Resume'

CHRIS BOESE

LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisboese
Professional Portfolio: www.serendipit-e.com/boeseportfolio
Personal/Professional Weblog: www.serendipit-e.com/blog

PROFILE:

• Proven interactive media production and marketing skills honed since the birth of the Web in 1993.
• Functional/Business analysis and technical documentation skills, with wiki documentation forms.
• Web 2.0 research into social media and the grassroots citizen media movement.
• Experienced blog designer, author, and community manager. Serendipit-e.com domain includes about 35 individual and group blogs (12 are personal publishing projects). One private listserv I manage has been in existence more than 8 years.
• Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic in cybercultures, interactive media, HCI & technical communication.
• Enthusiastic speaking and leadership style that motivates and inspires collaborative groups to exceed project goals and creatively push beyond existing limits.
• Adept multi-tasker and quick learner, able to facilitate projects through rapid prototyping and  usability testing (including experience with Agile/Scrum).
• Advanced writing and communication skills, adaptable to short and long form media genres and a wide range of publishing venues, from technical writing to journalism and PR, blogs, and literary and scholarly journals.

SPECIALTIES:

• New Media creator, researcher, social critic, and futurist studying social media, cybercultures, online communities, and the citizen media movement.
• Award-winning teacher, trainer and public speaker applying innovative tools and approaches to computer-assisted learning since 1990.
• Published and award-winning photographer, poet, fiction & literary non-fiction writer and journalist.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Functional Analyst at Avenue A-Razorfish: NYC  Client: CondeNet, Flip.com
January 2007 – Present ( 10 months)

• Lead FA on CondéNet’s Flip.com, a major social media/Flash scrapbooking site for teenaged girls.
• Worked on Facebook Application development on 1-year anniversary of Flip.
• Gather and document business requirements, and create functional specifications.
• Organized and structured central intranet Wiki for site features and supporting materials.
• Collaborate with design, technology, and user experience teams on site interaction design features and functionality.

Writer; Researcher/Associate Writer at CNN Headline News, Atlanta, GA
August 2001– December 2006 (5 years  5 months)

• Started one month before 9/11 & wrote the on-screen 2-deck headline “ticker” from 2001-2003, through some of the most incredible breaking news in recent history.
• Cyberculture/cult media columnist for HLN on CNN.com, 2002-05: BuzzFactor, HotWired.
• Developed intranet HLN blog on spec, 2003. Project reborn for entire CNN newsgroup, 2006.
• Freelanced CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360” April 2004. Completed copy editor training, 2005.

T. Anthony Pollner Distinguished Professor at University of Montana School of Journalism, Missoula, MT. August 2005– December 2005 (5 months)

• Taught one-semester endowed visiting professorship, including seminar on weblogs and citizen journalism movement, while on leave from CNN.
• Co-advisor to student newspaper, directing the RSS-based redesign of the CMS and its online edition (Expression Engine platform).
• 300+ attended public lecture on warblogs vs. traditional journalism delivered for the endowment.

Assistant Professor at Clemson University, Department of English, MA Professional Communication Program (MAPC), Clemson, SC. August 1998– May 2002 (3 years  10 months)

• Teaching and Research in New Media and Web Design, Information Architecture/Interaction Design, Visual Communication, HCI, Usability, Pilot Laptop Program.
• Received $100,000 grant over 3 years to create and direct the PSA Interactive Resources Studio for Clemson Public Service Activities (1998-2001). www.nutball.com/archive/psaportal/ie/index.htm
• Implemented redesign of the PSA web portal and about a dozen PSA client sites with 4 grad assistants and 2 student programmers/year.
• Directed formal usability study after launch with coded video data. Hosted and directed other grant-funded, nationally-published grad thesis usability studies

Web/Computer Contractor/Consultant: Sample Clients: (1998) Cisco Systems, Albany, NY branch. Created database for the NYS government contract to access through a local node of the Cisco Intranet. (July 1995) UNISYS Transportation Sector Marketing Group, Bluebell, PA.