RAYMOND A.

MONACO

Mandatory Skills/Experience:
• Design presentation tool (Must have strong Visio abilities)- 10 years
• Strong UI design and development experience related to building enterprise applications (10 years),
including producing:
- site-maps – 8 years
- wire-frames - 8 years
- mock-ups (with out graphics design)- 8 years
- style-guides for look & feel - 6 years
- HTML pages/screens to use for back-end integration (a plus) - 8 years using Axure
• Be able to read, understand, and translate functional specifications and technical design artifacts
including detailed design document, usecases, sequence diagrams, and data model diagrams into a UI
design- 8 years
• Able to pick up in project mid-stream to assist team(s) with completing existing efforts, and within some
technical constraints and design choices - 10 years
• Must be able to work with minimal direction – 10 years
• Experience with usability testing – 8 years
• Experience in designing user- friendly and structured GUI’s for enterprise applications that support and
promote findability and usability– 8 years
• Experience not only working with traditional web- based platforms, but also prefer some experience with
windows- and/ or mobile- based platforms– 5 years

Desirable Skills/Experience:
• HTML, DHTML, JavaScript or Jscript, CSS – 6 years
• Not looking for graphics designer- Raymond is not a graphics designer

Reference Highlights:
• His performance was excellent; he is dependable, hard working and so much fun to work with.
• You can count on him. “When a project is on the line and you need someone to step up he is the guy”
• Highly recommended and eligible for rehire.

Raymond A. Monaco www.binarynewmedia.com Cell 718-775-4838 Office 718-351-

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RAYMOND A. MONACO

SUMMARY:

Senior Information Architect with a focus on Large Scale Content Management Systems,
Web 2.0 & 3.0, Web-based applications, Interactive Advertising, Education, Community,
E-commerce, Travel, Search, etc.

Information Architecture, including defining site structure, navigation, and page

layout, and assessing interface usability.

Business Analysis, including gathering, analyzing, and documenting functional/

business requirements and writing use cases, based on information gathering sessions
with clients/ stakeholders and technical team members technical and business writing;
project coordination; producing flowcharts and process diagrams. Standards- compliant
web authoring (XHTML, CSS) using text-based editors.

Strategic Planning: Plan projects and products that best serve customer needs and
capitalize on strategic opportunities.

Innovation: Lead productive brainstorming and collaboration across competencies and

departments.

Product Management: Develop clear product requirements specifying features,

functionality and use cases User experience design Information architecture Develop
functionality diagrams, site structures, navigation systems, wireframes.

Interaction design: Define user interaction with interfaces and systems, develop and
prove prototypes Interfaces, design user interfaces, information design systems, Visual
display of quantitative and qualitative information.

Rapid Prototyping: Design prototypes that quickly and clearly illustrate functionality
and prove interaction systems.

Usability Optimization: Usability testing, Heuristic analysis - Design reviews Increase

sales, conversion rates, and usability with design and business improvements Project and
client management Projects and clients Manage client relations, teams, contractors,
proposals, scheduling, budgets and quality control.

Process: Increase quality of work, productivity and communication by optimizing

design and development processes, technical skills, knowledge and communication.
Clearly and knowledgeably explain technical and business requirements to technical,
business, and design colleagues to enable cohesive collaboration.

Raymond A. Monaco www.binarynewmedia.com Cell 718-775-4838 Office 718-351-

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 International collaboration: Facilitate collaboration and clear communication across
multiple countries and cultures. Managed successful international projects for several
years.

TECHNICAL
SKILLS:

Wireframes, Sitemaps & User flows, Dynamic Prototyping, Paper Prototyping,

Content Auditing, Archetype Development, Persona Development, Storyboarding,
Usability Testing, Business and Technical Analysis, Search Engine Optimization and
Clickable Prototypes/Rapid Prototyping

Information Architecture/
Usability Software:
Axure, Morae, Microsoft Visio, OmniGraffle Pro, ConceptDraw, SmartDraw,
Optimal Trace, iRise, DOORS, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational SoDA

Project
Communication:
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project

Graphic
Communication:
Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Corel Draw

Web/
Programming-related:
XML and XSL authoring using XML Spy, HTML authoring with Cascading Style
Sheets using text-based editors and Eclipse

EXPERIENCE:

SENIOR INFORMATION ARCHITECT

01//08 - Present Rapp Collins Worldwide New York

Responsible for Creating Site Maps, Wireframes, Usability Testing and business
requirement elicitation from clients. Worked with a cross functional team to deliver
projects on time and on specification.
• Bayer HealthCare (Nick Jonas Microsite).
• J&J websites, corporate site (Rogaine.com, Reach.com).
• Mercedes Bens (Generation Benz Interactive community Microsite).
• Internal iPhone application (Wireframes) and usability for Bayer HealthCare.
• Macy’s ecommerce user experience testing.
• Travel Channel Facebook application wireframes.
• Several iPhone wireframes and prototypes.
• Bayer HealthCare International website.
• Worked with in an Agile methodology for software development & Rapid
Prototyping.
• Tested several design and clickable wireframes using Morae.

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 SENIOR INFORMATION ARCHITECT
01/07 – 01/08 OgilvyOne Worldwide New York

Responsible for the business requirements and wireframes for several large scale content
management system deployments.
• Worked with a lagged set of international clients.
• Created a 3D video interface for a startup company.
• Being A tool mentor for junior staff members
• Enforcing application architectural standards for documentation
• Conducted Focus Groups for multiple clients of the agency
• Selecting, designing and implementing documentation standards for client projects
• Management and leadership of a large geographically dispersed interaction design
team
• CMMI compliance business analysis.
• Responsible for GAP analysis; current state vs. future state planning
(interdepartmental).
• Worked with clients to phase in iterative interface upgrades and created a product
roadmap.
• Defined interface solutions to match business requirements.
• Elicited business requirements and built sitemaps and prototypes for clients.
• Involved in Rapid Prototype construction with Axure.
• Utilized Morae to help discern the most appropriate interface for a website.
• Designed multi-touch interfaces for Microsoft Surface.
• Designed iPhone applications that leveraged multi-touch interfaces.

INFORMATION ARCHITECT/ USABILITY ANALYST

01/05 – 01/07 Computer Sciences Corporation New York

Worked with the Saudi Arabian government on a biometrics program. Also worked with
the Department of Homeland Security.
• Biometrics Project: AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Identification System)
implementation powered by NEC.
• The system required that an interface be created to aggregate multiple data sources
and create a scorecard of candidates when a large query was run.
• This project also included iris scanning technology that needed wireframes and
usability testing. This project was a CMMI level 5 compliant project.
• This project needed several thousand wireframes, process flows and interaction
diagrams. We used iRise for business requirements and wireframes.

USER EXPERIENCE ARCHITECT

01/04 – 01/05 Robert Half International Las Vegas, Nevada

• Supported various clients and projects for RHI in the Las Vegas area. This involved
supporting casino client’s projects ranging from usability, interaction design and
proof of concept testing.

Applied on all RHI clients:

• User discovery and needs analysis
• Content organization and management

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 • Navigation design, information hierarchy, and taxonomy
• Prototyping and user testing
• Utilized Morae and iRise on several project to gather customer insights
• Interaction with Client, Design, and Production teams to complete projects
successfully
MGM/Mirage *RHI Client*
• Worked with the MGM marketing team to build/create several microstes that
support a broad range of marketing efforts.
WYNN Resorts *RHI Client*
• Created large focus groups and managed the usability testing for the newly
implemented site.
Mandalay Bay Resort Group *RHI Client*
• Worked on the rebranding of the site as well as the user interface testing and
competitive analysis.
Marnell & Carraro *RHI Client*
• Implementation of two sites a public facing site and an internal site to manage
company resources.

SENIOR INFORMATION ARCHITECT

02/03 – 01/04 RazorStream *Company Sold to Google*Las Vegas, Nevada

Built the company website all marketing communication materials and was responsible
for client website integration and projects.
• Developed content and information hierarchy for the company Web site
• Researched and evaluated industry news using online and print resources.
• Revised, redesigned, and supervised production of the Client Directory, one of Star
Reach's primary marketing tools, saving the company more than $5000 in
production/design fees.
• Reviewed content from prospective clients.

INFORMATION ARCHITECT
01/02 – 02/03 R&R Partners Las Vegas, Nevada

R&R Partners is a creative media agency specializing in Web design, where project sizes
range from 20 pages to 2,000 pages, from simple informational sites to highly interactive
e-commerce and entertainment sites. I was responsible for establishing intuitive
information hierarchies and effective user interfaces for web sites and information
systems that allow users to achieve their goals and fulfill the clients' communication
objectives.
• Wrote functional requirements for interactive web sites based on information
gathering sessions with clients and technical team members.
• Defined information architecture for websites, including wireframes and navigation.
• Researched, designed, and documented content management procedures for
collecting multilingual content from clients interacted with clients in gathering and
managing website content.
• Worked with graphic designers and wrote text for digital branding guide.
• Produced graphics and content for user manuals documenting back-end
administrative web sites.
• Wrote online help text for interactive web pages.

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 SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
03/95 – 01/02 WPP/Young and Rubicam/Wunderman New York, New York

Demonstrated ability to apply sound knowledge to diverse applications. Developed and

cultivated strategies to harmonize the enterprise's operating system platforms, network
infrastructure and corporate wide applications, server and client systems these clients
include IBM, Coke, AT&T, and various other dot .com businesses. Developed several
proprietary systems to address business needs and proactively created knowledge
management systems, ECRM/CRM applications and vendor and lead management
databases. Also developed a global standard and distributed this to the world wide
network at Wunderman. The position also included the responsibility running the client
facing interactive group.
• Utilized the Rational tool set for structured software analysis and design.
• Integrated enterprise software packages and consolidated the data.
• Responsible for all production operations and the companies data center.

EDUCATION:

M.S., Computer Science

1999 Minor: HCI (Human Computer Interaction) New York City University

B.S., Computer Science

1997 Minor: HCI (Human Computer Interaction) New York City University

Training:
Training from HFI (Human factors international)
• Included courses in usability evaluation, metadata and taxonomy, enterprise content
auditing, and object-oriented analysis and design using UML
• PET: Training Persuasion, Emotion & Trust (In relation to usability)

Training from Adaptive Path

• Usability Analysis Training
• Experience Strategy Training (Competitive Analysis, Collaborative Ideation, Field
Research Ethnography)
• Experience Design Training (Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Interface
Design)

Raymond A. Monaco www.binarynewmedia.com Cell 718-775-4838 Office 718-351-9591