Andrew Palumbo Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Very excited to have joined an excellent team with a passion for discovering and sharing knowledge.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

I took a break from working with a single organization to be an independent consultant helping small and medium-sized businesses clarify and fulfill their missions.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

I designed and ran the Agile Coaching Engagements (ACE) program at Optoro.* The ACE program enabled product teams to accelerate feature delivery by 44%(measured by average change in time between project initiation and project delivery after 6 months of coaching: 4.5 months decreased to 2.5 months)I guided product teams to discover and apply such practices.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

As Technical Project Manager, I supported the BLINQ.com development team in initiating, planning, executing, and closing feature and maintenance work. We released a ton of features, including:* New payment methods for checkout* Live chat with the customer care team* Several special dynamic marketing pages and features* Refer-a-friend program* Rich.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

I wanted to develop proficiency with the skills I was overseeing as director at my own company, so I joined a local startup to be an individual contributor.Notable projects I delivered as a UX designer and as a UI developer:* Designed the entirety of BLINQ.com's mobile experience (live from 2014-2017)* Designed scores of features on BLINQ.com and Optoro's.

Bethesda, MD And Great Falls, VA

I founded a digital media design company with friends and colleagues at the Mason Media Lab. As a small business owner, I oversaw all client communications and was responsible for quality control of the products we delivered.I also advised clients on problem-solution fit for projects which we did not consider cost-effective to deliver as a third party.*.

Springfield, Virginia

• An advocacy group for survivors of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) that publishes educational materials for all members of the TBI community in order to bridge the gap between survivors and practitioners. * Directed the.
• Poster Presenter at North American Brain Injury Society's 10th Annual Conference (September 14, 2012)*
• Speaker at Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado's 30th Annual Conference (October 12, 2012)*
• Speaker at 11th Annual Pacific Northwest Conference on Brain Injury (March 9, 2013)*
• Abstract Presenter at North American Brain Injury Society's 11th Annual Conference (September 20, 2013)*
• Abstract Presenter at Tenth World Congress on Brain Injury (San Francisco, CA) (March 19, 2014) Show less

Fairfax, Virginia

The Mason Media Lab was an in-house technology, design and animation studio at George Mason University. Until its closing in the summer of 2009, the MML provided affordable design and consulting services to academic clients at the University and beyond.* Recruited by administration to join autonomous team of elite students, providing digital media design.

I worked with a distributed team to design and develop levels and other assets for the award-winning Digital Paintball series of video games.* Collaborated with distributed team to create the critically acclaimed "Digital Paintball" videogame series* With other artists, established standards of visual quality for level design; tweaked textures and lighting.

I produced websites using emerging technologies and utility programs for single-use-case problems, and I also created graphics "demos" using low-level interfaces for fun.Technologies: QBASIC, VisualBasic, C, C++, Java, 8086 assembly, JavaScript, HTML

Ba, Digital Arts And Animation

Activities and Societies: National Society of Collegiate Scholars * Received Innovations "Top Honors Award for Originality and Creativity".

Ba, Russian Studies

Activities and Societies: National Society of Collegiate Scholars * Graduated magna cum laude * Attained degree while also working 35+.