OBJECTIVE

I want to design and build great web products.

EXPERIENCE

• Member of the design team of Yahoo! Groups, the home to over 10 million groups and 120 million users
• Responsible for interaction flows, wireframes, specs, and proof-of-concept prototyping for Groups features
• Key design contributor on next-generation redesign and integrations

• Led design for a peer-to-peer ad product within Yahoo! Communities & Communications that went live to site
• Designed and coded the frontend and backend of a templated ad system using Flash ActionScript, JavaScript, and XML
• Developed wireframes, flows, mockups, HTML, and CSS for product’s website
• Worked with product management to determine new features, requirements, and timetables
• Worked with engineering to standardize XML system, Flash/page communication, and create and design web pages

• Principles of Interactive Design (Spring 2007): taught PHP, MySQL, XML, Flash, and JavaScript to students creating procedural and interactive applications
• Computation as Expressive Medium (Fall 2006): helped teach Java and Processing to students creating digital technology and culture projects

• Worked as Emerging TV Technologies Intern for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
• Researched landscape data for advertising client presentations and publication content
• Developed desktop applications for client viewing

EDUCATION

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA | Masters in Digital Media, May 2007

• Master's Project - Tagging for TV: a system for tagging, playing, and sharing television clips with others online as a way to better control one's viewing experience and define content in an individual way. Concept, video encoding and application, Flash prototyping, design, user interface, community development
  
  
• eTV Prototyping Group: a group that explores the future of narrative forms in the new digital medium that is emerging as TV converges with computational formats. Corporate collaborators included the AFI Digital Content Lab, Cartoon Network, and mtvU. Database and XML structure, visual design, Flash/database flow, content management
  
  
• Corporate Interest in Second Life: a group project that studies the impact of businesses and branding on Second Life as well as the community's reaction to the corporate presence. Project scope, resident interviews, corporate interviews, community analysis, design implication analysis, presentation development
  
  
• FoodJoy: a dynamic recipe-generation system based on one's current food inventory that was developed as a group project from concept to prototype evaluation. Mockups, interaction design, prototype development and design, storyboard design, survey automation, presentation development

SKILLS

Rich media prototyping (Flash, Processing, Director, Maya), web development (PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, XML, HTML, CSS, Dreamweaver), wireframing (Omnigraffle, Illustrator), computer programming (C++, Java, ActionScript), digital video applications (Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Flash video), graphics (Photoshop, Freehand, ImageReady