Steve Ganz
Technologist
- Location
- Leesburg, Virginia (Washington D.C. Metro Area)
- Industry
- Internet
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Steve Ganz's Overview
- Current
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- Technology Director at Professional Disc Golf Association
- Past
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- Principal Web Developer at LinkedIn Corporation
- Staff Web Developer at PayPal, an eBay Company
- Sr. Web User Interface Architect at McAfee, Inc.
- Consultant at Professional Disc Golf Association
- Sr. User Interface Developer at Printable Technologies
- Sr. Web Designer at Collabria, Inc.
- Principal at Ganz Internet
- Technical Support Engineer at zNET Internet Services
- Producer at 3G Productions
- Education
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- Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
- Foothill College
- Leland High School
- Recommendations
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20 people have recommended Steve
- Connections
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500+ connections
- Websites
Steve Ganz's Summary
I'm passionate about developing the user experience, connecting people, great food, and disc golf - not necessarily in that order. Transplanted to the East Coast in 2010, I'm a second generation Silicon Valley geek and veteran web professional who has been building human-computer interfaces since 1994.
Specialties
W3C, web standards, front-end engineering, user experience development, user-centered design, usability, accessibility, semantic markup, microformats
Steve Ganz's Experience
Technology Director
Professional Disc Golf Association
Nonprofit; 1-10 employees; Sports industry
January 2012 – Present (6 months)
Working on making the great sport of disc golf better through technology for players, tournament directors and fans everywhere.
Principal Web Developer
LinkedIn Corporation
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; LNKD; Internet industry
November 2006 – December 2011 (5 years 2 months) Mountain View, California
Spearheaded the development of the core user experience. Identified and implemented new patterns in social design. Evangelized best practices and created front-end coding guidelines while helping to grow one of the best web development teams anywhere by 15x in 5 years.
Staff Web Developer
PayPal, an eBay Company
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; EBAY; Internet industry
September 2005 – November 2006 (1 year 3 months) San Jose, California
Joined PayPal to evangelize, teach, and implement W3C Web standards in an effort to separate the front-end architecture tier into distinct structural, presentational, and behavioral layers.
Sr. Web User Interface Architect
McAfee, Inc.
Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; MFE; Computer & Network Security industry
June 2003 – August 2005 (2 years 3 months) Sunnyvale, California
Converted to full-time employee after being brought on for a one month contract in June 2003 and making an immediate contribution to the Web Services group in areas of usability, accessibility and presentation layer coding optimization. Leading the way towards uniform and company-wide adoption of coding conventions based on W3C Web standards.
Consultant
Professional Disc Golf Association
Nonprofit; 1-10 employees; Sports industry
October 2002 – June 2003 (9 months)
Led front-end development of tournament administration and scoring applications for the web and mobile. Created and launched PDGATour.com to focus on the PDGA's inaugural National Tour series of elite disc golf events.
Sr. User Interface Developer
Printable Technologies
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry
June 2001 – September 2002 (1 year 4 months) Solana Beach, California
Given increased challenges and responsibilities after Printable acquired Collabria's intellectual property; led integration of complex product suites.
Principal
Ganz Internet
January 1995 – April 1998 (3 years 4 months) San Jose, California
Designed, developed, and maintained dynamic web sites and intranets for small businesses, major corporations, and start-up ventures.
* Sun Microsystems, 1995: Converted thousands of pages of product data-sheets and white papers from FrameMaker to HTML. Designed, tested, and implemented innovative software that automatically converted FrameMaker tables to HTML tables.
* Communication Intelligence Corporation, 1996: Developed the first external web site for CIC using an organized layout, logical directory structures and intuitive naming conventions. Trained in-house Webmaster to maintain and extend the website using custom templates.
* Aspect Development, 1996: Provided early user interface design and database programming for an online product catalog developed exclusively for Siemens Corporation.
* Corporate Store, 1997: Designed user interface for online print procurement and order processing system.
Producer
3G Productions
1993 – 1995 (2 years) San Jose, California
* Produced and directed industrial videos; handled multiple responsibilities including pre-and post-production, filming, and editing.
* Created video training manuals for a popular management software solution.
* Produced introduction video for an automated online ordering system.
Steve Ganz's Volunteer Experience & Causes
Steve Ganz's Education
Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
Theatre, Film, Television
1986 – 1990
Foothill College
Radio Broadcasting
1985 – 1986
Activities and Societies: KFJC 89.7 FM
Leland High School
Radio Broadcasting
1983 – 1986
Activities and Societies: KLEL 89.3 FM, Drama
Steve Ganz's Skills & Expertise
Steve Ganz's Honors and Awards
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2003 PDGA Volunteer of the Year
Professional Disc Golf Association- August 2004
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2004 NorCal Series Sportsman of the Year
Northern California Series of Disc Golf- September 2004
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2010 NorCal Series Outstanding Volunteer
Northern California Series of Disc Golf- October 2010
Steve Ganz's Additional Information
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- Interests:
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social design, human-computer interaction, disc golf
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