Isobel S. Davis Email & Phone Number

I tend the slack channel to keep activity interesting and connect relevant updates and initiatives in climate arts with community members and colleges from my Picture the Change cohort. .

United States

Career mentor for people in the Terra.do ecosystem. Students and community of the app.

Facilitated Creativity workshops focused on exercising Mindsets especially adapted for climate action and adaptation. Also applicable broadly for building creative solutions.

Inscape Arts, Seattle, Wa

http//:www.isobeldav.is http://www.isobeldavisart.com 8/2018- present Art installation BEELINE TO DINNER on the importance of pollination and biodiversity to the dinner plate and its expression in cultural well being. Commissioned by Office of Art and Culture and SDOT. 7/2018 Presented a Cyanotype workshop on Impressions of our world, for Maker's Day at Museum of History and Industry.7/2018 Launched a year long art investigation of "the edges of water, art study at the ecotone, the edges of environmental change", by running a performance event with dancers and artists at the Seattle water front for the Daipan International Butoh Festival. 12/2017 Finalist for the Public Art Opportunity with 160,000 budget for SDOT and Seattle Office of Art and Culture's Missing Link project.• Selected to be on the Roster for Public Art, for potential commissions under the 1% for the art program he Seattle Office of Art and Culture. • Founder, artPLUS+Us: Social interface to community projects on food security and interactive public art on food justice and security with the Rainier Valley Food Bank2016 Workshop presenter at the PAC conference on sustainability, teaching sustainability through art and writing engagement, held at Principe CollegeStudio practice at Inscape Arts in the international District. Community volunteer, promoting fellow artists on social media at the Inscape Facebook Page. lip-smacking-good.blogspot.com• 2012-2022 A recipe blog and community crop, a food security community project with art at Bradner Gardens P-Patch, involved with an annual community crop for the food bank. • Art websites designed in Weebly: isobeldavisart.com, newsisobeldavisart.com, isobeldavisprojects.comother food blog: improvchef.blogspot.com See less

New Orleans, Se Alaska, Baja Mexico, New York City, Seattle

Chef at The Spring Street International School, Friday Harbor, in 2022Recipe developer, blogger Chef on a cruise ship running naturalist tours of Baja Mexico, and SE Alaska Chef on a seismic research vessel, New Orleans, LO Caterer in NYC, Seattle, WAAssistant Chef at a private care facility for temporary nursing patients, Kent, WAGardener, sustainable food expert, teacher, community food themed artist, family cook, Seattle

Virtual

For resilience building and processing eco anxiety, online workshop for engagement through artist designed custom Miro boards of nature based art and poetry that invite participation with nature poetry and climate themes.

Microsoft Campus, Redwest, Redmond, Wa

Warning stakeholders around the world on critical issues of cyber security by broadcasting time-sensitive reports on critical security vulnerabilities and software component updates. Contributed to the successful launch and management of up to 18 software update bulletins, gathering social media chatter about the release in specifically supporting users of Microsoft products worldwide to maintain optimum productivity and protection from cyber-attacks. • Research and editorial assistant on three acclaimed highly-visible, internal and external security publications, enabling employees and their clients to keep abreast of current issues in cyber security. • Synthesizing information from Microsoft TechNet security docs into reports for internal and external advisories about upcoming software updates, and editing customer-facing security-related bulletins• Compiling strategic keywords and run SQL queries for data mining and analysis of large data sets• Leveraging social media telemetry for evangelizing deliverables and evaluating trends. • Creating visual presentations of malware metrics for internal reports, • Drafting high-profile and technical security update announcements • Interfacing with engineers and TAMs to respond to customer inquiries • Updating team SharePoint site libraries.

Boston, Ma

On average, 1 in 5 teens have contemplated suicide for a host of social reasons. As the principal content developer and information design architect of a youth centered mobile app for a religious non-profit, my work fulfilled the social goal of helping youth find hope in their interpersonal search for inspirational content relevant to their critical issues, with accolades and praise from both management and the user base. This position included all aspects of cross-functional product management, from co-developing the concept, building the structural and interface prototypes, populating the content, interfacing with developers to release through 2.0, including testing and customer service response.• End to end development, creating content, structure, and database• Created early user interface prototypes• Research of hot button teen topics and identification of key words through qualitative and quantitative methods: surveys, google analytics, and control group interviews, for user centered design puposes• Searched for quotes based upon criteria of relevance and message, and mentored assistants to find and tag quotes, seeding the database with 1500 inspirational quotes from multiple sources linked to menu topics and key words for search content.• Implemented a program to produce crowd-sourced content to keep the content fresh and growing for thousands of users worldwide • Developed target keywords using data mining techniques, matching and tagging quotes• Built a database prototype in Excel and negotiated with engineer to create functions in a back-end database • Ran pre-release testing protocol for certification with Apple for the iOS release• Field trials, bug database, negotiated program fixes, performed regression testing on both Apple and Android • Helped increase the user base through running a technical support forum, responding to user questions, and reporting issues into a bug database and negotiating feature wish list and fixes with developers

Seattle, Wa

Advisory board as the creative consultant for this chamber music series. Assisted in starting this venture, craft vision, launch and establish the non-profit. Collaboratively conceived concert themes, titles, wrote essays on the themes for publication, involved with strategic planning, marketing campaigns, graphics collateral and piloted a preliminary website design.

Seattle, Wa

Periodic freelance work as Imspeak. Advised companies on their initial web presence by helping define their brand and identifying important content for their first website and designing their pages, both functionally with site map and navigation, and page design generating graphics in the user interface. Helped musician market themselves by creating updated artistic flyers for events and CD covers that utilized the latest image processing techniques, contributed to brainstorming sessions for seasonal marketing campaigns and helped develop collateral, software quality assurance testing from a usability & UX perspective, helped develop the vision and strategic plan to move an organization through their first 5 years.

Bellevue, Wa

Successfully produced repeat clients through ensuring stable software products for numerous launches at this outsource testing company. Helping clients mitigate risks by designing test cases and identifying serious bugs. Mentored and supervised teams of testers on multiple projects simultaneously. Engaged in Bug advocacy negotiation, changing mindset about user experience based interface and navigation issues. Reported compatibility conflicts, addressed security issues, and negotiating fixes with client’s development teams. • Exceeded expectations as demonstrated in repeat business and the return of a high percentage of outsourced clients• Tested with cutting edge innovative solutions technology• Managed multiple projects, guidiung teams of testers running usability, black box, performance, stress, automated and regression tests for software products following the Agile model• Researched and developed a multi-media testing procedure based upon a knowledge base gathered from testing metrics and industry training. As the multimedia specialist for entertainment and educational CD-ROMs, engaged with the majority of leading multimedia companies in improving their stability• Pioneered internet testing procedures sound codex for audio company • Responsible for developing and selling a hardware and software compatibility testing solution to nearly all of the clients I worked with, in a multi-platform computer lab• Developed process documents on testing procedures and protocol• Developed training manuals and mentored software testersInvolved in interviewing candidates for hire

Learning For Action Climate Studies

Ba, Fine Art, Liberal Arts

Activities and Societies: Living Lightly conference on sustainable living Poetry clubAlso: Rhode Island School of Design, San Francisco.

Paintings, Stone Carving

sculpture and painting