Volunteer Initiative Leaders Biographies
Samantha Bailey : Job Board and Education
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Samantha Bailey is the Job Board initiative leader and co-leads the Education initiative with Tom Froelich (IA Institute Faculty Advisor). She is Director of Usability at Thomson West for the westlaw.com interface, the premier legal research product on the market. At Thomson West, she is responsible for user interface design direction, user experience research efforts and usability testing program.Prior to that, she was the lead information architect at Wachovia Bank where she provided strategy and direction for the information architecture and interaction design of the corporate website, bringing a user-centered design philosophy to shaping the site's classification, navigation and labeling. She led the redesign of the wachovia.com site, merging two pre-existing sites brought together when First Union and Wachovia merged in 2002.
Samantha was also Vice President of Operations at Argus Associates, a pioneering information architecture firm whose approach to user-centered design was based on applying principles of library science. She played a critical role in building a world-class information architecture operation, contributing to the development of an industry-leading methodology and process. Her clients included AT&T, Procter & Gamble, Ernst & Young, Vanguard and the Weather Channel.
More about Samantha at www.baileysorts.com
Lynn Boyden: Mentoring Program
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Christian Crumlish: iaSlash.org
Oakland, California, USA
Christian Crumlish serves as the IT/Infrastructure Director on the IA Institute Board of Directors. Christain has been developing and writing about shared information spaces since 1994. He is the curator of the Yahoo! pattern library. He has consulted with startups and Fortune 500 companies, including FedEx, Kodak, Visa, Sprint, Charles Schwab, Safeway, Sun, SanDisk, BEA, HTC, Aramark, MediaMelon, Syklist, and GoFish. He is the author of, most recently, The Power of Many: How the Living Web is Transforming Politics, Business, and Everday Life, as well as The Internet for Busy People, Dreamweaver Savvy, A Guided Tour of the Internet and The Internet Dictionary. He is currently researching a book on digital identity, remote presence, attention, and trust tentatively titled Presence of Mind.
For more on Christian, see http://christiancrumlish.com.
Chiara Fox: IA Library (Co-Leader with Jeff Tang)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
As Co-Directors of the IA Library, Chiara Fox and Jeff Tang oversee management and collection development.
Ongoing editorial support has been provided by Amy Silvers, Experience Architect, VML, Inc.
Resource contributions have been made by Michael Angeles, Jorge Arango, Frédéric Cavazza, Livia Labate, Jess McMullin, Lou Rosenfeld, Luca Rosati, and Nobuya Sato.
Tom Froelich, Education
Tom co-leads the Education initiative with Samantha Bailey, serving as IA Institute Faculty Advisor. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Duquesne University and Master’s in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include curriculum development in Information Science and emerging roles for information professionals and a philosophical framework for relevance research. The majority of his published work is concerned with ethical considerations in the information professions, evolving in part from his philosophy background. Dr. Froehlich is a professor in the School of Library and Information Science and teaches in the areas of information science, ethics, network and software resources, online searching, and user interface design. He has provided workshops, trainings, seminars or presentations in 23 countries, primarily in the areas of online searching and ethical concerns of information professionals. He recently returned from South Africa where he was invited to participate in a pan-African conference to draft the Tshwane Declaration on Information Ethics for Africa.
Andrew Hinton: Second Life
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Andrew is an Information Architect and a founder of the IA Institute. He is currently working in the User Experience Group at Vanguard around Valley Forge, PA and has previously done IA-related work for companies like American Express, Sealy, Wachovia, Shaw and Kimberly-Clark. He has been designing information systems since 1990, and calling myself an "Information Architect" since 1999.
Wolf Nöeding: Translation of Information Architecture (TIA) and IA Glossary
Erlangen, Germany
Wolf H. Nöding is an information architect from Germany. He has a Masters in Industrial Design and studied Designinformatik (partly Information Design) two more years. Currently he's involved in developing knowledge management, CMS and e-Learning systems as a conceptioner and information architect for the IT/Medical industry in Germany and Europe. Started his career as a webdesigner (2d/3d) while living two years In New York (1996-98) during his study. Wolf enjoys creating 360° photographic panoramas for VIPs in his leisure time.
Gene Smith : IA Tools
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Gene is a Principle at Nform, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He has worked on the web for 10 years, including five years planning, developing and managing large-scale websites. From 1999 to 2003 he managed the Alberta Government website and planned a major redesign of that site. I also led the web team at Capital Health, improving the effectiveness of the website and Intranet for that organization's 20,000 employees and 1 million users.
As a consultant Gene has advised Comcast, Ancestry.com, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, the Alberta Government and other clients on interface design, information architecture, website planning and management, and interactive strategy. You'll find some of his ideas on tagging and pageless interactions in books like Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 3rd Edition and Ambient Findability.
Stacy Surla: Local Groups
Poolesville, VA, USA
Stacy is focused on strengthening the organizational infrastructure of the IA Institute so it can support bold initiatives, like the development of Local Groups across the world. She is a co-founder of the DCIA local group in Washington, DC, edits the IA Column in the ASIS&T Bulletin, served as chair for the 2005 Information Architecture Summit, co-founded the Rosebud independent film and video festival, managed fundraising for the DC Arts Center, co-chaired the Foundation for Mid-East Communication, served as briefing leader for the Hunger Project, started a crimewatchers program in Haight-Asbury, and organized a neighborhood circus. She has made numerous public speaking, TV, and radio appearances on topics ranging from arts programming to Y2K readiness.
Stacy is an Information Architect for the MITRE Corporation (www.mitre.org).
Jeff Tang: IA Library (Co-Leader with Chiara Fox)
San Diego, CA
Jeff is a UI designer and information architect with a MS in Human-Computer Interaction, University of Michigan. He currently is a User Interface Designer at Nokia Inc., where he designs flow diagrams and use cases for cell phone applications.
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