Transportation Advocate resume
Vicki Jean Beauchamp
-vickijean-at=gmail=dot-com-Summary
An experienced web communicator with extensive web design experience. Experienced in establishing relationships and building teams. Six years experience managing a large scale web site and overseeing one web developer directly, and four others indirectly. Over 10 years of web development experience. Create results in web writing, information management, and usability design. Outstanding results in marketing, search engine optimization and indexing.Ongoing Web Sites
altPortland (1995-current)
Creator, author, coder—http://www.altportland.com- Added new material or revised/revisited older material on a daily basis
- Encourage the use of multi-modal transportation by offering google maps, bus route information, and bike routes on new daily reviews
- Extended the capability of commercial content management system (Movable Type)
- Interviewed people to find out what material they'd like to see
- Analyzed search results to improve search engine optimization
- Determined new topics to write about from search queries
- Created the first non-commercial guide to Portland
- Hosted 24,000 visits a month in 2006
Tales of Slow Brave Athena (2004- current)
Creator, author, coder— http://www.braveathena.com/- A personal blog about movement, commuting, and exercise
Experience
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (11/99-current )
Webmaster (Information Associate)—http://www.nwrel.org- Worked with content experts to write and edit web copy, and to better market their products, services and organization
- Established web sites that achieve organic search engine listings, making information finding easier for the user
- Maintained extensive knowledge of Internet technologies by reading articles and blogs, and participating in web email lists
- Worked frequently and successfully in team settings to achieve organizational goals and objectives
- Synthesized data into text and graphics
- Worked in multiple deadline/shifting priority/multi-tasking environment on a rigorous production schedule
- Managed the Laboratory's web sites over 6 domains and 22,000 pages
Oregon State University Portland Center (6/95-10/99)
Webmaster and Assistant Manager- Created, maintained, and updated four web sites on the OSU Portland Center and the OSU Web Publishers Cooperative Learning Group
- Provided in-person and phone reference using print and online sources on Oregon State University, the Oregon University System, and the city of Portland
- Co-lead OSU Web Publishers Cooperative Learning group (1997-1998)
Oregon State University Extension Service (5/93-6/95)
Home Economics Secretary- Performed reference duties on home economics issues, multiple calls daily.
- Managed over 50 volunteers: coordinating training, orientation, and staffing several information hotlines
Publications
- NWREL Insider (2003, 2006)
- Option Magazine (1987-1992)
- Current Magazine (Ann Arbor) (1987-1989)
- The Ann Arbor News (1988-1989)
- Michigan Daily (1984-1986)
Awards
- Hopwood Award, non-fiction. November 1981.
Education
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.- Master of Science in Library and Information Science, 2004
Residential College, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
- Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and International Studies. May 1986.
Continuing Education
- Writing for the Web (Ann Wylie, Wylie Communications, 3/2006)
- WebWise 2004: Sharing Digital Resources (Institute of Museum & Library Services, 2/2004)
- Web Accessibility in Mind Training 2003
- IA Summit: Information Architecture "Making Connections" (ASIS&T, 3/2003)