I am a User Experience Designer, an Information Architect

Information Architect Defined:
1) the individual who organizes the patterns inherent in data, making the complex clear. 2) a person who creates the structure or map of information which allows others to find their personal paths to knowledge. [Richard Saul Wurman, Information Architects]

About Scott:
I have consulted and taught Information Architecture in the Silicon Valley and Santa Cruz areas. Please view my Portfolio for more info on projects I've done. Feel free to send me an email if you have any questions or comments. I am currently working for Oracle as a UX manager with a staff of ten user experience professionals supporting the Financials enterprise applications.

Some happenings about me & this site:
January 2009	I spent about 36 hours in Bloomington, Indiana at Indiana University ... presenting on the Apps UX team to the HCI/d School of Informatics students (about 70 of them).
October 2007	I've been promoted to Senior Manager in the Applications User Experience team at Oracle.
June 2007	New babe in my life! Meet Delia.
April 2007	I've been promoted to User Experience Manager of Financial Management enterprise applications at Oracle. My new team is comprised of ten user experience professionals (interactions designers, usability engineers and prototypers).
December 4^th 2006	My most recent collection obsession (after CDs for many years) is Watches. I've started to put together some pictures & diagrams of some of the watches in my collection ... or just watches I find interesting.
August 2006	I've been promoted to support not only the Project Management enterprise applications, but also the Oracle's Procurement product family
June 4^th 2006	I was surfing the other day and found the very first site I ever designed & built (other than this personal one that's changed many times). The site is still using the same design that I created for them 10 years ago. It's sad yet kinda cool. Check it out if you dare: UCSC Arboretum.
May 15^th 2005	I've been promoted to User Experience Manager at Oracle. I'll be leading a team of interaction designers and usability engineers to support Oracle's Project Management and Real Estate enterprise applications.
March 2005	Holy cow: I'm a father! Meet Miles.
November 16^th 2004	Guest lecture for Fancine Van Meter at Cabrillo College. Here's the lecture file on Information Architecture for Web Development (PDF, 140K).
December 18^th 2003	I've completed my Masters in Library and Information Science, with a focus in Human Factors and Information Architecture. Woohoo!
October 21^st 2003	Jeff English, my manager at PeopleSoft, and I did a guest lecture at a SJSU Human Factors graduate program class for Tony Andre. Here's the lecture file on User-Centered Design process at PeopleSoft (PPT, 380K).
September 8^th 2003	I've been hired full time as a Senior Interaction Designer at PeopleSoft, working in the Supply Chain Management "product pillar," focusing on fulfillment and inventory product suites. It's more fun that it sounds, with fun people like John Stickley and Maggie Law.
May 14^th 2003	In Fall 2002, I was in a cognitive engineering course at SJSU. for one of my projects I did a usability evaluation of craigslist.org. Please check out the PPT file of the craigslist evaluation.
March 27^th 2003	My two case studies (see left-hand nav for links) are referenced on IAwiki's edited list of Case Studies. The list was developed by Eric Scheid, founder of IAwiki.
March 19^th 2003	Guest lecture at Cabrillo College for Wendy Norris. Please check out my 03/03 lecture notes.
September 5^th 2002	Teaching at Cabrillo College begins again. Please check out the DM 166 Fall course Web page for more information.
May 20^th 2002	A Wired article about the Knowledge Web project I've been working on for the last nine months. It's mostly about a call for volunteers, but it does describe the project a bit too.
January 10^th 2002	I've posted the DM 166 Spring 2002 Course Page for Cabrillo College—Introduction to Information Architecture (unfortunately cancelled due to low enrollment).
January 7^th 2002	I've posted some Case Studies of my work: Hewlett-Packard's Printing & Digital Imaging Product Advisor and work for eHealthInsurance. These are mainly for teaching purposes, but hopefully also provide some insight into my experience.
November 4^th 2001	My teaching for UCSC Extension began. Another survey/intro to IA for Web development class.
September 5^th 2001	My teaching (Adjunct Lecturer) for Cabrillo College begun. For more details see my Teaching page.
July 16^th 2001	Guest lecture on Information Architecture for Laura Hartwick's Summer Web development course at Cabrillo College. This one I did without Mike Barnes, so there's new 07/01 lecture notes, with a little bit changed and some more references.
June 17^th 2001	The funniest and most insightful stuff can happen when you put a group of smart people in one room, and a great writer takes the minutes. Read the notes from an IA brainstorming session.
June 13^th 2001	I've built my cousin Cathy Shearon's Web pages for her mural design business, Exclusive Creations. Very nice custom work for the home.
May 17^th 2001	Today I spoke on a panel with three other professionals for the "Liberal Arts Connection," a group of career counselors from UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Hayward, Stanford, and other local universities. All of us are UCSC graduates, and we've all moved into tech: consultant, tech writer, (database) taxonomist, and information architect.
April 18^th and 26^th 2001	Four more guest lectures on Information Architecture at Cabrillo College. Mike Barnes and I finished up lectures this week and last for four more of Wendy Norris' classes—Dreamweaver and Flash again. You can check out our 04/01 lecture notes.
March 12^th 2001	Over the weekend, I was part of a Psych. study at Stanford, where I got by brain scanned by MRI. You can check out a couple pictures of my brain, if you're into it.
February 28^th 2001	Last week I spoke on a panel of professionals in the Santa Cruz, CA area discussing career paths for various positions in the Internet industry. Of course to say 'positions' really belies the fact that there are so many variations to—in my case—Information Architecture.
November 30^th 2000	I stole a cute story from my friend Eden Moreland, a PR person for Imagesmith. I told her this story about my childhood, so she put it into a story to be used as a primer for an article in an industry magazine.
November 21^st and 22^nd 2000	Two more guest lectures on Information Architecture at Cabrillo College. Mike Barnes and I finished up our lectures for the semester with two more of Wendy Norris' classes—this time Flash. You can check out our 11/00 lecture notes.
November 19^th 2000	I finally updated my site. It had been pretty stale for about ten months. It is much more usable (not necessarily useful though) with quicker access and quicker loading, due to a new navigational scheme as well as less graphics. Drop me a line if you're in the mood to comment on the site.
November 7^th 2000	SC-IA - the Santa Cruz Information Architects group, put together by Kristin Bradham and myself, had its first meeting. It was a blast, with IA staff from Imagesmith and Lutris Technology attending.
November 2^nd 2000	My first Information Architecture lecture. Mike Barnes and I guest lectured for our friend Wendy Norris' Cabrillo College Web Development class.