Cofounder at Posterous.com - Dead simple blogs by email.
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Cofounder at Posterous.com
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- Interaction Designer at Rearden Commerce
- Finance Platform Cofounder, Lead Engineer, Designer at Palantir Technologies
- Program Manager at Microsoft
- Analyst Intern at Sun Microsystems
- Software Developer Intern at TheMan.com
- Analyst Intern at Sapient Corporation / Adjacency
- Education
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- Stanford University
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Garry Tan’s Summary
I'm a cofounder at Posterous.com. We're dead simple blogs by email. Email post@posterous.com, attach photos, video, music, documents and files of any sort, and we'll reply with your new website online.
Previously, I cofounded the engineering team for Palantir Technology's quant analysis platform, now deployed at one of the most successful global macro hedge funds in the world.
My multidisciplinary work experience has allowed me to wear many hats -- from engineering, to product and project management, to user experience design.
Garry Tan’s Specialties:
user-centered design, project management, software engineering, interaction design, visual design, entrepreneurship, bootstrapping, branding, design
Garry Tan’s Experience
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Cofounder
Posterous.com
(Internet industry)
June 2008 — Present (4 months)
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Interaction Designer
Rearden Commerce
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2007 — June 2008 (9 months)
Design and conceptualize scenarios for personalization, widgets, and mobile projects.
Introduce Web 2.0 best practices to streamline processes and increase user delight.
Create detailed design and functional specifications (storyboards, workflows, mockups, prototypes, specifications) that effectively communicate the information design and interaction design. Work with user researchers to gather data on the designs and iterate.
Collaborate with visual designers, content strategists and engineering teams to implement designs. -
Finance Platform Cofounder, Lead Engineer, Designer
Palantir Technologies
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2005 — October 2007 (2 years 2 months)
- Define product vision and design features for 14 engineers working on a next-generation financial analysis platform, now actively deployed to one of the world’s most successful global macro hedge funds.
- Interaction design and product management including brainstorming, wireframes, composite creation, and detailed feature-level specifications for the core features of the v1 product.
- Manage development process from feature inception, design, development, QA and deployment.
- Develop frontend prototype and production Java code. Heavily customized Java Swing libraries to build an app indistinguishable from native Windows application user experience.
- Creative director for user experience, corporate branding, marketing, and web presence. -
Program Manager
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
July 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 3 months)
- Program management of ActiveSync 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 and Windows Vista releases of Windows Mobile synchronization and device management software.
- Prioritize, design, define and specify features and application behavior.
- Coordinated and worked closely with development, test, user research, user assistance, interaction design, planning and marketing teams.
- Cross-team collaboration with Windows Media Player, Windows Portable Devices, and Windows Shell UX teams, negotiating feature requests and delivery dates for cross-team features. -
Analyst Intern
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
June 2002 — January 2003 (8 months)
Analyst intern for Demand Creation Systems IT, developing Java-based web application for resource planning from design to implementation.
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Software Developer Intern
TheMan.com
(Computer Software industry)
June 2000 — September 2000 (4 months)
Designed and implemented custom online store content management system, streamlining time-to-market for new products from a manual process of several days to just minutes and mouse clicks.
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Analyst Intern
Sapient Corporation / Adjacency
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
June 1998 — January 2000 (1 year 8 months)
As a high school and freshman college student, booked over a hundred billable hours of web application development for clients such premiere brands as Caterpillar, PowerBar, Specialized Mountain Bikes, Esprit, and Virgin Megastore.
Perl web application development, linux administration, and build system integration.
Garry Tan’s Education
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Stanford University
BS, Computer Systems Engineering, 1999 — 2003
President of the Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society (ASES) at Stanford University, managing a team of 40 officers, fundraising, recruiting, and incubation of new student group projects. Developed programs for ASES Summit, bringing together 40 top students from across the Asia Pacific for sessions with Silicon Valley leaders on entrepreneurship.
Project lead for a team of 5 consultants examining new markets for Cisco Systems. Stanford Consulting is a pre-professional student group that helps students get hands-on experience with management consulting methods and practices.
First-authored published research on cross-cultural effects on input modality preferences in CHI2003 in conjunction with Stanford Mass Communications department and NHK Japan.- Activities and Societies:
- Asia Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society - Stanford Chapter, Stanford Consulting
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Garry Tan’s Interests:
photography, industrial design, graphic design, independent film, DJing
Garry Tan’s Groups:
Stanford University
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Y Combinator Alumni
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