Nick Peters nick@sneakyfreak.com
o b j e c t i v e		I want to work on projects that make the world: 1. more interesting 2. easier to navigate 3. a better place. Let me know if you have something I can help with.
e x p e r i e n c e		Apex Learning, Inc. Senior Product Manager : August 98 - October 01 Responsible for the design, development and deployment of AP Exam Review, a site for Advanced Placement high school students to study for their exams and for ClassTools, the Codie winning in-class tool to help classroom teachers present online content. I am experienced at defining product requirements, researching competition, coordinating content and technical development with external partners and internal departments. This position required boundless energy, a great understanding of web technologies and a keen instinct for balancing user needs with team capabilities. I contributed to business aspects of Apex products from customer training, product evangelism, technical writing, information design, tracking server statistics to troubleshooting registration systems. sites: apexlearning.com, UCCP Virtual High School + others
		USWeb Seattle (now marchFIRST) Quality Assurance Manager : December 97-July 98 Responsible for quality assurance on all products. Tested commercial Internet and Intranet sites. Wrote test plans and tested web sites: front to backend components. Co-developed and maintained a bug tracking system. Worked closely with engineering, design, production and development departments to improve overall product quality. Clients: HorizonAir, Hewlett-Packard, Airgroup Express, Emeritus.com, Entertainment Tonight Online, DeathTax.com, ATL Ultrasound, Kavu + others.
		Consultant QA Engineer + Lab Rat : March 95-November 97 Asst. beta-coordinator for MS Office. Tested U.S. and International versions of MS Encarta 98 for Windows. Acted as liaison between third-party developers and the PageMaker 6.0 testing team. Wrote, executed and documented all tests for three plug-ins. Tested hardware and software for Windows Printer Systems. Clients: Mirosoft, Adobe
		Blood Island- The Movie Jack of all : November 94 - January 95 As a local consultant working with an aspiring action filmmaker on the island of Roatan in Honduras, I helped schedule, coordinate, cast, write, film and act in this $10,000 16-mm extravaganza. The working title, "Blood island". Experience with 16-mm camera, screen writing, animal handling (tarantulas, snakes, monkeys and small apes) also location scouting and working in unusual locales (coral reefs and nasty swamps).
		Microsoft Corportation Redmond, WA Tech Support Engineer : January 93 - October 94 Provided end users with technical support in the Macintosh, Windows and DOS environments for all Consumer Division Graphics (CDG) products, including MS Works (3.0), Powerpoint, FlightSim, Publisher 1.0, Creative Writer, Fine Artist, multimedia CD-ROMs (Schubert, Beethoven), and others. Mentored other CDG Engineers for Macintosh system issues. Wrote, edited and commented articles for the CDG issues database. Received a Product Support Services Excellence Award for superior customer service.
		United States Information Agency Ottawa, Canada Public Affairs Intern : April 91 - June 91 Tracked Canadian press reaction to the North American Free Trade Agreement for US Department of State while working at the US Embassy in Ottawa. Position also involved researching and responding to inquiries made by Canadian government officials to the U.S.I.A. Library.
s k i l l s		information and web design, program and product management, budgeting time and money, great eye for quality issues and project risks, scheduling, writing, editing, training Mac: Office, Photoshop, BBEdit, IE, Fireworks, GraphicConverter, Fetch, Navigator, etc. Win: Project, Office, VSS, Raid, TestTracker, Visio + more. web: html and javascript hacking
s c h o o l i n g		Antioch University Seattle, WA Whole System Design Focus on epistemology, adult education and general systems theory.
		The Evergreen State College Olympia, WA Bachelor of Art Emphasis on managment in the public interest, propaganda and persuasion elementary + middle + high schools: Taipei American School, Taiwan Inglemoor High School, WA American Cooperative School of Tunis, Tunisia École Belge a Kigali, Rwanda American International School of Bamako, Mali Walnut Creek Elementary, CA
o t h e r w i s e		sailing, snowboarding, travel, web, online education.