contact: catherine MG sawall
email: catherine@smallmexicangirl.com

* Information Design * + *Editorial *

Information Designer (contract) - Amengual - Palma de Mallorca, Spain [April 2002 - present]

• Manage accounts and projects for long-term client projects
• Lead Information Designer and project lead for all projects
• Currently developing a business plan for a new company branch focusing on experience design:
involving information architecture, visual design and interaction design.

Information Design Director -KPMG-Metrius Europe- London [October 2000 - January 2002]

• Responsible for starting, hiring and mentoring the Information Design group in London
• Lead Information Designer on more complex projects, overseeing other Information Designers across projects
• Collaborate with other Directors from other groups to define company and Information Design group methodology
• Responsible for developing best practice in information architecture and user research.
• Heavily involved in business development and educating KPMG sectors about internet process development
[Most recently attended conference Doors of Perception: Lightness in Holland]

URLs include:
• ntl.com
• london.gov.uk
• KPMG Lifetime Learning- e-learning portal- private site
• Le Meridien Travel Agency site and Le Meridien's CSR Management System- private site: lemeridien.com

Information Design Director - Groundswell.net- San Francisco and New York [March 2000 - Sept 2000]

• Responsible for hiring and mentoring the Information Design group in New York
• Lead Information Designer on more complex projects
• Collaborate with other Directors from other groups to define company and ID group methodology
• Attend conferences, workshops and hold sessions to educate others about findings.
[ Attended Project 40 at HyperIsland in Sweden]

Information Designer - Razorfish-NY [May 1999 - October 1999]

• Create navigation and the site architecture for web development during conceptual and design phases
• Design layout, content, create storyboards/schematics
• Write user scenarios, information design specs and functional specifications
• Extensive experience interfacing with clients
• Mentor for new information designers


URLS include:
• schwab.com
• disinfo.com
• Razorfish's intranet portal

Information Designer - vivid studios [May 1995 - August 1997] + [June 1998 - April 1999]

• Create navigation and the site architecture for web development during conceptual and design phases
• Design layout, content, create storyboards/schematics
• Write user scenarios, information design specs and functional specifications
• Extensive experience interfacing with clients
• Responsibility for user testing, test plans, focus groups


URLS include:
• commerceone.com
• americancentury.com
• nike.com

Information Designer/Producer - Organic [ August 1997-June 1998]

• Primarily responsible for producing over 20 websites for nike.com
• Managed team of 6-10 contractors and full-time employees
• Responsible for creating documentation, schedules, budgets, estimates
• Create navigation and the site architecture for web development during conceptual and design phases
• Design layout, content, create storyboards/schematics
• Hands on production work: HTML, UNIX, production art, maintaining internal websites.


URLS include:
• nike.com
• riven.com
• mcdonalds.com
• barnesandnoble.com
• hardrockcafe.com
• daytimers.com
• kinkos.com

* Editorial *

Associate Editor-Institute for Alternative Journalism [1994-1995]

• Wrote synopses and researched for articles and pres releases that were submitted to FOX Network, Dateline, Nightline where they would possibly be featured

Editorial Assistant-Wired Magazine

• Examined and wrote queries for weekly editorial meetings.
• Worked closely with editors obtaining press releases and review copies of books and software and hardware

Editorial Assistant-bOING bOING

• Responsible for copy editing and writing music and zine reviews
• Copy edited and wrote for "The Happy Mutant Handbook"

Editorial Assistant-ArtForum Magazine

• Researched with the Managing Editor on cover stories
• Copy edited and wrote for gallery reviews

* Education *

• Part of Information Design and Project Management Discussion group [1996-1998]
• Universidad de Iquique, Chile [1993]
-Excavated and mapped a site in Northern Chile

• Beloit College, Beloit, WI [1992]
-Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Anthropology
-Concentration in Music
-Languages: Coursework in German, French and Spanish

• tools: UNIX, HTML, BBEdit, Dreamweaver. Illustrator, Photoshop, ImageReady, Freehand, SoundEdit, MS Project, Visual Page, Inspiration, Visio