Kyle Simpson

Current

• Independent at Contractor
• Guru at Getify Solutions

Past

• Sr. UI Developer/UX at Demand Media
• User Experience Architect at Pointserve
• Sr. Presentation Layer Developer at Avenue A | Razorfish

• Web Developer at eLoyalty
• Web Developer at Golfsmith
• Web Developer at Ambion

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Education

• Texas State University-San Marcos
• University of Oklahoma
• PC North HS

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Recommended

14 people have recommended Kyle

Connections

166 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• flensed Projects
• My Company
• getiblog

Kyle Simpson’s Summary

I'm a UI architect from Austin, TX. I'm passionate about user experience, specifically optimizing the UI to be as responsive, efficient, secure, and scalable as possible. I consider Javascript the ultimate language and I'm constantly tinkering with how to push it further. If something can't be done in Javascript and jQuery, I'm bored by it. I have a number of open-source projects, including flXHR, LABjs, mpAjax, and jXHR, and am also a core contributor to SWFObject.

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Kyle Simpson’s Specialties:

User Experience and UI Design expert, presentation layer technology developer, web application developer. Javascript, Flash, RIA development.

Kyle Simpson’s Experience

• Independent

  Contractor

  (Internet industry)

  May 2009 — Present (7 months)

• Guru

  Getify Solutions

  (Internet industry)

  January 2000 — Present (9 years 11 months)

  Open-source projects in Javascript, Flash, and UI Architecture.

• Sr. UI Developer/UX

  Demand Media

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  January 2009 — May 2009 (5 months)

  .NET UI Design and Implementation

• User Experience Architect

  Pointserve

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

  June 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 8 months)

  UI/UX design, prototyping, usability testing, Flash development

• Sr. Presentation Layer Developer

  Avenue A | Razorfish

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AQNT; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  July 2006 — June 2007 (1 year )

  Primary UI developer on multiple Fortune 500 projects, including Southwest Airlines (http://www.southwest.com/), HEB Grocery (http://www.hebuddy.com/), JiffyLube (http://www.jiffylube.com/), AT&T, Nokia, and Dell.

• Web Developer

  eLoyalty

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; ELOY; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year )

• Web Developer

  Golfsmith

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GOLF; Retail industry)

  2004 — 2004 (less than a year)

• Web Developer

  Ambion

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Biotechnology industry)

  2002 — 2003 (1 year )

Kyle Simpson’s Education

• Texas State University-San Marcos

  B.S. , Computer Science , 2004 — 2008

• University of Oklahoma

  Coursework , Computer Science , 1998 — 2000

• PC North HS

  Diploma , 1994 — 1998

Additional Information

Kyle Simpson’s Websites:

• flensed Projects
• My Company
• getiblog

Kyle Simpson’s Interests:

UI Architecture, User Interface, User Experience, Flash, Javascript, Ajax, Web Application Development

Kyle Simpson’s Groups:

Mensa, Austin.Javascript Meetup (Co-Leader)

•    Austin High-Tech
•    Texas State Alumni
•    Php developers
•    The Official University of Oklahoma Alumni Group
•    User Interface and User Experience Professional
•    User Experience
•    AvenueA-Razorfish Alumni
•    User Experience Group
•    Christians in Technology Networking Group
•    Adobe Flash Platform Developers
•    User Experience Professionals Network
•    UIDG - User Interface Designers Group
•    UI Designer
•    Adobe Industry Leaders & Innovators
•    UX Thought
•    JSConf US
•    JavaScript Discussion / Jobs
•    Austin.Javascript
•    JSConf EU