The Communication Studio LLC
Global Commodity Trading Portal
Senior Information Architect (9 mo.)

Design leadership for a complex intranet-based suite of services for this global commodities firm. Focus on trading and fulfillment, risk management, strategic planning, reporting, customer assistance. Reported directly to CIO on usability and portal design issues. Successful international rollout of flagship trading service in spring of 2005

Create a Trade Contract

Portal Design

The primary goal was to provide a usable, manageable, efficient "portaled" working environment across the major business task areas:

Commodities Trading
Facilities Management
Planning & Projections
Positions Management
Core Data Entities


Edit a Trade Execution

Training Support

Designed print and online marketing and training materials to assist in global rollout initiative.

Qwik Reference Guide to Operations
Skills & Techniques : Dreamweaver, high-fidelity website model, "application-oriented" sites, CSS, templates, reports, portal environment, graphics, documentation, requirements gathering, Powerpoint, online help, print marketing collateral, use case analysis, branding, style guidelines, best practices

The biggest challenges: Rework legacy interface to focus on user experience, define best practices, clarify business requirements, integrate across a range of diverse applications. Design user assistance & marketing collateral.

“I recommend John highly. We worked together on a project and his contribution (on all levels) was outstanding.” Goran Vukobratovic, Project Manager, Bunge

"John is a visionary who knows how to get things done. At Bunge Global Markets, John took control over a fragmented and immature UI design process and in short order provided realistic structure and standards that could be readily applied across all applications to produce a single unified user experience that was functional, intuitive and easy to use. He took the initiative to produce the support materials needed to deploy it - including a revised style guide, fully functional prototype wire-frames, and a set of standards for UI Behaviour.He made a major contribution to the overall UI effort at BGM." Duff Bailey, Program Manager, Bunge

Top Qualities: Great Results, Expert, Creative

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