Noah Sussman

Current

Content Engineer at Barnes & Noble
Co-Founder at Nerdabout.com

Past

Lead Front-End Developer at Zepfrog
User Interface Librarian at The College Board
Ajax Consultant at Clickable, Inc.

Ajax Consultant at CondeNet
Ajax Consultant at Jones Apparel Group
Research Associate at Research Center for Minority Institutions at City College
Education Technology Consultant at Elysian Charter School
Senior Web Developer at Deltathree, Inc
Senior Web Developer at Hotsocket, Inc
Web Director at Willoughby Sharp
Independent Contractor at Industrial Design and Multimedia Consultant
Owner/Operator at Crayon Communication Systems
Finisher and Forestry Intern at St. Croix Life and Environmental Arts Project

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Education

City University of New York City College

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Noah Sussman’s Summary

Noah Sussman is a client-side Web developer with a background in literature and graphic design. For the last decade, he has focused upon building user interfaces that support Tim Berners-Lee's vision of a platform-independent, "read-write Web."

Noah has invested a great deal of time in learning to build interactive Web interfaces that are accessible and useable. He is dedicated to building a truly World-Wide Web, which is accessible to people of all cultures, economic strata and levels of physical or mental ability.

Noah Sussman’s Specialties:

SASS, HAML, JavaScript, CSS, (X)HTML, Ruby/Rails, Java/JSP, Apache, Mongrel, IIS and iPlanet Web servers, Subversion, Git, Selenium (Core and RC), Perl, MediaWiki, WordPress, MovableType, Standards-Based, Table-Free Markup

Noah is highly proficient in building UI with platform-independent Web standards: table-free layouts, unobtrusive JavaScript, semantic CSS and Flash-free interaction.

Noah Sussman’s Experience

Content Engineer

Barnes & Noble

(Public Company; BKS; Retail industry)

April 2009 — Present (8 months)

* Automate Web GUI Functional Acceptance testing.

* Architect next-generation e-commerce and content-delivery interfaces with jQuery.
Co-Founder

Nerdabout.com

(Internet industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

The Nerdabout is a project from the Science Channel, to foster community and discussion with regard to the accelerating convergence of technology, craft and art. We are inspired by industry pioneers like Regine Debatty, Bruce Sterling and Adam Greenfield.

- Recruit a crew of talented geeks to blog about tech and crafting events in the city; then empower them to become online content producers through leveraging Markdown, Typepad and the advanced features of Twitter, Facebook, etc.

- Enhance the social Web presence of the Science Channel, including a Twitter widget that will be used to live-blog a Hubble space walk on May 11 2009! http://tinyurl.com/dmouek
Lead Front-End Developer

Zepfrog

(Online Media industry)

October 2008 — April 2009 (7 months)

JavaScript architect and lead CSS developer. Architect for Rails UI templates in the enterprise with HAML and SASS.

- Set up and administer an IRC channel on Freenode.

- Teach best practices for CSS and markup, especially as regards cross-browser compatibility.

- Maintain 2 Rails plugins; for rendering accessible Web forms and for injecting JSON into the DOM.
User Interface Librarian

The College Board

(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)

March 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 7 months)

* Research and develop User Experience for Web applications.
* Guide architecture and maintenance of Web UI frameworks.
* Train application developers and project leaders.
* Write requirements and oversee adoption of infrastructure for developing complex client-side applications; including Clearcase, Subversion, Selenium RC, Apache, TomCat and Cygwin.
* Guide adoption of groupware for enterprise collaboration; especially I have architected a Confluence wiki instance that has grown in a year from 10 to 100 users within the organization.
* Design a bookmarklet and shell script for logging time against jobs via the QuickBase HTTP API and Ruby wrapper.
* Train the team to build Facebook applications leveraging unpublished APIs for proprietary data sets.
* Refactor the existing hand-rolled JavaScript utility kit from a procedural to an OO idiom, in order to provide conveniences such as namespace encapsulation, standardized method signatures, etc.
* Guide the adoption of JQuery.
Ajax Consultant

Clickable, Inc.

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

• Hand-coded SEM/SEO metrics Web application interface for a startup.
• Debug UI code for .NET application.
• Translated business rules and graphically complex design comps, into XHTML and CSS 2
• Worked directly with the CEO, Web Designer and lead application developer; all of whom were geographically distributed.
• Participated in ongoing strategy discussions via phone and email.
Ajax Consultant

CondeNet

(Privately Held; Online Media industry)

2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

Worked with the Epicurious.com development team to identify strategies for implementing standards-based XHTML.
Ajax Consultant

Jones Apparel Group

(Public Company; JNY; Apparel & Fashion industry)

December 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 1 month)

* Lead a production team through the life cycle of E-Commerce interfaces for a Fortune 500 apparel company.
* Introduced and evangelized Refactoring as an approach for maintaining JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
* Refactored legacy JSPs into reusable templates by separating content from presentation.
* Over 6 months researched and prototyped a single-page JavaScript application that has been in use as Nine West's shopping cart since 2006. The strategy was presented at eTail 2006 and was subsequently adopted by apparel sites including Amazon's endless.com.
Research Associate

Research Center for Minority Institutions at City College

(Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Biotechnology industry)

March 2002 — May 2004 (2 years 3 months)

* Lead discovery of bioinformatics software tools for a team of biologists.
* Wrote Perl scripts to search for patterns in gene sequences.
* Mentored students and wrote curriculum material for a 300-level biology class: Ecology
of Infectious Disease.
* Co-authored the paper, Ugandan Kaposi's
Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Phylogeny: Evidence for Cross-Ethnic Transmission
of Viral Subtypes. The paper was published in the journal Intervirology.
Education Technology Consultant

Elysian Charter School

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

April 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 10 months)

* Created a Programming and Game Design curriculum for 5-8 grade and taught 3 successful seminars.
* Taught the fundamental skills needed to hand-code HTML pages and publish them via FTP.
* Taught basic computer science and Internet technology concepts.
Senior Web Developer

Deltathree, Inc

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; DDDC; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2001 — October 2001 (9 months)

Supervised the design and production of User Interfaces for direct-marketing campaigns and Web applications.
Senior Web Developer

Hotsocket, Inc

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

July 2000 — February 2001 (8 months)

Designed and produced user interfaces for an e-commerce Web application that aggregated customer life cycle data, including profile, demographic, and usage data across other similar consumer interactions.

* Integrated Standards-Based HTML, JavaScript and CSS with a proprietary application UI framework.
* Worked extensively with JavaScript and DOM level 0 to create complex interactive behaviors.
Web Director

Willoughby Sharp

(Fine Art industry)

June 1999 — May 2000 (1 year )

Designed and produced an evolving Web presence for Willoughby Sharp, a Manhattan-based art dealer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willoughby_Sharp). Managed the bulk-email list for a weekly arts-related newsletter. Deployed multimedia and IT equipment at art openings and events around Manhattan.
Independent Contractor

Industrial Design and Multimedia Consultant

(Media Production industry)

May 1998 — February 2000 (1 year 10 months)

As an independent contractor in the greater New York City area, provide multimedia and fabrication services to corporate clients and subcontractors.

- Fabricated props and sets for theatrical and industrial display or performances.

- Set up, ran and struck A/V, LAN and lighting gear for corporate events.
Owner/Operator

Crayon Communication Systems

(Fine Art industry)

July 1991 — September 1998 (7 years 3 months)

Self-published and distributed about 30 issues of a zine that went by various names including "INCEPT/chrome Magazine." My niche was writing and computer illustration from people in the greater Washington, DC spoken word and experimental music scenes.

Formats ranged from double-sided broadsheets to professionally produced chapbooks to cassette tapes. Contributors included John Ashbery.

- Learned and then used QuarkXPress to do a wide variety of document layouts. Incorporated experimental digital fonts from Emigre magazine.

- Fostered a widespread community of artists and their fans. To do this I organized numerous promotions that included mailings, stickers, live performance events and parties.

- Cross-promoted my zine by contributing writing to other small-run art magazines including ART/Life; and by performing as an opening act for bands including Clutch.
Finisher and Forestry Intern

St. Croix Life and Environmental Arts Project

(Renewables & Environment industry)

July 1992 — May 1993 (11 months)

Lived and worked in a factory that produced luxury hand-made wood products. Worked with a team of foresters to maintain and extend the life of endangered indigenous hardwood trees. Learned to mill, conserve and fabricate objects from lumber salvaged from our forestry operations.

This was an intensive learning opportunity, at the beginning of which I had never "worked with my hands" professionally; but after which I was able to competently use a chainsaw to fell a tree, or use a lathe to produce fine art objects from turned wood.

After the completion of the project I wrote a paper about my experience, for which I received course credit in Cultural Anthropology from Montgomery College (Rockville, MD).

Noah Sussman’s Education

City University of New York City College

Computer Science, Bioinformatics 2003 — 2012 (expected)

I am currently completing a Bachelor of Science in Computational Biology.

So far, I have been privileged to participate in a cross-disciplinary Computational Biology project; resulting in the publication of: "Ugandan Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Phylogeny: Evidence for Cross-Ethnic Transmission of Viral Subtypes" in Intervirology, 2006.

Activities and Societies:

Web Editor of The Journal Of Student Research

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Noah Sussman’s Interests:

JavaScript Application Development, The Web, Lisp, Perl, Interaction design, Game Development, Writing, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Science Fiction, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Anthropology, Urban Planning, Kettlebell, Martial Arts, Backpacking, Bicycles, Freshwater Aquaria, Books