Samuel Wan

Current

• UI engineering at Mellow Machine

Past

• Founder at Serramedia
• Founder at Thomas and Wan LLC
• Program Manager at Microsoft

• Senior Developer at AIU Online
• Intern at Moonlight Media

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Education

• University of Michigan
• University of Mississippi Medical Center

Recommended

3 people have recommended Samuel

Connections

103 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

Samuel Wan’s Summary

Samuel Wan’s Specialties:

User interface frameworks. Project management. Shipping consumer software.

Samuel Wan’s Experience

• UI engineering

  Mellow Machine

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2000 — Present (9 years 6 months)

  High fidelity user interface engineering. Uniquely deep industry expertise in client-side technologies and UI frameworks for consumer applications.
  
  Flash Player core and streaming technologies, Flex framework, Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, and JQuery UI framework.

• Founder

  Serramedia

  (Newspapers industry)

  February 2006 — December 2008 (2 years 11 months)

  Startup that provides hosted services to local newspapers. Co-founded with a businessman and and a senior journalist. The company raised angel funding and deployed trial installations at several newspapers using Amazon Web Services.

• Founder

  Thomas and Wan LLC

  (Computer Software industry)

  October 2007 — September 2008 (1 year )

  I left Microsoft to start a consulting company, where I executed projects for client accounts belonging to Glenn Thomas. The first client, Doubleclick, hired me to rewrite their client-side video advertising framework. For another client, I led a Flex engineering team to ship a consumer application that merged live satellite video and real-time racing statistics from the Kentucky Derby and other racing venues around the world.

• Program Manager

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  November 2003 — November 2007 (4 years 1 month)

  The incubation group behind Expression Studio was responsible for bringing Microsoft into the professional design tools market. Over two product cycles and four years, we deconstructed the graphical user interface into malleable building blocks for designers. In addition to shipping consumer products, I coordinated on API design with the WPF, Silverlight, and Visual Studio groups.

• Senior Developer

  AIU Online

  (Public Company; Education Management industry)

  August 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 3 months)

  This startup operated virtual campuses for brick-and-mortar universities during an era of explosive growth in the market. My original job was building a courseware platform and pipeline for in-house animators. Shortly after joining, I also pitched and implemented a live video collaboration product that scaled with the exponential growth in student population. We did other interesting things like non-linear video editing in the browser, and "DJ" mixing tools for live graduation ceremonies.

• Intern

  Moonlight Media

  (Computer Software industry)

  August 1999 — August 2000 (1 year 1 month)

  Part-time internship at a now-defunct web startup called Moonlight Media. I installed my home computer on the corner of an employee's desk and worked in exchange for access to software, mentorship, and high-speed internet.

Samuel Wan’s Education

• University of Michigan

  MS , Human Computer Interaction , 2000 — 2002

  Full scholarship to graduate school in human-computer interaction. On the first day of school, I declined a job offer with my favorite company (Macromedia, acquired by Adobe) and then proceeded to student orientation where I met my future wife... so that worked out well :)

• University of Mississippi Medical Center

  BS , Health Information Management , 1997 — 2000

  I finished college at a hospital campus focusing on medical information systems. Passed many weeks in basements of various hospitals, sometimes as full-time intern, sometimes as part-time janitor (janitor pays better). Spent the days studying healthcare topics, and spent the nights studying interaction design.

Additional Information

Samuel Wan’s Websites:

• My Website

Samuel Wan’s Groups:

IEEE, ACM, EFF, Microsoft Alumni Association, Seattle Works Volunteering

•    Oldschool Flashaholics
•    IxDA Seattle

Samuel Wan’s Honors:

Microsoft patent awards
Microsoft Shipit! awards
Flash Film Festival Nomination
Comm Arts Award, Interactive Technology