David Muir

Current

Principal Consultant at David Muir and Associates (Sole Proprietorship)
Member, Advisory Committee for Programming Curriculum at Seneca College

Past

Manager, Information Development Technology, Strategy & Development at IBM
Consultant and Judge at McMaster University
Manager at IBM

Information Developer at IBM
Technical Writer at Bramalea Limited

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Education

Ryerson University
Trent University

Recommended

8 people have recommended David

Connections

171 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

David Muir’s Summary

A results-driven, passionate people and project manager with a strong interest in end-user satisfaction and simplicity of approach.

Experience in:
* content management
* information architecture
* user interaction design
* technical writing
* budgeting
* negotiation
* personnel management
* distributed systems design
* XML, PHP, SQL, Java, JavaScript

David Muir’s Specialties:

content management, information architecture, software development, technical writing, user interaction

David Muir’s Experience

Principal Consultant
David Muir and Associates (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2009 — Present (10 months)

Content to overachieve.

Communications consulting. Specializing in:
* Content and Digital Asset Management Systems
* Interactive Communications Planning
* Editing and Information Architecture
* Business Analysis
* Project Management
Member, Advisory Committee for Programming Curriculum

Seneca College

(Higher Education industry)

September 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

Volunteer position to review and guide curriculum on application and database development, systems management, and open source community participation.
Manager, Information Development Technology, Strategy & Development

IBM

(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2007 — February 2009 (1 year 9 months)

Led a Corporate User Technologies team doing strategy and development for IBM's information development tools and infrastructure.
Consultant and Judge

McMaster University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

2001 — 2007 (6 years )

Judged Senior Capstone Project in the Software Engineering program. Lectured about user interaction design and development methodology. Volunteer position. http://tinyurl.com/bvrpxm
Manager

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

October 2000 — June 2007 (6 years 9 months)

Managed an information development team until March 2006, then managed a compiler and tools development team for System i Application Development.
Information Developer

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

September 1992 — October 2000 (8 years 2 months)
Technical Writer

Bramalea Limited

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Real Estate industry)

May 1989 — September 1992 (3 years 5 months)

David Muir’s Education

Ryerson University

BAA , Radio & TV Arts , 1986 — 1989

Activities and Societies:

Eyeopener News Editor, Microcomputer Lab Assistant
Trent University

BA , Computer Studies / Philosophy , 1983 — 1986

Activities and Societies:

Trent Radio