Profile
Summary
- Proven interactive media design, production and marketing skills honed since the birth of the Web in 1993.
- Published research in social media, user-generated content, and the grassroots citizen media movement.
- User experience design and planning skills: wireframing, storyboarding, prototyping, usability testing and research analysis.
- Functional/business analysis and technical documentation skills, with hyperlinked wiki documentation.
- Experienced blog designer, author, and community manager. Serendipit-e.com domain includes about 35 individual and group blogs (12 are personal publishing projects).
- Enthusiastic speaking and leadership style that motivates and inspires collaborative groups to exceed project goals and creatively push beyond existing limits.
- Advanced writing and communication 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 Web 2.0 technology, social media, 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.
