Daniel Beck Email & Phone Number

Williamstown, MA, US

Very excited to be joining the McGraw Hill Digital Platforms Group!

New York, New York, US

In which I learn how to delegate. Responsible for care and feeding of developers at VidMob and the codebases they produce, through a period of explosive growth and change at the company. At peak I managed twenty engineers in multiple teams in a wide variety of timezones, covering both web-based and native iOS development, as well as multiple vendor.

New York, New York, US

React developer, with emphasis on working with the design team to begin the implementation of a cross-product design system. Team lead, working with project management to manage sprints for both front- and back-end development on multiple software products.

I started Brightmatter as a solo venture to build a new type of web browser, focused on extracting and aggregating relevant data from web pages and discarding the rest. It uses a combination of machine learning, crowdsourced data, and heuristics borrowed from the web-scraping world to identify which parts of a page are most likely to be relevant; and then.

Boulder, Colorado, US

Product designer and lead front-end developer at inthetelling.com, responsible for, well, all the visible parts. When I joined ITT (now rebranded Narrasys), they had a proof-of-concept web application that could display transcripts and some supporting content alongside a video timeline, backed by a largely manual data-entry process. I led a full redesign.

The majority of this work was in one way or another related to distance learning in the higher education space. Clients you'd recognize include McGraw-Hill, Pearson, PH School, Riverside Publishing, InformIT, ANGEL Learning, and Blackboard.

I was one of two designers responsible for a complete functional and UI overhaul of their eCourse product, the version 1 design of their eCampus product, and several other projects that began with the letter “e”.

Managed team responsible for higher-ed division website and online catalog; template designer for Companion Website product (a website for building websites, allowing editors and authors to create online instructional material to accompany textbooks; this product was widely adopted, and later imitated, across the higher-ed space.)

At Tripod I was the designer for the first personal homepage authoring tool and hosting service on the web. This was an after-hours side project which immediately supplanted our entire business model. We called it the Homepage Builder. Therefore I used a blueprint theme. My design skills have matured a bit since then.(We also, notoriously, invented the.

Mfa, Electronic Arts

Ba, Cinema-Television Production