My talents and experience include:

• Web design
• User Interface development, prototyping, and refinement
• Technical writing — for both online and print delivery
• Product/project management
• Web and marketing collateral content writing
• Creation and manipulation of graphics for online or print delivery

I frequently characterize myself as a 'Swiss Army Knife' employee. Over the course of my fifteen year career in the software industry, my abilities evolved from straightforward technical writing to embrace desktop publishing, collateral design, and Web site and user interface development. I can do a lot of things, some of them better than others. I especially enjoy brainstorming solutions to design and instructional challenges.

Contact me if I can help you.

Resume

• Word 2003 document
• Plain text

Portfolio

I used a variety of software tools to develop and complete the projects below. I rendered all of the images and wrote all of the text.

Website Design

• National Archive Publishing Company (NAPC)
• XanEdu, a part of NAPC

Prototyping — Static Images

• Brainstormed mockup of XanEdu homepage redesign.
• A second brainstormed mockup of XanEdu homepage redesign.
  (both images above rendered prior to current XanEdu homepage, which I also designed and prototyped)
• Redesign prototype of Student My XanEdu page.
  (shot student portrait images and rendered top banner image)
• Redesign prototype of Faculty My XanEdu page.
  (shot faculty portrait images and rendered top banner image)

Prototyping — Click-through html/static image prototypes

• Prototype of what a CoursePack-builder wizard, with status meter, might look like.
  (click anywhere on screen images to move through mockup pages)
• Brainstorming the replacement of a button-based CoursePack Editor, with a menued interface.
  (click menu items included in screen images to advance)

Prototyping — Changes to products

• Changes to product registration forms, PowerPoint presentation.

Prototyping — Broadcast commercial idea

• Public service announcement idea that could be leveraged for product promotion.
  (click through presentation to advance)

Instruction/Training

• Narrated .avi movie showing how to add a case study to a XanEdu CoursePack. Created with TechSmith's Camtasia Studio and Total Recorder.
  (large file, patience required)
• PowerPoint presentation showing how to build a CoursePack.
  (large file, takes 10 – 15 seconds to load with my cable modem)
• Stand-up ProQuest flip chart reference. I conceived and designed this piece. Handed off to in-house marketing-communications group for final layout and production. Multiple-time local ADDY award winner. Several iterations preceded and followed this version.
  (click page thumbnails to display larger image)
• Features and Tips collateral piece (designed in Quark) to help market XanEdu's MBA ReSearch Engine.
• Quick reference card designed to support XanEdu's academic bookstore customers.

Online help

• XanEdu CoursePacks.
• XanEdu CoursePack Control Center.

Flash movies

• A simple ad I brainstormed for XanEdu CoursePacks.
• Holiday card created to send to XanEdu partners and vendors.
• Brief promo movie for never-marketed XanEdu HistoryPacks.
• Overview tour I did in 2000 for a company called Fullscope.

Animated .gif images

• A running XanEdu logo 'X-man' to display in internal XanEdu active reports application.
• An ad brainstormed to promote XanEdu products.
• Promotion used on Faculty My XanEdu page to promote Wiley's Portable MBA.

Book covers for XanEdu OriginalWorks custom publishing

• Cover 1 | Cover 2 | Cover 3 | Cover 4
  (covers 1 and 2 utilized low-resolution photographic images sent by authors and intentionally distorted in Photoshop to compensate for poor quality)

Old school

• A site that I created in 1998(!) to detail ProQuest Direct SiteBuilder technology for customers.
  (some links reference ProQuest pages that no longer exist)
• Ten-page Quickstart Guide detailing early ProQuest Web release.
• Online help for 1990's era Windows-based ProQuest Searchware.
  (save locally to view — constructed using RoboHelp)