Aaron Gustafson Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, US

Identifying & investing in technological advancements to improve access for everyone as the lead for Microsoft’s AI for Accessibility grant program.

Redmond, Washington, US

* Developed Ally Skills Workshop Curriculum, trained facilitators, and facilitated workshops across the organization.* Aligned allyship programs across all product teams in the organization* Developed programs to activate Microsoft's D&I Core Priority among WebXT leadership and staff.

Redmond, Washington, US

* Establishing & evolving Microsoft’s vision for Progressive Web Apps in terms of capabilities, accessibility, privacy, and operating systems integrations through strategy documents, standards contributions, and mentorship of colleagues just starting to work in the space.* Leading the push—internally and externally—for increased diversity and inclusion in.

Redmond, Washington, US

I help make the Web better for everyone by advocating for Web standards, accessibility, and interoperability.

Redmond, Washington, US

I help make the Web better for everyone by advocating for Web standards, accessibility, and interoperability.

Helping to organize the PWA Summit with colleagues from Google, Intel, Microsoft, and Samsung.

I started the Web We Want as an effort to open up the lines of communication between designers and developers building things on the web and browser makers. Community members can submit problems that need solving in areas including accessibility, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DevTools, etc. and they can also vote on previous submissions. Microsoft, my employer.

New York City, NY, US

I’m honored to be steering the ship at our industry’s most long-lived and prestigious magazine.

Chattanooga, TN, US

Currently:Talks, workshops, consulting, and training on web design best practices including Progressive Web Apps and accessibility. Clients have included Box, Fidelity, Gartner, Marriott, Microsoft, New York Times, SAP, StubHub, Time, the US EPA, Vanguard, and Walgreens.Over 140 talks, keynotes, and workshops delivered globally.Previously:Helped build web.

New York, New York, US

One of a select group of experts that work through Rosenfeld Media to offer industry-leading training and consulting for user experience disciplines.

See “publications” for a complete list.

• I was a technical editor on staff with A List Apart for six years. I have also tech edited the following books:
• Learning Web Design, 4th Edition (O’Reilly)
• Practical Prototype & script.aculo.us (Apress)
• Designing Web Navigation (New Riders)
• Learning Web Design, 3rd Edition (O’Reilly)
• Bulletproof Ajax (New Riders)

Helping this group streamline their process of gathering and organizing volunteers by building them a proper website, overhauling their intake forms, and piping data through to the right places.Tech used:* Eleventy - static site generator* Hylia - Eleventy starter kit* Netlify - hosting* Netlify CMS - content management* Zapier - data processing, automated.

Got the COAs finances in order by getting a better handle on expenditures and individual owners' responsibilities; investigated and addressed for causes of excessive utility use; planned, financed, and completed an exterior renovation project for two buildings.

Chattanooga, TN, US

* JavaScript Task Force* Small Business Task Force

Lead web development on boltpeters.com and ethnio.comDesigned, architected and developed JavaScript-based controllers for the Ethnio product (JavaScript provides hooks for the C++ application to populate and manipulate static HTML files compiled into it)Provided a pro-con comparison of PHP vs. Ruby on Rails for re-architecting and building the web.

Glastonbury, CT, US

Lead web designer/developer on all accounts including: Baronet Coffee, Bertucci’s, Caremark, Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles, Connecticut Department of Transportation, Connecticut Energy Conservation Management Board, Connecticut Lottery, Digital Federal Credit Union, Garelick Farms, Konica Minolta, Keurig, Liberty Bank, MDF Systems, Middlesex.

Provided web-based work for the following companies for varying durations (if through an interactive/advertising agency, it is marked in parentheses):• Aetna• American Skandia• Deloitte & Touche• Delta Airlines (via Modem Media)• Dime Bank (Online Design)• Gartner• General CologneRe• Guinness (via Colangelo Synergy Marketing)• IBM (via Modem Media)• Kemper.

Bradenton, Florida, US

I produced the online version of the newspaper by pulling stories from Quark and dropping them into Dreamweaver templates. Oh, and I pushed them to the server using Fetch. Ah, the good old days.

Ba, Media Studies / Contemporary Popular Culture

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