[ Work Experience ]

07.04-Present       Starwood Hotels & Resorts            White Plains, NY

Information Architect
• Act as the lead information architect for major Starwood site redesigns including Westin, St. Regis
• Lead usability and information architecture for the On Demand team, quickly implementing small scale projects in response to brand needs or to test new innovations
• Designed the interaction of a new web application that will be used by all Starwood properties to manage room inventory, rate plans, and promotions

01.03-05.04       Pratt Institute            New York, NY

Graduate Student/Assistant
• Designed and maintained instructional technology tools, including websites and mailing lists
• Prepared and digitized course materials for print and online use
• Researched and collected reference and bibliographic resources

03.01-05.03         Freelance             New York, NY

Web Developer, Information Architect, Project Manager
• lead workshops to gather business and functional requirements, and determine project goals
• design templates using Adobe PhotoShop and hand-code HTML
• create and maintain online content

Clients have included Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Verizon, and the Fashion Institute of Technology.

06.00-02.01          Razorfish             New York, NY

Information Architect
• conduct information gathering exercises with clients and potential users and translate those business and functional requirements into use case scenarios
• advocate user experience and client strategy throughout design process
• create page schematics, work-flow charts, interactive prototypes, specifications, and site maps

01.00-05.00         Iowa State University             Ames, IA

Teaching Assistant
• assist instruction of classes in Multimedia Design and Advertising/Public Relations Strategy
• prepare course materials: including tests, handouts and presentations
• research developing trends in Internet technologies and advertising methods
  

01.98-05.00         Iowa State University             Ames, IA

Web Developer
• design templates using Adobe PhotoShop and hand-code HTML in UNIX environment
• maintain sites using a Perl-based Content Management System
• manage public web space for use by over 500 student organizations
  

[ Education ]

Pratt Institute        New York, NY

M.S., Information and Library Science (expected)

Iowa State University         Ames, IA

B.A., English (Technical Communication) and Advertising (Art Direction)

[ Additional Computer Skills ]

• Languages: HTML, DHTML and Javascript. Some PHP, Perl, C++, and Visual Basic.
• Operating Systems: Win 9x/NT, Mac, UNIX.
• Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, Imageready, Visio, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Office.

[ Professional Associations ]

• American Society for Information Science and Technology
• Usability Professionals' Association