Projects
GOLES: intranet design for tenant empowerment
Good Old Lower East Side is a non-profit organization serving a Manhattan neighborhood that is threatened by encroaching corporate interest and subsequent landlord harassment. My team developed an intranet using the content management system Drupal to replace an outdated triplicate paper-based forms system with a powerful database. The site aggregates tenant complaints into actionable segmentations with far greater efficiency than their past practices could permit. The site is slated for extension into a tenant-accessible extranet with blogging and commenting features. (NOTE: this site is still under development until 4/30/07, so could look a little strange as we finalize the design)
CensusScope: extending a good idea
Developed a redesign and implementation plan for the improvement of a site dedicated to making census data more visually accessible.
Register.com: information architecture applied
Using persona scenarios and user testing methodolgies, developed a site redesign proposal for the improvement of visitor retention and conversion rates. This project was a team effort, guided and informed by a class dedicated to current information architecture methods.
Tiny Planet: recipe website
Developed an interactive, databased website for the collection and contribution of recipes from the whole foods community. Involved Ruby language in the Rails development environment (Ruby on Rails), as well as php, with a MySQL database. CSS and HTML are also used in the coding of the graphic design.
Community Informatics and Disaster Recovery: lessons from the field
As a research assistant I conducted interviews of community technology organization to gage their role in the recovery and response to the 2005 hurricanes that affected the Gulf South. I had the privilege of representing my team at a conference at Yale, where our findings were well received as an inventive tech-based alternative to politically-based disaster response solutions.
School of Information Recovery Project
Designed, funded and implemented a project that sent graduate students to New Orleans to aid in archive recovery efforts. Included writing four grants, coordinating volunteers, initiating contact with archival institutions, travel and lodging arrangements, and reporting our experience in newsletters and presentations to the archival community to raise awareness of disaster responsiveness in archival practice. Additionally presented our project at UM's ExpoSItion and the annual SAA convention in 2006.
Internet 2: Sarbannes-Oxley implications
Served in a consultant role to evaluate current document management methods employed by Internet 2, the university consortium that uses a dedicated network for research and information sharing. Involved contextual inquiry research methods, data modeling, and the drafting of recommendations for a revised document retention policy to comply with recent legislation on organizational documentation responsibilities.
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