Ism Work Values

Daily Duties at Ism:

• Directed and managed interactive and online advertising for the firm’s hi-visibility luxury travel clients such as, Air Emirates, Harley Davidson and The Island of Barbados. Accomplishments • Directed and managed the creation of an online travel agent portal for American Express, where agents would be able to search by card member type for promotions and give-a-ways on travel around the world. The site had to integrate content provided by sources outside of American Express. • For one of the world’s most exclusive resorts, Alex directed and managed the creation of their Advertising and Marketing site. The project challenge was to integrate the eco – luxury destination with 5 exclusive hotels chains, which were currently being constructed within the destination grounds. The integration also included a unique golf site showcasing three different eco – systems while promoting the home of the PGA tournament. Alex’s direction included a flash based application where both the hotel and golf sites share an exclusive and high-end user experience through the use of animation, interactivity and videos. • Alex spearheaded, directed and managed the variable data publishing initiative for Disney. Disney was interested in customizing their hotel and destination sales materials on an individual basis to prospective companies, based on their sales requests. A template structure was developed populating information within each template based on various data sources to provide a unique document to every customer inquiry within the Disney Resort Organization. • Part of the interactive pitch team, noteworthy win Best Western ($20 million of which $4 million was interactive).

What they like about Ism:

Working in an organization that is technologically advanced, creative, and innovative is critical in your assessment of hiring companies. Less important to you are stability of the organization, the length of time an organization has been in business, and the business' plans for the future. You prefer a fast-moving company that will take risks to achieve its goals and objectives. The length of time the company has been in business is irrelevant. Maintaining status quo is unnecessary. You thrive on change, uncertainty and the upside of potential business risks, especially those associated with innovation. Stability for the long haul is not nearly as important as is working in an atmosphere that is charged with a sense of urgency and constant change.

Tags

user experience, wireframes, personas, schematics, interaction design, information architect, sr user experience lead, sr information architect, user experience architect, use cases, agile development, web 2.0, boston, ma, new york, ny, maimi, fl, user centered design methods, Ux, Ux architect

Skills

P&L responsibilities, Presentation, Technology Solutions, Sales Support, Software Implementation, Information Architecture, Visual Design, User Research, User Task Analysis, Gathering User Requirements, Use Cases, Personas, Scenarios/Journeys/Narratives, Schematics, Wireframes, Leadership, Knowledge developing dynamic data interfaces for web applications, Agile Development Process, Axure, Visio, OmniGraffle, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash), Microsoft Office, Developing Strategic Direction, Gathering Business Requirements, Modeling Concepts, Creating Navigational Pathways, Collaborating with Engineers, Usability, QA Testing Interfaces, Collecting and Analyzing Data

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