scott williams’ résumé

 

Scott Williams

(734) 773-2570 (cell)
<swims@umich.edu>
http://www.umich.edu/~swims

Professional Experience

(5-09 to 10-17)

Web Accessibility Coordinator,
Office for Institutional Equity, University of Michigan.

  • Worked closely with all campus populations to help eliminate barriers to an open educational and working environment.

  • Moved the University toward a position of leadership in online accessibility.

  • Supported and advocated for the use and development of accessible interface technologies for people with disabilities.

  • Helped to define and develop web accessibility best practices for the U-M environment, assisted in identifying goals and methods for attaining them, and provided administrative support to the campus units involved in web development.

(5-00 to 5-09)

Web Project Manager,
Michigan Marketing & Design (now Michigan Creative), University of Michigan.

  • Planned and coordinated web marketing projects and services.

  • Project managed the U-M gateway, President’s, and many other top-level University websites.

  • Oversaw and participated in web content production, including writing and editing.

  • Consulted with staff and campus clients on information architecture and website design.

  • Planned and implemented web and print marketing strategies, programs, and activities.

  • Managed web projects, planned budgets, schedules, content, multimedia, and materials acquisition.

  • Coordinated web usability and accessibility testing.

(11-96 to 5-00)

Web Developer/Webmaster, Web Services, Information Technology Services (ITS), University of Michigan.

  • Developed websites for various departments and units at the U-M, including the:
    —College of Architecture and Urban Planning
    —School of Education
    —U-M Online
    —Rackham Graduate School
    —MacArthur Middle Childhood Network

  • Served as webmaster for U-M Online, the U-M’s Internet service provider to U-M alumni and retired faculty and staff. Also provided writing, editorial, and marketing support to U-M Online.

  • Functioned as Web Services’ project manager for many U-M departments, including the:
    —College of Architecture and Urban Planning
    —School of Education
    —U-M Business School
    —Technology Management Office
    —Rackham Graduate School
    —MacArthur Middle Childhood Network.

  • Worked in Mac, Windows, and UNIX environments, with numerous web authoring tools. (Bbedit and Dreamweaver especially.)

(1-93 to 11-96)

Technical Writer/Editor, Webmaster, Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI), University of Michigan.

  • Served as webmaster for the Client/Server Exchange, a joint research project with IBM and the U-M, setting up and maintaining the C/SE website on a Lotus Notes Domino server.

  • Assisted in CITI web page development and maintenance.

  • Created a Notes Database for the ITS Documentation group so they could organize their U-M user documentation electronically.

  • Created several multimedia presentations for the C/SE with Macromedia Director.

  • Prepared the CITI quarterly reports for IBM sponsors.

  • Developed course materials for Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) classes.

  • Provided writing and editorial support for team members in the development of DCE presentations and white papers.

  • Wrote and edited CITI user documentation, technical reports, and newsletter articles.

  • Worked with numerous software packages, including Macromedia Director, PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Debabelizer, FrameMaker (Mac and UNIX), Microsoft Word, Interleaf, vi, xmh, xrn.

(3-89 to 11-92)

Technical Writer, Applied Dynamics International, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan.

  • Wrote software and hardware reference manuals, documenting a variety of engineering simulation products.

  • Edited reference manuals for consistency, style, and technical accuracy.

  • Maintained a documentation set of approximately sixty manuals.

  • Wrote sections of the test suite for the ADSIM simulation language compiler.

  • Wrote programming examples for software manuals.

  • Worked with Microsoft Word (DOS) and Aldus Freehand software packages.

Education

B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (9-85).
Major: Anthropology

Postgraduate Classes, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan (1-86 to 12-88). Computer science and mathematics, with programming experience in C, FORTRAN, Pascal, and Assembly.

Honors

Angel Scholar (U-M)
Dean’s List (U-M and EMU)

Professional Societies

ATHEN, AHEAD

References

Available on request.