Curriculum Vitae / Resumé

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

Keywords

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

Co-founder of Book Oven, Stephanie led the product design/development and a passionate production team. Well-known for promoting best web practices and web standards with organisations such as maccaws.org and the Web Standards Project (WaSP), primarily through establishing the International Liaison Group, advocacy in the Education Task Force and the WaSP InterAct curriculum framework. Founding member of the Open Web Education Alliance. Founder of Montreal-based group, UXMTL, aimed at bridging local industry needs and user experience design.

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Skills

Leadership & Management

Team management: Strong capacity to create passion in team members towards a collective goal; experienced in bridging across multidisciplinary teams. Had up to 30 professionals directly reporting in a corporate environment, and over 50 volunteers in a non-profit context.
Product strategy & management: Strong ability to conceive innovative brand and product solutions; skilled with turning ideas into dreams, and dreams into reality.
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.
Public speaking & teaching: Confident and experienced speaker whether on stage, in the classroom or professional training workshops.

Product design & user experience

Concept: Extensive knowledge in research, information architecture, interaction design, content strategy & usability; able to adapt best 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.

Technology

Web:: Extensive knowledge of best web practices in HTML/XHTML+CSS, XML/XSL and cross-browser compatibility issues. Excellent knowledge in accessibility, Unicode, internationalization, SEO. Working knowledge of DOM/Javascript. Solid experience in creating web graphics.
Programming/Frameworks:: 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

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.

June 2008 — October 2008 User experience designer Praized Media, Montréal, Canada.

Accountable for: detailed product concept, interaction design, content strategy.

April 2008 — June 2008 Technical lead (interface/product) 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.

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.