Current Projects

The Information Architecture Institute is a not-for-profit, professional organization serving the IA and usability fields. I am the Operations Director at IAI and oversee the management of programs and initiatives, including website administration, IA library and tools, job board, members discussion lists, mentoring and metrics. We recently launched a Spanish website at http://iainstitute.org/es/ and are developing Italian, Hungarian, Japanese and Bulgarian sites.

Alaric Compliance Services is a compliance consultant offering Chief Compliance Officer outsourcing and compliance program development, oversight and monitoring, specializing in derivatives and broker-dealer services. I am redesigning their website.

While I typically work with smaller companies, Cushman & Wakefield hired me for a short term contract to complete work abandonned by a previous contractor, making me a design fixer of sorts. I created and implemented a design solution for a Sharepoint intranet portal, at the same time learning how to work around some of Sharepoint's weaknesses.

I am preparing a number of charts and graphs for James R. MacCrate's "Distressed Real Estate Markets" seminar for the Long Island chapter of the Appraisal Institute. The presentation features analysis of Long Island and greater New York Metro area demographic and economic trends.

Brett Whysel Photography produces award-winning Fine Art Photography for home and office. I helped Brett take Smugmug's basic layout and coached him in designing a site that highlights the beauty of his work through artful HTML and CSS coding.

Recent Projects

I have begun serving as editor for James R. MacCrate's weblog, Straight from MacCrate. Jim was my senior manager at Price Waterhouse and the articles allow me to flex some of my old real estate muscles as well as dig into the financial blogosphere.

The Municipal Art Society's Community Interactive Technology Initiative (MYCITI.ORG), is an interactive map of community service sites in New York City. I served as technology liaison to the Planning Center and organizations served by the site, where I created user surveys, interviewed target user groups and made recommendations on user interface and program functionality. I also facilitated community training sessions.

Behind the Book is a not-for-profit organization, dedicated to developing a life-long love of reading and writing in young people by bringing authors & illustrators into disadvantaged NYC schools. I developed an updated site architecture that highlights the school visits and allows teachers to find information relevant to their students.

The Avian Tree of Life website was created as a prototype as part of the public outreach and education component of the National Science Foundation's Assembling the Tree of Life initiative. The website allows users to navigate through a cladogram of bird species, examine alternate phylogenies and read the latest research in avian taxonomy.

The Vietnam 2000 Expedition website for the American Museum of Natural History's Ornithology department, includes a slide show featuring bird species collected on the expedition. A second slide show with images of the expedition team, natural terrain and the populated areas is forthcoming, pending recovery work on the current site database.

Ongoing pro bono Projects

I designed the West 104th Street Comunity Garden website and private community blog for members of the garden. I am also administrating additional content features and programs, such as a Flickr site, google calendar and webmail.

Bloomingdale Neighborhood Block Associations

I am acting caretaker for the 104th Street Block Association website, which also serves the West 102nd/103rd Street Block Association and Friends of Straus Park.

About Me

I specialize in developing Web-based Education and Outreach Programs, Website Design Strategy and Information Architecture for not-for-profit, education and small business organizations. I follow the latest HTML and CSS coding standards, ensuring effective information architecture for optimal site findability and user accessibility. In addition, I provide quality website strategy, business analysis, user surveys, graphic design, and HTML/Dreamweaver coding.

I am active in the information architecture community through the Information Architecture Institute, where I serve as Operations Manager, and have access to the latest tools, research and IA professionals.