Tom Persinger Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh Pa

I lead a cross-functional team that is contracted to create great (SaaS) software products for a variety of clients, budgets, and business domains. I work closely with entrepreneurs and business leaders to help refine their vision, ground it in business objectives, and create a vision and release plan that fits their budget and timeline. * Project & product management (SaaS products)* Agile transformation coaching and assessment* Team coaching and creation* High Performance team building* Release Planning* Workshop facilitation* Budget & resource management * Competitive analysis* User research* Stakeholder management* Backlog Grooming* Iterative release* Quickly learn and understand new business domains

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Created photographs for commercial and private clients and wrote articles for publication. Clients included: Ag: The International Journal of Photographic Art, After Image, American Forests, Black and White Photography (UK), Land Rover Owners Magazine, Marshall & Isley Corporation, Photo Ed (CAN), Photo Technique, photo.net, The Pittsburgh Steelers, View Camera, and many others.Persinger’s photographs have been shown in numerous exhibitions and are in many private collections in the United States, Europe, and Japan. His pictures and words have been published in Afterimage, Ag, Alternative Photographic Processes, American Forests, Black and White Photography (UK), The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, Brigitte (Germany), Light and Lens (2nd Edition), Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes: Popular Historical and Contemporary Techniques, PhotoEd (Canada), Photo.net, Photographic Possibilities (3rd Edition), Photography Beyond Technique, Photo Technique, Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography Since 1960, and View Camera

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Professing things photographic, and striving to to also provide students with opportunities for critical and analytic thought, development of writing skills, and the establishment and/or growth of hands-on lab, camera, and image composition skills.

Pittsburgh Pa

Contract position in the Customer Channels Group at Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Pittsburgh Pa

Founded, directed, and managed all of the activities an international photography organization of several thousand members. Managed volunteers and interns. Responsible for budgets, website maintenance and content (Wordpress, vBulletin, CSS customization), membership drive and communication, facilitating online monetary transactions, social media presence/outreach, and planning and organizing the annual four day symposium. Solicited and received operational support from public, private, and individual contributors.

Pittsburgh Pa

Utilized a very lean and agile, iterative process to invent, create, and take a new photography iOS app from concept to market in less than 4 months. Designed the interface based on well defined principles, personas, user feedback, focus groups, and industry interviews and knowledge. Utilized wireframes, sketches, mockups, and user flow diagrams to convey information to development team. Managed up to three simultaneous off-site developers. Learned key information regarding SourceForge, issue tracking, development and managing remote/off-site partners, the purchase and adoption patterns of the app store, iOS app design and development. Launched app with well attended lecture and publicity in New York City at the B&H Photo Manhattan Megastore.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Created the user experience and interactive design of DDI’s proprietary web delivered software that was purchased and used by Fortune 500 companies for hiring, training, evaluation retention, and other human resource needs.Actively collaborated with internal product managers, technical writers, marketing, software engineers, quality engineering and delivery to design and produce best of class web delivered e-learning, assessment and selection software applications.Achievements * Collaborated with a wide range stake holders (from C-level executives to clients and peers) & synthesized feedback into product* Used an iterative, agile design and development process* Utilized interviews and product design meetings to establish user & project requirements* Created visual interfaces (sketches, wireframes and diagrams) and working prototypes in Photoshop and HTML/CSS for collaborative review with project stakeholders. * Integrated user & stake holder feedback into product design revisions* Participated and led inter-departmental team meetings to establish software branding guidelines and incorporate user interface standards documents. These documents were used company wide for consistency in design.* Remain current in industry best practices through trade publications, books, websites and seminars.* Advocated and implemented strategies for Section 508 compliance* Collaborate with various development teams to move toward a common UI experience across various applications

Milwaukee Wi & Pittsburgh Pa

Opened Pittsburgh, PA branch office. Handled Grove Crane account management, coordination, & deliverables.Direct design and production of web and print materials for large industrial clients. Translate client business requirements into effective design. Comp and direct work by illustrators and photographers. Source printing, perform press checks, specify and purchase stock art (illustration and photography).

Greater Milwaukee Area

Design and develop corporate web sites. Design and produce print collateral, direct mail and logos. Art direct freelance writers, designers, illustrators and photographers/shoots. Purchase and specify stock illustration & photography. Source printing and perform press checks.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Design and produce print collateral (retail and B2B) consistent with brand to enhance image of Marshall and Ilsley Corporation.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Managed prepress department for medium sized commercial printer, as well as graphic design/arts work.

Greater Pittsburgh Area