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Served as company president and principle.Enhanced to product design that would improve user experience.Created organization's mission and vision statements for use by employees.Designed and developed best-of-breed online platform for playing roleplaying games.Conducted target market research to scope out industry competition and identify advantageous trends.Implemented and deployed 20 (and counting) individual game modules.Authored proprietary application language, Flow.Managed and mentored small team of engineers.Performed all systems operations and administration.Stack: Node.js, MySQL, pure Javascript/ES6, HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator,Amazon/AWS

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Revamped several geo-positioning applications used by over 40 clients with over 400,000 total users.Employed coding practices based on commonly accepted standards to establish site layout and user interface.Performed unit testing of web applications and troubleshot issues.Delivered user support to clients to train, educate and answer questions.Built localization system for use in desktop and mobile devices.Designed and implemented Javascript framework, Cornflower Blue.Authored multiple other systems, including customer behavior analytics, user rights management, customer group management, all to allow our clients to target their customers for offers or other business needs.Optimized web applications for speed, scalability and security.Constructed several prototypes of product for customer review and market research.Managed small team of engineers and designers.Stack: Node.js, Javascript/ES6 (Pure/jQuery/ExtJS), MediaWiki, Apache, HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Balsamiq, Google Maps API

New York, Ny, Us

Instructed 5 cohorts of students in User Experience design with high post-graduation employment success rate.Helped students design and implement prototypes of their designs.Applied various teaching aids to minimize learning gaps and instruct and motivate students.Evaluated and revised lesson plans and course content to achieve student-centered learning.Increased student participation via engaging lectures and assignments.Helped design school curriculumStack: Illustrator, Photoshop, Sketch, Balsamiq

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I served as a thought leader and product and design visionary to the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization who manage Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.In this role my duties are many and varied, but included:* Identifying and providing solutions for systemic problems that plague the global Wikimedia movement as can be solved in software;* Spearheading or providing strategic consultancy on nearly every user-facing project or feature that the Foundation engages in;* Providing design solutions at varying degrees of fidelity, from 10,000 foot strategic viewpoints to high-fidelity, production ready assets;* Deep advocacy for design and product to all stakeholders, including the development, product, and design teams as well as to the greater Wikimedia movement editor community (a group 85,000 strong);* Providing deep engagement to the editor community and serving as their voice to the Foundation's development teams as needed;* Identifying, nurturing, and mentoring strong candidates from the pool of volunteer developers and designers;* Being a strong advocate for transparancy about our design and development process;* Just plain solving any problem that comes across my plate.Aside from my duties as Senior Designer, I also served the Foundation in additional capacities:* Was awarded "Staff Member of the Year" in 2012 by Jimmy Wales, the Founder of Wikipedia* Served as a spokesperson during the 2011-2012 fundraiser, earning over $8 million dollars for the Foundation* Designed the 2012 Anti-SOPA/PIPA Blackout system for the English Wikipedia* Perfomed several speaking engagements on four continents* Served as a mentor in both Google Summer of Code and the Gnome Outreach Program for Women

Redwood City, Ca, Us

I worked in the HR Business Solutions division of Electronic Arts as a Senior Software Engineer. During this time I designed and implemented from scratch a recruitment website that required a Salesforce backend as well as several internally-facing tools for managers and employees in a human resources focused portal.

Nexus War was a browser-based, massively-multiplayer online role-playing game that I built from the ground up in java, struts, tomcat, and mysql. Over the course of its lifecycle, the game enjoyed over 20,000 players with over 100,000 unique character instances and was able support over 300 concurrent sessions (the game is only played for 5 or 10 minutes at a time, due to its "action point" economy, so the number of concurrent users was low).

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I designed and developed several small, browser-based games (primarily sports-related).

I contracted with the Laszlosystems "studios" team as a senior engineer. My duties involved development in the openlaszlo system (a flash-based toolkit similar to flex and many ajax toolkits) for the various clients who engage Laszlo studios.

I worked as a user interface lead through three iterations of the company's flagship product, the Elemental Security Platform (an enterprise-grade network security and asset compliance/management tool). I was the principle architect of the product's ui strategy and its primary implementor. This involved a great deal of work in java (tomcat and struts), jsp, and ajax.

Redwood City, Us

I contracted with Openwave, inc. as a content engineer on the Openwave download manager project. My duties include jsp development, visual design, and information architecture for an application that served both the web and mobile devices that support wap.

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I was employed by the Inktomi corporation as a web developer for the business applications division. My duties included the full range of functions for developing, administering, and feature-enhancing business applications (such as bugzilla and mailman) as well as designing and managing several intranet websites, the machines they existed on, and supporting the users of those machines.

I worked within Sendmail's graphical user interface team as a usability, design, and production expert. i worked on version 2.0 of the sendmail advanced messaging server and an internal project called vCube.

My duties were many and varied but included designing production processes, developing organic-internal production tools (such as content management systems), mentoring junior developers, and some back-end programming in a variety of languages. All projects were enterprise-level in nature and my involvement in them ranged from being a consultant to lead engineer.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

I contracted as a senior web administrator for Sun's internal marketing division and external reseller web network. My duties involved designing and implementing various web and rdbms technologies, as well as doing systems administration for several large web servers.

I worked as an on-call consultant as a systems administrator and perl programmer for a small bay area consulting firm. During my time at JM&A, I administered several hundred Sun computers at Autodesk.