West Monroe Partners (April 9)

ASIS&T UW Presents

West Monroe Partners: Customer Experience (CX) and Customer Loyalty

Kyle Hutchins and Greg Poffenroth
Tuesday, April 9
12:30-1:20 PM
MGH 420
Lunch provided!

ASIS&T UW is pleased to host a special presentation and information session on CX and customer loyalty from Kyle Hutchins and Greg Poffenroth of West Monroe Partners, a major North American business and technology consulting firm that shepherds organizations through transformative projects.

Come learn how West Monroe helps its clients to deliver an effortless customer experience – and cultivate customer loyalty – with “ideas you can do, data you can use, and impact you can see – all for the customers you want to keep.” As you’ll see, organizations can only deliver a great customer experience by understanding their customers, an understanding which depends on data-driven customer insights. Learn more about West Monroe’s approach to CX here: http://www.westmonroepartners.com/en/capabilities/business-performance-and-transformation/customer-experience. And don’t miss this chance to connect with a premier consulting firm.

Kyle Hutchins

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Kyle Hutchins is the director of Customer Experience at West Monroe Partners’ Seattle office. He believes a well-executed customer experience strategy is paramount to market differentiation – ultimately leading to higher customer loyalty and profitability. He has 12 years of experience in the consulting, advising in agency, strategy and IT capacities across diverse industries.

Kyle earned a degree in Business Administration at the University of Washington in Seattle, received post graduate accreditation in Strategic Marketing from the University of Chicago and studied internationally at Université Paris Sorbonne.  In his spare time, Kyle performs volunteer work at NPower, a nonprofit consulting agency.

More about Kyle here: http://www.westmonroepartners.com/en/about-us/people/h/kyle-hutchins

Greg Poffenroth

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Greg Poffenroth is a senior manager in West Monroe Partners’ Customer Experience practice, based in Seattle. He has nearly 10 years of experience designing meaningful customer experiences for some of the world’s most visible brands.

Greg earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a concentration in Marketing from Gonzaga University. He is a regular speaker on social media and related topics.

More about Greg here: http://www.westmonroepartners.com/en/about-us/people/p/greg-poffenroth

New Officer Nominations

It’s that time of the year–ASIS&T UW is now taking nominations for next year’s officers via WebQ: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/asis/193729.  The survey will be available until March 10th, but don’t wait–nominate yourself today, even if you’re a little interested!  Also remember: nominations can be for any current iSchool student, from first-year Informatics Undergraduates to umpteenth-year PhDs!

Kris Bell (November 13)

CAREER DEVELOPMENT FOR INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS: IA/UX

Speaker #3:
Kris Bell, Senior User Experience Designer

Amazon
Tuesday, November 13, 12:30-1:20 pm
MGH 420

Lunch provided!

And for the final industry speaker in our Career Development for Information Professionals lunchtime speaker series: Kris Bell, Senior User Experience Designer at Amazon. Currently the designer in charge of Amazon’s core ordering experience (including the shopping cart and checkout pipeline), Bell has also worked on social media integration, affiliate marketing, and deal projects for the company.

Prior to Amazon, Bell was worked as a consultant for Ascentium, where he did information architecture, user research, interaction and UI design, and usability testing for clients including Microsoft, Nintendo, and McKesson. He served as an IA and web design consultant for a variety of Oregon and SW Washington non-profit organizations while working for NPower’s Oregon program, and also worked in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation US Library Program.

Bell received a Masters of Science in Information Management from the iSchool in 2007.

About the Career Development for Information Professionals speaker series

ASIS&T UW, AIMS, and IUGA join forces to host this year-long series, in which experienced industry professionals will discuss their roles in the information profession, how they got to where they are, and what they might do on a day-to-day basis. Look for interesting anecdotes, inspiring advice, and the chance to get some of your burning questions about information careers answered!

Each student group will host three speakers per quarter, and ASIS&T UW tackles the fall leg of the series with pros from the IA/UX field.

 

Nick Finck (October 30)

CAREER DEVELOPMENT FOR INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS: IA/UX

Speaker #2:
Nick Finck, User Experience Director

 Deloitte Digital
Tuesday, October 16, 12:30-1:20 pm
MGH 420

Lunch provided!

Next up in the Career Development for Information Professionals lunchtime speaker series: Nick Finck, Director of User Experience at Deloitte Digital and a web industry veteran specializing in information architecture, interaction design, usability and user researcher. He’s created web and mobile experiences for Fortune 500 companies including Adobe, Intel, REI, Boeing, Google, and Oprah.com.



For ten years, Finck was the publisher of Digital Web Magazine, a beloved – and dearly missed – online publication for web professionals. He’s still actively involved in the web community, though, and has served as an adviser to events like SXSW Interactive, the Information Architecture Summit, Web Visions, and InfoCamp Seattle. He’s also served as a judge at the Webby Awards and the SXSW Web Awards.

About the Career Development for Information Professionals speaker series

AASIS&T UW, AIMS, and IUGA join forces to host this year-long series, in which experienced industry professionals will discuss their roles in the information profession, how they got to where they are, and what they might do on a day-to-day basis. Look for interesting anecdotes, inspiring advice, and the chance to get some of your burning questions about information careers answered!

Each student group will host three speakers per quarter, and ASIS&T UW tackles the fall leg of the series with pros from the IA/UX field.

 

Aaron Louie (October 16)

Career Development for Information Professionals: IA/UX

Speaker #1: Aaron Louie, Principal, UX Ninja
Tuesday, October 16, 12:30-1:20 pm
MGH 420
Lunch provided!

This year’s Career Development for Information Professionals lunchtime speaker series kicks off with an appearance by veteran user experience consultant – and iSchool alum – Aaron Louie.

ASIS&T UW, AIMS, and IUGA join forces to host this year-long series, in which experienced industry professionals will discuss their roles in the information profession, how they got to where they are, and what they might do on a day-to-day basis. Look for interesting anecdotes, inspiring advice, and the chance to get some of your burning questions about information careers answered!

Each student group will host three speakers per quarter, and ASIS&T UW tackles the fall leg of the series with pros from the IA/UX field.

Aaron Louie is principal at UX Ninja, an independent user experience consultancy he recently founded after serving as Creative Director for UX at POSSIBLE (ZAAZ). He has over 16 years of experience in web design, UX, information architecture, interaction design, user research, usability, and content strategy consulting. His clients have included Microsoft, Symantec, Pella, Time Warner, JPM Chase, Intel, Nike, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics, and University of Washington.

Louie is also a co-founder of InfoCamp, founder of the Seattle IA/UX Meetup, and an iSchool alum who received an MLIS from UW in 2003.

Autumn Quarter Events

Informatics Informational Lunch w/ iUGA

September 25
12:30 – 1:20
MGH 420

We look forward to sharing the amazing things we’re doing this year with you!  Please join us for conversation and lunch provided by ASIS&T and iUGA.

InfoCamp

October 13 & 14

Visit seattle.infocamp.org/blog for more information or to register!

IA/UX Speaker Series

October 16
12:30 – 1:20 MGH 420

Aaron Louie: Principal, UX Ninja

October 30
12:30 – 1:20 MGH 420

Nick Finck: Director of UX, Deloitte Digital

November 13
12:30 – 1:20 MGH 420

Kris Bell: Senior UX Designer, Amazon

Free Online Stanford Engineering Classes

Ready for a new direction in higher education? Stanford Engineering pioneered a series of free online classes this fall for an audience of thousands from around the world. Stanford professor of computer science Daphne Koller has this to say: “High-quality education is sorely lacking for people who have either financial or geographical limitations that prevent them from attending places like Stanford, MIT or Berkeley …. Making these technologies widely available is a huge opportunity for making the world a considerably better place.”

I’ve been working through the database class over the autumn quarter and have found it extremely rewarding. Check it out, work on your own time, forget about external pressures, and let your interest be your guide! You cannot get Stanford credit for completing any of these classes, but the material learned is invaluable. I’m looking forward to taking more classes this way in the future. Who knows, it may even go on my resume!

Check out these articles to learn more:

Stanford Engineering’s New Online Classes: Hugely Popular and Bursting with Activity

Stanford Engineering professors reinventing online education

 

Artefact (Oct 25th)

Kevin Wong, Artefact

Kevin Wong joined Artefact after graduating from the Information School at the University of Washington where he focused on applying an ethnographic approach to understand people and technology in various organizations. With patience and curiosity, Kevin carefully documents the patterns in human behavior using the art of still and motion photography to inspire fellow designers and business partners. In collaborative settings, Kevin champions the needs and desires of the people he studies.

Kevin joins Artefact focusing on the dynamics within socially enabled products and services including identity, information sharing, personalization and management. He has worked internationally with companies that help people with productivity, mobile communication, personalization, home entertainment and sales account planning.

ASIS&T Annual Meeting, 2011

The ASIS&T Annual Meeting / Conference is being held in New Orleans this year on October 9-12. This years theme is “Bridging the Gulf: Communication and Information in Society, Technology, and Work“. The meeting will be held at the New Orleans Marriot. For information about speakers and events, as well as tickets, visit the official web site: http://asis.org/asist2011/

 

InfoCamp Seattle 2011

Registration for InfoCamp Seattle 2011 is OPEN! To secure your spot at InfoCamp Seattle 2011, visit http://infocampseattle2011.eventbrite.com.

What: InfoCamp Seattle 2011
When: October 8 & 9
Where: Mary Gates Hall, University of Washington

This year we’ll be gathering at the University of Washington’s beautiful Seattle campus on October 8th and 9th. The Saturday opening festivities and keynote is in the Kane Hall auditorium. All other events, the sessions designed and led by you, our fearless InfoCampers, will happen in Mary Gates Hall (home of the UW’s Information School).

We are geared up for a fun and creative year! We will be recombining tried and true structures along with fresh new ideas to encourage engagement and collaboration. As always, it will be you, the participant, who drives the content of InfoCamp!

For more information, check out http://seattle.infocamp.org.