Thomas Vander Wal Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, NC, US

Leading the effort for a DevOps / DevSecOps offering from UTC Global Business group to all of UTC to research needs, options, deep vendor assessments, to build an adaptive modern internal offering across the whole company to drastically improve business returns, but greatly improve time to market and advancement capabilities for tens of thousands of.

I work at the intersection of business, technology, and design to help organizations, start-ups, and vendors put a focus on customers and employees to optimize their ease of use as well as get the most productivity and enjoyment from the products and solutions. I work with organization's executives and senior management to assess their digital work.

US

Currently advisor with Adjuvi. As Senior Consultant focussing on near future digital work I focus on employee solutions so they can be highly effective and to help organizations to be more adaptive and efficient. I work with executive stakeholders to understand needs and use design approaches to research and frame the problems to find improved solutions. I.

Ad hoc and consulting on product design and digital strategy. Worked with start-ups to augment product understanding, user needs, technical paths forward, and user focused product success roadmaps. Worked to advise on business technology assessment and management to help customers achieve improved success.

Lead the information and functional product design for a from-scratch collaborative innovation platform intended to manage social interactions, idea capture and ideation, workflows, and skill capturing to support in person technology challenges as well as online events. Worked with stakeholders to understand and hone vision for the product design and.

Santa Barbara, California, US

Analyst covering business tools and services for enterprise covering and working with vendors on content collaboration, document storage, data analytics and data / information visualization, cloud, mobile, user experience. Wrote research reports and analysis, participated as the subject matter expert on webinars. Worked with vendors to meet their needs for.

Chevy Chase, MD, US

Help customers optimize their digital experiences so the services work as the people using them expect them to so their work and products are easy to use and excel.

Provide guidance and assistance with direction and planning of WaSP.

US

I wrote a regular monthly column on personal knowledge management. This column looks at how people can manage information they find of interest or value and hold onto it for later use and easy recall. The focus is current technologies on the web and desktop (mostly Mac focused) and how to weave services together to get the best fit for one's own need and.

- Training, assessing, and advising customers on what social computing options best meet their needs for mainstream use;- Advising on strategy for a road map, help assess solution options, focus on providing skills needed for optimal value, and identify value gaps and optimize service to provide value to the service owners and users;- Guide customers.

Lead the vision and product strategy for a web startup that made easy search and aggregation across a wide variety of services that offered tagging on their sites and services. Managed data structures, metadata, user experience, and innovation around this ease of use web service focused on mainstream use, not just early adopters. Product was stealth alpha.

US

Provide guidance to clients for visual design, information architecture, content management, interaction design, accessibility (Section 508), cross-media and platform design, knowledge management, Internet and Intranet application development, usability, and user-centered design, develop Web standards guidelines, workflow analysis, business analysis and.

US

Participated and guided getting IAI / AIfIA up and running successfully as a professional organization for information architects.

Provided guidance and hands on help to get Boxes and Arrows magazine to launch.

Wrote year in review article for SXSW issue of Digital Web Magazine.

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

This role is same as the one with INDUS Corporation as the contracted work transitioned from Signal to INDUS.

Lead the application development efforts for PSS. I worked directly on a US Department of Transportation client project by leading the product R&D team, including: Building an enterprise-wide data portal with live analytics and GIS/mapping for more than 140 databases so uses could directly interact with the data in web interfaces and Web applications. I.

Arlington, Virginia, US

Worked on application requirements gathering, application design, and application development. Helped design and build Intranet applications to manage content and ease site management. Helped research and write proposals for clients bids. Provided virtual services to analyze, restore, and rebuild legacy databases for telecom service providers.

Lead research efforts for telecom, Internet, satellite industry clients on market entry, regulatory restrictions as well as technical approach viability, commercial competition and possible partners, economic analysis of market conditions, and national, regional and international regulatory tracking to assist clients select international markets for.

Built and managed an easy to use database for all reference and research materials in AMCRA's library. The service was used by in-house health policy staff and research department to find relevant materials easily in the library. Also assisted with research reports around managed care and public policy.

Or Yehuda, IL

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

Mpp, Public Policy, Economics, Quantative Analysis

Non-Degree Term At Center For Medieval And Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Art, History, Rhetoric, Jounalism

Ba, Communication