Summary

Product guy and critical thinker with a rich history of defining and designing best-of-breed experiences for the web.
Seeking full-time opportunities within product teams building products that improve productivity, profitability, or the human experience.

Technical Skills

Web Development

• CSS(3) & HTML(5)
• Javascript & jQuery
• Experience with Rails & PHP view code
• MVC architecture
• Git & Subversion
• Load Optimization

Software

• Photoshop & Illustrator
• Coda
• iOS & Android
• Experience with Flash (+AS), Fireworks, InDesign, Final Cut Pro
• Online collaboration tools (Wikis, Google Docs, etc...)

Experience

LocalEyes/The Wine Logger 2011

• Founder
• While exploring business opportunities in the local mobile ad space I built a simple tool for wine drinkers to track and rate their wines.
• Designed a new ad format for iOS apps
• Designed self-serve ad publisher for SMBs
• Designed & developed the interface for The Wine Logger web app
• Designed the interface for The Wine Logger iOS app
• Contracted freelance developer to build the application back-end and to develop the iOS presentation layer

Enso Fall 2010

• Web Consultant
• Designed and developed the Enso corporate website
• Designed the Enso eCommerce experience
• Provided custom CSS to override standard Magento eCommerce layout
• Coordinated with third-party software development team to ensure all expectations were being appropriately set and met

Involver 2007 - 2010

• User Experience
• Joined as the company's 3^rd employee
• Responsible for the end-user experience on Involver's SaaS products, including information architecture, interaction design, interface design, and interface engineering
• More than 500,000 Facebook Fan Pages under management, representing almost 1B Social Relationships
• Q2 2010: Released Involver's 1^st iPhone Application
  Ramped up intense recruiting efforts for interface design and development positions
• Q1 2010: Worked on small product team to define the information architecture, interaction paradigms, layout, and implementation schedule for Involver's Audience Management Platform
• Q4 2009: Served as Product Manager for Music For Pages, which has been used by major labels to launch albums for artists such as Alicia Keys, Massive Attack, and Hole
• Q2 2009: Launched 1^st marketing suite for Facebook Fan Pages with 12 plug-and-play applications
  Responsible for interaction design, visual design, interface engineering, feature specification, design templates, settings pages, up-sell experiences, and QA
  Start-to-finish project time was approximately one month
• Q1 2009: Redesigned enterprise-grade video campaign management software to support multi-user, multi-campaign, multi-video capabilities for agencies and content producers

Simply Hired Summer 2007

• Marketing Associate (Summer Internship)
• Worked closely with Director of Marketing, Product Manager, COO, CEO, and Chairman to develop and execute Simply Hired's social strategy
• Worked with executives from RockYou and Social Media to plan and build a social game
• Received a crash-course in the early stages of the Product Management cycle
• Constructed a thorough business model which dissuaded the management team from signing off on an expensive and ineffective project

SMADtv Spring 2007

• Executive Producer
• Hand-picked to pioneer James Madison University's first media broadcasting practicum
• Organized a talent and production team of about 30 students to produce a wide array of video content for the JMU student body
• Utilized multi-camera television studio, field production video and audio equipment, and the iTunes Store to create and distribute 7 high-quality shows
• The primary goal for the practicum was to foster a hands-on learning environment for the 40+ students involved
• The secondary goal of the practicum was to make SMADtv popular among the JMU community as well as with professionals in the media and broadcast industries

Tennis Professional 2001 - 2006

• USPTA-Certified Teaching Professional
• Served as Head Professional and Director for programs run through The Baltimore Tennis Patrons and Columbia Association
• Managed programs with up to 40 students and 4 assistant instructors
• Taught private and small-group lessons to students ages 4-60+

Education

• James Madison University
• B.A. from the School of Media Arts & Design - Concentration in Interactive Multimedia
• Advanced studies in Spanish and Philosophy