
Chief Designer and Frontend Rails Developer at TechValidate Software, Inc
San Francisco Bay Area

Chief Designer and Frontend Rails Developer at TechValidate Software, Inc
San Francisco Bay Area
I have…
- Designed attractive and usable user interfaces for small startups and companies as large as Apple
- Fallen in love with Ruby and Rails
- Done a heck of a lot of standards-compliant XHTML/CSS coding
- Built cross-browser javascript libraries and used AJAX techniques long before the term existed
- Implemented some rather slick Flash-based user interfaces
- Developed (what were then-)cutting-edge 3D graphics algorithms
- Programmed commercial shrink-wrapped computer games for the Mac and Windows in C++
What I’m up to now...
Working my ass off at TechValidate. NOT available for contract gigs.
Interaction Design, Usability, Graphics, Rails, Ruby, AJAX, HTML, CSS, Flash
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)
November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)
Freelance web developer specializing in interaction design, usability, Ruby on Rails, AJAX, and standards-compliant HTML/CSS
(Internet industry)
2007 — May 2008 (1 year )
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
Software Engineer at FunnyOrDie, a Rails-powered comedy video website backed by Sequoia.
(Internet industry)
2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
(Public Company; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)
September 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 3 months)
Redesigned and rebuilt the UI of Chatterbox, Apple's email marketing system, used to send billions of messages per year to customers.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 6 months)
MFA , Sculpture , 2003 — 2005
BA , Mathematics/Computer Science and Art
Dual majors in Math/comp-sci and Art
art, sculpture, drawing, surfing, martial arts, bodybuilding