JavaScript Architect at the College Board.
Greater New York City Area
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- Senior Web Developer at The College Board
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- Senior Web Consultant at Clickable, Inc.
- Senior Web Consultant at Jones Apparel Group
- Senior Web Consultant at Charlie Company, Inc
- 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 Fine Art
- Education
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- 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:
JavaScript, CSS, (X)HTML, Apache and iPlanet Web servers, ClearCase, Perforce, SVN, Selenium, Rational Functional Tester, Perl, Python, Lisp, MediaWiki, Confluence, TiddlyWiki, BlogSpot, 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
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Senior Web Developer
The College Board
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)
March 2007 — Present (1 year 5 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. -
Senior Web Consultant
Clickable, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
December 2006 — March 2007 (4 months)
• Hand-coded SEM Web application interface for a startup.
• Translated business rules and graphically complex design comps, into
HTML and CSS2.
• Worked directly (via phone and email) with the CEO, Web Designer and
lead application developer.
• Participated in ongoing strategy discussions via phone and email. -
Senior Web Consultant
Jones Apparel Group
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; 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. -
Senior Web Consultant
Charlie Company, Inc
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)
March 2004 — January 2005 (11 months)
* Developed HTML, CSS and JavaScript UI modules for a variety of Web applications.
* Integrated JSP and HTML::Template (Perl) into markup.
* Refactored markup and application UI to enhance search engine visibility (SEO).
* Guided the adoption of Web standards and accessible markup. -
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.
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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
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Fine Art industry)
June 1999 — May 2000 (1 year)
Designed and produced an evolving Web presence for a Manhattan-based art dealer. Managed the bulk-email list for a weekly arts-related newsletter. Deployed multimedia and IT equipment at art openings and events around Manhattan.
Noah Sussman’s Education
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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
Additional Information
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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
Noah Sussman’s Groups:
Usability Professionals Association, Electronic Frontier Foundation
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