Complete Client List

Ameriprise Financial

Marketing Resource Management –resource portal for field financial advisors

Minneapolis MN, Mar 07 to Aug 07

Responsible for the design of the overall architecture, navigation, and user interface for an enterprise-wide, multi-functional application used by financial advisors in the field. Design challenges included creating a seamless across multiple platforms and vendors.

Alliance of Computer Professionals

Recruiting Portal Design & Development

Bloomington MN, Oct 05 to Dec 06

Designed and developed a website recruiting portal – includes online job applications application, etc.

Bloomington School District

District-Wide Internet & Intranet Design (Production Phase 2)

Bloomington MN, Sep 05 to Jun 06

Designed information architecture and navigation (global and local) for the district intranet and 27 district departments. Provided design and production consultations to internal production team. Design challenges included massive amounts of content management and organization.

Bloomington School District

District-Wide Internet & Intranet Design (Production Phase 1)

Bloomington MN, Aug 04 to Jan 05

Young America

Account Management Reporting Portal Design

Chanhassen MN, Jul 03 to Nov 03

Designed a reporting portal enabling YA clients and employees to access real-time business relevant information in a timely manner (Actuate reports). Design challenges included dynamic display of information in graphic formats (graphs, charts, etc) and data imports.

Bloomington School District

District-Wide Internet & Intranet Design (Prototype/Usability Testing – Design Phase)

Bloomington MN, Jun 03 to Oct 03

Re-designed district-wide internet/intranet website incorporating templates that can be used for distributed maintenance across all district departments. Created online prototype for usability testing purposes. Design challenges included massive amounts of content management and organization.

Starkey Labs (Audibel)

Corporate E-Commerce Internet Design

Eden Prairie MN, Sep 02 to Feb 03

Redesigned corporate B2B and B2C website to be used primarily for sales lead generation. The project also included the design of a database-driven “dealer locator”, hearing simulator and online hearing evaluation (flash), and the ability to dynamically build individual websites for 300+ hearing aid dealers (with real-time updates for all dealers). Design challenges included understanding the functions of the ear and hearing, along with close attention to web positioning.

Emerson Process Management / Fischer Rosemount

Corporate Intranet Design

Eden Prairie MN, Mar 02 to Aug 02

Designed a corporate intranet website enabling the sales force to access and download marketing materials from any worldwide location, and an online calendaring system.

Allianz Corporation

Corporate Intranet Redesign

Minnetonka MN, Feb 02 to Mar 02

Documented existing intranet website (2000 pages) and create new information architecture and navigation system based on client requirements.

Deluxe Corporation

Corporate Intranet and E-Commerce Design

St. Paul MN, May 99 to Jan 02

Re-designed online check-ordering system, online product catalog, and several corporate internet (B2B and B2C) websites (credit unions, internet banking, and deluxe.com). Requirements included a site structure and global navigational system ensuring consistency and good usability. Design challenges included global navigation and consistency across numerous corporate internet sites, and web positioning.

GMAC-RFC

Corporate Intranet Redesign

Bloomington MN, June 01 to Nov 01

Re-designed corporate intranet to include home page personalization for different functional areas. Design requirements included the incorporation of a newly created (in-house) site generation tool providing content management and site consistency. Must be designed to enable company employees to do in-house maintenance. Design challenges included incorporating the in-house site generation tool and home page personalization for numerous user groups, along with the organization of large amounts of content, and accommodating many user groups.

City of Minneapolis

Intranet Business Application Usability Testing

Minneapolis MN, Oct 00 to Jan 01

Conducted usability testing on existing internet applications (online payments, GPS Real Estate & Property Information). Created testing reports and recommended design changes based on usability results.

Transcape

Corporate Quarterly Newsletter

Bloomington MN, Sep 00 to Oct 00

Designed newsletter template for quarterly newsletter to be maintained by internal personnel.

Novopoint

E-Commerce Commodity Exchange Website

Minnetonka MN, Aug 00 to Oct 00

Provided information architecture expertise to their e-commerce commodity exchange website.

Minnetonka School District

District-Wide Internet & Intranet

Minnetonka MN, Jul 99 to Oct 00

Re-designed district-wide internet/intranet website. Designed numerous database applications (online calendaring system, bulletin/message boards, phone & email directories, course curriculums, job posting and online application system, and a technical reporting and tracking system), along with the creation of basic html home page templates for use in the 12 elementary and secondary schools, to be maintained by in-house personnel. Design challenges included massive amounts of content management and organization.

HB Fuller

Object-Oriented Design Planning Intranet Design

St.Paul MN, Jan 99 to Apr 99

Designed and created an intranet website enabling employees to share data during their enterprise process re-engineering project.

Minnesota Association for Professional Employees (MAPE)

Membership Intranet Design

St Paul MN, Sep 98 to Nov 98

Provided front-end planning and design for their members internet website.

3M

Demand Management Object-Oriented Business Domain Model

St. Paul MN, Jan 98 to Jun 98

Designed web environment for a conceptual object-oriented business domain model (supply chain/demand management). Design challenges included accommodating the ever-changing content enabling client to create on-the-fly business scenarios.

USWest

Intranet Merger & Redesign

Denver CO, Minneapolis MN, Seattle WA, Jan 98 to Mar 98

Facilitated user focus groups to obtain user requirements for inclusion in an intranet re-design when merging two existing intranets. Provided recommendations for re-design based on focus group findings.

General Motors

Competitive Manufacturing & Web Training

Detroit MI, Oct 97 to Jan 98

Designed and managed corporate intranet project containing technical documents, reference manuals, and an online tutorial, which included a large-scale HTML conversion effort, and the re-purposing of existing training materials to a web environment. Design challenges included accommodating the requirement to easily view highly complex drawings, schematics, and graphics.

Cargill Corporation

Corporate Intranet Design

Minnetonka MN, Jul 97 to Oct 97

Provided graphic recommendations to meet client specifications (Children’s Cancer Research Fund) and designed a corporate intranet website for Chile (corporate intranet website). Design challenges included the inclusion of the Spanish language, a remote working relationship with the client, and international usability (localization) issues.

Merrill Corporation

Human Resources Intranet Prototype – Proof of Concept

St. Paul MN, Jun 97 to Jul 97

Provided front-end planning, high-level site structure, and an online prototype for a human resources intranet. Assisted client in presenting the intranet concept to management personnel for the purposes of obtaining financial support.

Harmon Glass

Software Documentation & Tutorial

Minneapolis MN, Aug 94 to May 95

Created software documentation and a software tutorial for call center POS order entry software application.