Dan Phiffer

Current

• Adjunct Lecturer at City College of New York
• Freelancer at Dan Phiffer

Past

• Front-end developer at outside.in
• Skunkworks at New York Times Digital / Travel Section
• Technical Lead at Hello Design

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Education

• New York University
• Harvey Mudd College

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website

Dan Phiffer’s Summary

I build web things. Both design and technology stir my heart, but lately I've been doing mostly front-end development.

Dan Phiffer’s Specialties:

I'm well versed in building PHP, Rails and Ajax web applications, but I also care about typography and the importance of good copy editing.

Dan Phiffer’s Experience

• Adjunct Lecturer

  City College of New York

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  I'm teaching a course called "Design for the Web 1" in the Electronic Design and Multimedia department, which is within the art department,

• Freelancer

  Dan Phiffer

  (Internet industry)

  May 2003 — Present (5 years 7 months)

  I have experience that ranges from Unix sysadmin to Flash interaction design to standards-based markup, CSS and Javascript. I'm currently on a long-term freelancing gig helping to redesign moma.org.
  
  Clients include the MoMA, The New York Times, The Asia Society, as well as Turbulence.org and RAM Publications.

• Front-end developer

  outside.in

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2008 — July 2008 (7 months)

  I filled a role between design and technology, implementing visual designs using markup, CSS and Javascript.

• Skunkworks

  New York Times Digital / Travel Section

  (Public Company; NYT; Computer Software industry)

  May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)

  I've been "semi-unofficially" building custom software for the Travel section of the New York Times website. Mainly this consists of simple, self-contained tools that can work with the existing back-end system. I'm on payroll as a freelancer, but I have been working closely with editors and project managers to build out tools in a way that fulfills unmet needs, and treads lightly within the bureaucracy of "official" software development.

• Technical Lead

  Hello Design

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

  December 2002 — February 2004 (1 year 3 months)

Dan Phiffer’s Education

• New York University

  MPS, Interactive Telecommunications Program, 2005 — 2007

• Harvey Mudd College

  BS, Computer Science, 1998 — 2003

  Activities and Societies:

  Cross Country, Track & Field, The Claremont Student, West Dorm, Linde Dorm

Additional Information

Dan Phiffer’s Websites:

• My Website

Dan Phiffer’s Interests:

Running, Frisbee, Politics

Dan Phiffer’s Groups:

The Upgrade! (http://theupgrade.net/)

•    Tisch School of The Arts NYU Alumni

Dan Phiffer’s Honors:

Ars Electronica [next-idea] Honorable Mention 2006

Dan Phiffer’s Contact Settings

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