What makes a kid want to play with the same toy over and over again?

In my work as an information architect and interaction designer, I like to work collaboratively with others who keep that question in mind.

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Experience

10/2005 - Present
Information Architect
Orbitz.com, Chicago, IL

At Orbitz I am an information architect and interaction designer with the corporate travel solutions products, Orbitz for Business, Travelport for Business, and portals for United Airlines and American Airlines. I help design new features for online applications used by many international companies to manage policy travel. Orbitz is a leading travel aggregator which has won awards and is gaining market share, partly because of the excellence in navigation and interaction design provided by our team of information architects.

As senior information architect for McGill Digital Solutions, I architected Flash-based highly interactive elearning solutions, kiosks and web applications for Fortune 500 clients in the US.

I was President and information designer for OneMind Inc, where for 11 years I led a team of communications professionals to research and create B2B marketing and communication solutions and web applications, mostly in healthcare.

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• Was among the first to adopt Adobe Acrobat as an interactive authoring medium; used it to develop online interactive conference programs for Internet World Conference
  
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• Architected user interface for the web physician software product, OutReach, for IDX Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: IDXC), a medical software company. OutReach received an Industry Solutions Award from Microsoft Healthcare User Group.
  
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• Branding, interactive design and marketing communications for Internet World, most successful conference and trade show in the industry, now in many international venues
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  - Helped lead IDX Systems Corporation into the Internet age as design lead for the user interface for web-based systems for IDX's clinical and administrative applications. This software is running the clinical applications of such prestigious clients as the Mayo Clinic and the Stanford University Medical Centre, as well as key sectors of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. IDX has recently become a part of GE Healthcare.
  
  
• Other clients of OneMind Inc were The Financial Accounting Foundation, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB), 3M Health Care, Allscripts, Apple Computer, Internet World, PatientKeeper, and Gartner Group.