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Current
Resume
A comprehensive look
at my professional history and work-related experience.
Product
Management/Creative Direction
Coping
with Chemo
Coping
with Chemo is a series of animated vignettes available online
to help teenagers cope with all the issues associated with chemotherapy.
Additionally, there is a Q&A written by teens and access to
an online community for kids with chronic illnesses.
Roles:
Creative Director, User Experience, QA Manager
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Kids
Connecting with Kids
Kids
Connecting with Kids is a series of testimonials from the users
of STARBRIGHT World, an online community developed specifically
for kids and teens living with serious and chronic illnesses.
Roles:
Product Manager, Art Director, Content Producer
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STARBRIGHT
World (software-based, no link available)
STARBRIGHT
World is an online community developed specifically for kids and
teens living with serious and chronic illnesses. Peer to peer
interaction allows users to better understand, manage and cope
with their conditions and make some friends along the way.
Roles:
Online Community Director, Product Manager, Content Producer
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UC
& Crohn's (in production, no link available)
UC
& Crohn's is a web resource for teens living with intestinal
and bowel disorders. It containes a series of videos with real
teens talking about their experiences with the illnesses and other
resources about the disorder.
Roles:
Creative Director, Content Producer and Editor, QA Manager
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SBW
E-Zine Scene (software-based, no link available)
The
SBW E-Zine Scene is an online zine for teens available through
STARBRIGHT World. Published monthly (with full archives available),
the publication features horoscopes, bios, news, interviews, entertainment
reviews and more.
Roles:
Chief Editor, Art Director, Content Producer
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User
Not Found
User
Not Found was a personal research project I started to explore a
new phenomenon in online commuity - user death. I researched the
ways that people discovered the deaths of their online friends and
began to uncover new forms of grieving therein.
Roles:
Founder, Researcher, Writer, Speaker
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National
Organization for Women E-Cards
The
National Organization for Women wanted a way to send e-cards that
were politically aligned with their mission. Internally produced
e-cards for a variety of holidays and events was a perfect solution
to their needs.
Roles:
Product Manager, Graphic Designer, Copyeditor
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Web Content
Adobe Digital Kids Club
Taking
Artistic Photographs - photographs
and tips teaching kids how to make ordinary snapshots into extraordinarily
artistic shots.
Sharing
Photos with Friends & Family - photographs and tutorial guide
to using Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 for sharing photographs with friends
and family.
User
Not Found
Based on my online community work
with chronically ill kids, I began this project to take a look how people
deal with the deaths of their online friends. I wrote all the content,
edited reader comments and designed the pages.
IMED Link, Inc. (company
no longer exists)
I wrote press releases, corporate site copy and product descriptions from
July 2001 - April 2002, including most of the copy you see on the current
Web site. Click
here for samples.
National
Organization for Women
I wrote feature stories and online community content from September 2000
- July 2001. In August 2001, the organization decided to disband the online
community elements of the site, therefore clips are not currently available.
I also wrote copy for and designed several of the e-postcards
still featured on their current Web site.
Speaking
Engagements and Media/Press Coverage
Interview
for the Tech Report
User
Not Found Panel Discussion
Movable
Type Spotlight Site
Web
Deaths (USA Today)
Metafilter
Discussion
Power
Up the PDA (Austin Chronicle)
Snippets from SXSW Interactive 2003 (Austin Chronicle) (link is currently
missing from site)
Geeks
of Iron (Austin Chronicle)
Sunday:
Of Muffins, Webmasters and Beer (Austin Chronicle)
Print Design
National
Public Radio
I designed this flyer for a local NPR
affiliate's special guest lecture.
Journalism
Department, University of Iowa
I designed this flyer and magazine ad
for inclusion in an academic journalism journal.
Altman
Visit Poster & Corresponding
Ad
I designed the poster and magazine/newspaper ad for Dr. Altman's guest
lecture.
Cartooning
Symposium
I designed the poster for the University of Iowa's Cartoon Symposium.
Holiday
Card
I designed this holiday card for the University of Iowa's Journalism
Department.
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