Benjamin Frederick Email & Phone Number

Greater Lansing

Greater Boston Area

Greater Detroit Area

A combination User Researcher, Business Analyst, UI/UX designer, and lean/agile consultant. High-Tech Anthropology is a research and design practice built around contextual user research, human-centered design, and rapid, low-fidelity prototyping to validate interface, system, and service design. I work with companies anywhere from startups to Fortune 500.

Greater Boston Area

• Worked with Chief Product Manager and Associate Publisher to define business strategy and product roadmap of our media platform (B2C)
• Pioneered organizational Agile transformation and implemented Scrum practices as Scrum Master/Product Owner for cross-functional team
• Ran customer interviews and synthesizes user stories and epics to engineering, editorial, and design teams
• Facilitated design sprints, has honed a budding UX practice and skills, and a strong interest in database management
• Prioritizes work for cross-functional team based on customer needs and product roadmap
• Worked closely with analytics team to identify areas of opportunity and overlooked efficiencies

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Created strategic framework and org chart that formed the basis for the Monitor’s digital subscription business model.
• Wrote native advertising, working with sponsors and subject matter experts for the Monitor’s cybersecurity vertical, Passcode.
• Helped to ideate and run events, establishing best practices. Duties included marketing, logistics, speaker handling, and ROI analytics.
• Worked in a close-knit, cross-functional team to develop, test, execute and iterate new revenue streams for Passcode vertical.

Greater Chicago Area

• Beats included mobile and email advertising, as well as programmatic, publishing and out of home ad-tech when they overlap with mobile.
• Interviewed ad-tech subject matter experts.
• Wrote a weekly opinion piece about the mobile advertising industry.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Edited and blogged daily for the website, then compiled blogs into a weekly newsletter.
• Copywriter for new website and online ad campaigns, optimized site for SEO.
• Tripled web-traffic to the site in a three-month period through SEO management and email newsletter testing and cross-channel copywriting.
• Contacted, organized, and edited various guest authors’ blog submissions.

Greater Boston Area

A museum dedicated to the life of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Performed various minor curatorial tasks, and had the opportunity to research and write a 3,000 word piece on some of the artwork found in her house in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Greater Boston Area

A wide-ranging academic internship working with editors in the Books, Culture, Home Forum, Innovations and print sections. Wrote articles, worked as Poetry editor, reviewed books, and learned about online and print journalism in a highly professional environment.