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SUMMARY
Twelve years of professional experience designing and developing elegant user-centered interactive products for high-profile clients in the fields of finance, software development, entertainment and sports.

SKILLS top ^
  Software   Information Architecture   Business  
 
· Visio, InDesign, Axure
· HTML, XML, DHTML, CSS
· Dreamweaver, HomeSite
· Javascript
· UNIX file mgmt. commands, vi editor
· Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel and FrontPage
· Visual SourceSafe
· Photoshop and Illustrator
· RoboHelp
· FrameMaker
· Familiarity with RequisitePro, UML, RUP
 
· User Interface Design
· Use Cases
· Functional Specifications
· User Task Maps
· Content Inventories
· Site Maps
· Page Schematics
· Process Flows
· Wireframes
    - static
- clickable
· Web Form Prototypes
· User Testing Plans
· Online Game Scripts
 
· Business Requirements
· Competitive Analysis
· Training Development & Delivery
· Configuration Management
· Process Development
· Team Leadership
· Meeting Facilitation
· Client Relationship Management
· Mentoring
· Collaborative Problem Solving
· Creating a Business Case for Usability
 
EXPERIENCE top ^
As principal of Usergoals information architecture and user experience design consultancy:
Continuity
New York, NY
2/08 - present
Senior Information Architect
User Interface team lead for Century21 Real Estate’s global redesign.
 
Euro RSCG 4D.
New York, NY
2/06 – 2/08 Senior Information Architect
 
Sole information architect for the New York office of the world’s largest digital and direct advertising agency. In charge of all aspects of information architecture and user interface design. Projects included:  
  · IBM  
    - Architected IBM Business Consulting's million-user "Jam" forum product, incorporating 2.0 information-sharing principles, personalization and maximum usability.  
    - Used innovative concepts such as mind-mapping and faceted browsing to redesign IBM's Technology Adoption Program website, allowing users to showcase, share, host, review and collaborate on self-created software offerings.  
    - Architected IBM's W3 Media Library website, enabling users to organize, consume and exchange audio and video clips.  
    - Created IBM Situational Applications Environment website, an intranet application which helps users create Web 2.0 "mashups".  
  · Volvo  
    - Created information architecture for the "Who Would You Give a Volvo To?" online campaign.  
    - Devised Volvo's “Pirate's of the Caribbean" user process flows including back-end calls.  
    - Created a customizable computer kiosk application for use at auto shows.  
  · Intel  
    - Used matrixed content, dashboards and personalization to design Intel's “Partner Initiatives” web portal, an online interactive structured benefits program. Performed a competitive analysis and wrote the online strategy for this project.  
  · Verizon  
    - Created Verizon Small Business Presentation Builder Tool, enabling users to combine Flash snippets with PowerPoint slides to create their own web-accessible business presentations.  
    - Designed media-rich "Verizon Small Business Stories" minisite.  
  · Charles Schwab  
    - Architected innovative interactive site map for Schwab's "Talk to Chuck" Campaign".  
  · Euro RSCG 4D  
    - Designed Ajax-enabled online project management application for use with Euro’s clients.  
City of NY
New York, NY
12/05 – 1/06 User Interface Designer
Consultant
 
  · Designed searchable online catalog, flash minisite form, and account management pages for the Dept. of Small Business Services Individual Training Account Program.  
VNUeMedia, Inc.
New York, NY
6/05 – 11/05 Information Architect
Consultant
 
  · Sites included Training 2006 Conference and mobile, Backstage.com, At Retal Media, Gourmet Retailer Sizzler (in production), Convenience Store News – Single Store Owner (in production), MiMegasite.  
  · Designed and implemented user-testing strategy: wrote user testing plan, questionnaires, scripts, report templates and reports. Interviewed and tested users and coached other IA’s, resulting in valuable usability insights. Done on a low-budget without a testing lab.  
  · Created unique content mapping technique which visually documents content type percentages on contextual XML-based websites.  
  · Established usability best practices. Created best practices website enabling all IA’s to quickly reference specific usability guidelines.  
  · Authored strategy for short, medium and long-term improvement of Billboard.com.  
  · Created company-wide repeatable portal taxonomy.  
  · Introduced concept of IA patterns such as “overview plus detail” into formerly moribund list-based site architectures.  
  · Revamped sponsor flash minisite section of mobile site using usability principles to gain higher flash minisite rate.  
  · Created intuitive textless navigation system and multiple-column multiple-resolution HTML template set.  
 
Foote Cone & Belding
New York, NY
4/05 – 6/05
Information Architect
Consultant
Details
 
Intrasphere Technologies
New York, NY
10/05 – 3/05
Information Architect
Consultant
Details
 
Globalworks
New York, NY
7/02– 8/04
Information Architect/Programmer
Consultant
Details
 
(Various)
New York, NY
7/01– 7/02
Information Architect
Consultant
Details
 
Staff positions:
Neokom
New York, NY
9/00 - 7/01
Director of Information Architecture
Staff
Details
 
Icon Medialab
New York, NY
1/00 - 9/00
Information Architect
Staff
 
Details
Reuters America, Inc.
New York, NY
6/99 – 1/00
Technical Writer
Staff
Details
 
Andersen Consulting
New York, NY
2/98 - 3/99
Intellectual Property Manager/Database Designer
Staff
Details
 
Dow Jones Markets
New York, NY
4/97 – 2/98
Online Help Developer
Staff
Details
 
Hewlett-Packard Company
Mountain View, CA
2/95 - 1/97
Technical Writer/Webmaster
Staff
Details
 
EDUCATION top ^
  Juris Doctor, 1992  
  The University of Toledo College of Law, Toledo OH.
  Bachelor of Arts, English, 1985  
  The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, with honors.
 
REFERENCES top ^
Bonnie Potter Director, Information Architecture (203) 563-3343  
   

Euro RSCG 4D
372 Danbury Road
Wilton CT 06897

 
Monique Chang IT Project Manager (212) 618-8756  
   

City of New York
Dept. of Small Business Services
110 William St.
New York , NY 10010

 
Eric Gershik Director of Information Architecture (646) 654-5579  
   

VNUemedia
770 Broadway, 6th floor
New York , NY 10003-9595

 
Jeremy Franck Director of Information Architecture (212) 937-8200  
    Intrasphere Technologies, Inc.
100 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10005
 
 
 

Roy Zornow MS Word version

IA / UX Designer

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