Anthony Hempell

Current

• Principal at Anthony Hempell Consulting Inc.

Past

• Interaction and Usability Director / Senior Interaction Architect at Blast Radius
• Information Architect / Usability Consultant at Anthony Hempell Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)
• Information Architect / Usability Specialist at Columbus Group Communications, Inc.

• Producer / Project Manager at Columbus Group Communications
• Web Developer at Columbus Group Communications
• Digital Output Technician / Webmaster at Laser's Edge

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Education

• University of Toronto
• Simon Fraser University

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Industry

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Anthony Hempell’s Summary

Freelance user experience consultant, information architect, interaction designer, and usability analyst. Over 10 years of experience in analysis and design of solutions for some of the world's top companies and brands.

Anthony Hempell’s Specialties:

Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Usability Evaluation and Testing, System Analysis, Media Design, User Experience Design, Customer Experience Design, Management

Anthony Hempell’s Experience

• Principal

  Anthony Hempell Consulting Inc.

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  Freelance user experience consultant, information architect, interaction designer, and usability analyst. Over 10 years of experience in design and analysis of solutions for some of the world's top companies and brands.
  
  Clients (Projects):
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  TELUS (Satellite TV; TELUS Mobility)
  Tribal-DDB (TransLink)
  Best Buy Canada (Intranet)
  OpenRoad Communications (ICBC.com)
  United Media Partners (SocialBox)
  TELUS (World Police & Fire Games 2009)
  Fjord Interactive (www.GoHave1.com)
  Brandworks International (AIG TravelGuard Insurance)

• Interaction and Usability Director / Senior Interaction Architect

  Blast Radius

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2004 — December 2007 (3 years 5 months)

  Leader of Blast Radius' Vancouver team of Interaction Architects and Content Strategists; responsible for recruiting and retention of staff, performance reviews, guiding training and professional development, and promoting and evolving the IA and Usability practice at Blast Radius.
  
  As Senior Interaction architect I led the information and interaction architecture of projects for DirecTV, Starbucks, VISA, Jordan, Electronic Arts and Guthy-Renker.

• Information Architect / Usability Consultant

  Anthony Hempell Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  November 2001 — July 2004 (2 years 9 months)

  Provided information architecture and usability services for web development and marketing organizations such as Blast Radius, TELUS Web Solutions, Cossette Interactive and Tribal-DDB Interactive.

• Information Architect / Usability Specialist

  Columbus Group Communications, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  December 1999 — June 2001 (1 year 7 months)

  Information Architect and Usability Specialist working on projects for Tourism Vancouver, TELUS, GlaxoSmithKlein and UBC Commerce.

• Producer / Project Manager

  Columbus Group Communications

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  April 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 9 months)

  Project manager on web development projects for BC TEL and Tourism Vancouver. Assisted in the development and refining of CGC's project delivery methodology.

• Web Developer

  Columbus Group Communications

  (Internet industry)

  July 1997 — April 1998 (10 months)

  HTML and Javascript code monkey.

• Digital Output Technician / Webmaster

  Laser's Edge

  (Media Production industry)

  September 1994 — August 1997 (3 years )

  Technician and production designer at digital prepress shop. Created company website and developed of online ordering system and workflow.

Anthony Hempell’s Education

• University of Toronto

  Master of Information Studies , Information Systems , September 2002 — May 2004

  Activities and Societies:

  Photographer, Varsity Newspaper; Intramural Hockey.

• Simon Fraser University

  B.A , Communications , September 1989 — June 1996

  Activities and Societies:

  Radio Programmer, CJSF Radio; Discorder Magazine (CiTR UBC Radio)

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