SEAD is an NSF-funded project to build tools that make managing, sharing, and reusing sustainability science data easier and more valuable. I was responsible for making scientists aware of what SEAD offered, showing scientists how to most effectively use SEAD to accomplish their work, gathering user feedback and translating it into development requirements, and leading the project's efforts to enhance SEAD's usability. My primary accomplishment was the successful redesign of the information architecture and integration of three user-facing web applications into a single, more seamless user experience.

The Brandon Center Digital Archive is an effort by the University of Michigan School of Education to establish a digital library of video-based materials. I was hired to advise them on developing a sustainable and useful repository.

This was a cooperative, large-scale digitization project between the University of Michigan School of Information and the Library to digitize and put online the papers of noted Science journalist and author, Jon Cohen. I led the project, hiring and managing a staff of 5 to digitize, describe, and provide access to the collection. I also designed and built a relational FileMaker database to capture metadata and track copyright permissions process and collaborated with University Library to design a web-based interface for the digitized collection.

In my second position at JSTOR, I designed user interfaces for accessing and managing JSTOR's archive of digitized scholarly journals. This included conducting usability studies to evaluate user needs; communicating user needs to various stakeholders throughout the organization; and working closely with engineers to implement user interfaces. I was primarily responsible for the redesign of search and browse functionality.

In my first position at JSTOR I worked in the production department where I wrote detailed scanning guidelines for JSTOR vendors; examined problem images and communicated with vendors to resolve quality control issues; and assisted the production manager in moving digitized data through the entire quality control process.