- Develop and maintain several core websites in collaboration with marketing, compliance and IT departments
- Research, define, test and implement web projects in order to advance the organization’s overall communications strategy
- Identify opportunities for technology or content design improvement and suggest creative solutions
- Provide support to internal and external site users
Robert A. Bohall
Curriculum Vitae
Work History
Website Specialist
Western & Southern Financial Group, Cincinnati OH
January 2008- Present
Regional Librarian
Indiana Wesleyan University, Cincinnati OH
May 2005 – January 2008
- Coordinate user-centered revamp of the library’s web presence, working across business units to meet challenges and ensure internal acceptance
- Create web-based information products and services tailored to the specific needs of unique user groups at various academic and administrative levels
- Serve on the university’s cross-departmental web committee, and on the director’s council of the regional library consortium
- Teach a three-credit conversational Spanish course
Information Analyst/ Webmaster
World Bank, Washington DC
April 2001 – May 2005
- Coordinate front-end development and maintenance of a prominent departmental website to meet the goals of the CIO
- Serve as liaison between business units and developers, ensuring that client needs are effectively communicated to and met by offshore developers
- Prepare site requirements, test cases and data models according to CMM Level 3 standards
- Submit detailed change instructions via an issue management tool, track actual versus requested software performance and conduct usability analysis
- Modify content presentation and structure according to site usage analysis
Reference Librarian
World Bank, Washington DC
April 1998 – April 2001
- Meet the information needs of diverse international development specialists through provision of reference service and strategic dissemination of information; subject areas include: energy, engineering, environment, transportation, telecommunications, mining, agriculture, and health.
- Serve on a team dedicated to designing and developing user-centered intranet websites
- Author and publish an electronic current-awareness newsletter for Education staff
- Conduct general and focused information literacy sessions for various user groups
Assistant Director of Technical Services
United States Department of Education,
Educational Resources Information Center
Sept 1994 – April 1998
- Trained and coordinated a team of indexer/abstractors on the proper technique for assigning controlled vocabulary terms from a large taxonomy and writing concise summaries of scholarly works
- Edited, processed and coordinated weekly submissions of bibliographic records for inclusion in the ERIC database
- Created numerous scholarly online “virtual libraries,” repositories of top-quality educational resources
Education
Masters Degree in Library and Information Studies, May 1998. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.
Bachelors Degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences (concentrations in Geography, Spanish, and Sociology), July 1991. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
Post-Graduate Courses:
- Information Architecture and Knowledge Management in Context.
Kent State University, Fall 2008 - Human Computer Interaction Design I.
Indiana University — Purdue University Indianapolis, Fall 2009
Additional:
- New Horizons Learning Center & International Webmasters Assn., 2005-present. Completed courses in XML, MS Project, Photoshop, Dreamweaver
- Graphic Design for the Web, Webpage Design and Java.
Computer Skills
Expertise: DHTML, CSS, XML, Adobe Fireworks, Photoshop, Visual SourceSafe, MS Visio, Dreamweaver, Omniture SiteCatalyst, multiple content management systems.
Familiarity with MySQL, PHP, CGI and Java.
Expertise in searching a wide variety of library databases including Dialog, Lexis-Nexis, EBSCOHost, First Search, ProQuest and Gale.
