- Produces Marketing, Editorial, Event and Portrait photography and videos for private, public and non-profit organizations. - Creates impactful stories and assets, via photography, videography, audio production, video post-production, and web content management. Partial client list includes The Bay School; San Francisco Schoolhouse; dear jane, Inc., a Career Services Company; Jerome and Horner; and The Renaissance School. Visual portfolio at www.vincentjurgens.com

- Established and managed state of the art digital photo, video and website operations. Raised the standard of visual communications to professional levels, while capturing the spirit and enthusiasm of students and staff in their daily work. - Collaborated with executive leadership, senior faculty and staff on content strategy for all photo, video, and website productions to create on brand, high quality media. - Served as an expert/key participant in the research, conceptualization, organization and execution of using digital video for marketing and storytelling purposes. - Produced brand inspiration, promotional and fundraising videos. Photographed and videotaped school life and events, including classroom teaching, performances, lectures, athletic games, and community-building activities. - Photographed for print and online advertising, admissions materials, and magazines.- Produced content for social platforms (i.e. Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, YouTube, etc.). Worked with communications team to keep current videos and photos on the website and social channels.- Built and managed a cloud-based, multi-terabyte library of still and moving images.- Managed public website, including mobile responsive design, SEO, and static and dynamic content.- Managed web applications and databases as well as providing the software vendors and their user communities with usability insights and troubleshooting. - Managed Blackbaud K-12 ON Products: OnMessage CMS, OnCampus LMS, OnRecord SIS, OnBoard admissions, and Core. - Coordinated integrations between business critical enterprise systems: Ravenna admissions, Blackbaud SIS, Blackbaud fundraising application, Constant Contact, Blackboard emergency notification system, and medical management software.- Managed annual forms process and tracking, parent access to SIS and LMS functionality, and numerous other functions.

- Designed User Experiences for enterprise level multi-channel marketing applications, including both front-end user flows and back-end applications for service administration.- Brought updated, modern User Experience patterns to aging web applications, to help them compete with nimbler startups. Championed a roadmap for UI consistency, recommending the technical front-end platform that should be used, then prototyping a new email marketing campaign application as an example. - Worked with product management, engineering and marketing teams. - Designed dashboards for marketing operations monitoring of metrics and user behavior.

- Designed User Experiences for major consumer-facing products and led the interaction design efforts of a group of four Interaction Designers, as they worked to increase conversion rates (purchase) on the travel site. Defined a unique-to-the-industry build-a-trip experience. - Designed and executed A/B usability testing, live in production, of key UI elements. - Developed and managed the implementation of UX standards. - Worked closely with product management, engineering, business owners, analysts and functional designers to define product direction and UX requirements. Collaborated with visual designers and copywriters on deliverables.

- Designed User Experiences for consumer facing, cloud-based photo web applications with complex back-end process components, including the Kodak ecosystem involving both web and hardware endpoint asset synchronization. - Refined the user experience process in context of Agile development.- Conducted extensive research and brought a strong, deep perspective on how the entire Kodak ecosystem, from cameras, to images, to web, to printing, worked best together for the benefit of photographers.- Improved the user experience for Kodak Gallery visitors, which increased purchase rates (prints, cards, books etc.) and activities (uploading, organizing, sharing photos.)- Partnered with the Center for Digital Storytelling to explore integrating story creation methods (via slideshows, videos, photo books) into Kodak applications. - Worked closely with engineering, marketing, product management teams and consumers to identify issues and opportunities. - Collaborated with engineers to define architectural solutions.- Worked closely with UI visual designers, internal and agency, to define page-level interaction.- Assisted in usability evaluations of prototypes and existing interfaces as necessary.

- Brought antiquated, software-based applications up to modern web-based standards. Applications included Remedy IT Service Management Help Desk, Change Management, Asset Management, Configuration Management and Customer Support applications.- Worked closely with visual designer to create a forward-looking UI interaction vision as a basis for all product roadmaps moving forward.- Managed a UI Design System evolution project, including a team of three designers.

- Designed User Experiences for complex enterprise Incentive Management (EIM) sales software, using an Extreme Programming workflow. Wrote User stories and reviewed Use Cases.- Designed screen-by-screen user interactions, with full annotations, in HTML prototype.- Contributed to the evolution of the User Interface team's methodologies and deliverables.

- Helped define the practice of User Experience/Information Architecture Design while at this ground-breaking web agency that provided leading-edge web site strategy and creation to clients.- Managed UX design process, drove decisions, estimated resource needs, built schedules, and tracked issues.- Created and presented key deliverables to clients: Task and Content Analyses, Personas, User Stories, Conceptual Models, Use Cases, Site Architectures, Flow Diagrams, Feature and Function Requirements, Wireframes, Search Systems, Content Management Systems, Usability Test Plans, and Measurement and Analysis plans.- Clients: Washington Mutual (NewMedia Silver Award winner); Sony Playstation; The Home Depot; Daimler Chrysler; plus numerous potential clients via Pitches and Heuristic Assessments.- Evaluated and re-constructed information and data to engage, inform, and inspire website users.- Worked closely with visual designers, account managers, engineers, behavioral scientists, and marketers.- Effectively communicated User Experience Design artifacts verbally, visually, and in writing to team and clients.

- Supervised engineers (database, server, hosting, UI, and QA) to design and implement the front and back-end engineering features required by a web site. Clients included Rational Software, Kinkos, Formica, and Feld Entertainment (Ringling Brothers Circus).- Worked with core team leads to define Use Cases. Supported a quality assurance plan for the project.- Managed internal engineering resources to complete projects on time and within budget.

- Provided operational management of Computer Graphics Production Group of 10 staff, and three labs within a computational science environment. Co-developed and administered $1M+ annual budget.- Creative and technical staff consisted of 3D artists, audio designers, programmers and engineers, working together to develop custom software applications for real-time data visualization. Technical environment: Supercomputers, SGI workstation labs, CAVE, ImmersaDesk, and Infinity Wall VR systems.- Performed technology demonstrations at NCSA, industry conferences, and client sites for industry, academia, government and funding stakeholders. Recognition by the White House for helping launch the NII, National Information Infrastructure Initiative.- Co-organized and operated conference installations for Siggraph '94, WWW '94, Supercomputing '94, '95 & '96.

- Managed the day to day operations of the Media Services Group and a staff of four, serving scientific visualization projects. Developed and administered annual budgets. - Co-designed a state-of-the-art digital video and audio production facility. - Served as technical director for video production on projects such as the Academy Award-nominated IMAX film Cosmic Voyage.- Worked with interdisciplinary teams of researchers, scientists, programmers, artists and media staff.- Named honorary member of the Academy for High Definition Television Arts and Sciences.

Produced, directed, edited, managed audio and lighting for public affairs, promotional and fundraising programs at public television station. Hired, trained and supervised part-time production crews of 2-10 people.