Resumé
T. Jay Fowler
Berkeley, CA 94702
tjay@lowbrow.com
Objective:
Obtain a task-focused, detail oriented creative position in a growing internet-based company in the San Francisco Bay Area utilizing my background in process development, management, and Web development in a team or project management position.
Employment History:
Peralta Partners; June 1999 to Present;
http://www.peraltapartners.com
Title: Co-Founder
Duties:
Started consulting firm to address needs of small businesses and non-profits. Built prototypes, web sites, presentations. Provided services in families of information architecture, technology development, visual design, content development, strategy and systems integration.
ND143.com; February 2001 to July 2001;
http://www.nd143.com
Title: Technology Touchpoint Lead
Duties:
Developed iterative campaigns for clients addressing improved usability, customer retention, and incremental design improvements. Consulted on clients internal business processes, reviewed and proposed new processes focused on outbound and inward facing web properties. Created flexible information architectures, style guides and protocols for growth and maintenance of web sites.
Set up and maintained technical architecture, both internally and for external clients. Developed and concepted internal process, creating process diagrams, testing iteratively and refining with client feedback.
Trained and evangelized staff on Accessibility and Usability requirements for client and internal projects. Developed production environments.
Managed production angle of projects from concept to launch.
Enlighten; April 2000 to January 2001
http://www.enlighten.com
Title: Director of Production
Duties:
Infrastructure focus: Located, interviewed and hired cross-functional
web development team without use of recruiting services. Built
office infrastructure, policies and procedures. Consulted
extensively with multiple offices, coordinated overhaul of
development process, established goals for business development,
company direction, new market development, management structure and
marketing initiatives. Designed and implemented human
resources/employee development program; designed 360 degree review
process, training program and employee career development plan.
Project focus: New business development: budgeted, scoped and staffed projects. Brought projects in on time and under budget. Executive Producer of all projects; managed cross-functional team (information architecture, design, technical, project management, usability, etc.) through planning, design and implementation phases of projects. Managed remote resources and sub-contractors.
Emode; March 2000
http://www.emode.com
Title: Consultant
Duties:
Developed accelerated hiring plan for web marketing start-up company;
wrote job descriptions, located and hired candidates best suited to
dynamic start-up environment. Created policies and reporting
structures. Authored orientation packets, performance review
documents, and staff handbook designed to foster stable work
environment and practices as well as growth and flexibility.
Studio Verso/Metrius/KPMG; January 1998 to April 2000
http://www.metrius.com
Title: Technical Director
Duties:
Infrastructure focus: Performance and project management of
nine-person technical team with duties ranging from systems/network
administration, desktop support, technical lead, R & D, production,
quality assurance and engineering. Design, build, and deploy high-end
network and file, web and mail servers. Work with engineering staff
to implement company-wide standards and shared applications with
regard to email, file servers, work-flow, revision control, etc.
Recruit, interview and hire candidates for technical staff. Concept,
build and implement production, QA and related communications
processes, deployed on projects with $1 million plus budgets. Helped
transition company from small, twelve-person startup through
acquisition by KPMG.
Served as Senior Staff Manager for 2 1/4 years.
Project focus: Worked with wide variety of B to B and B to C projects for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to 1st Round Angel-Funded start-ups. Formulated responses to RFPs, created budgets and time lines. Psychologized inarticulate clients, improvised and extrapolated necessary technical and other important project information. Wrote strategic documents about the project, including analysis of quantitative and qualitative data. Deliverables included: technical brief, technology assessment, site architecture/site map, working functional prototype, technical brief, user flows, production/design style guide, and functional scope matrix. Assisted in presentations and in discussing recommendations with clients. Coordinated production, quality assurance and engineering staff as shared resources during implementation phase. Participated in design, content and technology reviews. Hand-built client web sites. Created custom DTD's; deliver valid, well-formed HTML templates. Integrate HTML templates within Vignette.
Worked as Technical Lead on multiple projects: Humana, Office Depot, Talking on Air, E.piphany, Family Education Network, NetAid, HomeArts, Vantive, Relevance, Marimba, SRI International, Rentvillas.com, HummerWinblad.
Wired Digital; May 1997 to January 1998
http://www.hotwired.com
http://home.wired.com
Title: Project Manager
Duties:
Managed entire property of HotWired. Worked with editorial, design,
and engineering staffs to implement major redesigns, creation of new
content, and changes to live servers.
Served as core member of Operations staff. Evaluated existing work staff, assigned duties, and initiated hiring process for new positions. Provided performance reviews and career development assistance to staff.
Worked directly with production staff to create efficiencies, tools and process to ensure accurate content. Created, implemented, documented, and enforced site wide standard metrics and QA process. Evaluated existing work staff, assigned duties, and acted as performance manager in standard HR matters. Acted as liaison between Marketing and Advertising departments in implementation of special projects, testing of new advertising models, and promotions.
Suck.com; June 1996 to January 1998
http://www.suck.com
Title: Production Manager/Associate Producer
Duties:
Managed daily production of content for Suck.com and netmoguls.com.
Coordinated editorial and design staff and managed engineering
contributions for special projects, keeping content on schedule and
to deadline. Ultimately responsible for the integrity of the daily
site, with on-call status 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Created
information architecture plan for redesign of site, analyzed ad
promotions and developed ad delivery model.
Produced HTML for the daily edition of Suck using existing templates and scripts for preparation of content. Worked with software engineer(s) to automate processes. Provided daily QA, and usability analysis when appropriate.
As liaison between advertising, engineering, and database staff at HotWired, maintained existing programming; scheduled advertising production, and preparation and analysis of traffic reports and other materials for executive producer. Produced and analyzed advertising reports, including the tracking of user click-through and segmented impressions.
Wired Digital; May 1996 to January 1997
http://www.newbot.com
Title: Site List Administrator, NewBot Project
Duties:
Adjusted crawl parameters for a current events search engine. Created
pattern matches and search parameters unique to 150+ daily content
sites. Inspection of potential sites for inclusion in the database.
University of Minnesota Digital Media Center; March 1995 to June 1996
http://www.umn.edu/dmc
Title: Multimedia Learning Assistant
Duties:
Train faculty in software and hardware with the goal of producing
distance learning multimedia modules. Web site design, authoring and
usability testing. Team projects. Light server maintenance and
administration. Hardware and software research and support. Trouble
shooting.
University of Minnesota Printing Services; June 1995 to June 1996
Title: Site Designer
Duties:
Design, research and maintenance of customer-oriented web site.
Worked with software engineers to implement various interactive
aspects on the site.
Education:
University of Minnesota: B.F.A., June 1996; GPA 3.64 (4.0)
Major: Fine Arts; Emphasis: painting, drawing
University of Minnesota: B.A., November 1994; GPA 3.52 (4.0)
Major: Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature; Emphasis: The
Avant-Garde Minor: Fine Arts
Experience:
Fifth Annual Apple Design Project 1996
http://design96.research.apple.com/design96/adp.html
Participant and finalist in interdisciplinary design competition
Cool Site in a Day 1999, West Coast Team
Participant non-profit focused contest
Seybold 1999, Speaker
The Design Process - "Collaborative Workspaces."
URL's:
http://www.ingrammicro.comhttp://www.epiphany.com
http://www.ithena.com/
http://www.netaid.org/
http://www.sri.org/
http://www.homearts.com/
http://www.homearts.com/eats/
http://www.vantive.com/
http://www.officedepot.com/
http://www.talkingonair.com/
http://www.rentvillas.com/
http://humana.softshoe.com/employment_ops/
http://www.venturetechnetwork.com/
References:
Available upon request.
