Lawrence Swiader
Acting Director, Outreach Technology
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Outreach Technology
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington DC
20024-2126 USA
Email: lswiader@ushmm.org
http://www.ushmm.org

Lawrence Swiader is the Acting Director of the Outreach Technology department at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He manages teams that make use of the Museum’s unique assets in the design and development of products ranging from the Museum’s Web sites to audio CDs to the kiosk-based Learning Center. Prior to joining the Museum’s staff, he worked for United Parcel Service and BMW as a training analyst and project manager. In his second home of Athens, Greece, Lawrence has been a consultant on various multimedia projects including the Athens Metro, and the Foundation of the Hellenic World. In addition, his website with artist Zoe Leoudaki--www.fear.gr – has won numerous awards. His most important Web site is that of his new daughter Athena.

Lawrence will present The first W -- A Web Site for Non-English Speaking Audiences
Lawrence will present A Look Ahead - The Impact of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) on Museum Web Projects