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Chris Boese Resume
Chris Boese Resume
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Leader in UX Design, Research, & Content Strategy chrisboese.com
PROFILE SKILLS
Greater NYC UX Design Lead at JPMorgan Chase, Medidata, Fidelity, AI/ML, Data Publishing, Visualizations,
Atmosphere Proximity [BBDO], H4B Chelsea [Havas Health] & Razorfish Enterprise Content Management
Service Design
Special Interest in AI and machine learning, GPT-4, model visualizations CX/CRM Integrated Solutions
& interfaces (UX designer for JPMC 2019 data science hackathon team),
as well as data-publishing & visualization systems, and Explainable AI Card-Based, Responsive Component Design
Product Platform Integration
A Drive for Innovation: 15 years on Greater NYC industry & research Cloud Software Administration Flows
projects. Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in HCI & technical Learning Management Systems
communication with 15 years university & engineering school teaching
experience, focusing on computer-assisted teaching methods Collaborative UX Design Processes
& Qualitative Research Methods
• Supervised team of junior UX designers, content strategists and business Endowed visiting professorship:
analysts, building out a research library, document templates and standards, taught seminar on weblogs & citizen
and evangelizing UX within the “Mad Men” traditional advertising agency journalism movement while on official leave
from CNN.
Senior Information Architect (Contract)
H4B Chelsea (Havas Health) NYC. July 2013 to Dec 2014 Co-advisor to student newspaper, directing
• Designed a multi-channel patient support and engagement platform critical for the RSS-based redesign of the CMS and
MS patients and health care providers in an intensive multi-year program for online edition
the newly-approved treatment: Lemtrada (Sanofi-Genzyme)
300+ attended public lecture on warblogging
• Established a unified UX vision across more than 10 interactive products, sites vs. traditional journalism delivered for the
and apps for iPad and Web (mobile-responsive), for patients, health care endowment
providers, and drug reps
• In 2 years on media and publishing clients, I worked on redesign of Disney's ~$100K 3-year grant to create & direct PSA
ESPN.com (winner of two Webby awards) and several Conde' Nast products: web consulting staff & user research lab
CondeNet's Webby award-winning Style.com (with Vogue), MensStyle.com
(with GQ), the financial magazine, Portfolio.com, and CondeNet's social and Implemented redesign of PSA web portal and
multimedia scrapbooking site for teenage girls, Flip.com (with Teen Vogue) about a dozen client sites
• In my final 2 years at Razorfish, I focused on financial and business clients, Grant funded, trained, & deployed 4 graduate
including: Prudential (UX lead on multiple workstreams), T. Rowe Price, assistant UX consultants and 2 student
Oppenheimer, MetLife (intranet redesign), EMC, State Farm, Pearson, programmers each year
American Red Cross (intranet redesign) and Blackberry
Writer
CNN Headline News Atlanta, GA. Aug 2001 to Dec 2006 One of the first “born digital” interactive
• Started one month before 9/11 & wrote the 128-character on-screen headline dissertations (1998) to be accepted in the
“ticker” from 2001-2003, through some of the most devastating breaking U.S., as cited in Chronicle of Higher
news in U.S. history Education (2005). Written in native HTML
(hypertext), it doesn’t read the same way twice
• CNN.com cyberculture column (cited by Ray Kurzweil) 2002-2005: and can’t be reproduced on paper.
BuzzFactor, HotWired. All columns archived at muckrack.com/ChrisBoese www.nutball.com/dissertation
• Freelanced CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360” April 2004. Completed copy editor
training & staffed on copyediting shifts before leaving CNN in late 2006.