John F. Keane
Dot Net Elite - John F. Keane
When not tackling a difficult sudoku, John is continually striving to integrate semantics, marketing and design with the interactive potential inherent in ICT to achieve a harmonious and expressive synthesis of those elements. Inherent in this is a major interest in applying the insights of General Semantics to generate clear and intelligible structures with which the user can negotiate an online product or organisational marketing system with maximum ease and consistency. Part of this programme is the specified use of cross-referential semantic synergies allowing the persuasive extension of any user’s conceptual map of a marketing instrument’s content.
Employment & Recent Solutions
Presently employed as a software tester and ICT trainer in Cheshire, UK, his recent solutions include sites for an e-government consultancy as well as various sites for Dot Net Elite. In 1997 he was employed as a product researcher and copywriter (1997) researching products for the Tandy Centre, Walsall, UK. As a marketing manager (1997-1998) he undertook consumer research for Specialized Computer Holdings, Birmingham, UK. In 2002-2003 he researched ICT public sector needs, producing reports and developing a website for an e-government consultancy. His freelance employment includes work as a visiting lecturer, inventory surveyor, website designer and sub-editor.
Skills
He is fully conversant with InDesign, Quark Xpress, Dreamweaver MX, Photoshop 8, Flash Professional, Fireworks MX, Adobe Premiere, Illustrator 10.0. Freehand 7.0 and 3D Studio Max. His programming languages include Javascript, Shockwave, HTML and Actionscript.
Publications
- International Journal of Advertising 1999; 18 (4): Autopoiesis in Disneyland: Reassuring Consumers via Autopoietic Brand Management.
-Piggy and the Eternal City: Science Fiction as Testing Ground for New Management Theory; Emergence, Vol. 1, 1999.
- Two essays in the Design Transformation Group Journal ‘Closing the Gap between Subject and Object’, 1997: ‘New Directions in Design Education’ and ‘Post-modern design management’.
- Two essays in the Design Transformation Group Journal ‘Changing Energy Into Form’, 1999: 'The Role of Conceptual Mutations in Promoting Creative Innovation' and 'The Autocatalytic Web: How Self-Organizing Consciousness can Phenomenologically Inspire Innovation via Nodal Modelling'.