Interactive Developer

Employment

California Academy of Sciences

Interactive Developer, Digital Engagement Studio

September 2008 - present

• Working with scientists, exhibit designers and staff to develop usable, fault-tolerant, highly refined applications for web, mobile and touchscreen that bridge sophisticated interactive and visual design with compelling content and technologies
• Technical lead on complex, large-scale projects with minimal oversight
• Conceived, designed and developed Pocket Penguins, cross-platform mobile application — number one Education download in the iTunes Store

University of California San Francisco

Programmer / Analyst, Integrative Program in Quantitative Biology

September 2006 - September 2008

• Complete and self-directed design, development and deployment of numerous and diverse data-driven websites and web-based systems for an umbrella graduate PhD program
• Large-scale design projects for print collateral, recruitment and branding
• Responsible for the digitization of the graduate administration system and creation of a secure, searchable, customizable student and faculty database, calendaring system and online application

OgilvyOne, San Francisco, CA

Lead Technologist

April 2005 - September 2006

• Heading a development team of Flash programmers, illustrators, designers and production artists to create award-winning, highly interactive, multimedia advertising campaigns and websites for top tier clients including Yahoo! Inc., Cisco Systems and Tivo
• Developed a sophisticated, automated QA application to streamline delivery processes
• Programmed and designed a self-managing, interactive, PHP / MySQL / Flash based online employee roster

Evolution Bureau, San Francisco, CA

Senior Interactive Designer

October 2002 - April 2005

• Design, programming and production of award-winning, high-traffic, multimedia web sites and advertising campaigns for major consumer brands
• Independently worked on projects from concept to completion as well as a member of a highly collaborative team for larger productions
• Responsible for a wide range of tasks including art direction, front-end design, programming, production and back-end integration
• Selection and training of junior designers and interns

Freelance Web Developer

April 2002 - October 2002

Independent contractor designing and developing award-winning online presences for a range of clients:

• Best Buddies New York, NYC
• The Film Arts Foundation — San Francisco, CA
• Queers in Space, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley — AIGA Grown in California Winner, Interactive Category
• Workgroup Ltd., Artists’ Representative — Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York & Paris
• Meaganne McCandess, Makeup & Hair — Palo Alto, CA
• Octavius, Mush Recording Artist — Los Angeles, CA

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Education

University of California, Berkeley

B.A. Linguistics, May 1999

• Research on the neural substrates of syntactic processing
• Computational Linguistics: Abstracted detailed aspects of English grammar in LISP. Design, implementation and training of neural networks capable of inferential reasoning related to linguistic phenomena

Bay Area Video Coalition. San Francisco, CA

Web Design Certificate, MediaLink 39, April 2002

• Immersive web development training class funded by the San Francisco mayor’s office

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Skills