Beth Carey

Experience

Product Manager Consultant

element^n, Dubai, Beirut and New York
August 2008 - Present

• Conduct business requirements analysis and web strategy definition
• Lead Key Meetings, Trainings and Presentations
• Manage relationships with executive stakeholders and project sponsors, following up regularly to ensure strategic alignment, visibility and satisfaction levels
• Provide leadership, mentorship and support to project team to ensure they are able to complete their work effectively
• Ensure each member of the project team is motivated, rewarded, empowered, developing professionally, and has clearly defined objectives and authority levels on client projects
• Support project coordinator and consultants to ensure planning and deliverables are developed in accordance to the highest quality industry standards
• Contribute to performance reviews and goal setting for project team

Manager, Product Development

Vidvaee (acquired by Vignette), New York, NY
December 2006 - May 2008

• Managed and focused a 30-person international development and QA team in agile sprint iterations in New York, Romania, Brazil, and Beirut
• Established and coached the organization in an agile development process which resulted in fast and predictable development cycles, increased product quality and communications
• Managed suite of video software that comprised the company's service: trancoder, streamer, API management (Java, PHP and Javascript), a web-based UI admin tool, analytics, and reporting
• Wrote detailed Functional Specifications that included Information Architecture and UI Designs
• Mentored project mangers and engineering team leads in proper project management practices

Senior Information Architect Consultant

New York, NY
July 2006 - November 2006

• Lead IA on a large Web 2.0 video-based social and creative networking site, massify.com. Client: Rokkan, New York, NY
• Lead IA for other clients including JDS Pharmaceuticals, Sudler and Hennessey and HairPi Salon among others

Director of Product Development

Bolt Media, New York, NY
March 2005 - July 2006

• Bolt.com was a leading Web 2.0 creative networking site with 5.5 million unique users monthly
• Worked closely with executives to define business requirements
• Managed and focused IAs, developers and QA team in agile sprint iterations
• Mentored project mangers and engineering team in proper project management practices

Project Manager

3Bdigital, a division of Bit by Bit, New York, NY
January 2004 - March 2005

• Primary client contact and responsible for getting sign-off on project milestones and changes of scope
• Produced all Information Architecture, including Site Maps and Page Schematics, Requirements, and Functional Specifications, and occasionally executed HTML prototypes
• Collaborated in generation of proposals and pitch strategies for existing and new accounts

Interactive TV Producer, Consultant

New York, NY
2001 - 2004

• Fuse, (formerly MMUSA), A Cablevision Network, New York, NY
  January 2002 - October 2002
  • As part of a team, created the production system for Dedicate Live, a live, synchronized two-screen model (web and TV broadcast) iTV program. Worked closely with TV producers, broadcast engineers, executives, and back-end programmers
  • Co-produced Dedicate Live, supervising a team of APs and PAs until the show was easy to produce for non-technical staff
  • Directed to Fuse's front-end design and back-end programming vendors
  • Submitted the name Fuse, among others, when Much Music USA was planning a name change, and pitched new show ideas to executives
  
  
• Urban iTV, New York, NY
  May 2001 - December 2001
  • Created and managed production of Urban Bedtime Stories, an enhanced TV, two-screen model (web and TV broascast), proof of concept prototype broadcast.
  • Read the Guardian (UK) newspaper article about it, Famous for 15MB


• Shared State Productions. New York, NY
  October 2001 - January 2002
  Co-produced a prototype, Game, for an interactive 3D animated TV show for game console delivery using machinama production methods
  
  

Information Architect, Consultant

New York, NY
2001 - 2003

Clients included: Schoolnet and Friskit.com

Information Architect

Fusebox, New York, NY
June 1997 - May 2001

• Gathered requirements and created IA deliverables including User Task Analysis, IA Strategy Brief, Site Maps, Work Process Flow Diagrams (including Registration, Shopping Cart, Gift Giving, Parental Control System, and Online Banking), Page Schematics (including CMS templates), HTML Prototype Click-throughs and Game R&D
• Worked closely with clients and in-house team in defining Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Use Cases, Content Strategy, and job proposals
• Worked closely with Back-end and Front End Programmers and Designers to ensure that development was consistent with Functional and Business Requirements
• Started as Front End Developer / RealNetworks Administrator administering RealNetworks Servers on UNIX/SGI
• Produced and supervised production of RealNetworks streaming media presentations using complex SMIL. HTML, Javascript, and Production Design

Front End Developer

Freelance, New York, NY
April 1996 - September 1997

Clients included Word.com (contributed too), Homearts.com, SportChannel.com and Newsworks.com

Film/TV Production and Editor, Freelance

Freelance, New York, NY, 1988 - 1995

Prior to Internet work, worked in film/TV industry and as a litigation paralegal

Education

MFA in Computer Art

School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

BA in Liberal Arts

Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

Professional Development

• Nielsen Norman Group, User Experience Conference, User Testing and Advanced User Testing, Fall 2005
• Edward Tufte Day Seminar, The Nielsen Norman Group User Experience World Tour, and SIGGRAPH, 2000
And various other lectures and talks over the years

Languages and Programs

• Adobe Illustrator preferred for information architecture diagram deliverables; can use Omnigraffle and Visio if required
• Basic Front End Development: HTML, DHTML and CSS coding from scratch, basic Javascript, Adobe GoLive, FTP server file updating
• Unix and Linux file management; comfortable on the command line
• Working familiarity with Perl and Java
• Project Wizards Merlin
• MS Office
• Apple and Linux OSs preferred but will work on a PC if required

References

Many available upon request.

Work Samples

Many available upon request.











Last updated 08/08/2008