Web Developer
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Web Developer at e-flux
- Web Developer at Triple Canopy
- Web Developer at NewsTrust
- Past
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- Web Developer at Floating World Media
- Software Engineer at Simple Star
- Programmer at Cycling '74
- Education
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- Brown University
- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Software
- Websites
Adam Florin’s Summary
Please note! I'll be in grad school starting fall 2009, so I am not considering any full-time positions. I am available part-time for consulting Jun-Aug 2009.
Web developer with experience in software engineering and interaction design. Also interested in desktop/mobile software and hardware, especially for creative and musical applications.
Adam Florin’s Experience
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Web Developer
e-flux
(Fine Art industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
For arts listing website Art&Education (a collaboration with Artforum), rewrote the site from the ground up in CakePHP, including a flexible CMS and an email subscription tool.
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Web Developer
Triple Canopy
(Publishing industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
For online magazine canopycanopycanopy.com, built dynamic JS-based layout mechanism for page-delineated presentation of text and media, as well as a custom CMS in Rails for editorial production and user-facing site navigation
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Web Developer
NewsTrust
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
For news rating service NewsTrust.net, led a four-person engineering team through a six-month rewrite into Ruby on Rails (slimming the codebase from 70k to 20k lines), from early planning through release. Oversaw all aspects of the system from user experience and administrative/editorial tools through data and system architecture. Additionally:
• Co-designed and built dynamic and powerful web-based tools for rating news content based on a flexible set of criteria and for entering news item metadata
• Migrated years of legacy data from an object store to dozens of relational MySQL tables
• Implemented a calculation system for aggregating numeric user data using multi-weighted averages, including a finely-tuned member reputation algorithm
• Organized and visualized user data into page layouts -
Web Developer
Floating World Media
(Online Media industry)
December 2007 — March 2008 (4 months)
For educational game playflashback.com, implemented site front-end including page layouts and interactive tools, actively combining the efforts of producers, graphic designers and backend engineers in PHP/Zend
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Software Engineer
Simple Star
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 11 months)
For photoshow.com, led front-end engineering team, including user experience and CSS overhaul, DHTML interaction with Flash player and backend via AJAX, and a custom object-oriented MVC web framework in PHP
For PhotoShow DVD Service, designed and implemented a back-end media production system in Java, including data architecture, BPM workflow, automated graphic design from user-submitted content and a custom user interface for shipping from manufacturing facility
For PhotoShow desktop application, built web communication layer, employing an internal revision control system for managing transferred media -
Programmer
Cycling '74
(Computer Software industry)
July 2001 — January 2002 (7 months)
For the Max/MSP/Jitter development environment, designed and built tools for text processing
Adam Florin’s Education
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Brown University
A.B. , Computer Music and Multimedia with honors , 2000 — 2004
• Studied music composition, hardware and software interfaces for live performance, tonal harmony and orchestration, robotics and ambient installation work
• Served as General Manager at Brown Student Radio, extending community relations, fundraising, facilitating events and diversifying programming content
Additional Information
Adam Florin’s Websites:
Adam Florin’s Interests:
haptics, physical input devices, data visualization
Adam Florin’s Honors:
Finalist, General Excellence Online, National Magazine Awards, 2009 (for Triple Canopy)
Adam Florin’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
