Profile
Summary
- User experience design, planning and team leadership skills: concepting, sketching, wireframing, storyboarding, prototyping, usability testing and research analysis.
- Proven interactive media design, production and marketing skills honed since the birth of the Web in 1993.
- Published research on social media, user-generated content, and the citizen media movement.
- Longtime blog designer, author, and community manager. Serendipit-e.com and nutball.com domains include about 30 individual and group sites (12 are literary and personal publishing projects).
- Advanced writing, speaking and team-building skills: published in short and long form media genres, technical writing, journalism, PR, and blogs, as well as literary and scholarly journals.
Specialties:
- Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic in rhetoric, technical communication, interaction design, and HCI.
- New Media creator, researcher, social critic, and futurist studying social media, semantic technologies, cybercultures, and online communities.
- Award-winning teacher, trainer and public speaker applying innovative tools and approaches to computer-assisted learning since 1990.
- Published and award-winning photographer, poet, fiction & literary non-fiction writer, and journalist.
