Worked in a various capacities throughout LivingSocial career focusing on consumer facing web and mobile applications. -- Own and manage technical aspects of the product lifecycle and user experience for a given productWorked closely with product team to define requirements for current and future products at a technical level.-- Translate product strategies, market trends, and customer feedback into specific tactical plans and clearly defined phased releases-- Develop a deep understanding of the competitive landscape through analysis, user research, and site testing-- Create prototypes, mock up interaction designs, including user interaction models, wireframes, screen flows, and dialog copy-- Analyze and present hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and feature concepts-- Proposed necessary actions to ensure continued marketability of products-- Research technical, business, and legal requirements to ensure the product satisfies all potential needs-- Work with legal team on patent and licensing opportunities in addition to external third parties to assess partnerships-- Technologies in use: Ruby on Rails, HTML5, CSS (SCSS), JavaScript (JQuery), Git & Github, Textmate, Adobe CS5 Suite

-- Co-developed new solutions in the eDiscovery field to lower cost and scale our technology and people. -- Lead the development and revamp of the internal document processing engine. -- Managed the efforts of 2 logik developers along with 3-5 contractors. -- Developed the user experience and front-end code/visual design of the project.-- Technologies in use: Ruby on Rails, Redis, Resque, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript (JQuery), Git & Github, Textmate, Adobe CS5 Suite

-- Worked closely with product and engineering to define and implement new products & features across the mixx platform in an agile web development environment.-- Concepted and defined mixx’s second product offering – tweetmixx, a way to “unpack” shortened URLs and allow users a quick view of otherwise hidden content. -- Implemented Search Engine Optimization (SEO) best practices to improve our rank, drive more traffic to the site and ultimately acquire more users. -- Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript (JQuery), Subversion, TextMate & Adobe CS3 Suite

-- Guided Web UI team from concept through a functional prototype into the final design and build. Implemented and maintained consistent XHTML markup across the site.-- As one of the early front-end leads, assisted in the hiring and management of expanded team of 8 engineers, full-time and contract. --Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript (Prototype & Script.aculo.us libraries), Subversion, TextMate & Adobe CS3 Suite

- My client was the United States Attorney’s Office (USAO) http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/ (Department of Justice) where I designed and developed websites for the 94 districts that make up the USAO.- Daily interaction with clients and other Government employees- Also act as a help desk when district webmasters or system administrators are having issues with their site.- Led Implementation of a web standards based templates that utilize CSS and (x)html. This in turn speeds up the design/development process, allows districts to dictate look and feel, while at the same time is easily updateable by district webmasters.- Implementation has cut page weight in half, and decreased amount of calls to provide webmasters assistance.

- Manage and interact with various clients and candidates in the Marketing, Advertising, Graphic Design and Web Design fields.- Locate, interview, qualify and source candidates to clients for open positions- Communicate/ coordinate with new and existing customers, identify current and future needs and market capabilities.- Up-sell candidates to clients

- Visual communication subject matter expert and lead Designer for the strategic outreach change management component of the Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System (DIMHRS) project (https://www.mpm.osd.mil/owa/jrio/pkg_jrio.page?id=D&wgsid=) and the strategic outreach change management component of the Human Resources Management Domain (https://www.hrm.osd.mil)- Led the Design, Development and maintenance of the Joint Requirements & Integration Office (JR&IO) website (https://www.mpm.osd.mil)- Conceptualized, design and developed web-based training and computer based training for various commercial and government clients that complied with Section 508 and other government rules and regulations- Developed storyboards, wire frames, graphical user interfaces, interactions, along with content graphics for training courses- Highly skilled in the areas of usability and accessibility (WCAG, Section 508)