I am an innovative and driven person, interested in building compelling online solutions, especially for environmental and social purposes.
Work Experience
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Selected Freelance and Independent Projects
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- Conceived, designed, and developed Waste Nothing
- Waste Nothing is a tool to help municipalities communicate with their residents; they use a white-label version and incorporate their own content
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- Sole developer for two major projects; took both projects from concept to rollout
- Met with the client regularly to discuss progress and ensure the product was meeting their needs
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Program Manager, Microsoft Internships and full-time, 2006-2009
- Responsible for all search front-end features for Bing Maps’ largest product release
- Data mining projects included analysing user searches which produced no results to determine causes and solutions, and a statistical analysis on a yellow pages database to better understand the data and surface interesting and useful information
- Work included short and long-term planning and prioritization, progress tracking, user interface design, coordination between designers, developers, partners, and others
- Took a complex and novel feature from vague concept to a complete specification and functional prototype
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Software Engineer, A9.com Inc. and Feedster Inc. Internships in 2005
- Major contributor to OpenSearch, an internet standard for search syndication now used by Google, Microsoft, and others
- Wrote OpenSearch documentation and tools, and evangelized it within the developer community
- Implemented a website-wide redesign using standards-compliant code and according to designer specifications
Technical Knowledge and Skills
- Web development including HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery, RoR, PHP, and SQL
- Knowledge of web standards and best practices for accessibility, usability, and responsive design
- Experience with multiple operating systems, office, graphics, database, and other software packages
Education