Bob Burbach

Current

• Web Applications Developer at WestEd Interactive

Past

• Web Developer at University of Michigan Medical School
• President at Perpetual Impact
• Account Associate at Brio Advertising

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Education

• Academy of Art University
• University of Michigan

Connections

12 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Portfolio
• My Portfolio

Bob Burbach’s Summary

I am a New Media designer specializing in modern web technologies centered around Ruby on Rails, AJAX, and Flash. I am passionate about beautiful, intuitive interface design coupled with a robust, agile framework that provides the best user experience possible.

I am excited about the current direction of web development and am continually looking to push both my own boundaries and those of the web as we currently know them.

Bob Burbach’s Specialties:

Ruby on Rails, AJAX, CSS, DOM, Javascript, Flash, Actionscript,, MySQL, RSpec (code test coverage), git

New Media design, Graphic design, Web Interface design

Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash), Keynote, Textmate, Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Studio, Screencasting and Podcasting

Bob Burbach’s Experience

• Web Applications Developer

  WestEd Interactive

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Research industry)

  September 2008 — Present (11 months)

  Ruby on Rails web application development for education. Including modern front end web development tools such as JQuery and Flash/ActionScript as well as back end tools like Capistrano, Mongrel Clusters, and RSpec.

• Web Developer

  University of Michigan Medical School

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2006 — July 2008 (1 year 11 months)

  Web developer specializing in Ruby on Rails, AJAX, CSS, DOM, Flash and Actioscript. Additional duties include web server set up and maintenance with Apache, Mongrel clusters, and Unix based OS.

• President

  Perpetual Impact

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  February 2004 — February 2008 (4 years 1 month)

  Freelance web developer specializing in Ruby on Rails, AJAX, CSS, DOM. Additional services in Flash and Actionscript, PHP, Video production, logo and packaging design, web server set up and maintenance.

• Account Associate

  Brio Advertising

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)

  December 2004 — August 2005 (9 months)

  Internal strategic planning for advertising projects for 20 clients. Presenting potential concepts and ideas for advertising campaigns to clients. Execution of campaigns for print media, radio, and television.

Bob Burbach’s Education

• Academy of Art University

  New Media Design 2005 — 2006

• University of Michigan

  1997 — 2002

Additional Information

Bob Burbach’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Portfolio
• My Portfolio

Bob Burbach’s Interests:

Ruby on Rails, openID, Flash, AJAX, Motion Graphics, Design, IPhone development, contributing to the Rails community, Screencasting, Podcasting, Open Social

Bob Burbach’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
• expertise requests
• reference requests
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