Information Architect (Vanguard)
John has worked in information architecture for nine years, designing interfaces for websites, desktop applications, and web-based video games. He has been with Vanguard since 2006, leading the design of user interfaces for their search engine and the development of their corporate design pattern library. Before joining Vanguard he did significant work for Unisys and General Electric. For his design work on the UXnet website, he was honored with the first Instone Award for Volunteerism in 2006. John has been published in Boxes & Arrows and in ACM's Interactions magazine, presented at the IA Summit, and will be speaking at EuroIA in Amsterdam this September.
Before entering the professional world, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in communications, paying for graduate school through an assistantship coaching intercollegiate speech & debate.
John's professional loves may include search engines and quantitative log file analysis, but his heart belongs to his wife Amanda. He lives with her in the Philadelphia suburbs and blogs at WorldWideIntertubes.com.