Team Member Profile

Mark Leder Universal Design Living Laboratory Columbus, Ohio 614-478-4670 http://www.udll.com

Mark Leder, the Project / Business Manager for the Universal Design Living Laboratory, and President of Mark Leder.com, runs an Internet strategy and development firm, which provides businesses with compelling, comprehensive and practical solutions to Internet communication challenges. His areas of expertise include web site: software design and programming, visual design and web site usability, product and service marketing, search engine optimization, ecommerce, streaming media, Real Simple Syndication (RSS), blogs, podcasting, database driven e-mail subscription, membership tracking, calendar automation, and content management. The underlying framework for these projects are built using Adobe Coldfusion, Javascript, AJAX, Adobe Photoshop, and Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

His extensive computer experience includes sales and installation of local and wide area networks, document imaging and knowledge management, utilizing Lotus Notes software and other database development platforms, and business consulting.

Leder also is a photographer and videographer. He is well experienced in non-linear digital editing, audio post-production, and format compilation to Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media and other digital formats.

Mark has over 30 years of unique and diverse business experience ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to small start-ups. His expertise includes business operations and project management, sales, marketing and customer service.

A solutions-driven individual, Mark has years of demonstrated project management leadership successes, applying knowledge and past experience to efficiently and decisively handle current business and project challenges.

He has managed properties and directed new facilities construction and existing renovation projects for Fifth Third Bank (3.5 years) and Abbott Laboratories (7.5 years), both in Columbus, Ohio. Mark authored corporate technical standards regarding office furniture, furniture bar coding, office workspace ergonomics, and interior graphics/wayfinding. Leder is experienced in Autocad, using it to create shop drawings (electrical, plumbing, casework, furniture, and architectural floor plans).

Mark excels at providing creative business re-engineering and process automation solutions to existing tasks, and is respected as trustworthy and knowledgeable. Architects, contractors, vendors, and customer alike have praised his firm and fair detail-oriented approach to taking nothing for granted, anticipating problems, and moving projects to completion where winning outcomes for all parties are the norm.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of Cincinnati in 1982, and graduated Cum Laude..