SIGIA-L Mail Archives: RE: SIGIA-L: Re: Eclectic Group
RE: SIGIA-L: Re: Eclectic Group
From: Gent, Andrew (Andrew.Gent_at_compaq.com)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2000 - 00:56:19 EDT
>>OK, here I stand, exposed to the list. Who else will share?
Perhaps not as eclectic, but data none the less:
* BA in English Literature and Mathematics
* MA in Literature (writing)
* Lab assistant (for an independent laboratory, a vacuum cleaner
company, and a manufacturer of automobile components)
* Teaching assistant (Freshman English)
* Men's suit salesman
* Technical writer
* Project leader
* Software engineer/Tool developer
* Technical strategist
* Technical Director
* Information Architect
* Poet
Andrew Gent
Information Architect
Compaq Professional Services
andrew.gent_at_compaq.com
603.884.7475
P.S. I find it interesting that in the discussions of prerequisite or
prefered skills for info architects, no one has mentioned the one I have
found most valuable in the people I have worked with. As has been noted,
information architecture requires more skills and depth than can be found in
any one individual. However, few if any firms have the ability to send an
entire team onto a project from start to finish. So one of the essential
skills, beyond whatever background expertise the IA brings to the task, is
an understanding of their own limitations and knowing when to bring in
additional resources from other disciplines.
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