C

Chelsea J. D.

About

Detail

Information Architect ▪︎ Taxonomy Strategist at HP
Seattle, Washington, United States
Contact Chelsea regarding: 
work
Full-time jobs

Timeline

work
Job
school
Education
folder
Project
auto_stories
Publication

Résumé

Jobs verified_user 0% verified
  • Predictive UX
    Taxonomy Consultant Part-time
    Predictive UX
    Oct 2025 - Current (1 year)
  • I
    Information Architect ▪︎ Taxonomy Strategist
    Jun 2023 - Current (3 years 4 months)
  • I
    Information Architect ▪︎ Taxonomy & Ontology Strategist
    Jun 2023 - May 2026 (3 years)
    HP AI Hackathon 2025 - Ideation, UI/UX dev
    • Designing a taxonomy/ontology and controlled vocabulary used by AI and ML based services that enable improved experience of finding the right knowledge and technical documentation
    • Labeled/assessed up to ~180k lines of data for ML model re-training within 2 months after taxonomy remediation, keeping the product released on time with successful, high accuracy outcome for the stakeholder
    • Advocating for and documenting taxonomy best practices and processes
    • Engaging and strategizing with team on relationships and ontologies managed in Semaphore/TMS
    • Mapping and normalizing metadata across different stakeholders and domains
    • Cardsorting to gain insights into usabil
  • Earley Information Science
    Lead Taxonomist via Predictive UX
    Earley Information Science
    Jan 2023 - Mar 2023 (3 months)
    Short-term project for Earley Information Science client, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, via PUX (Predictive UX) as an independent contractor:
    • Led the metadata & taxonomy assessment and recommendations
    • Analyzed metadata filters across academic medical content sources for alignment, gaps, redundancies, and language barriers
    • Advocating for metadata standardization and normalization for making sustainable information architecture and by extension accessible content
    • Contributed to weekly working sessions
    • Collaborated on stakeholder interview & survey design and implementation
    • Designed presentation materials
  • Indigo Slate
    Information Architect ▪︎ Governance Engineer @ PACCAR | Data Librarian
    Indigo Slate
    Mar 2021 - Nov 2022 (1 year 9 months)
    Supporting PACCAR ITD Digital Services, Information Governance Team, in designing and implementing information architecture and metadata for data governance & international privacy regulations, incl. GDPR and CCPA:
    • Built, refined, and implemented taxonomies, metadata, and a controlled vocabulary
    • Curation, classification, and metadata management with enterprise cataloging tools
    • Admin level managing, customizing, and debugging enterprise management tool, Informatica, including documentation
    • Built complex tagging rules and data discovery queries with RegEx and SQL
    • Initiated & designed python and SQL-based functional prototypes with APIs for facilitating core processes, all of which achieved major objectives f
  • Indigo Slate
    Information Architect ▪︎ Governance Engineer @ PACCAR
    Indigo Slate
    Mar 2021 - Nov 2022 (1 year 9 months)
    Supporting PACCAR ITD Digital Services, Information Governance Team, in designing and implementing information architecture and metadata for data governance & privacy:
    • Built, refined, and implemented taxonomies, metadata, and a controlled vocabulary
    • Curation, classification, and metadata management with enterprise cataloging tools
    • Built complex tagging rules and data discovery queries with RegEx and SQL
    • Initiated & designed python-based functional prototypes and pseudo-code for facilitating core processes, one of which achieved a major objective for compliance
    • Consulted on information architecture for data governance, onboarding to a data catalog, secondary research in data privacy and compliance, and info
  • Association of College and Research Libraries ACRL
    Information Architect ▪︎ UX Designer
    Association of College and Research Libraries ACRL
    Dec 2019 - Aug 2020 (9 months)
    Designed ACRL's European Studies Section (ESS) WordPress for UW iSchool Capstone 2020:
    • Implemented design & accessibility guidelines
    • Developed a sitemap taxonomy & 3-level metadata scheme
    • Designed & implemented wireframes by type of content
    • Implemented HTML/CSS and Plugins
    • Debugged WordPress issues and blockers
    • Assisted with web migration
  • University of Washington Libraries
    Archives Assistant ▪︎ Archival Processing
    University of Washington Libraries
    Oct 2019 - Jul 2020 (10 months)
    Arranged, processed, and curated physical records for the Labor Archives of Washington in the UW Libraries Special Collections:
    • Preservation and admin notes can be found in the records linked below.
    • Created an extra guide of supportive secondary research for future archivist and scholars studying labor and activism
    • Managed metadata and created finding aids using Encoded Archival Description (EAD) via XML
  • University of Washington Libraries
    Digital Archives Assistant ▪︎ Digital Asset Management
    University of Washington Libraries
    Oct 2019 - Mar 2020 (6 months)
    UW News & Information Services Collection, PH Coll 1104.NIS(II):
    • Archival processing and digitization of photographs from the 1940s/50s
    • Preserving quality of photos with a photoshop application
    • Managing metadata with CONTENTdm - a digital asset management system (DAM) - following Dublin Core standards
  • G
    Web Designer ▪︎ Front-End Developer
    Georgian Digital Text Collective
    May 2019 - Dec 2020 (1 year 8 months)
    Web development and design for a UW Digital Humanities project that supports online access to translations of Georgian poetry for academic studies:
    • Redesigned the website's front-end and navigation
Education verified_user 0% verified
  • University of Washington Information School
    Master of Library & Information Science, Specializing in Information Architecture, Information Behavior, & Metadata
    University of Washington Information School
    Jan 2018 - Dec 2020 (3 years)
    Capstone: Information Architecture and Web Migration Capstone Sponsor: Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
  • University of Washington
    Bachelor of Arts, Comparative History of Ideas
    University of Washington
    Jan 2014 - Dec 2017 (4 years)
    Focus: bio-politics, political science, philosophy, ethics, communication, and intersectionality Thesis: Kaleid - Decentralizing information through rhizomatic design
  • T
    Self-planned 3-month intensive language immersion in Tokyo
    Tokyo Japan
    Jan 2014 - Dec 2014 (1 year)
  • OLYMPIC COLLEGE
    Associate of Arts (A.A, Visual and Performing Arts Focused
    OLYMPIC COLLEGE
    Jan 2011 - Dec 2012 (2 years)
  • Western Washington University
    Political Science & Mongolian Language Studies
    Western Washington University
    Jan 2010 - Dec 2011 (2 years)
Projects (professional or personal) verified_user 0% verified
  • P
    Portals Café: exploring trust, creativity, and learning in the third place
    Dec 2019 - Current (6 years 10 months)
    Accepted by the Post-Human Network (PHuN) Symposium Envisioning Learning and Trust 2020 at Arizona State University
  • N
    Nihongo Café
    Jun 2019 - Current (7 years 4 months)
    Built my first website as a self-study portal for learning the Japanese language, including resources, bilingual tarot reading, website randomizer, games, and video playlists in a frame controlled with buttons that categorize the video content. I used the top level navigation for displaying the secondary resources.
  • K
    Kaleid: decentralizing information through rhizomatic design
    Jun 2016 - Current (10 years 4 months)
    Kaleid is a project that rethinks the way information is centralized via social media & search engines. “A rhizome ceaselessly establishes connections between semiotic chains, organizations of power, and circumstances relative to the arts, sciences, and social struggles.” Deleuze, Gilles & Félix Guattari
  • R
    Resources for Decolonization
    work in progress
Publications verified_user 0% verified
  • A
    Leveraging Problematic Fiction to Infuse Social Justice into the LIS Curriculum
    Alki The Washington Library Association Journal
    Dec 2020
    Martin, M. H., Romeijn-Stout, M., Beran, E., Stetson, J., Poirier, J., Rea, J., Harris, R., Breiner, N., Foglesong, A., Ching, J., Riddle, C., & Davies, C. (2020). Harry Potter in the 21st Century: Leveraging Problematic Fiction to Infuse Social Justice into the LIS Curriculum. Alki: The Washington Library Association Journal, 36(3), 27–32. https://wala.memberclicks.net/assets/Alki/Alki_December_2020.pdf
  • m
    Barriers of Social Information Behavior: Through the lens of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki (1998)
    mediumcom
    Oct 2020
    While we can create systems to address information needs, information behaviors are still influenced by society in subtle and invisible ways that expand beyond the current environment we are working within. Understanding these influences and patterns of behavior requires engaging the world around individuals and embracing the chaos of information behavior in a world of ingrained systematic oppression and "wicked" problems. Using "Uzumaki" as a case study, I explore how the characters' ways of being sheds light on destructive cycles of information behavior shaped by themes of apathy, isolation, and obsession, which determine the inevitable cascading events that consume them. As we continue to face global and local crises such as COVID, genoc
This is a community-created genome.