Robin Stewart

Current

• Software Engineer at The Omni Group

Past

• Software Entrepreneur at Robin Stewart Software
• Interface Designer and Flex Developer at Socrata
• Website Designer at Robin Stewart Software

• Research Intern at Endeca
• Intern at Kinetic Books

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Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Williams College

Connections

116 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• Graph Sketcher

Robin Stewart’s Summary

I design and build high quality Macintosh software applications.

Robin Stewart’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  The Omni Group

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  ◆ Serve as Lead Engineer for OmniGraphSketcher, a Mac application for visually communicating quantitative ideas.
  ◆ Oversee usability testing and assist with interface design for all Omni software.

• Software Entrepreneur

  Robin Stewart Software

  (Computer Software industry)

  February 2003 — October 2008 (5 years 9 months)

  ◆ Designed and developed a full-featured graphical software application with over 25,000 lines of code.
  ◆ Conducted usability research including user studies with 16 participants, heuristic evaluations, and surveys.
  ◆ Manage marketing, sales, documentation, customer support, and strategic planning for future releases.
  ◆ Achieved $10,000 in revenue and was acquired by The Omni Group in 2008 to become OmniGraphSketcher.

• Interface Designer and Flex Developer

  Socrata

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  June 2008 — September 2008 (4 months)

  ◆ Helped with design and engineering of the company's web application for editing, sharing, and viewing structured data in a spreadsheet-like interface.

• Website Designer

  Robin Stewart Software

  (Computer Software industry)

  February 1998 — 2008 (10 years )

  ◆ Created over 20 websites for companies, student organizations, and individuals (see www.robinstewart.com/products).
  ◆ Work with the clients to outline the websites’ contents, organization, and message.
  ◆ Implement all aspects of the sites, including visual design, web programming, and database-driven content.
  ◆ Continue to serve as webmaster for several sites, which receive thousands of unique visitors each month.

• Research Intern

  Endeca

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)

  ◆ Designed a novel interface for precisely exploring large collections of text documents based on sentence structure.
  ◆ Collaborated with the User Experience team and others to refine the design and run an 11-person user study.

• Intern

  Kinetic Books

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 2003 — August 2003 (3 months)

  Designed and programmed physics simulations in Java to enhance a web-based physics textbook.

Robin Stewart’s Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  MS , Computer Science , 2006 — 2008

  ◆ Research Assistant in Human-Computer Interaction at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL)
  ◆ Co-chaired the 2007 Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR’07)

• Williams College

  2002 — 2006

  ◆ Five publications and four research presentations (more detail at: www.robinstewart.com/research).
  ◆ Teaching Assistant for two Computer Science classes.
  ◆ Studied abroad at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.

  Activities and Societies:

  Dance Dhamaka, Williams Concert Choir, Juggling Club, Greensense, Williams Students Online

Additional Information

Robin Stewart’s Websites:

• My Website
• Graph Sketcher

Robin Stewart’s Interests:

running, yoga, dance, drawing, juggling, video editing, singing, ...

Robin Stewart’s Groups:

ACM

•    Williams Alumni

Robin Stewart’s Honors:

◆ National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (one of only 53 computer science recipients in 2007)
◆ Elected to Phi Beta Kappa (top 12.5% of Williams class) and Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Society)
◆ Apple Worldwide Developer Conference Student Scholarship (in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008)
◆ Microsoft National High School Computer Science Scholarship (one of only 15 recipients in 2002)
◆ National Merit Scholarship and Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship (top 1% of high school students in the US)
◆ SAT: Quantitative: 800, Verbal: 800 (perfect score)

Robin Stewart’s Contact Settings

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