I am starting a job as lead information architect at Paradowski Creative in St. Louis. I am taking this job after my month stint working on Barack Obama’s campaign HQ staff as Site Architect. There, I helped develop and maintain his main website, the social networking site tie-ins, and various other digital properties, including but not limited to voter action widgets, voteforchange.com, and a plethora of micro-sites.
I ran a web development company called visicswire for almost three years. I partnered with Jonathan Greene to start this company. We worked together for several years before starting our company. Check out the list of work wedid.
I am also the technical director for digital web magazine. I deal with fixing old applications, developing new applications, and generally just making sure the site continues to run. I’m currently working on rolling out an upgrade to Digital Web’s content management system.
I attended night classes at the Illinois Institute of Technology working towards my Master of Science degree in Information Architecture. We have a joke about IIT amongst the students: “There’s no T in IIT.” (And it’s true, if there’s any technology around, I haven’t seen it.) We mostly just have crazy architecture. I still owe IIT my master’s thesis.
I received a B.A. in Interactive Multimedia from Columbia College Chicago in December of 2005. While taking classes to achieve this degree, I studied programming, information design, graphic design and management practices (both for businesses and for projects).
I was a founding member of another company, called Black Point Editions along with three other Columbia College students. This company’s business is the production of gallery quality prints for artists.
Black Point Editions specializes in black & white printing through a system that goes by many names, but is commonly called Piezography by users, such as ourselves, of Jon Cone’s excellent ink system. We don’t limit ourselves to black and white, though, we also do some amazing things with color printing techniques. We also have some really really hi-res drum scanners…if you’re into that sorta thing.
I was a staff member at Columbia College Chicago working in the Photography Department for two and a half years. I took care of the department’s computer network and other technology related issues.
My past experience also includes a two and a half year stint as an associate with Apogee Strategies LLC. This job entailed the maintenance of small-business networks, workstations, and servers. The majority of systems and servers I worked on during my tenure at Apogee were Windows-based, with the exception of two Macintosh-based businesses.
My other responsibilities, while at Apogee, included advising clients on uses of technology within their business and industry, creating initial coded versions of websites from designer-produced Photoshop documents, and maintaining Apogee’s internal systems.
I build and ride bikes. My current mount is a Bare Knuckle frame with Pista track handlebars (old-school fat), fixed gear, single front-mounted brake, & Mavic rims. It’s a hot one!
