Ben Shoemate is an enterprise information architect and web user experience designer with extensive experience building large scale, global portals and web content management systems. He is a senior consultant who helps some of the world's largest organizations leverage web technology to improve productivity, knowledge sharing, and innovation. Clients include IBM, Nissan, UPS, Northrop Grumman, CEMEX, Amex, ExxonMobile, Qwest, Taco Bell, KFC, Yum! Brands, and many others. Ben has more than 15 years experience as the lead designer on large, complex global projects including from enterprise portals, social networking sites, knowledge management wikis, corporate blogs, and mobile apps.He has extensive knowledge of enterprise software development and integration best practices, adoption and governance, usability, information architecture, business case development, prototyping, design and requirement gathering, and a number of platforms and software solutions including: - IBM Websphere Portal and Web Content Management- Microsoft Sharepoint- J2EE custom design and development- Atlassian Confluence Enterprise Wiki, and JIRA- WordPress and Drupal open source development platforms- SAP Portals- Oracle and Peoplesoft- BEA Weblogic, Plumtree- and many othersSpecialties: Information Architecture, Web Design and Development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX), Graphic Design and Branding, Web Content Management including software selection and implementation strategy, workflow design, security and group administration, personalization, site framework, governance and web strategy, user persona development, project management, design specification, training, documentation, roadmap planning and rollout support, etc..etc...Enough about me. I want to hear from you - visit my blog at benshoemate.com or contact me via linkedIn. Let's build something together.
Listed skills include Information Architecture, Web Applications, Sharepoint, Web Content Management, and 45 others.