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Kristopher Bell
Seattle, WA
currently: Happily employed
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What path did you take to your current career?
With an undergrad degree in history, my options were slim coming out of college. Fortunately, I landed a job as an editor for an engineering organization, and began a career in technical communications. My work led to technical training, and then to technology consulting and project management. Along the way I taught myself web design, and got caught up in the wave of blogging, wikis, RSS, and the new "web 2.0" technologies that have so permeated our lives. I decided to go back and get a Master's in Information Management, and have been working for a couple of years now doing information architecture and user centered design for some big big companies in the Pacific Northwest.... 
Posted @ 02:35PM, March 11, 2007
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Work history
User Experience Architect
tags:
user research
• prototypes
• information architechture
• sitemaps
• flows
• user centered design
• interaction design
• wireframes
• user experience
• information design
• visio
• axure
How would you describe your time at Ascentium?
User Experience Architect ina consulting agency with a lot of experience on SharePoint/MOSS-based portals. I've also worked on public-facing marketing sites and workflow-heavy business applications. Typical projects usually include a research component (user interview, contextual inquiries, card sorts), as well as interaction design and "Big IA" (site structure and navigation paradigms). Lots of time as a Microsoft v-dash........
Information Architect
tags:
taxonomy
• information architecture
• metadata
• interaction design
• web 2.0
• content management
• prototyping
How would you describe your time at Microsoft (University of Wa...?
In a vendor position through the University of Washington's Information School. I worked on an internal marketing intranet doing information analysis and architecture in preparation for a relaunch. Spent most of my time mapping content and navigation taxonomies, thinking hard about site metadata, preparing for a massive content migration, and wireframing and documenting interactions for the integration of "web 2.0" social networking modules....
Customer Relations Manager and Consultant
tags:
css
• project management
• html
• design
• newsletters
• rfp
• consulting
• content management
• web development
How would you describe your time at TACS/NPower Oregon?
At NPower's Portland office, I implemented program of technical support services for non-profits in Oregon, providing consulting services to approximately 45 non-profit clients throughout the state; project management included RFP response, scope and contract writing, subcontractor management, and billing. I also administered TACS' website, marked-up and delivered 12-to-15 marketing emails per month, and built two small CMS-driven websites and two weblogs (blogs) as a web development consultant to external clients. Lastly, I developed curriculum for and taught classes on web analytics, blogging, RSS, PC maintenance, website development fundamentals, and ServicePoint Homeless Management Information System....
Content Manager
tags:
contract
• content management
• web
• css
• xhtml
How would you describe your time at Microsoft (Volt contractor)?
At Microsoft's Portland office, I used four content management systems to build and manage registration several hundred web pages for Microsoft Office Live Meeting Services. I also reverse engineered clients' websites to mimic their look and feel on these registration web pages. This was a short contract -- only five months....
Public Access Computer Trainer
tags:
office
• powerpoint
• curriculum
• training
• word
• libraries
• windows
• networking
• web development
• excel
• travel
How would you describe your time at The Bill and Melinda Gates ...?
For the U.S. Library Program I conducted day-long training sessions with public librarians in twenty states on two dozen computer topics, including Windows fundamentals, MS Office, web design, PC maintenance, and Internet searching. For each library, I set up and networked computer labs from 2-to-18 workstations and servers, often interfacing with unknown ISPs, hardware, and software requirements. I also developed and taught staff development classes on digital photo manipulation, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), blogging, and small business web hosting. Travel was 2/3 time, and I visited 38 states....
Editor
tags:
copyedit
• electronic submission
• writing
• editor
• engineer
• acrobat
• scientist
• manuscript
• chicago manual of style
How would you describe your time at SPIE--The International Soc...?
I worked with team of six editors, two editorial assistants, and production staff to generate, copyedit, and proof approximately three hundred proceedings volumes per year; I was primary on fifty volumes. I also managed the publication lifecycle of technical manuscripts from international community of scientists and engineers, and was responsible for setting concurrent, overlapping due dates, drop/dead dates, extensions, and production deadlines....
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