stephanie troeth: cv, curriculum vitae, resumé

Curriculum Vitae / Resumé

Name: Stephanie Troeth
Email: cv@stephanietroeth.com
Location: London, UK
Web: http://stephanietroeth.com/ (Download pdf version of this document)

Keywords

Web technologies, product brand & strategy, user experience, interaction design, product management, multilingual, digital creative.

Overview

Born in Kuching, East Malaysia. Moved to Melbourne, Australia and completed high school matriculation (VCE) with a score that placed her in the top 3% of the state of Victoria. Graduated with First-Class Honours in Bachelor of Computer Science from Monash University. Worked and lived in Canada for 8 years, currently living in London, UK.

User experience strategist and designer, also known for promoting best web practices and web standards with grassroot organisations. Passionate, dedicated and skilled, with a deep interest in all things cultural, scientific and historical.

Skills

Product design & user experience

Product strategy: Strong ability to conceive innovative product solutions aligned with brand/mission and business goals; skilled in defining product angles that resonate with end-user needs and crafting a project process that supports product development.
Concept: Extensive and pragmatic knowledge in user research techniques, information architecture, interaction design, content strategy & usability; able to adapt best web practices for new media and the social web by pushing boundaries while aiming for elegance.
Evaluation: Experienced in micro-usability testing and light-weight prototypes.

Leadership & Management

Product / Project management: Adept at defining realistic project scopes, budgeting and scheduling; strong capacity to coordinate between team members of different expertise; experienced in both traditional and agile methods.
Team management: Strong capacity to create passion in team members towards a collective goal; experienced in bridging across multidisciplinary teams. Led a team of up to 30 professionals directly reporting in a corporate environment, and over 50 volunteers in a non-profit context.
Public speaking & teaching: Confident and experienced speaker whether on stage, in the classroom or professional training workshops.

Technology

Web: Extensive knowledge of best web practices in HTML5, XHTML, CSS, XML/XSL and cross-browser compatibility issues. Excellentknowledge in accessibility, Unicode, internationalization, SEO/SEM. Working knowledge of DOM/Javascript and frameworks. Solid experience in creating web graphics.
Programming/Frameworks: Previous experience in creating views in MVC frameworks: Ruby on Rails, CakePHP and Django. In-depth web programming experience in Perl, knowledgeable in PHP.

Professional Experience

January 2011 — Editor in Chief, Web Standards Sherpa

Accountable for: curating and editing of articles on best web practices, managing and liaising with authors.

November 2009 — User experience strategist/designer (consultant)

MailChimp Accountable for: user research on European localisation/internationalisation issues, liaison with local user group(s).

ASICS Europe Accountable for: bespoke training and workshops for the Digital Communications team on pragmatic design thinking and project management techniques.

Bi-Rite Market Accountable for: user experience strategy, interaction design, liaison with design and development team, quality assurance.

Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) Accountable for: information architecture, content strategy, liaison with development team, quality assurance.

November 2008 — November 2009 Co-founder, Product Manager/Production Lead Book Oven, Montréal, Canada.

Accountable for: product strategy, detailed product concept/vision, content strategy, product & project management, team leadership, quality assurance.

April 2008 — October 2008 Consultant, user experience / technology

Praized Media, Montréal, Canada. Accountable for: detailed product concept, interaction design, content strategy.

Wuntoo, Montréal, Canada. Accountable for: project management, team leadership, interface development.

April 2005 — April 2008 Director, Interactive Technology & Solutions CloudRaker, Montréal, Canada.

Accountable for: leadership of studio (project managers, graphic/web designers, user experience specialists, interface developer, application developers), establishing team methodology and process, liaison with account managers/clients on project definition and project costing/scheduling, production firefighting.

Some notable clients include: Heineken International, Bell Canada, Air Canada Vacations, eBay Canada.

Prior to 2005:

Apr 2004 — Sep 2004: Web developer, Web Resources & Development, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Nov 2003 — Mar 2004: Web developer/Web standards consultant, Web Communications Group, McGill University, Montréal, Canada.
March 2003 — March 2004: Media services officer, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montréal, Canada.
Sep 2000 - Aug 2002: Principal Web Designer/Developer, American International Assurance Company (Australia) Ltd., Melbourne, Australia.
Aug 1999 — Sep 2000: Web developer, Information Technology Services, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Freelanced as a web designer/developer intermittently from 1999 to 2005

For professional experience prior to 2005, see http://stephanietroeth.com/cv#prior-experience.

Professional Activity

Extensively involved in advocating best web practices through grassroots organisations such as the Web Standards Project, maccaws.org, W3C Quality Assurance Interest Group. Read more about these activities at http://stephanietroeth.com/webstandards. Founded Montreal-based user experience design group UXMTL.

A semi-regular speaker at web conferences and unconference events. See http://stephanietroeth.com/events.

Tech reviewed the following books:

Croll, Alistair and Sean Powers. Complete Web Monitoring. Sebastopol, O'Reilly. (Chapter 10 on Web Interaction Analytics & Chapter 11 on Voice of the Customer)
Sobell, Mark. A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux (2nd edition). New Jersey: Prentice Hall PTR. (Chapter 28 on Perl)
Quigley, Ellie. Perl by Example (4th edition). New Jersey: Prentice Hall PTR.

Education

1995 — 1998 Bachelor of Computer Science - 1st Class Honours Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Majors: Computer Science, Information Systems. Minor: Music (Musicology and Composition).

Honours thesis: A Web-based implementation of Chinese-English Dictionary (Unicode)

1991 — 1994 Victorian Certificate of Education (Year 12) Caulfield Grammar School, Wheelers Hill, Victoria, Australia.

Prior to 1991, I lived and undertook primary school education and one year of secondary school studies in Malaysia.