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Ann R. Marion
19 Candy Hill Road v Sudbury, MA 01776
Home: 978-440-8682 v E-mail: annmarion@marionworks.com
Senior Project Manager/WEB&UI IMPLEMENTER
Distance Learning Programs & Academic Media Production
Prolific, award-winning academic product pioneer credited with development and management of groundbreaking technology programs, products, and projects. Personal mission to impact evolution of computers and multimedia as educational tools and integrate next-generation educational technology with real-world educational systems. Employers include Brandeis, M.I.T., Dartmouth, Houghton-Mifflin, and Apple Computer. M.I.T. Master of Science Degree in Visual Studies. B.A. Cornell.
Expert team builder and communicator. Skilled at achieving project buy-in. Record of delivering projects on time, on budget. Passion for creating learning-enhancing products at the cutting edge of new technologies, processes, and ideas. Experience working closely with K-12 teachers to add computer elements to curricula. Known for taking small projects and transforming them into exciting, innovative educational initiatives.
StonySoft Consulting, Sudbury, MA 1998-Present
Strategic consultant for New England companies in transition to distance learning — addressing community, customer-focused, content, and customer databases. Project highlights include Dartmouth, BeingMeta, Student Advantage,others:
Distance learning consultant and webmaster for online courses in role spanning strategic guidance and hands-on implementation. Created web pages including media and resource links for invited expert speakers in a lecture series for Dartmouth Thayer School of Engineering. Built websites for annual seminars.
· Wrote site information architecture report for presentation to government funders encompassing statistics, graphic design, and recommendations for future development.
BeingMeta, Boston, MA 2004-2005
BeingMeta is a spin-off of the MIT Media Lab providing metadata services, technology, and applications forUser Interface Implementer/Lead Interface Designer,
Provide analysis, design, and implementation for company website and on-line prototype applications. Collaborate with software architect/chief scientist to revise technologies and user interface for improved useability of products including: BabelVision a demonstrator of multi-lingual information access applied to image archives and using the BRICO ontology. Bab elVision describes Images in it's custom FramerD database using concepts rather than keywords, allowing more precise searching as well as interlingual annotation and access.
· Design and Implementation of new website and on-line demonstrations on schedule for initial debute of company; implemented as CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) integrated with java application. Utilize work flow processes for sharing code using cvs version control.
· Analyse and design user interface, and example applications; write recommendations and mock-up example walk-throughs in photoshop and html.
· Attend presentations to potential clients and professional conferences: collect and record feedback and leads. Rework product demonstration and website to incorporate feedback on on-going basis.
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 1999-2002
The Dynamical and Evolutionary Machine Organization Lab is known for breakthrough new approaches in computation, learning and computer intelligence and robotics.
Project manage peer-to-peer, web-based educational initiatives. Supervise implementation of Internet systems in java, PERL, and HTML by graduate students, and oversee testing in real-world classroom settings. Optimize established industry network in educational community. Cultivate collaborative relationships with researchers and institutions in different domains of expertise. Liaison with schools, teacher training colleges, and educators. Direct quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis. Maintain project schedules in academic environment. Draft reports and proposals.
· Co-authored proposals to secure educational technology grant from the National Science Foundation, ranking in the top 10% of all proposals submitted.
· Brought projects into adherence with national education standards.
Provided strategic guidance, research and evaluation of solutions, production management, and website development for distance learning initiatives. Project manager and chief liaison with client. Identified third-party vendors for customization of services and products. Opened communications between technology experts, management, and client. Drafted information architecture report. Managed development of web pages in alignment with client’s page layout system and branding scheme.
· Completed project on schedule for critical launch of services in fall 1999.
· Rolled out unique customized academic search engine for basic undergraduate courses. Provided filtered, academically relevant results, exclusive “special collection” sources unavailable through the web, and instant help for term papers and exams.
Sixth Floor Media, College Division, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA 1996-1998
Semi-autonomous department within college division, set up to sell software tools to academic community.
Recruited to represent company and manage $1 million federal grant to research and prototype next-generation instructional tools and titles for online courseware. Directed research and development of next generation instructional titles and applications for distance learning, integrating customer-centric design process with telesales/database marketing. Overhauled alpha software product CommonSpace, a word processing application supporting peer collaboration to create more reliable and responsive beta product. Designed new systems for integrating diverse end-user requirements into development process. Planned initial content and customer databases for custom publishing. Directed budget reporting and deliverables. Developed 3-year budget with college CFO and carefully tracked spending.
· Integrated faculty input into design of software functionality by conducting focus groups, attending academic conferences, and setting up online user chat sessions with company’s tech support, development, and sales staff.
· Core member of Distance Learning Strategic Planning Team, developing strategic business models and partners. Co-wrote white paper on distance learning for strategic planning process.
· Funded and managed partnership with M.I.T. CECI to develop multimedia language titles for commercialization.
Corey & Company Designers, Inc., Watertown, MA http://www.corey.com/ 1995-1996
Graphic services and design entity serving top company and academic institutions nationwide and employing world-renowned graphic artists.
Brought digital capability to company, guiding designers and clients through new digital projects including websites, multimedia presentations for focus group testing, and multimedia CD-ROMs. Hired and supervised programmers and digital product staff; trained entire staff in digital issues. Conceptualized and implemented new digital product lines for clients ranging from Viacom to Harvard.
· Launched American Girls website for Pleasant Company (http://www.americangirl.com/agmg/index.html) on time and within budget for public release based on Modern Girl MagazineOutlined project specifications and budget, supervised graphics and programming team, and emphasized automation of processes.
Stonysoft, Gt. Barrington, MA 1994-1995
CD-ROM production company, implementing exemplary interactive titles to showcase new technologies.
Managed all business operations and project management. Integrated digital video and effects with text and film images. Key player in acquisition and merger with graphic design firm Corey & Company Designers.
· Produced nationally recognized titles: “The Society of Mind,” Interactive Media Festival Award winner in 1995, and “Passage to Vietnam,” lauded as ‘the best CD-ROM ever’ by the Chicago Sun Times.
Apple Computer “Vivarium Program,” Advanced Tech. Group, Los Angeles/ Cupertino, CA 1985-1992
Innovative computer manufacturer, supporting R&D in educational use of computers tested in model schools.
Championed solutions in education technology to integrate 20th century science and technology subject matter into school curriculums. Administered $2 million budget and scheduled all deliverables. Managed invention, implementation, and testing of varied technology prototypes in schools. Served as liaison with Los Angeles school board. Supervised up to 12 staff members, graduate students, and teachers. Worked with curriculum experts and teachers to evolve year-long activities and curricula that would work in the “real-world” classroom .
· Created model “school of the future” within a public magnet school, based on personal concepts for computer multimedia and interactive simulations in education, working with computer visionary Dr.Alan Kay.
Early Professional Tenure:
Researcher § Hewlett Packard, Video Enhanced Graphics, Palo Alto, CA
Principal Investigator/Program Manager § Atari Inc., Interactive Animation Group, Sunnyvale, CA
Researcher/Scriptwriter § Paradox Films, Cambridge, MA
Video Course Production/Operations Mgr § MIT: Center for Advanced Engineering Study, Cambridge, MA
Master of Science, Visual Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
· Bachelor of Fine Arts, Printmaking/Painting Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
· Multimedia Applications: CSS I(Cascading Style Sheets); Macromedia Dreamweaver, Director, Fireworks, Adobe (Premiere, COSA, Photoshop, Illustrator) Quark, Debabelizer, Quicktime, Audioshop, Infini-D 3D modeling, BBEdit; Oxygen, Blackboard CourseWare
· Software Development Management: Java,C, C++, Lisp, Smalltalk,
· Programming: Java, PERLscripting, HTML, Playground, PL1, Logo, Basic, HyperTalk, PERL Scripting, FTP
· Operating Systems: Mac OS, Windows NT, Unix, Linux
· Office Applications: Lotus Notes, Lotus DB, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)
· Statistics: SYSS
· Databases: SQL, 4-D