...And then it was Wednesday. Forever. They call it hump day, but no one is ever that lucky.

Hearts of Space - Baraka by Michael Sterns - it's awesome! 

Coopman comes home tomorrow!

God Hell - it's only 3:30. It feels like 10 - like I've been sitting in my chair since three days ago. 

Also I have a question: if it's the job of the people I work with to help people pay their utility bills, why do they constantly leave the lights on in the conference rooms? I know it's stupid, but it drives me crazy.

SUBMITTED BY Mike Stinson October 18, 2007

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Technical Summary

• Dreamweaver IBM WebSphere 5.2

• Microsoft Office Oracle Portal 2.0 (Release 9iAS)

• Visio Vignette

• Adobe CS2 Day Communique

• InDesign Google Analytics / WebTrends

Professional Experience

Select Resources – Grandville, MI

Business Analyst Nov. 2006 – Jun 2007

Contracting at Johnson Controls, Inc. as a Business Analyst on the Employee Portal team, leading global projects as IT Project Lead: 1) Six Sigma – Continuous Improvement, 2) Supply Chain Management

• Established key contacts related to requestor’s department within the business (domestic and global), to create a Project Charter: identified the core team, defined audience, stakeholders, scope, and budget

• Documented user-centered tasks (use cases)

• Wrote functional requirements for business approval

• Responsible for developing technical requirements for IT/programming consumption. Creating site map and information architecture: organizing the information/content into logical usable navigation – using Visio or Excel

• Created wire frames for generic layout approval – using Visio, PowerPoint or Photoshop

• Developed a Usability Plan based on questions related to the project; conducted usability testing by sampling audience members

• Created portal site framework for content managers to work within – using Day Communique and Vignette

• Communication/launch plan/implementation; created the communications surrounding a product launch and determining the best channels and the timing of communications release

• Presented to management using PowerPoint’s, Visio, handouts, online demonstrations (subjects included project updates, one-on-ones, executive summaries, project overviews/reviews)

• Responsible for mediation/conflict resolution – finding common ground amongst constituents and stakeholders, and finding common goals of separate departments brought together by specific project

• Six-Sigma-CI project (global, enterprise-wide [Automotive Experience, Building Efficiency, Power Solutions]): postponed due to business resources. Got as far as wire frames.

• Supply Chain Management: three successes: 1. Launched three days early, 2. Constituent group created its own content, 3. First group to need intranet-type tool as opposed to informational site.

Haworth, Inc. – Holland, MI

Haworth, Inc. – Holland, MI 2001 – Nov. 2006

eMarketing Specialist

• Served as the Business Lead responsible for the Information Architecture for dynamic enterprise-wide Extranet Portals and Software Application solutions.

• Researched portal strategies and conducted product reviews.

• Conducted interviews with 35 representative dealerships (Dealer Owners, Customer Service, and Sales) and multiple departments within Haworth to define and document site requirements.

• Created both functional and technical requirements.

• Create wireframes for each screen, and form.

• Designed user interface.

• Created external and internal test groups – Users, IS, Marketing, Content Providers.

Highlights

• Improved the way Haworth communicated with its dealer network.

• Combined 5 essential secured sites under one password

McKeough Land Company – Grand Haven, MI 2000 – 2001

Marketing Director

• Determined branding and messaging

• Designed 9 unique URLs

• Responsible for search engine optimization, graphic design, collateral, and printing.

• Determined ad strategies and campaigns

Stock Communications, LLC – Grand Haven, MI 1999 – 2001

Freelance/Creative Director

• Responsible for the layout of Lakeshore Family Times (lakeshore family-oriented magazine)

• Graphic design for local business

Cadillac Plastic – Troy, MI 1994 – 1999

Art Director

• Managed global brand and identity (corporate logo was a halftone)

• All graphic design

• Expanded target-market concept through short-run digital press

• Created industry’s first web site

• Create industry’s first extranet, with Northrop Grumman

• Hired agencies, managed multiple projects both in-house and through vendors

• Trade show messaging and graphics

Raytheon – Lexington, MA 1990 – 1994

Artist/Illustrator

• Created technical illustration of circuits, radars, machines and more.

• Prepared presentations for government-sponsored scientists.

• Awarded Secret clearance

Education

B.A. 1986 – Principia College, Elsah, IL. Created special major: Communication Through Pictures and Words

Dean’s List, fall 1985 – Emerson College, Boston, MA

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linkto a pikcher

this is how i can link to a pickture

You can do this from Photobucket too!

Posta Pitchuh!

i wanna see how big i can post a pikcher

Chihuahuas suck.

Sometimes my brain feels like a Mad Lib.

I forgot that I need to get three quotes for jobs that I sent out over $500. I sent out for quotes this morning and the print place I didn't want to get the job is coming at $300 less than the other one. Meh.

I'm excited to go see the Coopman at school!

Where I work now

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Flicker URL

This is where my flickr images are.

Also, Suebear and I now have a Facebook page. This is to keep in touch with Cass and Coop, but mostly Coop since he's away at school.

Pathfinder in lake-effect snowstorm

Pathfinder in lake-effect snowstorm
Originally uploaded by hondagizmo

This is what -30F looks like on Lake Michigan. It's freaking cold. Of course some of us are dumb enough to walk out on the breakwater to check out what the lake looks like. Others are much smarter, like our fiances who choose to stay in the car where it's warm!

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

IMO Club in Pioneer Square, Seattle

I tried uploading this image to Artdepot.com but their .asp script sucks. I was only trying to put a lean portfolio together. I won't be using Artdepot, I guess. Anyway I like this image.

From Safari

At first this wouldn't post from Safari. Not that it matters; I just wanted to see if I could fix it. And I can. So I did. Well, don't I feel better now? Time for a sandwich.

First entry: Thursday.

So. This is what it's like to 'blog.'

I don't even talk to myself, and now I'm supposed to type to the world?

Hi everybody... .

Well, I guess that's it.