Ed McManus

Current

• Flash Hacker at Scribd

Past

• Founder, Developer at Photoflock
• Co-Founder, UI Developer at SciLink Inc.
• Flash Developer at Panther Informatics

• Desktop Publishing Assistant at Bio-Rad Laboratories
• Ad Designer at The Valley Citizen Magazine

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Education

• Boston University

Connections

37 connections

Industry

Internet

Ed McManus’s Summary

I love pushing technological boundaries and have a proven history of creatively overcoming intractable technical challenges.

I am capable on every layer of the web application stack and am especially passionate about developing elegant interfaces.

Ed McManus’s Specialties:

Expert understanding of front-end technologies including object oriented cross-browser JavaScript (and frameworks), XHTML, CSS, and Flash development with ActionScript 3.0

PHP, Python, Rails, Java (JSP), SQL, C

Expert knowledge of Adobe creative suites, coupled with an extremely strong sense of design

Working knowledge of OpenCV for use with object detection in images

Ed McManus’s Experience

• Flash Hacker

  Scribd

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

  November 2007 — Present (10 months)

  Half of the iPaper development team
  
  Created a proprietary incremental build system for Flash, which included an obfuscation step before any commercial AS3 obfuscators were available
  
  Integrated AdSense with iPaper, which was recognized by Google as the first successful implementation of their product in Flash (and was previously thought not possible)
  
  Designed and implemented all aspects of the iPaper interface and its underlying JavaScript payloads

• Founder, Developer

  Photoflock

  (Internet industry)

  April 2007 — November 2007 (8 months)

  Photoflock.com first launched as an online image clipboard; a simple and elegant way to upload or save remote images.
  
  The initial release remains live and continues to see substantial use.

• Co-Founder, UI Developer

  SciLink Inc.

  (Internet industry)

  January 2006 — April 2007 (1 year 4 months)

  SciLink is a social application which intends to algorithmically connect Science Professionals with the experts and resources they need.

• Flash Developer

  Panther Informatics

  (Biotechnology industry)

  May 2005 — October 2005 (6 months)

• Desktop Publishing Assistant

  Bio-Rad Laboratories

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BIO; Biotechnology industry)

  June 2004 — August 2004 (3 months)

• Ad Designer

  The Valley Citizen Magazine

  (Publishing industry)

  October 2002 — July 2003 (10 months)

Ed McManus’s Education

• Boston University

  Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems, 2004 — 2007

  Activities and Societies:

  • Second tenor in The Dear Abbeys -- one of the nation's top collegiate a cappella groups (2005 ICCA National Champions)

Additional Information

Ed McManus’s Interests:

Graphic Design, Start-ups

Ed McManus’s Groups:

•    Boston University (BU) Bay Area Alumni

Ed McManus’s Honors:

Ajaxian.com Scholarship Recipient

Ed McManus’s Contact Settings

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