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Primary focus areas included visual search, m-commerce, location-based social gaming, group messaging, geo-fencing, near-field communication and virtual currency. Conducted intensive strategic assessments of opportunities in emerging mobile technologies. Created over a dozen rapid prototypes for iPhone, Android, Ipad, Mobile Web and Facebook platforms.

• Created the strategic road-map for the consolidation of multiple real estate subsidiaries under the integrated TransUnion corporate umbrella. • Collaborated with global leadership to define, architect, deploy and refine two generations of TransUnion's unified online e-commerce platform.• Audited TU Canada’s online credit report platform, from account creation through product delivery and support.

• Designed two ambitious multi-channel service offerings, providing semi-automated returns and exchanges in five minutes or less.• Collaborated with Epsilon to design Sears’ enterprise rewards platform.

Invented new advertising- and sponsorship-based revenue models for public sector websites. Architected high-level technical solution, created re-usable Information Architecture, identified strategic partners and pioneered new business development model.Today, Municipal Media serves nearly 100,000,000 million advertising impressions per month.

• Led a multi-disciplinary, Agile team which planned, built and launched a game-changing, 'clicks-and-mortar' anti-fraud product for the lending industry. This success of the new line of business lead to acquisition by Equifax. • Initial strategic- and technical-feasibility for a next-generation web-to-print portal.

Co-founded a hyper-smart digital consultancy whose clients included: Ameritech, Amgen, Anexsys, Asterisk, AT&T Wireless,Bank One, Best Buy, Big Idea, Bitter End Yacht Club,Brass Ring, Cendant, Citadel, Chiasso, Computer Associates, Concept Shopping, Curious Networks, Diamond Technology Partners, The Chicago Cubs, Ebay, Frankel, GE Financial, Information Resources, Intel, Jenner & Block, KB Partners, Learning Curve, Lee Alison, Motorola, Nexbridge Capital, Panasonic, Pearson, Pepsi, Ray Charles, Rysher, Sanofi, Sony Pictures, Strottman, Tribune Company, Triprewards.com, United Airlines, Veritel, U.S. Centers for Disease Control, USG, Wal-Mart, Webvestor, Weigel and the WB Network. Sold, on-boarded and managed multiple simultaneous engagements serving variously as: - Technical Lead- Information Architect / UX Architect- Account Manager- Engagement Manager- Project Manager- Strategist- Content Strategist & Copywriter- Co-directed staffing, resource and budgetary planning. - Established user-centric design practices and development methodologies. - Set top-level technological, brand and strategic vision. - Served as the chief point of accountability. Key engagements included:- Global promotions, games, sweepstakes, digital collectibles and live interactive events for AT&T Wireless, Computer Associates, Cendant, Sony Pictures, Ebay Motors, GE Financial, Rysher Entertainment, Tribune Entertainment and United Airlines.- Strategic consulting and user research for Ameritech, Learning Curve International, Pearson PLC, and Universal Access/Vanco.- Intranet, extranet and enterprise applications for Ameritech, DiamondCluster, Frankel, Intel, Motorola, Sanofi and USG.- Website and B2C commerce initiatives for Chiasso, DiamondCluster, Learning curve, Walmart and the WB Network.- Advanced retail technology and loyalty program implementations for Concept Shopping, Information Resources, Internet Query Objects, Snap Shopper and Triprewards.com

Represented IBM on major B2B initiatives for Omron, a global provider of medical and industrial electronics. Substantively re-architected IBM’s WebSphere Commerce B2B model implementation, establishing best practices for reuse across IBM engagements.

Conceived, architected and managed the development of a revolutionary ‘clicks-and-mortar’ recruiting platform, bringing transforming efficiencies to contingency-based staffing. Key goals included shortening hiring cycles, reducing the costs of candidate acquisition, and increasing the overall quality of permanent hires. Banner clients included DoubleClick, EMC2, Art Technology Group and Motorola.• Developed a unique revenue/user incentive model, authored business plan and helped secure $1.5 million in angel seed funding.• Developed a highly-scalable, centralized infrastructure for interactive assessment, collaborative scheduling, workflow, messaging and back office operations.• Set high-level brand vision and developed online, print and direct mail campaigns.

Developed ground-breaking online banking, Content Management and marketing applications for the first-generation, merged BankOne and First Chicago site. •Gathered requirements and created high-level interaction designs for large-scale consumer initiatives. • Developed rich-media applications for co-branded areas of Excite.com. • Helped architect and code the second-generation of “PI,” a major visual workflow extension to Vignette’s StoryServer Content Management System (CMS).

Designed and developed interactive content modules for syndication to Tribune-affiliated newspapers, TV-shows, radio stations, sports teams and movie productions. Contributed content and design to corporate sites for Tribune Company, Tribune Ventures, AOL Digital Cities and the Chicago Cubs.• Created rich media interfaces to Vignette-based Weather and TV Listings data products.• Conceived and coded 30+ Flash and Shockwave viral games, puzzles, calculators, etc. • Developed companion sites for TV programs including Soul Train, Geraldo and Night Man.

• Led development of CD-ROM’s, kiosks, web applications, E-learning programs and interactive elements for virtual reality games. Key projects included “Sportnet Baseball” (with Lou Pinella) and the BattleTech VR system.• Composed, produced and engineered scores for commercials, CD-ROM’s and film and designed sound effects for video games and virtual reality simulations.

Book development, writing, editing, layout, production and sales to major trade publishers.