Mark Swindle: CV  [Download CV]

Project Manager | Web/Software Designer | IA | Writer | Photographer

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Significant Works
2009 School of Education & Social Policy
Design, information architecture and project management of SESP's website.
Project Manager, Designer, Information Architect
2008 The Life and Times of Florence Kelley in Chicago,
In collaboration with 7 other Northwestern University departments, this companion site to Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930 presents 50,000 pages of historical records as an interactive, searchable online archive.
Project Manager, Designer, Information Architect
2003 - 2009 SOCiety
An educational content management system (CMS) authored in PHP, developed for the School of Communication, adopted by other Northwestern University and external units, then expanded to include Virtual Showroom, Digital Portfolio, Reporting System, News Center, Profiling Engine and other functionality.
Project Architect, Project Manager, Designer, Jr Developer
2004 National Resident Curriculum Research Project,
A collaboration between the School of Communication and the Feinberg School of Medicine's Dept of Surgery, sponsored by the American Board of Surgery, developing a prototype rich-media, online learning tool for nationwide use by surgery interns.
Information Architect, Designer
2004 Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930
A website built around an interactive online repository of legal and historical documents with a searchable database of over 11,000 homicides.
Information Architect, Designer
1995-2000 The Quaker Goes Deaf
An indie label import retail record store in Chicago’s historic Wicker Park neighborhood in the Flat Iron Arts Building, voted Chicago’s premier record store in 1998.
Co-owner and co-founder | Designer | Marketing & promotions | Online Store
Employment History
2010-2011 design-ia
(Owner) Project Management | Web Design | Development | IA | Writing
2004 - 2009 Northwestern University, School of Education & Social Policy
Senior Web Designer | Webmaster
2002 - 2004 Northwestern University, School of Communication
Webmaster
2001 - 2002 Freelance
Web Designer, Flash Developer, Web Producer
2000 - 2001 Frankel & Company
Senior Interactive Art Director, Senior Web Designer
2000 - 2000 Leapnet
Web Producer and Coordinator
1999 - 2000 Neology (of Smith Bucklin & Associates)
Web Designer, Web Producer and Coordinator
1998 - 1999 Aquent, E-Staff and Digital People
Freelance web design | web production | print design | print production | software testing
1995 - 1998 The Quaker Goes Deaf Record Store
(Co-owner and co-founder) Designer | Marketing & promotions | Online Store | Financial management/planning
1984 - 1995 Jugular Design & Graphics
(Owner) Illustration | medical illustration | graphic design

Awards/Honors
2008            Best Practices Excellence Award, Northwestern University
2003 Best in Category, Folder Design, Printing Industry of Illinois/Indiana
1998 New City Reader's Poll: No. 1 Record Store in Chicago

Selected Projects
Media Piracy in Emerging Economies, SSRC, ePub creation (2011)
Olga Sezneva Designer, PM, IA, Production (2010)
Koray Caliskan Designer, PM, IA, Production (2010)
Dmitry Vyshemirsky, Photographer Designer, IA, Production (2010)
Corkins Lodge Designer, IA, Photographer, Writer, Production (2010)
MacArthur Foundation Masters in Development Program (Flash) Interactive Map Design, Project Management (2010)
The World in a Shell Catalog Writer (2010)
School of Education & Social Policy Designer, PM, IA (2009)
Center for Talent Development Designer, PM, IA (2008)
Interface Design for a CD-ROM for McGraw-Hill Contemporary's GED Assessment
LASIK Surgery in Colombia
Medical Illustration samples
School of Communication, Northwestern University
Tropicana
Tropicana Smoothies


Education
Degree Institution
MS in Computer Information Studies (incomplete) Northwestern University
BS in Architectural Studies (with honors) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Selected Presentations
Swindle, Mark (May, 2008)
Accreditation and Accountability: Digital Portfolios, Virtual Showrooms and a Content Management System [PPT]
Best Practices Forum, Northwestern University, Evanston IL.

Bienen, Leigh; Swindle, Mark; Rich, Matthew (April, 2008)
From Murder to Social Justice: A Tale of Technology and Record Keeping Across Two Centuries [PPT]
Complexity Institute, Northwestern university, Evanston IL.

Bienen, Leigh; Swindle, Mark (Feb, 2008)
The Life and Times of Florence Kelley in Chicago, 1891-1899 [PPT]
Sidley Austin LLC, Chicago IL.

Swindle, Mark and Webb, James (April 2007)
Accreditation and Accountability: Digital Portfolios, Virtual Showrooms and a CMS .
Annual Meeting, Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Chicago IL.

Bienen, Leigh; Swindle, Mark (Feb, 2006).
A History of Homicide in Chicago, 1870-1930.
Newberry Library, Chicago IL.

Papers
2003 Solving For Perceptual and Pedagogical Problems in the Virtual Classroom
2002 The Changing Face of Online Environmental Activism: New Tools and Their Effect On Environmental Policy



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