Experience

Hoekema Design+Editorial   Newburgh, NY

UI DESIGNER/INFORMATION ARCHITECT    2001 - present

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•		 Design, edit & maintain web sites for businesses and nonprofits.
Maintain local government website for the City of Newburgh.
Business clients include:Denniston B&B, Downing Film Center, and Shorehaven Estates.
Nonprofit: Habitat for Humanity, Newburgh Preservation Association, DRC Restoration
IA/UI Design consulting for AOL (excerpt - pdf).

Business Edge Solutions (now EMC)  East Brunwick, NJ

INFORMATION ARCHITECT / BUSINESS ANALYST  2007 - 2008

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 Full-time consultant to Fortune 500 clients in the Life Sciences practice
Redesigned intranet site for the U.S. Strategic Sourcing department at a global pharmaceutical client.
Designed user experience for a project improving annual product reviews for a major pharmaceutical company.
Contributed wireframes to a successful proposal for managing remote psychiatric examinations.

Mobius Management Systems (now ASG)   Rye, NY

UI DESIGNER/INFORMATION ARCHITECT    2004 - 2007

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•		 Designed GUI improvements, wireframes and mockups for Windows-based financial applications.
Wrote & edited user manuals & training.
Facilitated paper prototyping & usability tests

Pepsi Bottling Group   Somers, NY

WEB DESIGNER / INFORMATION ARCHITECT    2003 - 2004

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Member of design team for website on employee benefits [sitemap & wireframes].
Designed, wrote & produced intranet site for internal IT training.

Philips Electronics   Briarcliff Manor, NY

LEAD UI DESIGNER / MANAGER  1997 - 2003

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•		 Managed 6-person User Interface & Requirements team.
Developed functional & UI requirements for digital TV products. Docs "set a new standard."
Originated, designed & edited departmental intranet site [sample screen]
Wrote local & division Organization Manual.
Set documentation standards, formats, & workflow; supervised contract technical writers.
Ingetrated with Software Development Life Cycle in CMM Level 2/3 software organization

Philips Media   (Washington, DC and London, UK)

INFORMATION ARCHITECT / LEAD DESIGNER / MANAGER     1989-96
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 Managed contracts for CD-ROMs with European producers & co-publishers.
Wrote UI Style Guides for U.S. and European interactive CD titles.
Designed world's first web browser for television ( CD-Online).
Managed 8-person multimedia design development team.
Designed & produced "Treasures of the Smithsonian" for the Smithsonian Institution.

Hoekema Interactive   Bethesda, MD

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•		 Designed & coded software for interactive videos published by the National Geographic Society.
Other clients: J. Paul Getty Center, Museum of Modern Art, and the National Park Service.