Users FIRST – An Agile Information Architecture Framework

Managed all aspects of ongoing website maintenance, enhancements, and content management as directed by the Pfizer Global Communications team. Major tasks included regularly addressing and rectifying security audit findings, planning the creation of major website sections, features, and initiatives, as well as weekly status reporting to Pfizer stakeholders.

Pfizer.com Support & Maintenance Project

 

 

 

 

 

 

Responsibilities include the overall management of diverse projects, with an emphasis on web site information architecture and design, as well as providing leadership in the operational and strategic direction of the company’s internet/web identity & presence. Managerial duties occured throughout the entire project life cycle and included the hiring and guiding of teams of various sizes, interfacing with the business and client stakeholders to ensure that their needs were met, developing estimates, requirements, project plans, test plans, other project documentation, as well as final transitioning of projects to the Mellon Systems Management group.

BNY Mellon Financial Portal

Mellon Investor Services Application

Managed information architecture and GUI Design development of the Automated Stock Administrators Portal and the Adjustments and Corrections Tool providing Mellon clients with Stock Options management services.

Mellon Stock Options Application

Internal File Automation Control Tool interface to help in the processing of daily batch files.

Mellon FACT Utility

Merrill Lynch Pitch Book

Created and currently manage HaitiXchange.com which experiences over 200,000 unique visitors a month, features ecommerce functionality, articles, streaming video, online radio, podcasts, RSS feeds, and was featured in the Haitian Times newspaper

HaitiXchange.com

fresh_finesse

Although it no longer exists, Fresh Finesse was a web site that I started in 1995 to share and explore my interest at that time, in Hip Hop music. I promoted it as “Where Cyberspace Meets the ‘Hood” and it quickly drew a huge following, becoming one of the first memorable sites of its kind.
 
At that time, people were still exploring what could be done with internet technology, and people who were interested always enjoyed finding a virtual location where they could meet others who shared the same interests.
 
An interview on MSNBC noted that Fresh Finesse was a site to look out for and avery interesting write-up in Wired Magazine noted the following:
 
…Fresh Finesse (www.freshcom.com/), as “where cyberspace meets the ‘hood.” It’s a virtual city where Brazilian hip hoppers trade mother jokes with kids from neighborhoods in the United States. Pascal doesn’t censor postings, and the community has grown organically and developed a life of its own.
 
Pascal thinks the success of Fresh Finesse is a sign that the herd will come, but the imminent arrival of large numbers of new people also raises troubling questions – especially for those who know hip hop history. As online hip hop becomes more popular, the success will attract the soulless commercial interests… Wired Magazine “Chip Hop” – 9/97

Fresh Finesse