Kasey Asberry
Experience Architecture, Instructional Design & Human Factors Analysis
Technical Project Management
415-390-5807
kasberry@humanorigins.org
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Objective: I seek opportunities to develop organizational intelligence bringing solutions from domains of information design, instructional technologies and geography. Open Standards environment is desirable.
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Skills & Specialties
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- Information & experience architecture for social learning tools and environments
- Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning
- Instructional programming, conceptual and interaction design
- Analysis and synthesis with regard to human factors in complex applications
- Integrations of applications, environments & users
- collaborative narratives
- Customer Relationship Management, personalization & customization
- Documentation system design delivered via intranets & extranets
- Videography
- Fluency in natural, computer and design languages
- Rapid prototyping
- Geographic Information Systems analysis & project design
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Experience
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Active in information and experience design for e-commerce, research, arts and education for 12+ years. This activity includes:
- Technical Director responsible for strategy, timelines, staff, client relationships and budgets.
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Director of Education and Technology program responsible for staff of 5-7 program coordinators,
25+ volunteers;to design & deliver educational/recreational programs for inner city youth & seniors.
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Lead Information Architect responsible for analysis, creation and communication of unified information flow for
addressing professional, technical, enterprise and consumer audiences through diverse corporate web properties &
applications (security services).
- Senior Experience Architect responsible for creation, validation and publishing organization-wide Styles and Interaction
Patterns.
- Senior Experience Architect for web-based application service provider to small businesses network of 200,000 registered users.
- Human-factors Researcher interested in work[history, current practices & innovations] & in urban planning [Public Participation GIS].
- Managing Editor of an international arts, sciences & technology journal published by MITPress.
- Localization engineer for Fortune 1000 accounts.
- Manager of university design & mathematics computation labs.
- Team Leader in collaborative, cross-functional development teams.
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Preferred Tools
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- Cross-platform environments (various flavors of UNIX, Mac, Windows).
- For documentation: Visio, ConceptDraw, LucidChart, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, Excel, MSWord, CVS.
- For research: ARCGIS, Oracle, Crystal Reports, Informatica.
- For prototyping: HTML5, javascript, SQL & XML
- For presentation: Powerpoint, VoiceThread, eLluminate
- For Video & Sound: Audacity, ProTools, CuBase
- As necessary: DreamWeaver, GoLive, MS Project.
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BayCHI, Bay Area Computer-Human-Interaction SIG
CaGIS, Cartography & GIS Association
CPSR, Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility
ISAST, International Society for Arts Sciences & Technology
SIGIA, Information Architecture SIG (ACM)
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M. A. Instructional Technologies & Geography, SFSU
B.A. Information Design, San Francisco State University
Ongoing education in Mathematics, Physics and Linguistics coursework, SFSU
A. A. Sculpture, San Antonio City College
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Detailed Work History
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Demonstration Gardens, Central YMCA - Architect/Manager
2009 - Current
Community-based environmental education.
Activity includes:
- Program design using social learning in physical & virtual environments
- urban permaculture
- Citizen Science
- all ages and abilities accessible
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ThunderPuppets Players - Co-Director
2010 - Current
Mobile shadow theatre helps communities understand and tell their own stories.
Activity includes:
- community-based education design and programming
- art made from recycled/reclaimed materials
- all ages and abilities
- environmental awareness
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Accessible Technology Initiative, SFSU - Researcher
2009 - Current
Accessiblity evaluation & solutions.
Activity includes:
- analysis with respect to State, Federal and international standards for online document accessibility
- accessible cartography and social learning tools
- organizational development
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GIS Institute, SFSU - Researcher
2007 - 2009
GIS analysis and data management.
Activity includes:
- under State of California contract contribute spatially organized Wldlife Corridor research to CA Fish & Game online resources
- data management, analysis, standardization and compilation
- detailed and comprehensive reporting, client communications
- process design in collaborative team
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Academic Technology, SFSU - Quality Assurance
2006 - 2007
Analyisis and evaluation.
Activity includes:
- Design & conduct User experience and systems testing for campus learning management system (Moodle-based)
- detailed and comprehensive reporting
- Distributed, collaborative team environment
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ITRize,Inc - Vice President of User Experience
2005 - 2007
Guide & document user experience development for web applications.
Activity includes:
- strategic development for international managed services
- interaction design & information architecture for Open Source technologies
- documentation system for international distributed development team
- design & deliver usability assessment & engineering
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Hispanic Scholarship Fund- Information Architect
2004-2005
Project director for HSF online Services
This project included:
- mnagement of development of web applications
- user focused design in open source/open standards environment
- legacy systems integration
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Shih Yu-Lang Central YMCA- Director of Education & Technology
2003
Designed, developed and administered educational programming for inner city youth and seniors.
This program provided:
- experiential learning using technologies, expressive arts and community service
- academic support integrated with outdoor education, sports & fitness
- work & college preparedness
- support for lifelong learning
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VeriSign, Inc- Information & Experience Architect
2001 - 2002
Lead experience architect for VeriSign's Worldwide Corporate Marketing Team.
Influenced consistency across web properties and product interfaces by:
- development of Unified Interaction Model & its application in strategic projects
- creation, validation & publishing company-wide Interaction Patterns & Style Guide
- built cross-functional review groups and design teams that included engineers, developers, support personnel & business developers
- worked to smooth workflow by providing centralized, transparent documentation systems
- initiated the application of formal and heuristic usability analysis by providing test
plans,teaching techniques, building lab.
- purchased and designed implementation of XML & java-based content management system
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Eazel Inc- Experience Architect
2001
Lead information designer developed infrastructure and user experience worked to
- integrate Nautilus Linux-based desktop file manager with web interface
- deliver subscription-based commerce and customer support for international Linux community of users
- integrate third-party platforms, 3-tier system interactions, object-oriented & data-driven environment
- provide cost-effective content management strategy and merchandising platform
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Bigstep.com- User Experience Architect
1999 - 2000
User Interface and systems development for leading small business-focused application service provider, responsible for architecture and interaction design of
- system-wide data normalization & internationalization (coordinated design with offshore and domestic engineers)
- services' merchandising platform
- business profile exchange system with third-party service
- customer-facing Help Center, internal customer support tools
- Interactive flow for Search Engine Submission, profile configuration, Member Directory
- integration templates for 3rd-party services within the Bigstep interface
- evangelized design between business development, engineering, usability testing & customer research.
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International Communications- Senior Analyst
1998 - 1999
Scoped, quoted and realized web, software and print localization projects. Designed workflows, schedules and managed
capacity to execute technically and humanly complex multilingual production in a variety of media for Fortune 500 clients.
Designed and built tools and training to support conservation of intellectual assets and increase profitability.
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Compumentor- Senior Analyst
1997
Architect of online community development for California Wellness Foundation's Work & Health Initiative.
Designed and delivered technology instructional program for youth organizations.
Fundraising, grantwriting, videography, managed relationships with large funders and clients.
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San Francisco State University, Multimedia Studies Program- Lecturer
1997-2000
Designed and delivered university & professional-level courses in UNIX OS. Real-time and online.
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San Francisco State University- Lab Manager
1995-1997
Managed Mathematics Lab (computing facillity) then Conceptual Design Lab.
Machine, software and network maintenance. Purchasing.
Supervision of workers, their training and schedules.
Managed university Student Affairs website. |
Xerox PARC- Researcher
1996
Creative Documents Initiative -"Future Workscapes" : Designed & conducted research that employed hypermedia and teen-aged informants to investigate possible futures of work.
Communicated with PARC executive sponsors. Managed team communications of ongoing research.
Designed game to explore ideas and associations with work: Delta Work.
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Curiosity Club- Managing Editor-Architect
1995
Designed and developed collaboration between NASA researchers and SFUSD K-12 classrooms to study Jupiter, comets and the EUV Explorer spacecraft.
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Leonardo Digital Reviews- Managing Editor-Architect
1994- 2000
Launched and maintained prominent feature of international journal published monthly by MITPress in print and online to worldwide circulation. Managed web administration and content development from international panel of 50 professional scientists, artists and technologists.
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Human Origins- Founder-Architect
1994- present
Ongoing online laboratory "space" for investigating human factors in work and in designed environments.
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