Ep. 072, Metaphysical Kitchen
Underserved
Andrew Gelina
5.0 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Episode 072 of Underserved features Brian Durkin, Sr. Group Manager & Head of User Experience, Data & Analytics at BNY Mellon. Brian leveraged his art degree into some web design work but found his true passion was in information architecture. He came to this realization in the middle of an interview, which he politely asked to terminate. Instead, he was offered a new IA job the next day! Also covered: World IA Day, getting fintech to understand IA, and the fun parts of working for Nickelodeon.
Charles Zicari, Brian's first real IA mentor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-zicari-90798/
IxDA: https://ixda.org/
UXPA Boston: http://uxpaboston.org/
World IA Day, Brian started the one for Boston: https://worldiaday.org/
Some of the past speakers of World IA Day Boston:
- Peter Morville - https://www.linkedin.com/in/morville
- Steve Portigal - https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveportigal/
- Josh Seiden - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jseiden/
- Abby Covert - https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbytheia/
- Aaron Irizarry - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaroni/
- Todd Zaki-Warfel - https://www.linkedin.com/in/zakiwarfel/
- Dana Chisnell - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dana-chisnell/
- Christina Wodtke - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinawodtke/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to episode 72 of Underserved. |
| 0:04.0 | Today, joining me in studio I have with me, Brian Durkin, |
| 0:08.0 | Senior Group Manager, and Head of User Experience, |
| 0:11.0 | Data and Analytics at BNY Melon. |
| 0:14.0 | Let's get started. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to this week's edition of Underserved, |
| 0:20.0 | the podcast for the rest of the tech industry. |
| 0:23.0 | Where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders, |
| 0:26.0 | their insights, and their lessons learned. |
| 0:29.0 | And now your host, Andrew Jalina. |
| 0:33.0 | Brian, thank you so much for joining us today on Underserved. |
| 0:40.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:41.0 | So when you were a kid, like, do you have a wow moment |
| 0:45.0 | or something when you first saw technology and said, |
| 0:47.0 | that's cool, I'm interested in it. |
| 0:49.0 | I wouldn't say as a kid, I went to art school |
| 0:51.0 | and I was always creative growing up. |
| 0:53.0 | So I knew that I wanted to go down some sort of path like that. |
| 0:56.0 | And I was very familiar with graphic design |
| 0:58.0 | and stuff like that at that time. |
| 1:00.0 | But I went full artist when I went into school. |
| 1:03.0 | I got my BFA majored in experimental video and sonic arts |
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