Perceptive Things is a technology platform for real estate loss prevention. We eliminate damage from environmental conditions by boosting incident response times to incidents within multi-family and commercial buildings.Our primary focus is on leak detection and water damage, but our catalog of environmental sensors coupled with a cost-effective cloud platform can help buildings identify and effectively respond to unwanted conditions.

Led in-house and offshore teams responsible for software development and management of production systems. Worked with newsroom and revenue teams to bring their projects and goals to the technical teams.

As lead technologist, I was responsible for making all technology decisions regarding the software, tools, and platforms we used to create digital products for Hyatt. Our team was small and focused, and on the development side I was solely responsible for the front end architecture and development of the hybrid mobile application we created for the Grand Hyatt New York. I worked with operational staff and software vendors to implement solutions that had minimal impact financially or operationally for the hotel. Additionally, I provided guidance to Hyatt's burgeoning digital team in implementing hybrid native/web applications as well as a myriad of tools and processes that are common to an agile/startup organization, but had never been utilized within Hyatt's massive organization.

Findings.com is a groundbreaking tool for collecting, sharing and discussing clips you find on your Amazon Kindle, Google Play ebooks, and from any website on the internet.I brought Findings from a basic concept to a widely-used and praised service. I was responsible for the entire initial application architecture (MySQL database, Tornado web framework in Python, and Javascript/JQuery client-side development) and iterated the product based on user feedback. I hired and worked with skilled developers and designers to build a medium-scale web application, maintaining a role as chief front-end developer through three major releases. I was also the main contact for user feedback and support, and maintained the Findings blog. I gave several presentations and sat on panels as a representative of Findings to discuss our solutions and innovations in digital marginalia.

The Resinauts design and create mobile games.Our first game, HALI (http://haligame.com), is currently available in the iOS App Store. Meant to be played in a large area, Players form teams of Hiders and Seekers. Seekers must find the Hiders within the allotted time. Using the geolocation capability of iOS devices, players are able to view each other's position on a map, acting as a sort of heads-up display. Players can also send messages to all players in the game, or to just their team for strategizing.

I co-taught a course entitled “Data Journalism and Information Visualization” with faculty member Susan McGregor. The course covered the theoretical and practical use of data for finding and supplementing journalistic works, as well as applied skills in basic web development and data visualization tools and the design decisions involved in creating interactive “news applications”.

I have taught one course over two semesters "Device Independence with Mobile Web Applications" (http://menscher.com/teaching/dimwa/), offered May 2010, which was renamed to "Write Once, Access Anywhere" (http://menscher.com/teaching/woaa/) in Spring 2011. The course focuses on creating near-native mobile web applications using modern web technologies.

Based on my accomplishments as a graduate of ITP, I was awarded a position as Resident Researcher. I assisted ITP students by holding workshops on subjects taught in class, as well as teaching supplemental skills needed to execute student projects and coursework. I also worked on my research projects based on collaboration with faculty members, as well as on my own. Additionally, I had responsibilities supporting some of the web applications at use by the ITP faculty, staff, and administration.

NYU's ITP employs a highly creative and collaborative approach to exploring new media, allowing students to experiment with new possibilities for existing technology as well as fostering new ideas through creative expression.

My second stint at TCB Data...returned after the tech bubble burst and nearly everyone at Organic was laid off.I was the chief web application developer for this small yet well-established company (founded in the mid 1980's), with decision-making responsibilities on server software & hardware, web application architecture, and interface design. The team maintained the premier online system for market data usage reporting to the world's largest equities exchanges. TCB Data also creates custom software for stock exchanges and organizations who have reporting obligations.

Organic, Inc. is an interactive advertising agency headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Detroit, New York, London, and Los Angeles.I was hired as a Senior Interface Engineer, where I focused on client-side engineering. I was promoted to Managing Interface Engineer in 2000. I oversaw a team of eight Interface Engineers and also led the Interface Engineering of several client projects.

TCB Data Systems provides an electronic means for the NYSE, Nasdaq, American Stock Exchange, Euronext, Deutsche Boerse, and other international stock exchanges to bill and track professional and non-professional recipients of their market data.I was the chief web application developer for this small yet well-established company (founded in the mid 1980's), with decision-making responsibilities on server software & hardware, web application architecture, and interface design. The team maintained the premier online system for market data usage reporting to the world's largest equities exchanges. TCB Data also creates custom software for stock exchanges and organizations with market data usage reporting obligations.I was the chief web application developer for this small yet well-established company (founded in the mid 1980's), with decision-making responsibilities on server software & hardware, web application architecture, and interface design. The team maintained the premier online system for market data usage reporting to the world's largest equities exchanges. TCB Data also creates custom software for stock exchanges and organizations with market data usage reporting obligations.

AdOne allowed small- and medium-market newspapers to publish their classified ads online by integrating with their existing new sites as well as aggregating all of their ads into a nationally searchable database. It was acquired by a consortium of newspaper publishers in 1999.Along with product development, I was responsible for front-end development, some server operations, and classified ad system integrations. I also performed the majority of customer support for issues relating to the web application and data integration.