I enjoy taking classes in subjects that will help enrich my planning, analytical and development skills.
Here's a list (in reverse chronological order) of schooling, workshops, conferences and other educational experiences that have shaped my development as an information management professional.

Master of Information Management & Systems, expected May 2006
UC Berkeley's School of Information Management & Systems, Berkeley, CA

Focus: Human-Computer Interaction, Information Architecture, Usability, XML, Mobile and Web Technologies

CLASSES TAKEN:


Spring 2006:

• Workshop: Rapid Prototyping with Python (Symbian OS) for the mobile



• IS 213: User Interface Design and Development



• IS 209: Professional Skills Workshop



• MBA 296: Fundamentals of Business



• As a student volunteer for CHI 2006 in Montreal, I will attend the following workshops:
  • Building Affinity Diagrams to Reveal User Needs and Engage Developers
  • Understanding Users in Context: An In-Depth Introduction to Fieldwork
  • An Exercise in the Politics of Usability: Test Your Skills
  • Usable for the World: A Practical Guide to International User Studies

Fall 2005:

• IS 257: Database Management



• IS 247: Information Visualization



• IS 214: Needs and Usability Assessment



• IS 290: Quality of Information



• Graduate Student Instructor for IS 141 - Search Engines: Technology, Society and Business

Spring 2005:

• IS 205: Information Law and Policy



• IS 206: Distributed Computing Applications and Infrastructure



• IS 207: Analysis of Information Systems



• IS 290: XML and Related Technologies

Fall 2004:

• IS 202: Information Organization and Retrieval



• IS 203: Social and Organizational Issues of Information



• IS 255: Foundations of Software Design

 

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WORKSHOPS / CONFERENCES (2001-2004):

• Edward Tufte's Presenting Data and Information Workshop
• Guerilla User testing (Carbon IQ, now-defunct SF usability firm)
• Web Design World (2003)
• WEB2001 Conference+Exposition (CMP Media)
• Completed various classes in XML, XSL, ASP, Flash, Graphics for the web, Java programming at UC Berkeley Extension

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: (You often learn more about the subject and about people in general when you teach!)

• Graduate Student Instructor for IS 141 - Search Engines: Technology, Society and Business
• Taught English in Seoul, Korea (Oct 1995-Oct 1996) to elementary and middle-school students
  As part of the Sogang University Language Program (SLP)

 

Bachelor of Arts, May 1995
Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Major: Anthropology
Minor: Biology
Thesis: The effect of Canada’s multiculturalism policy on the ethnic identity of Canadians (using ethnographic interviewing techniques)

High School Diploma, May 1991
East York Collegiate Institute, Toronto, Ontario CANADA

 

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