonic Pong shown in
- New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) at Eyebeam, NY 2007
- Maker Faire San Mateo, CA (Editor's Choice Award 2008)

New York University New York, NY
Interactive Telecommunications MPS 2002
May and Samuel Rudin Scholarship, Barnett Lipton Scholarship
Focus on creating interactive public art. Studies included learning the effects of technology on culture, developing alternative interfaces to the computer, and combining unproven tools for creative expression.

Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
Industrial Design major with computer graphics emphasis BFA 1991
received with university honors.

Conferences & Associations
Bay Area Human-Computer Interaction (BayCHI)
Information Architecture Institute (IAI)
Usability Professionals' Association (UPA)
International Design Conference in Aspen (IDCA, 18 Years)
Arts & Sciences Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)

Additional Studies - Contemporary art, architecture, and industrial design, cinema, kiteboarding, beginning Japanese, figure drawing, welding.