 With nephew Alex @ MassMoCA
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David is a seasoned innovator with 12 years of experience in the application of interaction design, informal learning and media ecology to the design of service interfaces. Bottom-up, usability-centric design and leadership facilitation, driven by organizational objectives, user needs, design research, and whole systems thinking. Well-developed mentoring, competency-building within organizations, writing, and presentation skills and broad executive-level experience interacting with and advising educators, senior business leaders, and national policy-makers. Extensive experience in the research, strategy, design, programming and implementation of interactive digital media.
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David received his training in media ecology, interaction design, and informal education @ Columbia University and has extensive professional experience in the overlap of these three communities of practice.
In his free time, among other things, he can be found hanging out at the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, actualizing the work of Marshall McLuhan, making wine or writing code.
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David brings to Pratt a distinguished background in professional practice. Since coming to Pratt, David has designed curricula for the courses Information Architecture and Interaction Design, People-Centered Methods and Research, Usability Leadership and Programming for Interactivity. He has also designed and supervised the building of the Cultural Informatics Design Lab.
He is a member of the Pratt Board of Trustees (Faculty Trustee) and is on the Board of Trustee Finance/Budgeting and Academic Affairs committees. He is also a member of the institutde-wide Faculty Research Funding committee and the hiring commitee for the School of Information and Library Science.
David is an experienced programmer and uses open source Processing and Arduino as the programming languages for his interactive and physical computing designs and artistic creations.
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Before completing his doctorate in Communication and Education at Columbia University, David worked professionally at Columbia’s Graduate School of Business, General Electric (GE) Multimedia, GE Global Research, and the boutique branding agency Frankfurt Balkind (now Hill|Holiday). While at GE Global Research, two of his interactive system designs were acknowledged as company best practices.
He was selected as a Science and Technology Policy Fellow by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington D.C. While at the Academy, he helped to create the interdisciplinary field of Information Technology and Creative Practices (ITCP) and developed federal policy recommendations related to Critical Infrastructure Protection. The importance of federally-funded ITCP research has been acknowledged by the National Science Foundation and their CreativeIT innovation program. After his fellowship, David continued to work for the NAS as an independent consultant. While researching for his dissertation, he was a visiting scholar at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
Recently, David was an invited guest to the design-thinking retreat Overlap, selected to participate in a design science think-tank at the United Nations, and invited to a roundtable with the presidents of the National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine where he was asked for his opinions on people-centered design and usability leadership.
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In 2008 David
will be speaking at the Media Ecology Association conference in Santa Clara, California.
A detailed CV/resume, in PDF format, is available here
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