résumé

bio

Born in lovely Perth, Western Australia, I currently make my home in New York, NY, where I've lived since 2006.

Since June, 2006, I've been employed as a senior information architect with Razorfish in New York City. In 2007 , I worked with a Razorfish team to redesign EMC.com. That design was awarded WebAwards for Best Information Services Website and Best Technology Website. I also contributed both as a content strategist and copy writer to the WWD.com redesign, which won Razorfish an award for Best of the Web in Design from min.

Previously, I worked with the good folks in the Interactive Design Group at Wachovia for four-and-a-half years. In 2002, Wachovia merged with First Union Bank to become the fourth largest bank in the United States. Under the guidance of Dale Bass, Web Design & Usability Manager, I helped the bank combine two legacy intranets sites and an interim site into a new umbrella site called Inside Wachovia Exchange. We then successfully migrated hundreds of subsites to Exchange. In 2003, our small team received a great honor: The Nielsen Norman Group awarded Wachovia's intranet one of its prestigious Ten Best Intranets of the Year awards. In 2004 I began working full time at Wachovia as an Assistant Vice President in the Interactive Design Group.

I also served as a content developer and information architect for both Computer Associates and iXL. Before the dotcom (dotbomb?) revolution, I was Communications Coordinator for the South Carolina Organ Procurement Agency, Inc.

I earned degrees in both broadcast journalism and English. I also studied political journalism at Georgetown University and creative writing at Southampton College in New York. I interned in Washington, DC before "intern" earned a more salacious connotation. In Summer 2002, I studied Czech language, literature, and culture at Charles University in Prague, the oldest university in central Europe.

I have also written book, art, and music reviews, as well as feature articles and award-winning fiction. My writing has featured in numerous publications, including Skyscraper magazine, Make, Pixelsurgeon, Open Sewer, Zmag.com, Creative Loafing, The Charlotte Post-Courier, The Korea Herald, The Korea Tribune, and Isosceles, a small poetry journal. I also write regularly for Razorfish publications such as Scatter/Gather, Headlight Blog, and Slant.

I have developed interests in writing, design, information architecture, politics, human rights, music, photography, cinema, literature, anthropology, pattern recognition, and neurology, as well as the sciences in general.

I have lived in three countries on three continents.

contact

Robert Stribley provides freelance writing and information architecture consulting services. He also takes pretty decent photos.

Please direct inquiries to stribs@hotmail.com.