Fred
Leise, President, ContextualAnalysis, LLC
Career Summary
Awards
Education
User-Centered
Experience
Tools
and Techniques
Indexing
Experience
Work
Experience
Teaching Experience
Publications
Book Indexes Compiled
Professional
Memberships and Volunteer Activities
Career
Summary
Significant expertise in information architecture and Web site content analysis developed and refined while working for Argus Associates, Inc. Recognized thought leader in the indexing and publishing field. Demonstrated project management and organization development skills.
Excellent computer skills including Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, Word,
QuarkXPress, WordPerfect and Access, on both PC and Macintosh platforms.
Basic HTML skills.
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Awards
Australian
Society of Indexers Web Site Index Award, 2002-2004 (for site
index to www.peoplesoft.com)
Finalist for 1996 American Society of Indexers/H.W. Wilson Index
of the Year award
Education
1994 Certificate, The University of Chicago Publishing Program (two-year course)
1974 B.S. in
Mathematics, 1974, University of Maryland,
College Park
Minor in Computer Science
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User-Centered Experience
Business requirements analysis, information hierarchy
and taxonomy development, content audit, content inventory, content
organization, employee portal structuring, site map creation, site
index creation, navigation design, user interface design, competitive
analysis
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Tools
and Techniques
Visio,
PowerPoint, Excel, Word, QuarkXPress, WordPerfect and Access, on
both PC and Macintosh platforms. HTML coding.
Use cases, task analysis, workflow analysis, card sorting, contextual
analysis
Indexing Experience
Analyze content and user needs, and prepare back-of-back indexes for scholarly and trade books and journals for such publishers as Oxford University
Press, Columbia University Press, Cambridge University Press, Rutgers
University Press, University of Chicago Press, Manchester University
Press, Harlan-Davidson Publishers, Fitzroy-Dearborn Publishers
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Work
Experience
2007–
Chief Operating Officer, KMS Group, Inc., software company providing
productivity tools for website designers.
2001–
Owner and Principal, ContextualAnalysis, LLC, offering consulting services
in information architecture, metadata/thesaurus design and Web site
indexing services
- Clients
include Harpo, Inc. (Oprah.com), AIG, Accenture, Dow Corning, Alliant Energy Corporation, Hewlett-Packard,
PeopleSoft, Inc., UN ReliefWeb and Columbia College Chicago
2000–2001
Argus Associates, Inc., Information
Architect
- One of fewer
than 20 information architects in the country to have completed
Argus's rigorous and extensive IA training
- Led teams
developing Classification Scheme Methodology and Comparative Analysis
Methodology
- Led team
revising Argus web site architecture
- Worked on
projects for such clients as LookSmart, Morningstar, L.L. Bean
- Analyzed
and revised Argus's IA training program
- Regularly
participated in sales calls and prepared quick site analyses for
sales department
- Participated
in IA roundtables
- Presented
multi-week seminar in indexing for IAs
1999
The
Newberry Library
- Team Member,
web site development team (www.newberry.org)
- Leader,
site architecture group
1995–
Freelance Indexer
- Analyze
content and user needs, and prepare back-of-book indexes for scholarly
and trade books and journals for such publishers as Oxford University
Press, Columbia University Press, Cambridge University Press,
Rutgers University Press, University of Chicago Press, Manchester
University Press, Harlan-Davidson Publishers, Fitzroy-Dearborn
Publishers (see selected list of titles
below)
1994–1999
American Library Association
- Copyeditor,
various journals, including Law Library Journal, Library Resources
and Technical Services, Information Technologies and Libraries,
and RQ
1993–2000
Chorus America, Editor,
The Voice of Chorus America
- Complete
editorial responsibility for quarterly publication of 36-page,
nationally distributed newsletter.
- Developed
and executed design and layout; provided camera-ready copy for
printer; and approved bluelines.
1992-2000 Newberry
Consort, Manager
- Managed
all aspects of early music ensemble: concert production, fundraising,
marketing, public relations, volunteer management
1982–91
Music of the Baroque
Concert Series, Inc.
- Assistant
General Manager, 1987–1991
- Director
of Finance and Development Coordinator, 1984–1987
- Business
Manager, 1982–1984
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Teaching
Experience
2002: Columbia
2, Instructor, "Introduction to Indexing"
2000: The
University of Chicago Publishing Program, Instructor, Introduction
to CINDEX (indexing program)
1998–2000:
The University of Chicago Publishing Program, Instructor, Introduction
to Indexing
1998: Dominican
University Graduate School of Library and Information Science,
Adjunct Instructor, LS732-Introduction to Indexing and Abstracting
American
Society of Indexers Annual Conference, roundtable presenter
Newberry
Library Adult Seminars, Instructor, "Beginning at the Back
of the Book: An Introduction to Using Indexes"
1985, 1987–1994,
1996: Chorus America
Annual Conference, Workshop Presenter
1988-1990,
1993, 1995:
Chicago Music Alliance, Workshop Presenter
1993: Chorus
America, Summer Management Institute, Instructor
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Publications and Presentations
"Introduction to Taxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies," American Society of Indexers national conference,
Philadelphia, May 2007
“Building Advanced taxonomes: Methodology and Analysis Techniques," IA Summit, Las Vegas, March 2007
“Controlled Vocabularies and Taxonomies” and
“Introduction to Information for Indexers,” joint meeting of the South-Central Chapter, American Society
of Indexers and Society of Technical Communicators, Houston Chapter, Houston, November 2006
“Advanced Taxonomy: Plan, Design, Build,”
3-day workshop for D. Z. Hampton, presented in Brunei Darussalam and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 2006
“Information Architecture for Indexers,” half-day workshop,
American Society of Indexers national conference, Toronto, June 2006
“Introduction to Information Architecture and Usability,”
half-day workshop, Special Libraries Association Continuing Education Course, national conference, Baltimore, June 2006
Indexing practicum series, Chicago/Great Lakes Chapter,
American Society of Indexers, 2005 and 2006
“Business Practices for Indexers,” presentation,
American Society of Indexers National Conference, Pasadena, CA, May 2005, with Alexandra Nickerson
“Practical Design of Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies,”
half-day workshop, American Society of Indexers National Conference, Pasadena, CA, May 2005
“Introduction to Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies,”
half-day workshop, American Society of Indexers National Conference, Pasadena, CA, May 2005
“Information Architecture and Website Usability for Indexers,”
half-day workshop, Western New York Chapter, American Society of Indexers, Skaneateles, New York, April 2005
"Taxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies," workshop for Special
Library Association annual conference, New York, June 7, 2003
"Information
Architecture for Indexers" (opens Word document), general session presentation at the American
Society of Indexers national conference, Galveston, Texas, May 2002
"Using
Faceted Classification to Assist Indexing" in Key Words,
Vol. 9, No. 6, November/December 2001
"Building
User-Friendly Web Sites" in The Voice of Chorus America,
Vol. 23, No. 2, Winter 1999- 2000, pp. 8-10
Editorial assistant:
Paul Wasserman. Awards, Honors, and Prizes, 3d ed., Gale Research Co., 1975
Editorial staff
member: Paul Wasserman. Who's Who in Consulting, 2d ed., Gale Research
Co., 1973
Programmer,
data processing: Joseph C. Donohue. Understanding Scientific Literatures:
A Bibliometric Approach, The MIT Press, 1973
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Book
Indexes Compiled (selected list)
Althusser,
Louis. Writings on Psychoanalysis, Columbia University Press,
1997
Banes, Sally.
Subversive Expectations, Rutgers University Press, 1998
Cannadine,
David. Rise and Fall of Class in Britain, Columbia University
Press, 1999
Corbin, Alain.
The Life of an Unknown, Columbia University Press, 2001
Curtis, Gerald.
The Limits of Change: Post-World War II Japanese Politics, Columbia
University Press, 1999
Craig, Gordon
A., and Alexander L. George. Force and Statecraft, 2d ed.,
Oxford University Press, 1996
Diebert, Ronald.
Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia, Columbia University
Press, 1997
Edinger, Lewis.
From Bonn to Berlin: German Politics in Transition, Columbia
University Press, 1998
English, Robert.
Russia and the Idea of the West, Columbia University Press,
2000
Floyd, Samuel
A. The Power of Black Music, Oxford University Press, 1995
Gelber, Michael
W. The Just and the Lively: The Literary Criticism of John Dryden,
1664–1700, Manchester University Press, 1999
Gilmore, Michael
T. Differences in the Dark: American Movies and English Theater,
Columbia University Press, 1998
Gorbachev,
Mikhail. On My Country and the World, Columbia University
Press, 2000
Hoxie, Frederick.
Indians in American History, Harlan-Davidson, 1998
Keene, Donald.
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912. Columbia
University Press, 2002
Mercer-Taylor,
Peter. The Life of Mendelssohn, Cambridge University Press,
2000
Medvedev, Roy.
Post-Soviet Russia, Columbia University Press, 2000
Nora, Pierre.
The Realms of Memory, Vols. 1 and 2, Columbia University
Press, 1997
Reid, Panthea.
Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf, Oxford University
Press, 1997
Selinger, Eric.
What Is It Then Between Us: Traditions of Love in American Poetry,
Cornell University Press, 1998
Steib, Murray,
ed. Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory, Criticism, Fitzroy-Dearborn,
2000
Taylor, Clarence.
Knocking at Our Own Door: Milton A. Galamison and the Struggle
to Integrate New York Public Schools, Columbia University Press,
1997
Journal Indexes
Compiled
Samuel Floyd,
ed. Black Music Research Journal, Vols. 16, 17, Center for Black
Music Research, Columbia College Chicago, 1996, 1997
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Professional
Memberships and Volunteer Activities
National
Organizations
Information Architecture Institute
Member, 2002–
American
Society for Information Science and Technology
Member, 2000–2006
Consortium
of Indexing Professionals
Founding Fellow, 2000–
American
Society of Indexers
President-Elect, 2007-2008
Chair, Indexer Services Committee, 1996–1997
Member, 1995–
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