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• Expertise 

Experience Design & Interface Design
Utilizing user centered design principles, develop user interfaces for applications within consumer and government-deployed products, and web applications. Plan and document application structures, interface controls, and user interactions.

Information Architecture
Organize, design, and present user-center solutions. Create flow charts and schematics for large-scale ecommerce sites, government deployed sites, intranets, online forms, educational products, brochure ware, and radical email.

User Research & Usability Assessment
Plan and conduct usability evaluations of interfaces for web applications, and web sites. Create usability reports and recommendations that improve the user interface.

Netnographic Research (ethnography on the internet)
Plan and conduct netnographic researches that provide insight into user's behavioral patterns online.

Graphic Design/ Art Direction
Develop brand, collateral material, and interactive advertisement. Lead teams in development of international and nationwide campaigns.

Instructional Designer
Develop and arrange media in order to help learners and teachers transfer knowledge effectively.

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Representative Clients

• Allstate
• Ameritrade
• Arthur Andersen
• Dynegy
• Exelon
• Hansol
• Kryptonite
• Panasonic
• Phoenix Closures
• RandMcNally
• Sears
• Schlage
• State of Michigan
• University of Chicago

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History

2001 – Present

Experience Design Consultant, Modulum
Plan, create, and deliver user-centric products from print collateral to the online experience.

• Responsibilities:
  Art Direction	Interaction Design
  Documentation	Print Design
  Client Relations	Web Design
  Information Architecture	Project Management

2003 – 2004

Experience Design Consultant, White Gazelle
Plan, create, and deliver user-centric products for online projects to interactive kiosks.

Responsibilities:
Art Direction	Interaction Design
Documentation	Information Architect

2001 – 2002

Information Architect Instructor, Columbia College
Information Architecture Instruction with strong emphasis on usability.

2000 – 2001

Senior Information Architect, IBM
Plan, create, and deliver user-centric products for ecommerce and government deployed applications and sites. Included interface architectures, icon and screen design, and rapid prototyping for testing using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and art direction of multimedia simulations.

• Responsibilities:
  Art Direction	Interaction Design
  Documentation	Prototype Development
  Client Relations	Usability Assessment
  Information Architecture

2000

Interactive Information Architect/Art Director, Ogilvy and Mather
Develop user experience documentation for both client and for the education of internal team members. Art directed interactive initiatives for web applications, sites, and advertisements.

• Responsibilities:
  Art Direction	Interaction Design
  Documentation	Prototype Development
  Client Relations	Usability Assessment
  Information Architecture

1999-2000

Freelance Interactive Designer, Inforte
Developed user interfaces for internal and external sites.

1999-2000

Web Design Consultant, Artemis Design
Designed and developed web portals specifically the travel industry.

1998-1999

Multimedia Designer, Mindbuilder Interactive
Project manager and multimedia designer for internal web and educational CD's.

• Responsibilities:
  Art Direction	Interaction Design
  Documentation	Information Architect

1998-1999

Multimedia Designer, Teledec
Coordinated design team in production of internal website and client related pieces which encompassed everything from print, web, to self promotional CD's.

• Responsibilities:
  Art Direction	Interaction Design
  Icon Development	Prototype Design
  Information Architecture	User Interface

1997-1998

Freelance Graphic Designer, Nightingale Conant
Designed direct mail pieces, magazine advertisement, and logo design.

1997

Multimedia Division Intern, J. Walter Thompson
Conducted demographic Research for online advertisement.

1997

Freelance Graphic Designer, Exhibit Designer and Producers Association

Logo development.

1996-1997

Marketing, Industrial, and Graphic Design Intern, Beyond Design
Internship that involved marketing internal products, product design, and print collateral.

1994-1995

Korean Interpreter, Korean Fine Arts Magazine
Korean Interpreter for pottery lectures at Field Museum .

1993

Media Intern, Weston Group Advertisement Agency CA
Assisted in managing traffic flow in traditional radio, newspaper, and billboard advertisement.

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Education

2007

MS Technical Communication and Information Design, Illinois Institute of Technology
Master studies with a focus in progressive research methodologies applied.

1996

Academy of International Merchandising and Design
Coursework completed in Director and HTML.

1995

Yonsei University in Seoul Korea
Certification completed in language and international marketing.

1993 – 1997

Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago
Coursework completed in Graphic Design and Industrial Design.

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Book Review:

Intercultural Organizational Communciation: Five Corporate Cases in Japan. IEEE Forthcoming 2008

6 Habits of Highly
Effective Bosses.
Business Communication
Quarterly March 2007

Magazine Article:

"Keeping a Competitive Edge with a Dash of Cultural Sensitivity : Strategies for the Web."
Intercom Forthcoming 2008

Netnography Simplified:
A Guide to Track Consumer’s
Online Behavior.
Intercom April 2007