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Welcome to the InfoCamp Seattle 2009 wiki, which is no longer being updated. For the current InfoCamp wiki, please visit wiki.infocamp.org.

The people at InfoCamp Seattle 2009

Attending InfoCamp?  Add yourself to this page (with whatever info you want to share about yourself - email, url, twitter name, link to a portfolio, etc.), and join the InfoCamp conversation!

Participants

• Michael Adcock, recent-ish MLIS grad, UW; InfoCamp fan art remix guy; freelance

• Eric Bell, 2nd-year MSIM candidate at UW iSchool, Co-Chair of ASIS&T-UW
• Colleen Brazil, Content Access Manager, Sno-Isle Libraries, Snohomish and Island Counties, WA
• Matt Carlson, Project Coordinator for KCLS, King County Library System
• Vanessa Casavant, Content Strategist/Writer for Electronic Media, AdoptUsKids
• Carol Chen, Graduate Student at UC Berkeley in the School of Information
• Quentin Christensen, Program Manager, Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Content Management
• Jonathan Cohen Vsey Software, developer of Genivu/SQL
• Valerie Craig, Seeker of Paying Work
• Evan Dickinson, MS student in interaction design, Simon Fraser University.
• Joe Eastham, Web Developer, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington
• Peter Ellis, PHP Web Applications Developer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Nick Finck, Founder/Director of User Experience, Blue Flavor (Infocamp 2009 advisory board member)
• Allie Flanary, Faculty Librarian: Web & Outreach Specialist, Portland Community College (@shinylib)
• Pam Green, Site Manager MS Library and Information Architect, Microsoft
• Chrystie Hill
• Alexis Hope, Student at UW in the Department of Human-Centered Design & Engineering
• Noah Iliinsky, @noahi, UX Designer at VMware, diagram and infoviz enthusiast
• Joe Janes, Associate Professor, UW iSchool
• Rebecca Kuglitsch, Science Librarian, University of Puget Sound
• Andrew Jung, Information Architect, University of Victoria, Victoria BC
• Jarrod Lombardo, Quality Architect/UX Prototyper, Forte
• Brian McGuirk, Web Services Librarian, Oregon State Library, Salem OR
• Tim Merrick, Science Information Manager, U.S. Geological Survey Idaho Water Science Center
• Jessica Moskowitz, MLIS student, UW iSchool, Seattle, WA
• Tari Nelson-Zagar, Information strategies for small NGO's
• Radka Peterová, MA New Media student Simon Fraser University Vancouver/Charles University Prague
• Susan Presley, Manager of Cataloging and Bibliographic Control, Serials Solutions
• Megan Radomski, @VirtuallyMeg, Librarian, Parametrix
• Gabriella Radujko, Director, Fairview Free Public Library, Fairview, NJ
• Laura Robinson, NDNP Manager, Washington State Library, Olympia, WA
• Steven Seow, Ph.D., User Researcher, Microsoft Surface, author of Designing and Engineering Time: The Psychology of Time Perception in Software.
• Beverly Slabosky, User Experience Architect, Ascentium, Bellevue, WA
• Paul Stolp, Microsoft Library Vendor Operations Manager
• Sharon Stern, Semantic Modeler and Information Architect, Thetus, Portland, OR
• Marcella Van Oel, Content wrangler, digital artist
• Ann Wendell, Informational Research Guru, Professional Muse, Author - Networked Knowledge, Seattle, WA
• Kevin Wick, User Experience Associate Director, Ascentium, Bellevue, WA 
• Michael R. Wolf - technical evangelist, programmer trainer, cross-pollenator; Seattle, WA
• Shan Zhao, Information Architect, OTB Solutions, Seattle, WA
• Olivia Zinn, User Experience Designer, Pharmacy OneSource, Bellevue, WA 
• Trish Mau, librarian, web coordinator, project manager, Vancouver, Canada

Volunteers 

• Philip Arny, Recovering Librarian
• Devor Barton, recent grad, MS-Technical Communications, University of Washington
• Chelle Batchelor, Access Services Librarian, UW Bothell
• Jackie Belanger, Arts and Humanities Librarian, UW Bothell
• Jim Bracher,  web designer/developer, freelance/contract
• Sarah DeAtley, web analytics professional, ZAAZ, Microsoft
• Nathan Dobrowolski, Informatics Senior, Web Developer
• Walter Lau, web/graphic designer, co-founder of Good Morning Studio
• Kelly McElroy, MAS/MLIS student, University of British Columbia
• Pamela Moore, Creative Director, CommunicatingConcepts
• John Otto, unemployed librarian, volunteer at Seattle Art Museum library
• Jordan Pope, web/graphic designer, co-founder of Good Morning Studio
• Cadi Russell-Sauve, MLIS|MPA Candidate, University of Washington
• Eva Snee, User Experience Researcher, Tyler Technologies
• Sunmi Song - Web/User Interface Designer
• Shreyas Verma, MSIM Candidate and iSchool Research Committee member, University of Washington

Invited Speakers

• Vanessa Fox, plenary speaker on Sunday
• Axel Roesler, keynote speaker on Saturday

InfoCamp Seattle 2009 Organizing Committee

• Kris Bell, User Experience Designer, Amazon.com
• Matt Carthum, User Experience Architect, ZAAZ
• Rachel Elkington, Optimization Test Designer, ZAAZ
• Aaron Louie, Associate Director of User Experience, ZAAZ
• Michelle Maury
• Kristen Shuyler, Librarian, Seattle University
• Andrew Szydlowski, TBD
• Joshua Walker, Photocopier, freelance
• Kathryn Whitenton, User Experience Designer, Angry Lapdog Productions

Read more about the organizing committee on the InfoCamp blog!

InfoCamp Seattle 2009 Advisory Board

Tamara Adlin

Tamara Adlin is the co-founder of Fell Swoop, a user experience and design agency in Seattle, WA.  Fell Swoop is all about 'doing it the right way' when it comes to product and site design.  Tamara's focus is on... focus!  She's an expert at wrangling executive teams until they agree on a shared, crystal-clear, and prioritized set of key users and their goals; she believes that a team who can develop and stick with a solid focus on their users are in the best position to create really great products.  The Fell Swoop team then takes this focus and turns it into atruly excellent, tested, iterated user experiences that survive unscathed all the way through development and launch.  She co-authored The Persona Lifecycle:  Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design with John Pruitt, and has been featured in several other books.  Before starting her own consulting business, Tamara was a Customer Experience Specialist at Amazon.com, and has always been fascinated with the problem of getting lots of people from different teams to communicate and work well together.

Mike Crandall

Michael Crandall is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Washington Information School, and current chair of the Master of Science in Information Management program.  Prior to coming to the University of Washington, he was technology manager for the US Library program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  Before moving to the foundation, Mike worked on search technology and knowledge organization for the intranet at Microsoft (MSWeb) and on information architecture and online library services at Boeing.  He has served on the Dublin Core Metadata Board of Trustees (now the oversight committee) since its inception in 2001, and is active in the American Society of Information Science and Technology.  His current interests include public access computing, ICT in developing countries, metadata and knowledge organization, social dimensions of knowledge transfer and large scale information systems.

Nick Finck

Nick Finck is a user experience professional who had dabbled in the web for over a decade.  He specializes in information architecture, interaction design, usability, and user research.  Nick has created web experience for Fortune 50 and 500 companies including Adobe, Boeing, Blue Cross/ Blue Shield, Cisco, CitiGroup, FDIC, Harpo, HP, IBM, Microsoft, PBS, Peet's Coffee, University of Denver, and others.  He lives and plays in Seattle, Washington, where he's co-founder of Blue Flavor, a web design company that focuses on creating web experiences.  

Corprew Reed

Jake Wobbrock

Jacob O. Wobbrock is an Assistant Professor in the Information School and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington.  His field is human-computer interaction, which, in his work, blends computer science, interaction design, and experimental psychology.  He pursues work in new user interface technology, input and interaction techniques, human performance, accessible computing, surface computing, and mobile computing.  Many of his contributions are in text entry, target acquisition, and gesture, often for people with disabilities or for mobile users "on the go." He directs the AIM Research Group comprising students from information and computer science.  Prior to coming to the University of Washington, Dr. Wobbrock received his Ph.D. from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.  He also received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Symbolic Systems and Computer Science, respectively, from Stanford University.